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Published on December 17, 2009
SERVICEMEN RECIEVED NEW APPARTMENTS IN ARMAVIR REGION OF ARMENIA
- 16 families of servicemen have recived new appartments in Armavir region of Armenia. "We are happy that, even under crisis conditions we can provide housing for our soldiers,’’ Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan told a government meeting in Sardarapat Memorial Museum in the Armavir region. As Prime Minister mentioned, to restore the irrigation system of the region international experts have been invited and large investments attracted. The new rehabilitated 84-kilometer-long irrigation system of the region will help within two years to form a qualitatively new environment for agriculture," he said. The rehabilitation works involved over 1000 people, with about AMD 120 000 wages.
Headlines for December 17, 2009
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A retired Foreign Service officer, U.S. Ambassador Arma Jane Karaer, has revealed a series of shocking revelations about the State Department’s behind-the-scenes efforts on behalf of Turkey during the ...ARMENIA 100TH IN FIFA RANKINGS
Armenia is the 100th in the latest FIFA rankings, dropping a step as compared to last month’s index. Azerbaijan ranks the 114th with 236 points; Georgia is the 124th with 202 points. The top three is ...DAVID NALBANDIAN TO PARTICIPATE IN ATP TOURNAMENT IN BUENOS AIRES
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Head of RPA parliamentary group Galust Sahakyan said Turkey won’t be Armenia’s partner unless it acknowledges the Genocide. “The main goal of Armenian-Turkish reconciliation process is not establishment ...KADRI GURSEL: U.S. USES GENOCIDE ISSUE AS A TOOL TO MAKE TURKEY RATIFY PROTOCOLS
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Surb Khach monastery will be functioning as Armenian church, Anatoly Gritsenko, speaker of the Supreme Rada of the Crimea said. According to him, the decision to turn the Surb Khach Church into a department ...92 INFECTED WITH A/H1N1 IN ARMENIA
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The Chairwoman of Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) Lyudmila Sargsyan said she does not consider decisions made during the party’s extraordinary congress. “Despite the decision made, I remain the ...RPA CONDEMNS ITS MPS SUPPORTING SASUN MIKAELYAN
Republican Party MPs who undersigned the letter to Armenian president, calling for Sasun Mikayelyan’s release have already been condemned by the country, RPA parliamentary group leader Galust Sahakyan ...WB: ARMENIA NEEDS TO RAISE COMPETITIVENESS AND DIVERSIFY ECONOMY
The crisis taught lessons to Armenia and highlighted its main shortcomings: weak diversification and lack of competitiveness, therefore, to overcome the effects of the crisis the country should provide ...LYUDMILA SARGSYAN READY TO DEFEND HER POSITION OF PARTY LEADER IN COURT
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Secretary of National Security Council (NSC) Arthur Baghdasaryan received Wednesday newly appointed Indian Ambassador to Armenia Achal Kumar Malhotra. Highly assessing the current level of Armenian-Indian ...WB-FUNDED CREDIT PROGRAMS IN ARMENIA TOTALED USD 280 MILLION IN 2009
In 2009, World Bank-bank funded credit programs in Armenia totaled USD 280 million, according to Aristomene Varudakis, representative of WB Office in Yerevan. “Out of USD 550 million envisaged for separate ...FERHAT BORATAV: ARMENIA-TURKEY DIALOGUE –NOT A TANGO FOR TWO
Armenia and Turkey are not pair dance performers. RA-Turkey rapprochement process is a dance with 5 performers: Armenia, Turkey, USA, Russia and Azerbaijan, CNN Turk journalist Ferhat Boratav said. ...ORGANIZERS OF DEEP PURPLE'S CONCERT: TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO EVERYBODY IN YEREVAN
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World Bank gives positive assessment to RA government’s anti-crisis policy, yet we don’t see Armenia’s future in construction, but rather in economy diversification, head of World Bank Yerevan Office ...VARDAN GRIGORYAN: ROCK IN ARMENIA ESTABLISHED ITSELF
The «Vibrographus» company prepares to organize World Music Festival - 2010 in Armenia, managing partner of «Vibrographus» Gagik Gyulbudaghyan said on December 17. He informed that internationally renowned ...KADRI GURCEL: TURKEY WILL EVENTUALLY RATIFY PROTOCOLS
Armenian-Turkish protocols do not certainly contain implicit preconditions, but as a matter of fact things are just the other way about, Milliyet columnist Kadri Gurcel said. “As Turkish Premier Recep ...NEW HNCHAK LEADERS TO CONTINUE COOPERATION WITH ANC
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A cross must be established on the Holy Cross Church on the Akhtamar island and the church should become acting, editor-in-chief of the Hurriyet Daily News newspaper David Judson told a press conference ...ARMENIA TO INTRODUCE A NEW SYSTEM OF TAX CHECK-UPS
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