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Headlines for January 25, 2012

AZERBAIJANI CONTRACT SOLDIER SURRENDERED TO NKR DEFENSE ARMY FORCES
On January 23 at about 15:30 an Azerbaijani contract soldier, Sergeant Mamedbagrlu Talib ogli Akhundzade has surrendered to slave in Karabakh-Azerbaijani contact line to Defense Army forces. NKR Defense ...
SARKOZY INTENDS LEAVING POLITICS IF…
Nicolas Sarkozy of France has declared he will leave politics if in April presidential elections he fails in the first round. "I'm 56 and 35 years out of it I have been in politics. If I fail, you'll ...
EDWARD NALBANDIAN LEAVES FOR LATVIA, LITHUANIA
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian leaves for Riga and Vilnius on January 25-26. The press service of Foreign Ministry informed Edward Nalbandian is supposed to have meetings with Latvia's and Lithuania's ...
PACE ELECTS NEW HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER
Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) has voted Tuesday a new human rights commissioner to replace Thomas Hammarberg. Former Latvian minister for social integration Nils Muiznieks has been ...
BERD-CHAMBARAK ROAD IMPASSABLE
All roads and mountain passes of interstate and republican significance are mainly open to traffic today, at 08:30. In spots, there is black ice on the roads in Selim Mountain Pass, Dilijan and Goris. ...
EGYPT PROTESTS ON UPRISING ANNIVERSARY
Tens of thousands of Egyptians are expected to join protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square on the first anniversary of the uprising which culminated in the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak, BBC reported. ...
NKR PARLIAMENT DEPUTY SPEAKER: SIMILAR STATEMENTS OF HUMANITARIAN CONTEXT
"We hail the joint statement adopted in Sochi-hosted tripartite meeting, though we consider similar format meetings incomplete, as the leader of one of the main parties - President of Artsakh Republic ...
SYRIA AGREES TO EXTEND ARAB LEAGUE OBSERVER MISSION
Syria has agreed to extend the mandate of the Arab League observer mission by a month, BBC reports, citing Syria's state-run news agency Sana. Foreign Minister Walid Muallem had informed the secretary ...
LANDSLIDE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
A big landslide has ripped through a village in a remote area of Papua New Guinea, killing at least 40 people and leaving 20 others missing, authorities said Wednesday, according to CNN. The country's ...
FILMMAKER ANGELOPOULOS DIES IN ACCIDENT
Theo Angelopoulos, an award-winning Greek filmmaker known for his slow and dreamlike style as a director, has been killed in a road accident while working on his latest movie, the Guardian reported. He ...
VICTORIA NULAND: THIS IS A MATTER BETWEEN TURKEY AND FRANCE
At a press briefing in Washington, U.S. State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland dwelt on the Armenian Genocide bill passed by the French Senate. According to the State Department press office, Nuland ...
LEVON ARONIAN IN WIJK AAN ZEE
Levon Aronian beat Caruana in the 9th round of Tournament A, Tata Steel Chess in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. Magnus Carlsen lost to Sergey Karjakin and currently shares 2nd-4th places with Vasily Ivanchuk ...
VIVACELL-MTS, MEDIAMAX OFFER CHANCE TO WIN IPAD2 BY PARTICIPATING IN ‘LOVE AND TECH' QUIZ
VivaCell-MTS, a subsidiary of "Mobile TeleSystems" OJSC, and Mediamax News Agency, on the eve of the St. Sargis' Day and St Valentine's Day celebrated in February, present the Love and Tech joint project, ...
ARMENIAN GRANDMASTERS IN GIBRALTAR
Armenian Grandmasters Sergei Movsesian, Gabriel Sargissian and Vladimir Hakobyan performed excellently in the first round of the chess tournament in Gibraltar. They beat Lund, Nezad and Peek, respectively, ...
AZERBAIJAN CONFIRMS SERVICEMAN CROSSING CONTACT LINE
Panorama.am had reported that on January 23, at about 15:30 an Azerbaijani contract serviceman, Sergeant Mamedbagrlu Talib ogli Akhundzade yielded himself prisoner to the NKR Defense Army forces in the ...
ARMENIAN MOUNTAINEERING TEAM ARRIVED IN TEHRAN: DEMAVEND WAITING FOR THEM
Armenian Mountaineering and Mountain Tourism Federation deputy chairman Suren Danielyan told Panorama.am correspondent that Armenian mountaineering team has arrived in Tehran. Our team will visit Iran's ...
LEVON ARONIAN TO PLAY CHESS WITH PRISONERS
Armenian penitentiaries will be equipped with computers to study computer skills to the convicts, Minister of Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan told reporters on Wednesday. "Many are jailed for long and may have ...
TURKISH MEDIA: FRENCH SENATORS COLLECT SIGNATURES TO OPPOSE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL
French Senator Nathalie Goulet told Anadolu news agency that a group of French senators began collecting signatures to carry the Armenian Genocide bill adopted by the French Senate to the French Constitutional ...
SARKOZY SENDS LETTER TO ERDOGAN: GENOCIDE LAW TARGETS NO PARTICULAR STATE
French President Nicolas Sarkozy sent a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the French Senate passed the Armenian Genocide bill. Vatan reports that in the letter, Sarkozy said ...
IRAN'S EMBASSY TO ARMENIA: EU TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CRISIS
European Union will be responsible for the crisis created in the aftermath of sanctions against Iran, Iran's Embassy in Armenia released a message. Iranian Embassy, referring to new economic sanctions ...
SERZH SARGSYAN RECEIVES ROSSELKHOZBANK DELEGATION
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has received a delegation led by Board Chairman of Rosselkhozbank Dmitry Patrushev, President's press office reported. Serzh Sargsyan and Dmitry Patrushev discussed the ...
JOHN HEFFERN: PRESIDENT SARGSIAN TO BE VERY COURAGEOUS
"20 minutes" analytical program aired by ArmRadio-FM107 hosted on Tuesday Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of USA to Armenia John Heffern. Read the interview with US Ambassador below. Q: Mr. ...
ARMEN AVAGYAN APPOINTED MINISTER - HEAD OF NKR GOVERNMENT'S ADMINISTRATION
On 25 January Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan signed a decree appointing Armen Avagyan Minister - Head of NKR Government's Administration, Artsakh President's press office reported.
MILLIYET: WE ARE NOT AS WEIGHTY AS ARMENIA
Turkish journalist Melih Ashik, who writes for "Milliyet" daily, underlines in his story that Ankara had much time to react and to carry out preventive measures after French Senate has passed a bill criminalizing ...
EUROVISION 2012: BAKU TO BE INTRODUCED AS HOST CITY
Baku will introduce itself as Host City of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest on Wednesday with a spectacular live show, "eurovision.tv" informs. During the 100-minute event, the Mayor of Düsseldorf ...
K. AVAGYAN: AZERBAIJAN'S CRITICISM AGAINST FRANCE UNACCEPTABLE
"Azerbaijan, as "a junior brother" of Turkey, offers some service to his elder brother which in this time is not logical. The more facts display Azerbaijan is not sincere in its steps, the more Azerbaijan ...
A. ISKANDARYAN: SARKOZY WILL SIGN, TURKS WILL GULP IT
Expert Alexander Iskandaryan doesn't doubt French President Nicolas Sarkozy will sign the legislation passed by the Senate. "Hence, we could treat the legislation as a ratified law," A. Iskandaryan ...
BENOÎT SCHEEN: ORANGE IN ARMENIA HAS THE SAME 'LOOK AND FEEL' AS IN OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Benoît Scheen, Executive Vice President of FT Europe, who is for the first time in Armenia, has arrived to get acquainted with Orange Armenia staff and with the results of Orange Armenia business ...
VIOLINIST ROMAN SIMOVIC WANTS TO CONTINUE COOPERATING WITH ARMENIAN MUSICIANS
London Symphony Orchestra soloist, violinist Roman Simovic is in Armenia. He will perform a concert with the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall on January 26, orchestra's ...
H. DEMOYAN: SENATE DECISION NEW MESSAGE CLAIMING TURKEY HAS NO ROOM IN EUROPE
"Museums are not founded to serve as political tools for instantaneous decisions, they are founded to preserve the memory and to hold an important message - to prevent what has already happened," Hayk ...
RUSSIA TODAY TO BROADCAST JULIAN ASSANGE'S TALK SHOW
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's new talk show will be broadcast on Russia Today English-language television station, "RIA Novosti" said Wednesday. Assange's show would begin airing in March, but there ...
HURRIYET: INVESTIGATION TO BE LAUNCHED AGAINST JUDGE, PROSECUTOR OVER DINK'S VERDICT
Turkey's Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors are intended to launch an investigation against Ryustem Eryilmaz, president of an Istanbul court, and prosecutor Hiqmet Ustay, who were engaged into ...
ETO'O LAUNCHES AIDS CAMPAIGN
The world's best-paid footballer, Samuel Eto'o, launched an Aids campaign ahead of the opening Africa Cup of Nations match on Monday, according to supersport.com. At a press conference ahead of Gabon's ...
SELIM MOUNTAIN PASS STILL IMPASSABLE DUE TO HEAVY SNOWSTORM
All roads and mountain passes are mainly open to traffic in Armenia as of 17:30, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communication. Selim Mountain Pass and Berd-Chambarak road remain impassable ...
BAKO SAHAKYAN CONVENES CONSULTATION ON INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES
On 25 January Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan convened a consultation on works done in 2011 in the sector of industrial infrastructures and plans for the year 2012. NKR Minister of Industrial ...