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Headlines for September 14, 2009

IT BUSINESSMEN CONCERNED ABOUT YOUNG SPECIALISTS EDUCATION
Head of IT department at RA Economy Ministry Vache Kirakosyan voiced concerns over indifference of students about their future career. “Students show no interest in training in relevant companies to ...
BENITA FERRERO-WALDNER INTENDS TO HEAD UNESCO
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for New Neighborhood Policy, plans to quit the European Commission and continue her career as Director General of UNESCO. “It is my ambition to raise the ...
YOUNG ARMENIAN PIANIST GIVES CONCERT IN PARIS
Young Armenian pianist Armen Manasyan, who was honored with prestigious FLAME award in 2004, gave two concerts dedicated to 140th birthday of outstanding Armenian composer Komitas, freelance French journalist ...
TURKEY, IRAN TO EXPAND SECURITY COOPERATION
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu have called for the expansion of security cooperation between the two neighbors, Tehran Times reported. “Iran and ...
IT NOT PROPERLY TAUGHT IN ARMENIAN UNIVERSITIES?
IT is not properly taught in Armenian universities, according to Vache Kirakosyan, head of IT department at RA Economy Ministry. “Universities should lay the foundation for self-education,” he told a ...
ARMENIAN FC ARARAT OUTSTRIPS DEPORTIVO AND FENERBAHCE IN 20TH CENTURY BEST TEAMS LIST
The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), an organization founded in Germany in 1984 that chronicles the history of football, has revealed the list of best teams of the ...
INDIA TO ALLOCATE $1,5 MILLION FOR RA-INDIAN IT CENTER CREATION
“India plans to allocate $1,5 million for RA-Indian IT center creation,” Enterprise Incubator Foundation Director Bagrat Yengibaryan reported at unofficial weekend forum of IT enterprise leaders, held ...
ARA PAPYAN: ANY ACTION OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RELATED TO PROTOCOLS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
National Assembly is not empowered to discuss, vote and even ratify the protocols "On establishment of diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey" and "On development of bilateral relations”, Ara ...
EU GENERAL AFFAIRS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS COUNCIL MEETING OPENS IN BRUSSELS
A meeting of EU General Affairs and External Relations Council opens in Brussels on September 14, 2009, says a press release received by PanARMENIAN.Net. Foreign Ministers of participating countries ...
MICROSOFT INNOVATION CENTER IN ARMENIA TO LAUNCH OCTOBER 2009
Microsoft Innovation Center in Armenia, with it’s pilot program launched a year ago, will start operating in October 2009, Enterprise Incubator Foundation Director Bagrat Yengibaryan reported at unofficial ...
AROUND 900 HSBC CUSTOMERS IN ARMENIA BENEFIT FROM INTERNET BANKING SERVICES
HSBC bank Armenia offers its customers Internet banking services enabling them to effect all their non-cash transactions 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, from anywhere in the world, the bank’s press service ...
RA PM TO PAY FORMAL VISIT TO U.S.
Armenian Economy Minister Nerses Yeritsyan met with U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Maria Yovanovitch to discuss the upcoming visit of RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan to the United States, the Ministry’s ...
US INTENDS TO SELL PATRIOT MISSILES TO TURKEY
The Obama administration has notified Congress of a possible $7.8 billion sale of Patriot PAC-3 antimissile batteries and related gear to Turkey. Such transaction, if concluded, will make Turkey a major ...
ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS NEED AND MUST BE AMENDED
“Any document, especially preliminarily signed Armenian-Turkish Protocols, is liable to change,” Head of ARFD faction Vahan Hovhannisyan told today a press conference in Yerevan. Even if preliminary ...
SINGAPORE'S ECONOMIC MIRACLE AUTHOR LEE KUAN YEW TO VISIT ARMENIA
On September 17-19, Singapore's Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew will visit Armenia on RA National Competitiveness Council invitation. Lee Kuan Yew will meet RA President Serzh Sargsyan, Prime Minister Tigran ...
TINA KAIDENOW NOT TO ARRIVE IN YEREVAN
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Tina Kaidenow will not arrive in Armenia, U.S. Embassy's press secretary Taguhi Jahukyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent. Gruzia on-line reports that Kaidenow ...
DENIZ BAYKAL DEMANDS TO INCLUDE KARABAKH ISSUE IN ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS
The leader of the opposition Republican People's Party (DNP) Deniz Baykal demanded to include the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh in the Protocol, signed in August between Turkey and Armenia. "Nagorno-Karabakh ...
ARA PAPYAN: ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS CONTAIN A LOT OF FLAWS
«I have several times estimated Armenian-Turkish Protocols inadequate,» said historian and diplomat Ara Papyan, Head of Modus vivendi organization. Clause 10 of the Protocol «On the Establishment of Diplomatic ...
ONLY 25 PER CENT OF GRADUATES IN ARMENIA’S IT SPHERE WORK IN THEIR SPECIALTY
Only 25 per cent of graduates in Armenia’s IT sphere work in their field, participants of the forum of IT enterprises managers, held at the weekend in the Armenian resort town Aghveran. According to ...
EARTHQUAKE RECORDED ON ARMENIA-NAKHICHEVAN BORDER
Today at 14:28 on the Armenian border with Nakhichevan earthquake at 2.5 magnitude happened. Earthquakes have been recorded in 25 km south-west of the Armenian town of Yeghegnadzor. Strength in the epicenter ...
RA PRESIDENT CONGRATULATED HIS RUSSIAN COLLEAGUE ON HIS BIRTHDAY
In a phone conversation with RF President Dmitry Medvedev, President Serzh Sargsyan congratulated his Russian colleague on his birthday. “I am happy that the current dialogue and friendly ties between ...
GEORGIA CONCERNED OVER RA –TURKISH RAPPROCHEMENT
Georgian and Turkish state electro systems signed an agreement on parallel construction of Euro 300 million high voltage Black Sea power transmission line, financed by EBRD/KfW/EIB. Contract terms are ...
ARMENIAN PRESS IN UKRAINE FACES FUNDING PROBLEMS
Media is one of the most important components in the activity of Diaspora institutions. However, Armenian periodicals in Ukraine are currently facing funding problems. As reported by Ukrainian post, «Armyanski ...
CIS SECRETARIAT: RUMORS ON COMMONWEALTH COLLAPSE ARE EXAGGERATED
Rumors on CIS collapse are strongly exaggerated. Commonwealth develops dynamically, and key issue today is the creation of joint armed forces, Alexander Sinaysky, Secretary of CIS Council of Defense Ministers, ...
GEORGIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY ORGANIZED MEETING WITH RA AMBASSADOR
Georgian Foreign Ministry has today organized a meeting between Deputy FM Alexander Nalbandov and RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Hrach Silvanyan. Negotiations initiated by Armenian Ambassador ...
IT CENTRE IN GYUMRI JOINS DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAM
IT centre in Gyumri is joining the distance learning program, Enterprise Incubator Foundation’s (EIF) Director Bagrat Yengibaryan told journalists during IT representatives’ non-official meeting in Aghveran. ...
BRITISH ROCK LEGEND URIAH HEEP TO PERFORM CONCERT IN YEREVAN
On October 16, Uriah Heep British legendary rock group will perform a concert in Yerevan. The event is dedicated to the 15th anniversary of Armenian Shant TV channel. Concert expenses will be directed ...
MICHEL LEGRAND: GERMANY AND TURKEY ARE TO BLAME FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
I have never been to Turkey and don’t have any desire to visit that country. Two states are to blame for Armenian Genocide,” world famous composer Michel Legrand told journalists in Yerevan. “When I ...