
Headlines for February 14, 2008
BELAVIA PLANE CRASHES IN YEREVAN AIRPORT, NO CASUALTIES
Four people were hospitalized after a passenger plane crashed on takeoff at an airport near the capital of Armenia, early on Thursday, a spokesperson for the country's civilian aviation authority said. ...UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO MEET BEHIND CLOSED DOORS ON KOSOVO
The UN Security Council will meet Thursday behind closed doors at the request of Serbia and Russia, the council’s president Panama’s UN Ambassador Ricardo Alberto Arias said. "The council agreed that ...LIST OF CRASHED PLANE PASSENGERS PUBLISHED
The names of 16 passengers, who were injured in plane crash in Zvartnots airport this morning, have been published. These are Akopov Volodimir, Mamyan Andranik, Tevanyan Sasun, Yeremyan Suren, Yeremyan ...RF DUMA, FEDERATION COUNCIL TO ISSUE JOINT STATEMENT ON KOSOVO
The Russian State Duma and the Federation Council are preparing a joint statement on Kosovo, Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov said. The statement may be passed on Monday, February 18. The statement will contain ...ZVARTNOTS OPERATING IN CUSTOMARY REGIME
Zvartnots International Airport started operating in customary regime at 11 a.m., General. Department of Civil Aviation (GDCA) Spokesperson Gayane Davtyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. The Armenian ...PLATE DEDICATED TO ARMENIAN CHILDREN DESECRATED IN FRANCE
A plate dedicated to Armenian children was desecrated by abusive graffiti in Creteil town (South-eastern of Paris) on Wednesday, independent French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net. This new ...SKINHEADS ACCUSED OF MURDERING 8 PEOPLE TO STAND TRIAL
Five young skinheads accused of a series of nationalist assaults in Moscow will stand trial. The prosecutor’s office said the gang consisted of students of vocational schools aging 16-19. During a search ...BRITISH EMBASSY NEUTRAL ON PRESIDENTIAL RACE
The British Embassy in Yerevan rejects the allegations in a report in the "Hayots Ashkhar" daily on 13 February titled "British Embassy in the role of a courier?", that an Embassy driver disseminated ...AZERBAIJAN TRANSFERS INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS OVER TO KARABAKH CONFLICT
“Under the ethnic origin of the ruling clan in Baku, the Kurdish subject area is one of the most sensitive topics in present-day Azerbaijan. It is not enough that representatives of the above-mentioned ...BRAD SHERMAN: ADMINISTRATION’S BUDGET REQUEST WHOLLY INADEQUATE
Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) raised strong concerns regarding the Administration’s proposed budget for Armenia during the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing with Secretary of State Condoleezza ...YEREVAN ATTACHES IMPORTANCE TO ARMENIAN-BRITISH COOPERATION
On February 14, newly appointed UK Ambassador to Armenia Charles Lonsdale handed the copies of his credentials to RA Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Bayburdian. Armenia attaches importance to cooperation ...BSEC PRIORITIZES PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF FROZEN CONFLICTS
Opening the meeting of Foreign Ministers of EU and Black Sea region countries, Ukraine’s President Victor Yushchenko President stressed that Ukraine shares and supports ideas of strengthening rapprochement ...EU INTERESTED IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA
On February 14, EU Ambassador to Armenia Raul de Luzenberger handed the copies of his credentials to RA Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Bayburdian. The officials discussed implementation of the Armenia-EU ...COE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS PRESIDENT ARRIVING IN ARMENIA FEBRUARY 25
President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia Jan Kubis will be visiting Armenia February 25-26, the RA MFA press office told a PanARMENIAN.Net ...
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Feast Day of Jesus Christ's Presentation to the Temple.
- 1882 Birth of philologist Haykanoosh Marrk. She died in 1966.
- 1911 Constantinople's Armenian Patriarch Hovhannes Arsharuni, in a letter to Turkey's Minister of Justice, informs him about the illegal actions of the Turkish officials in the Armenian provinces, including murders and confiscation of property.
- 1921 The mobile village theater, led by Amo Kharazyan, starts its activity in Gharakeeleessa (Vanadzor).
- 1995 The CIS Media Agencies Directors' Committee is created in the course of the CIS Inter- Assembly Meeting.
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