ARKA News Agency
April 7 2004
Presentation of NAFNAF French shop takes place in Yerevan
RA NA Speaker condemns attacks on journalists
CBA Chairman receives premium `For Biggest Contribution in
Development of Foreign Trade Links’
RA President Robert Kocharian presents his congratulations in
accordance to Maternity and Beauty Day
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PRESENTATION OF NAFNAF FRENCH SHOP TAKES PLACE IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN, April 7. /ARKA/. Presentation of NAFNAF French shop took
place in Yerevan. According to French Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to Armenia Anri Cuni, `the opening of the shop proves
that Armenian market is interesting enough to French companies’.
According to representative of NAFNAF Company Olivier Felix, the
initiative of the opening of the shop came from Armenian Company
Vielan. `If Vielan would like to expand business more in the future,
we will not be against it’, Felix said.
Annual turnover of NAFNAF Group in 2002 made 182 million Euro. L.D.
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RA NA SPEAKER CONDEMNS ATTACKS ON JOURNALISTS
YEREVAN, April 7. /ARKA/. RA NA Speaker Arthur Baghdasarian condemned
attacks on journalists that took place on April 5. `Condemnation by
word should not become a fashion in Armenia. Condemnation should be
followed with concrete actions and the guilty should be called to
responsibility’, he stressed. He added that journalists in Armenia
have been attacked before. `And who was punished?’, rhetorically
asked Baghdasarian.
The meeting of Artashes Geghamyan with people on April 5 was fraught
with serious consequences for the operators and reporters. Unknown
provocateurs broke the cameras of Kentron TV Company, Hai TV, and
PTA. The tape recorder of Shant TV Company’s operator was taken away.
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CBA CHAIRMAN RECEIVES PREMIUM `FOR BIGGEST CONTRIBUTION IN
DEVELOPMENT OF FOREIGN TRADE LINKS’
YEREVAN, April 7. /ARKA/. CBA Chairman Tigran Sargsian received
premium `For Biggest Contribution in Development of Foreign Trade
Links’. The premium was established at the conference `Armenian
Economy in the View of Foreign Mass Media’. According to CBA press
release, awarding ceremony took place on April 7, 2004 in CBA hall.
First annual conference `Armenian Economy in the View of Foreign Mass
Media’ took place in Yerevan on April 3. The conference was organized
by UMEA, Master Center, and Association of Foreign Correspondents of
Armenia in official support of RA Ministry of Trade and Economic
Development and RA MFA. L.D. –0–
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RA PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARIAN PRESENTS HIS CONGRATULATIONS IN
ACCORDANCE TO MATERNITY AND BEAUTY DAY
YEREVAN, April 7. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharian presented his
congratulations in accordance to Maternity and Beauty Day,
President’s press office told ARKA. The letter says that basic
mission of a woman – maternity – traditionally deserved respect and
exaltation in out society. `Today you continue to be worthy keepers
of family hearth. Let your families always live in peace, harmony and
cordiality’, the letter said. L.D. –0–