Author: Kalashian Nyrie

CRIMES AGAINST MINORS PRIMARILY COMMITTED BY ADULTS, SAYS POLICE COLONEL

Tert
Nov 20 2009
Armenia

During 10 months of this year, 7,222 criminal offences have been
registered in Armenia — compared to 5,480 for the same period last
year, announced Head of Department of Criminal Investigations of RA
Police, Colonel Hovik Tamamyan.

At a press conference today, Tamamyan presented the complete picture
of crimes registered in Armenia by and against minors during a 10-month
period in 2009: during that time, 383 crimes were committed by minors,
which is 18 more cases than in the previous year. Out of this total,
96 crimes were committed by 14-15 year-olds, while 276 were committed
by 16-17 year-olds.

Out of the total criminal offences, 23 were committed by young women, 4
were committed by youth under the influence of alcohol, and 1 committed
by a juvenile under the influence of drugs. The majority of crimes were
committed by youth with varying occupations; excluding 24 delinquents
who were students. In any case, none of the crimes committed by youth
were murder cases. Tamamyan, speaking on the reasons for the crimes,
mentioned an noteworthy fact: according to the colonel, crimes against
juveniles were primarily committed by adults.

The picture of crimes committed against minors is not a pretty one.

During the current year, 155 crimes have been committed against
juveniles, 2 of which were murders, 2 were deaths caused by
carelessness, 3 resulted in suicides, 3 physical assaults, 4 sexual
assaults, and 25 sexual violations. What is distressing to note is
that the crimes committed by youth are nothing compared to those
committed by adults against youth.

And the icing on the cake? Today marks the 20th anniversary of the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Armenia adopted in 1993.

NAGORNO-KARABAKH MUST BE RESOLVED IN OLD FORMAT: RUSSIAN FM

Trend
Nov 17 2009
Azerbaijan

Conflicts addressed by the OSCE should be resolved in the previously
agreed upon format, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in
response to a question posed by Trend News during a news conference
in Moscow today.

"These conflicts, such as Nagorno-Karabakh, Transdniester and Kosovo
should be resolved in the previously adopted format," he said.

"Kazakhstan as the organization’s chairman will take a responsible
approach to this problem."

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. –
are currently holding the peace negotiations.

EU has gained a foothold in Georgia and will now try to do the same in
Armenia and Azerbaijan

2009-11-14 20:12:00

ArmInfo. In the coming half a year the EU will be very busy with its
own affairs. It will introduce the post of EU Foreign Minister, who
will be provided with very broad competences, particularly, in
resolving territorial conflicts like the one in Nagorno-Karabakh,
Program Director for Russia-Eurasia of the German Council on Foreign
Relations Alexander Rahr said in an interview to ArmInfo.

The EU FM will have its office. Some special representatives will most
probably be changed. Rahr does not expect quick or drastic changes but
is sure that the European foreign policy will be very active in the
South Caucasus. As a result of the Russian-georgian conflict, the EU
has gained a foothold in Georgia and now will try to do the same in
Armenia and Azerbaijan.

It seems that the EU is not sure what to do with the upper hand it has
gained in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process but it knows that
something must be done. It may so happen that Armenia will be
pressured into giving back the territories surrounding
Nagorno-Karabakh, Nagorno-Karabakh will be granted some more specific
status and some troops, probably, European, will be send to keep peace
in the area.

IT IS WIDELY BELIEVED THAT OCCUPIED TERRITORIES SURROUNDING NAGORNO-KARABAKH SHOULD BE RETURNED TO AZERBAIJAN: RUSSIAN EXPERT

Today
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Nov 13 2009
Azerbaijan

"Russia believes that settlement of any conflict in the Caucasus
contributes to the resolution of all conflicts in the region, in
particular, the Nagorno Karabakh conflict," Director General of
Russia-based Effective Policy Fund Kiril Tanayev said.

"From an optimistic viewpoint, all frozen conflicts will one day be
resolved. It is wrong to expect everything to be resolved "in a few
days." I think it is widely believed that territories surrounding
Nagorno-Karabakh should be returned to Azerbaijan, and a resolution
will be achieved at some point," he added.

Tanayev also commented on recent media reports claiming that Turkey
may become OSCE Minsk Group co-chair.

"I think this is some kind of analytical speculation. Any change
in format of the negotiations involves not only the opinion of
mediators countries, but, above all, countries that are parties to
the negotiations, namely, Azerbaijan and Armenia. I think on any
changes to format of the negotiations depends on positions of these
countries," Tanayev noted.

ARMENIA LOOKS TO EXTERNAL FINANCING FOR CONSTRUCTION OF OIL PRODUCT PIPELINE FROM IRAN

World Market Research Centre
Global Insight
November 11, 2009

Armenian minister for energy and natural resources Armen Moysisian
has said that Russia’s Gazprom is planning to finance 10% of the
cost of construction for an oil products pipeline that will connect
northern Iran to southern Armenia. Moysisian told Interfax that the
Russian gas giant will participate in the financing of the pipeline,
which is planned to link Tebriz in north-eastern Iran with Yeraskh in
southern Armenia, via its stake in ArmRosGazprom, the Russian-Armenian
venture that controls Armenia’s gas pipeline network. Moysisian said
that most of the financing for the estimated $250US-milion pipeline
will be provided by Iran.

Significance:Construction of the Armenian section of the oil products
pipeline, which will deliver gasoline (petrol) and diesel fuel to
Armenia from an oil processing plant in Tebriz, is expected to get
under way before the end of 2009, according to an Interfax report.

Moysisian said that the Armenia plans to build a storage terminal
in Yeraskh as well, from which the country can distribute oil
products throughout Armenia. Iran is itself struggling with a
domestic production capacity shortage in its refinery sector and
is reliant on imports to meet its demand, but at the same time it
is keen to develop long-term energy supply deals with neighbouring
states where possible, in order to counter its deepening isolation
given international sanctions. Armenia will not be allowed to buy
fuel at Iran’s heavily subsidised domestic prices.

ARMENIAN SEISMOLOGISTS RECORDED EARTHQUAKE AT 3.5 MAGNITUDE IN IRAN

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
13.11.2009 10:33 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Yesterday, at 20:36 local time on the territory
of Iran, in 19-km north-west of Hoy, an earthquake with 3.5. points
magnitude was recorded. As the National Service of Seismic Protection
of Armenia told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, the force of the earthquake
in the epicenter was 5 points.

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Hayastan All-Armenian Fund newly constructed school revitalizes Spitakashen

Yerevan, November 11, 2009 – The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund has built and
furnished a school in Spitakashen, a border village in Artsakh’s Martuni
Region. The construction and furnishing with a price tag of close to
200?460?000 AMD was co-financed by the fund’s Toronto affiliate and the
government of Artsakh.

The official inauguration of the school will take place in May 2010
conditioned by the visit of the sponsors and benefactors.

Attending the opening ceremony were Nagorno-Karabakh minister of education
Vladik Khachatryan, head of the Martuni administration Lyudmila Azizyan,
Hayastan Fund Executive Director Ara Vardanyan, Deputy Director Ararat
Khlghatyan, principal of the school Shiraz Hayrapetyan, mayor of Spitakashen
Armen Khachatryan, residents of the Spitakashen.

The new building is immediately well distinguished within the rural
landscape background. In a few weeks the school will receive its 74 pupils
with its well-equipped and heated classrooms, well-lit library, beautiful
events hall, and a large playground. The school designed for 130 students,
and if necessary, will accommodate students from close-by villages.

"School construction is a major development goal of the Hayastan
All-Armenian Fund, which has already built more than 200 kindergartens and
schools throughout Artsakh and Armenia, and today this list was replenished
with a new project. I hope that down the years, these children will
contribute their knowledge to the welfare of our homeland", said Ara
Vardanyan, the Fund’s Executive Director.

"The old school built in 1935 had become not only terribly unsafe for
students and teachers but it also lacked almost all the elementary
facilities. In order to enter the school, the pupils had to pass through the
cultural center located on the ground floor of the building. Today 74
students are able to attend a wonderfully appointed and comfortable school,
a fact that will have the added benefit of raising the overall quality of
education", said the school’s principal Shiraz Hayrapetyan addressing his
words of gratitude to the Artsakh Government and Fund’s Toronto affiliate.

We would note that the funds for the construction and furnishing of the
school were gathered due to several meetings and fundraising events
conducted by the Fund’s Toronto affiliate. Among those events was a six-day
bike ride jointly organized by the Toronto and USA Western Region affiliates
in this September resulting in $50?000, which, like the previous year,
benefited the construction of the school in Spitakashen village. This is
already the fifth school sponsored by the Toronto affiliate. Before this
they have financed the construction of schools in the villages Verin
Horatagh and Mataghis of Martakert Region, Shosh village of Askeran Region
as well as physico-mathematical school in Stepanakert.

Spitakashen was the site of another major development project in 2008, when
the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund, with financing from its Argentinean
affiliate, ended the village’s longstanding potable-water crisis by building
a water-distribution system thus providing 110 families with round the clock
drinking water.

Hayastan All Armenian Fund

KLIMKO IS ADMIRED BY THE NEW PROJECT OF "ARKA"

ARKA
Nov 9, 2009

YEREVAN, November 9. /ARKA/. Igor Klimko, General Director of
telecommunication company "ArmenTel" (brand Beeline) said that he
is admired by the new financial-banking portal of news agency "ARKA"
–

"I think that the presented sites are one of the most professional
and interesting news and analytical sites in Armenia", said Klimko
during the presentation of As part of its strategy
to develop Internet-based businesses ARKA news agency has launched
in October, 2009 new projects at , ,
The financial-banking portal www.armbanks aspires to
become the leading Internet edition in Armenia covering the country’s
financial and banking sectors.

Apart from on-line information the portal offers also analytical
research, exclusive stories and information about banks, insurance
and credit organizations, their comparative financial indices as well
as statistical data. New services-on-line conferences and on-line
consultations will be available to customers as well. The website
has a credit calculator and hard currency converter. In addition to
all of this, thanks to state-of-the-art technologies the visitors of
the website can listen to economic news of ARKA news agency.

Visitors to website may learn the latest news from
Armenia’s stock market, to look through the results of shares and
government bonds trading, to read comments and opinions of experts
and participants of the market. The website will
allow to monitor the situation of the Armenian economy, to be well
informed about the government anti-crisis steps. Visitors may offer
their recommendations and comments on various government decisions,
designed and passed to take the country out of the crisis.

OSCE MISSION HOLDS PLAN MONITORING ON NKR AND AZERI ARMED FORCES CONTACT-LINE ON NOVEMBER 10

Noyan Tapan
Nov 10, 2009

STEPANAKERT, NOVEMBER 10, NOYAN TAPAN. In accordance with the agreement
reached with the NKR authorities in advance, the OSCE mission, on
November 10, held a plan monitoring on the NKR and Azeri armed forces
contact-line near the populated area of Horadiz.

>From positions of the NKR defence army the monitoring mission was
headed by Personal Representative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej
Kasprzyk. Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of OSCE
Chairperson-in-Office Peter Key (Great Britain), Irzhi Aberle (Czech
Republic), and Zhaslan Nurtazin (Kazakhstan) were included in the
monitoring group.

According to the NKR Foreign Ministry Press Service, no violations
of the cease-fire regime were fixed during the monitoring.

Representatives of the NKR Foreign Ministry and Defence Ministry will
accompany the monitoring mission on the part of NKR.

RA FOREIGN MINISTER TO PAY TWO-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT TO SWITZERLAND

Noyan Tapan
Nov 9, 2009

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN. RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian
will pay an official visit to Switzerland between November 10 to
11. According to RA Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department,
bilateral documents will be signed during the visit.