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Published on February 09, 2008
KOSOVO TO PROCLAIM INDEPENDENCE FEBRUARY 17
- Serbia's minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, said Friday that his government has information that the Albanian-majority province will declare independence on February 17. "The Serbian government has received more and more significant information that Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci will illegally declare the unilateral independence of Kosovo on February 17," Samardzic said. "The EU cannot expect that just before the unilateral declaration of independence announced for February17, that Serbia itself signs for the independence of Kosovo," he was quoted as saying in a statement, the AFP reports.
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RA JUSTICE MINISTRY BURNED IN YEREVAN
The roof and two upper storeys of the Armenian Ministry of Justice burned out in Yerevan this morning. An alert came at 5 a.m. 23 fire brigades and 7 fire engines arrived at the site. The firemen managed ...KOCHARIAN ORDERED TO FIND OUT CAUSES OF JUSTICE MINISTRY FIRE
Armenian President Robert Kocharian ordered the law enforcement bodies to look into the causes of the fire in the RA Justice Ministry, the RA leader's press office said. Besides, the Armenian government ...KOSOVO TO PROCLAIM INDEPENDENCE FEBRUARY 17
Serbia's minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, said Friday that his government has information that the Albanian-majority province will declare independence on February 17. "The Serbian government ...BRYAN ARDOUNY: ARTICLE 301 HAS BECOME A PAINFUL REMINDER OF OPEN WOUNDS OF GENOCIDE
Bryan Ardouny, Executive Director of the Armenian Assembly of America (AAA), addressed a letter to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to appreciate publication of "Freer Speech" editorial dedicated to the problem ...NATO TO FORM KOSOVO ARMY
NATO intents to from a Kosovo army after the breakaway province proclaims independence. "Formation of the future Kosovo army numbering a 2500 personnel can become one of NATO's functions in the Albanian-populated ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1750 Birth of Harootyoon Shmavonyan (public figure). He died in 1824.
- 1888 Birth of Koghbetlyan in Nor Nakhijevan (Rostov, Russia). He was a mathematician, geophysicist and inventor.
- 1916 Senate Concurrent Resolution 12 resolved that "the President of the United States be respectfully asked to designate a day on which the citizens of this country may give expression to their sympathy by contributing funds now being raised for the relief of the Armenians", who at the time were enduring "starvation, disease, and untold suffering".
- 1921 Proclamation on the opening of literacy courses for illiterate and semi-literate citizens.
- 1939 Birth of Yervand Terzyan in Alexandropol (Gyoomree). He later became an astronomer and a member of the International Union of Astronomy. He was a Deputy Director of the Radiophysics and Cosmic Research Department at Cornell University (USA).
- 1953 Death of "Mother" Sosseh.
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