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Published on September 10, 2008
NATO SHIPS LEAVING BLACK SEA
- The Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG 1) successfully completed its planned visit and is leaving the Black Sea today in accordance with the Montreux Convention which limits Black Sea naval deployments to twenty-one days for non-Black Sea navies. SNMG 1 will operate in the Mediterranean following its departure from the Black Sea, NATO press office told PanARMENIAN.Net As part of its annual program, SNMG 1 was deployed to the Black Sea on 21 August 2008 with the aim of promoting interoperability among NATO nations. Under command of Spanish Rear Admiral Juan Rodriguez Garat it conducted routine port visits and naval exercises with Bulgaria and Romania, both members of the NATO Alliance. SNMG 1 is comprised of the Spanish frigate, Adm Juan de Borbon, the German frigate, FGS Lubeck, the US frigate, USS Taylor and the Polish frigate, ORP General K Pulaski. Vice-Admiral Pim Bedet, Deputy Commander Allied Maritime Component Command Headquarters Northwood stated, “SNMG 1 was able to participate in a very successful visit to Romania and Bulgaria. In turn, this has contributed towards developing NATO’s maritime interoperability with its member nations within the Black Sea and the exercises conducted there have reinforced NATO’s maritime capability in this strategically important area of focus.”
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Russia will support Turkey’s Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Pact, an Armenian expert said. “I think Russia and Turkey will continue talks on the issue because of strained relations with the U.S. ...RUSSIA EXPECTS BELARUS, SYRIA, LIBYA, JORDAN AND MOROCCO TO RECOGNIZE ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH OSSETIA
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Armenia will launch delivery of electricity to Turkey in 2009. Initially, the republic will deliver 1.5 bln. kilowatt-hour per year. Then, the amount will reach 3.5 bln. kilowatt-hour, Armenian Enegry ...U.S. POLICY WILL GROW TOUGHER, PROVOKING NEW CONFLICTS AND WARS
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Today in Armenian history- 0 Hori was the second month in the old Armenian calendar (September 10 to October 9). One source identifies it with the Armenian word for "well" because villagers would store their harvest in wells. Academician Malkhasian thinks that the word is derived from "vine-branch" and alludes to the grape harvest that takes place during this month.
- 1826 End of the heroic defense of Fort Shooshee (Artsakh).
- 1869 Birth of cleric and ethno-musicologist Komitas (Soghomon Soghomonyan) in Kutina (Western Armenia). He died in Paris in 1935.
- 1890 Birth of Franz Werfel in Prague (Austrian novelist). He wrote "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933), a best-selling epic tale of Armenian resistance to the Turkish Genocide of 1915. He died in 1945.
- 1896 Armenian massacres begin in Akn.
- 1896 Start of the second defense of Van under the leadership of Vardgehss and Vardan.
- 1898 Andreas Artehruni (scientist) dies in Germany. He was born in 1847.
- 1920 The conference of Armenia's Communist organizations opens in Baku.
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