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ARMENIA ATTENDING AT BSEC SUMMIT IN ISTANBUL
- Armenia will participate in the 20th Anniversary Summit of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) in Istanbul at deputy foreign minister level, despite Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan being invited to the gathering, the Hurriyet Daily News reports. The June 26 summit will be co-chaired by Serbia and Turkey, the two consecutive Chairmanships-in-Office of BSEC in 2012. The governments of BSEC member states, observers and sectoral dialogue partners, as well as several international and regional organizations have been invited to the summit. Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Moldovan President Nicolae Timofti, and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, are among the participants. In parallel with the summit, several side events such as parliamentarian forums, academic and NGO forums, and business forums are planned.
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Headlines for June 22, 2012ARMENIA+NATO MEETING TAKES PLACE AT NATO HEADQUARTERS
An Armenia+NATO meeting took place at the NATO Headquarters on June 21. The meeting discussed the Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP). Armenian Deputy FM Ashot Hovakimyan and First ...HRAPARAK: PROSPEROUS ARMENIA LEADER MEETS PRESIDENT SARGSYAN
The paper says while hot discussions over the government's program were underway at the National Assembly, the Prosperous Armenia party (PAP) MPs were voicing their opposition views on the opposite side ...HRAPARAK: VIKTOR DALLAKYAN FINDS WAY TO RETURN BACK TO PARLIAMENT
Former MP Viktor Dallakyan who failed to gather voices for entering the newly-formed parliament has found another way to continue his activity there. Dallakyan is said to be appointed Armenia's president's ...ICRC RETREATS FROM HOMS, EVACUATION PLAN STALLED
Aid workers hoping to evacuate trapped civilians and the wounded were unable to enter hard-hit areas of the Syrian city of Homs on Thursday due to shooting and an "unclear" security situation, ...RONALDO PUTS PORTUGAL INTO SEMIFINALS
Cristiano Ronaldo was the hero as Portugal beat an ultra-defensive Czech Republic 1-0 at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday in their quarter-final to qualify for the Euro 2012 semi-finals, ...TURKEY TO DROP SANCTIONS ON FRANCE
Turkey on Thursday praised the positive attitude adopted by the new French president toward relations with Ankara, saying that sanctions imposed on Paris would no longer be implemented, the AFP reports. ...TALIBAN ATTACK HOTEL NEAR KABUL
Taliban militants have attacked a hotel outside Kabul, triggering a deadly gun battle with Afghan security forces and a hostage crisis, BBC News reported. Officials have said that insurgents armed with ...DOCTORS FOUND NO TRACE OF FORMER EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT STROKE - AL AHRAM
Maadi Military Hospital doctors conducted a survey of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and found no signs of his stroke and blood clots of the arteries of the brain and heart, according to the ...ZHOGHOVURD: RULING PARTY FAILS TO APPOINT GEGHARKUNIK GOVERNOR
The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) failed to appoint governor of Armenia's Gegharkunik region. The issue has been decided to be postponed as MP Rafik Grigoryan is said not to wish to be appointed in ...HAYOTS ASHKARH: PRESIDENT FINDS ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT KEY TASK
Speaking at the new cabinet's first meeting earlier this week, President Serzh Sargsyan reportedly called the ministers' attention to several key issues and principles.
Citing the president's speech, ...HRAPARAK: ARMENIA MARRIOTT HOTEL - TRANSIT ZONE FOR WORLD RELIGIONS
Armenia, and Marriott hotel in particular, seems to have become a transit zone for other religions of the world. In the coming days the Mormons there will be replaced by Masons, Hraparak daily writes. ...PROSECUTORS START CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN BREIVIK TRIAL
Prosecutors began their closing arguments Thursday in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in attacks last July, and were to reveal if they want him held responsible for his actions, ...MOODY'S DOWNGRADES UK BANKS
Home owners and businesses face the prospect of higher interest rates after Britain's biggest banks had their status downgraded.
The credit ratings agency Moody's has slashed its assessments of 15 major ...ARMENIAN FM MEETS HIS COUNTERPARTS IN RIO DE JANEIRO
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, participating in the UN Rio+20 environmental and sustainable development conference, had a number of bilateral meetings in Rio de Janeiro. According to the ...LEBANESE-ARMENIAN ARTIST HONORED WITH ARSHILE GORKY MEDAL
Lebanese-Armenia sculptor Zaven Ktshyan was awarded with the Arshil Gorky medal at the opening of his personal exhibition in Yerevan's History Museum on Thursday.
The event was organized as part of ...YOUNG MAN SHOT DEAD IN YEREVAN
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A young man was transported to Erebuni hospital with fatal gun wounds at about 3am June 22. Gagik Shamshyan reports that the murdered young man was 31-year-old Suren Zoroyan. Shamshyan says an unknown ...EMOTIONAL STRESS INCREASES TOLL IN CARDIACS
The emotional toll of a heart attack can be so severe that an estimated 1 in 8 patients who survive the experience develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), new research, has found. While it has ...HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES CALL FOR ARCTIC SANCTUARY AND BIODIVERSITY
Hollywood heavyweights threw their star power behind environmental causes on Thursday, advocating for the creation of an Arctic reserve and the protection of animal and plant species, The Gazzette reported. ...REPUBLICAN PARTY'S REP ON PARLIAMENTARY DISCUSSIONS OF GOVERNMENT'S PROGRAM
Secretary of the Republican party's faction Hovhannes Sahakyan does not consider the discussions in the newly formed parliament be of higher quality than before. In particular, the Armenian National ...ARMENIAN PM HAPPY WITH ADOPTION OF GOVERNMENT'S PROGRAM
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan expressed gratitude to the country's legislative body for a two-day discussion and final adoption of the Government's 2012-2017 program. Speaking at the cabinet ...COMPUTER GAME ABOUT NAGORNO-KARABAKH WAR CREATED IN AZERBAIJAN
A computer game about Nagorno-Karabakh war has been created in Azerbaijan to "raise military-patriotic spirit" of young Azerbaijanis. According to 1news.az, the presentation of the game is scheduled ...46-MEMBER GROUP ARRESTED IN ARDAHAN FOR FORCING WOMEN INTO PROSTITUTION
A 46-member group has been arrested in Ardahan for forcing 45 women into prostitution. Twenty-nine of the women were foreigners already deported from Turkey.
Twenty-four members of the group have been ...RUSSIA INTENDS TO PROTECT ITS INTERESTS IN CAUCASUS - PAPER
While the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is preparing for its Caucasus 2012 drills, trainings involving military equipment and armament have been launched in Russia's south and Armenia, ...PRODUCER, SHOWMAN INVOLVED IN CAR CRASH ARE IN STABLE BUT CRITICAL CONDITION (PHOTOS)
Chairman of "Tata Production", producer Grigor Nazaryan and host, showman Mark Saghatelyan, involved in a car crash yesterday, are in resuscitation ward of Mkhitar Heratsi Medical University's hospital. ...ARMENIAN CABINET DECLARES JULY 6 NON-WORKING DAY
The first Friday of July, which follows the Armenian Constitution Day (July 5), has been declared a holiday under a Government decision.
The head of the Government's staff, David Sargsyan, proposed ...OSCE YEREVAN TO TRAIN LAWYERS ON THIRD PARTY INTERVENTION
A two-day training workshop for some 25 lawyers and human rights defenders from non-governmental organizations on third party intervention (amicus curiae) in constitutional and international human rights ...FORMER US AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA WRITES REVIEWS FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BOOKS
"The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire By Taner Akçam, and Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials By Vahakn N. Dadrian ...GOVERNOR OF VAYOTS DZOR REGION APPOINTED
The Armenian cabinet made on Friday a decision to appoint Edward Ghazaryan the governor of Vayots Dzor region.
His candidacy for was earlier proposed by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia.
Speaking ...YEREVAN MAYOR HOLDS MEETINGS IN FRANCE
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the friendship and cooperation agreement signed between Armenia's capital Yerevan and French Marseilles, a delegation led by the Yerevan mayor Taron Margaryan ...PARLIAMENT PASSES SEVERAL BILLS IN AD HOC MEETING
Armenia's National Assembly approved several draft laws at its ad hoc meeting on Friday.
The members of the fifth parliament passed in the second reading the amendments to the Laws on Licensing, and ...ARMENIA ATTENDING AT BSEC SUMMIT IN ISTANBUL
Armenia will participate in the 20th Anniversary Summit of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) in Istanbul at deputy foreign minister level, despite Armenian President Serzh ...RELICS OF ARMENIAN, ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS FOUND IN TURKEY
Researchers from Turkey's Batman University have uncovered relics of 350 churches, monasteries, castles, springs and other constructions.
According to Sondakika.com, the majority of the monuments belonged ...KARABAKH PRESIDENT SENDS BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO PREDECESSOR
President of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic Bako Sahakyan has congratulated the country's second leader, Arkady Ghukasyan, on the 55th anniversary of his birthday. "The people of Artsakh highly ...SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE ODNOKLASSNIKI LAUNCHES ARMENIAN VERSION
The Russian online social network, Odnoklassniki (classmates), has launched a version in the Armenian language.
The initiative offers the Armenian users of the popular site to communicate with friends ...ARMENIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST CRITICAL OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
The May 6 parliamentary elections were neither free nor fair, Artur Sakunts, Head of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor office, told journalists on Friday. He presented an election monitoring ...PARLIAMENT SANCTIONS USE OF LAKE SEVAN'S RESOURCES
The Armenian National Assembly has passed, in a heated debate, the legal proposal allowing the release of 150 cubic meters of water from Lake Sevan.
The bill was approved with a vote of 93 in favor ...GREEK PM IN HOSPITAL FOR EYE SURGERY
New Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will have eye surgery on Saturday to repair a damaged retina, his office has said in a statement.
According to Reuters, the operation will take place in an Athens ...ARMENIA'S NATURE PROTECTION MINISTER ON LAKE SEVAN WATER
Although the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Environment agreed to a discharge of 320m of cubic meters of water from Lake Sevan, Armenia's Minister of Nature Protection Aram Harutyunyan assured ...TURKEY MAY RE-ESTABLISH VISA REGIME WITH AZERBAIJAN
Turkey will have to re-establish its visa regime with the Azerbaijan under a memorandum of understanding signed with the European Union.
The document allows the country to launch visa liberalization ...ARMENIA TO CREATE NEW CONDITIONS FOR STARTUPS - PREMIER
Armenia will create new conditions for start-ups, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan stated at a forum on Friday. Participating in the forum were representatives of the Black Sea Trade and Development ...RULING FORCE UNABLE TO BUILD UP ‘JUST STATE' IN ARMENIA - OPPOSITION REP
At his meeting with journalists on Friday, Armenia's ex-premier, a member of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) parliamentary group Hrant Bagratyan re-affirmed his opinion that the ruling ...ARMENIAN NA STANDING COMMITTEES ELECT VICE-CHAIRMEN
The standing committees of Armenia's national assembly met on Friday to elect their vice-chairmen and approve their regulations. Grigor Grigoryan (Prosperous Armenia Party - PAP) was elected vice-chairman ...
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