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Headlines for June 26, 2009
NEW IRAN-ARMENIA OIL PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION COULD LAUNCH IN 2009
New Iran-Armenia oil pipeline construction could launch in 2009. According to the project, the republic which does not have its own raw product supplies could receive up to 8 000 tons of oil products ...IFC TO HELP FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS EXPLORE SUSTAINABILITY-RELATED BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, today unveiled a new online training program designed to help financial institutions better understand sustainable finance, social ...HAYASTAN ALL-ARMENIAN FUND BUILDS SCHOOL FOR ARTSAKH’S VAGHUHAS AND KHNKAVAN COMMUNITIES
The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund has begun construction of a community school in Vaghuhas, a village in Nagorno Karabakh’s Martakert Region. The project is financed by benefactor Samvel Aleksanyan, the ...RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN WAR CAN START AFTER JULY 6?
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On June 29, Russian troops begin massive military exercises on Georgia's borders as well as in Abkhazia and South Ossetia - Kavkaz 2009. The exercises are planned to end on July 6, when Obama lands in ...BTA BANK LAUNCHES MASTERCARD SERVICING IN BTA ATMS
BTA Bank CJSC launches MasterCard international payment system cards’ servicing in BTA ATMs, the bank’s Press Service reported. Thus, BTA ATMs will be servicing ArCa, MasterCard и VISA plastic ...RA JUDO YOUTH TEAM TO PERFORM AT EUROPE CHAMPIONSHIP TODAY
RA Judo Youth Team will perform today at Europe Championship in Slovenia. Armenian Judo Earlier, a team of 8 wrestlers, accompanied by their coach Martin Sargsyan departed to Koper. Judo Championship ...ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES TRIED TO CONCEAL REALITY FROM SAAKASHVILI
Armenian authorities tried to conceal the protest action from visiting Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, said Kiro Manoyan, ARFD Bureau’s Hay Dat and Political Office director. “I do not know, ...JUNE 26: INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING
The International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is a United Nations International Day against drug abuse and the illegal drug trade. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ...ARMENIA'S MINING INDUSTRY TO RECEIVE $44 MILLION.
The purpose of the government sitting in Syunik region is to find solutions to current problems of the region, RA prime minister Tigran Sargsyan said. Members of the Armenian Government familiarized with ...YEREVAN SHOULD NOT EXACERBATE ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN RELATIONS
In view of the current complicated processes in the region, it is very dangerous to exacerbate Armenian-Georgian relations by raising the issue Samtskhe-Javakheti, Stepan Grigoryan, Head of Globalization ...EASTERN PARTNERSHIP MAY BECOME WINDOW TO EUROPE FOR SOUTH CAUCASIAN STATES
Eurocommission’s Eastern Partnership initiative may become window to Europe for member states, especially for South Caucasian countries, Iris Kempe, Director of Heinrich Bell foundation, told a conference ...YEREVAN TO HOST A DISCUSSION ON RATIFICATION OF CONVENTION ON PEOPLE WITH LIMITED ABILITY
On June 29, Yerevan will host a discussion on “Ratification and implementation of convention on people with limited ability: consequences, obstacles and necessary actions”. The discussion will be headed ...NORVIK CREDIT: “THE CRISIS PROMOTES UNIVERSALITY IN WORK”
Financial and economic crisis has positively affected the local labor market, this is proved by the survey of the analytical department of the Norvik Universal Credit Organization. The research shows ...KIRO MANOYAN: GEORGIA AIMS TO CHANGE DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION IN JAVAKHK
“One of Georgia’s principal goals is to change demographic situation in Javakhk,” Head of Hay Dat office Kiro Manoyan told a news conference. According to him, Georgian church is also trying to assist ...BEELINE OPENS ITS HEAD OFFICE IN YEREVAN CENTER
ArmenTal (trade mark Beeline) opens its 60-th sales and service office in the center of Yerevan. The office will soon work round-the-clock and without days-off. In the near futtre new offices will be ...WHY AZERI AND TURKISH COLLEAGUES PUT SIGNATURES UNDER DOCUMENT, ZARUHI POSTANJYAN TO ANSWER HERSELF
“Representatives of authorities without making difference between patriotism and betrayal have started an unfair campaign against the Heritage party using all means of black PR and the media, Larisa Alaverdyan, ...ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET IN PARIS
The meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov and OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs in Nagorno Karabakh settlement has already been started in Paris, ...OSCE CHAIRPERSON-IN-OFFICE VISITS ARMENIA
On July 2 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis will arrive in Armenia. As press service of the Yerevan office of OSCE told to a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office ...IT’S TURKEY THAT HAS TAKEN TIME-OUT IN NEGOTIATIONS, NOT ARMENIA
“,” Head of Hay Dat office Kiro Manoyan told today a news conference. “As soon as Ankara renounces its preconditions, negotiations will continue,” he stressed. “Armenia should demonstrate the firmness ...ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES ECONOMIC STABILIZATION PROGRAM IN FRINGES OF RUSSIAN CREDIT
The Armenian government at the recurrent sitting in Syunik region approved a credit program on economic stabilization of the country by allocating means from the Russian credit, press office of the government ...YEREVAN PREPARING FOR ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJAN PEACE FORUM
Yerevan has today hosted a discussion devoted to the preparation of regular Armenian-Azerbaijani peace forum. “Such events aim at eliminating enemy image between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” International ...“EASTERN PARTNERSHIP” – A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PROJECT
Eastern Partnership project enables member states to sign associate membership agreement, but such status cannot grow into full membership, Alexander Duleba, Head of Foreign Policy Association centre, ...“ARARAT: SYMBOL OF ETERNITY OF ARMENIAN NATION” TO BE SCREENED IN YEREVAN
On June 27 the film “Ararat: symbol of immortality of Armenian people” will be screened in Yerevan in the yard of the St. Mother of God Church (Surb Katokhike). The event is organized by the “Tsirani” ...ARMENIA TO HOST FIRST EASTERN EUROPE CONGRESS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
A delegation from International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has arrived in Armenia. Among delegation members are Federation Chair Suer Belasen, Executive Director Antoine Bernard and East and Central ...IS A PROBLEM OF SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETI ARMENIANS FACTOR OR HEADACHE FOR ARMENIA?
Armenian authorities must clear up one question for themselves: is the problem of Armenians of Samtskhe-Javakheti a factor to stabilize the Armenian-Georgian relations or just a headache, Ervand Bozoyan, ...PACE DISCUSSES SITUATION IN IRAN
After morning debates over “Situation in Iran”, PACE adopted a resolution concerning the country on Thursday, June 25. Parliamentarians strongly condemned June 13 developments and expressed concerns over ...RA GOVERNMENT APPROVED IMF PROPOSAL ON ALLOCATING $202 400 MILLION
In an away session on Friday, RA Government approved International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) proposal on the allocation of $ 202 400 million credits to Armenia. The decision was made in the frameworks of ...RUSSIA NOT TO INTEND START NEW WAR WITH GEORGIA
Russia does not intend to start new war with Georgia, Vladimir Zakharov, head of the Center for Caucasus Studies of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. ...ARMENIA AND INDIA TO ESTABLISH A JOINT IT CENTER
RA Deputy FM Karine Kazinyan and Indian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Reena Pandey have today have singed an intergovernmental memorandum of understanding for establishing India-Armenia ...GOOD CIRCULATION VOLUMES BETWEEN ARMENIA AND INDIA HAVE INCREASED TWICE
On June 26, President Serzh Sargsyan received Indian Ambassador Reena Pandey who ends her diplomatic mission in Armenia. Highly appreciating Indian diplomat’s contribution to the development of Armenian-Indian ...LHAM ALIEV AGREES FOR PARTICIPATION OF AZERI JUDOISTS IN EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP IN ARMENIA
Armenian Judo Federation actively prepares for the forthcoming European youth judo to be held between September 11 to 13 of 2009 in Yerevan. As Aleksan Avetisyan, president of the Armenian Judo Federation ...RA DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER TAKES PART IN ANNUAL OSCE CONFERENCE ON SECURITY
RA deputy foreign minister Arman Kirakosyan on June 23 took part in the annual OSCE conference in Vienne devoted to security problems. Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov made a speech at the conference. ...SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS SUPPORT CENTER ESTABLISHED IN KAPAN
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan attended the opening ceremony of small and medium business support center in Kapan, reported the government’s press office. “Assistance to small and medium sized ...THERE WILL BE NO BREAKTHROUGH IN ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS EITHER BY FALL, OR DURING FALL
, Aleksandr Skakov, head of CIS department of the Russian Institute for Strategic Research told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. “Armenian-Turkish dialog is actually frozen. When started this process Ankara ...FIDH DELEGATION TO VISIT DETAINED ARSHALUIS HAKOBYAN
The delegation of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) headed by its President Souhayr Belhassen intends to visit recently detained the civil rights advocate Arshaluis Hakobyan, Mr. Antoine ...FORMER TURKISH PRESIDENT THREATENS SUICIDE
Former Turkish president Kenan Evren, who lead a 1980 military coup, has said he would commit suicide if changes to the constitution lead to him being put on trial. "I give my word to everyone in front ...HERITAGE PARTY: ALL THOSE ARRESTED IN MARCH 1 CASE SHOULD BE RELEASED
Heritage party voted against declaration of amnesty because the document introduced in the government was “insufficient and poorly designed document.” “We think that the amnesty should have been announced ...G-8 BACKS TURKEY-ARMENIA TALKS
A declaration published by the G-8 foreign ministers in Italy's Trieste city made a referral to Turkish-Armenian relations on Friday. The declaration included evaluations made by the G-8 ministers. In ...ALL ARMENIAN POLITICAL FORCES SHOULD UNITE FOR RESOLUTION OF ARTSAKH PROBLEM
Opposition forces should seek cooperation with each other, said Larisa Alaverdyan, secretary of Heritage parliamentary faction. “Heritage party intends to create a common platform for Armenian opposition ...DEMONSTRATORS BROKE INTO THE IRANIAN EMBASSY OUTSIDE STOCKHOLM
Angry demonstrators broke into the Iranian Embassy outside Stockholm on Friday, climbing in through shattered windows and injuring one embassy worker, police said. More than 150 people had gathered outside ...IRAN'S ELECTORAL WATCHDOG SAID NO FRAUD IN JUNE 12 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The spokesman of Iran's electoral watchdog, the Guardians Council, Abbasali Kadkhodai said that there was no fraud in the June 12 presidential election that saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad win a new four-year ...TURKEY SAID TALKS ARE UNDERWAY ON SEVERAL KEY ISSUES OF NABUCCO PROJECT
A European Union official said on Friday that an imminent breakthrough looms on the draft of the text that will lay the legal framework for the Nabucco pipeline project, however Turkey said talks are ...
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