ARKA News Agency
March 29 2004

New Editor in Chief of Azat Artsakh daily appointed

RA President signs decree on awarding honorary titles to theater
artists

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NEW EDITOR IN CHIEF OF AZAT ARTSAKH DAILY APPOINTED

STEPANAKERT. March 29. /ARKA/. Marsel Petrosyan was appointed as new
Editor in Chief of Karabakh daily Azat Artsakh. As reported by the
Special Correspondent of ARKA in NKR from Stepanakert with the
reference to the NKR National Assembly Press Department, prior to the
appointment the New Editor in Chief was Editor in Chief of army daily
Martik. The former Editor of Azat Artsakh Haykaz Ghahriyan was
discharged from his position according to his own request in
connection with his going to other job. T.M. -0-

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RA PRESIDENT SIGNS DECREE ON AWARDING HONORARY TITLES TO THEATER
ARTISTS

YEREVAN. March 29. /ARKA/. ARKA President Robert Kocharian signed a
decree on awarding honorary titles for contribution into the theater
art on occasion of the International Theater Day. As the RA President
Press Department told ARKA, honorary titles were awarded to 13
theater artists. Congratulating the theatre artists on occasion of
the International Day of Theater, he said that `theater’s role in
public life is enormous, as well as for raising the national
consciousness’. `We consider that restoration and development of
these traditions for creation a new face of Armenia is important’,
Kocharian mentioned. T.M. -0–