Author: Karagyozian Lena

“KENTRON-KANACHAPATUM” CJSC GIVEN RIGHT TO IMPLEMENT BUILDING IN GREEN
TERRITORIES OF KENTRON COMMUNITY

YEREVAN, MARCH 9, NOYAN TAPAN. At the March 9 sitting, RA government
made changes in the decision No 698 of the RA government of March 15,
2003, “of giving territories of parks and gardens, being a state
property, in the administrative territories of the Kentron community
of Yerevan, to the “Kentron-Kanachapatum” (Planting of Greenery) CJSC
with the tenancy right”. Noyan Tapan was informed about this from the
Information and Public Relations Department of the RA Government. In
the title of the decision the word “tenancy” was replaced by the word
“building”. It was also fixed that until the decision’s coming into
force, the contracts of tenancy or sublease of parks’ and gardens’
territories allocated by the right of the other persons’ usage by the
established order and being a state property within the administrative
territories of the Kentron district community of Yerevan, preserve
their legal power until the end of the terms mentioned in the
contracts.

JAPANESE GOVERNMENT GIVES SMALL GRANTS TO THREE ARMENIAN NGOs

YEREVAN, MARCH 10, NOYAN TAPAN. Recently the Japanese government made
a decision to give small grants to three Armenian NGOs – Human Health
NGO, Goris Youth Union and Nor Hayastan (New Armenia) Center for Human
Support. The ceremony of signing programs between Shigehiro Mimori,
Adviser of Japanese Embassy in Armenia (residence Moscow), and NGOs’
Chairmen took place on March 10 at RA Foreign Ministry. It was
mentioned that the Goris Youth Union will buy school furniture for 4
comprehensive schools of Vayots Dzor and 6 of Syunik region with the
grant amounting to 78 thousand USD. The Nor Hayastan Center for Human
Support will build 5 children’s playgrounds in 3 Yerevan communities,
in Charentsavan and Gyumri with the grant of 73 thousand USD allocated
to it. And the Human Health NGO will furnish Yerevan special school N
15 with the grant of 90 thousand USD.

THE ENTERPRISE IS RUINING THE NURSERY SCHOOL

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The nursery school of Kapan’s Kavart district has been working since
1997. 2 years ago the kindergarten lavatories and one of the rooms were
completely destroyed because of Kapan’s mine explosions initiated by
“Dino Gold Mining Company.”

The number of the infants attending the kindergarten was about 27,
whereas today it is 9. The kindergarten headmaster assures that the
nursery school has a firm basis and there is no actual threat for
the children.

But this argument is not enough to comfort the parents and ease their
concern, as nobody can garentee the further results of the blasting
and the state of the building after the lasting explosions.

“Sosi” TV channel of Sisian.

ORDER FOR CONFISCATING 373.5 MLN DRAMS FROM “AGROCOMPLEX” COMPANY PLACED TO RA ECONOMIC COURT

Noyan Tapan
Mar 14 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 14, NOYAN TAPAN. Based on the materials prepared at
the Department for Protecting State Interests of the RA Prosecutor
General’s Office, according to Article 214.2 of the RA Criminal Code,
a criminal action was brought against “Agrocomplex” LTD Director
G.Avetisian on the occasion of his abusing his commissions in the
sphere of fulfilling his tax obligations.

According to the information of the Prosecutor’s Office, “Agrocomplex”
imported Armenia commodity and material values of different types and
sold them avoiding paying taxes. The tax obligations of the company
made in total 373 mln 557.1 thousand drams (about 830 thousand
U.S. dollars) according to data of 2003, 2004 and the first quarter
of 2005. Based on the prepared materials, the RA Deputy Prosecutor
General placed an order to the RA Economic Court, demanding to
confiscate money of the above-mentioned size from the “Agrocomplex”
LTD in favour of the state budget.

PARTIES DO NOT GIVE MONEY TO THE OLD-AGE PENSION FUND

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In 2006 the budget has allotted 94 billion 590 million AMD to the
old-age pension fund which is 10.9% more than last year. The basic
pension has become 4 250 AMD instead of 4 000, and 180 AMD for one
year of work instead of last year’s 160.

Head of the Old-age Pension Fund Vazgen Khachikyan gave interesting
information today. It turns out that of the 68 registered parties
there are only 5 which give salary to their workers. Three of them
are the coalition parties, which “show” that they pay only 20 thousand
AMD to their workers.

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MEDIA ALERT

DATE: October 17, 2005
TO: Media Colleagues
RE: The Washington Post publishes NKR Representative’s Letter

Today, The Washington Post published NKR Representative Vardan Barseghian’s
letter to the Editor in response to an October 5 news story entitled,
“Independent Candidates Court Anger in Azerbaijan Campaign”. Representative
Barseghian’s letter is included below:

The Washington Post
Letters to the Editor
Conflict in the Caucasus

Monday, October 17, 2005; Page A14

While reporting on the parliamentary election campaign in Azerbaijan, Philip
Kennicott misrepresented key facts about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict [news
story, Oct. 5].

In response to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s democratic aspiration for
self-determination, Azerbaijan launched a war against Nagorno-Karabakh, not
Armenia. Nagorno-Karabakh was able to take the war outside its borders,
pressuring Azerbaijan into signing the 1994 cease-fire agreement.
Nagorno-Karabakh, not Armenia, now controls some 8 percent, not 16 percent,
of Azerbaijani territory. This buffer zone between Nagorno-Karabakh and
Azerbaijan helps maintain a relative peace in the region.

VARDAN BARSEGHIAN
Representative
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Washington

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Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City)
October 11, 2005 Tuesday

Symphony opens year luminously

by Edward Reichel

SALT LAKE SYMPHONY, Libby Gardner Concet Hall, Saturday.

The Salt Lake Symphony opened its new season Saturday under the baton
of its new music director, Robert Baldwin, with a program of music by
Barber, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky.

Baldwin led the orchestra in wonderfully articulate readings that
showed his keen sense of expression and perceptiveness. And the
orchestra, for its part, played luminously. The evening’s soloist was
the young Armenian pianist Karen Hakobyan, who played Tchaikovsky’s
ever popular B flat minor Concerto in the second half of the concert.

A former Gina Bachauer competitor and currently a student at the
University of Utah, Hakobyan is an immensely talented and dynamic
performer with an impressive technical command of his instrument. The
20-year-old made short work of the pyrotechnic demands placed on the
soloist in the first movement. However, Hakobyan was also at times
rather careless in his playing and fell to using the pedal
excessively.

In the first movement, Hakobyan attacked the music too aggressively,
making his interpretation too one-dimensional and monotonous. It also
frequently affected the balance between the piano and the orchestra.
The poetic slow movement and the fiery finale fared much better.

The concert opened with Barber’s “Essay No. 2.” This ruggedly
expressive piece with its bold statements and dramatic force is one
of the composer’s more intense forays into orchestral music.

Baldwin captured the drama and vitality of the “Essay” wonderfully,
giving a finely wrought reading that was dynamic and quite often
electrifying.

The orchestra, with few exceptions, played wonderfully. In
particular, tenor saxophonist Dave Feller was remarkable in his
extensive part, playing with expressiveness and eloquence.

AZIMOV: NO OSKANIAN-MAMMADYAROV PRIVATE MEETING SCHEDULED IN LJUBLJANA

Pan Armenian
13.10.2005 20:47 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The peace talks over settlement of the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict should continue until all resources are used up,
Azeri Deputy FM Araz Azimov stated yesterday. “Conflict settlement
opportunities are still available,” he said, noting the OSCE Minsk
Group Co-Chairs plan to have a number of meetings before visiting the
South Caucasus. After their visit to the region they are scheduled
to have a meeting with Azeri and Armenian FMs in Ljubljana, where
the OSCE FMs will convene in early December. He also noted that no
Mammadyarov-Oskanian meeting is planned in Ljubljana yet. “A meeting
of that kind may only be held in a special case,” he said. As of the
date of the following meeting of the Azeri and Armenian Presidents,
the Azeri Deputy FM said, “the date of a new meeting is not known.”

When commenting on official Baku attitude towards the reports
and proposals of the International Crisis Group (ICG), Azimov said
organizations like the ICG were unofficial ones. “ICG recommendations
and proposals are an outcome of personal deliberations of its
representatives,” the diplomat said, noting the proposals will not
be considered by Azerbaijan at the official level. At the same time
A. Azimov remarked, “the document, made public by the ICG, contains
many mistakes and shortcomings owing to insufficient information
and expert incompetence.” “No one can point out the quantity of
Azerbaijan’s budget assignments for military needs,” the Deputy FM also
said. Official Baku proceeds from its own resources when increasing
defense spending. “The Government of Azerbaijan makes efforts to
develop all spheres of state activities, including the strengthening
of the military power,” Azimov underscored. “Army enhancement is a
essential part of state development.

Servicemen are the same citizens of Azerbaijan and their salaries
should be increased as well,” A. Azimov concluded.

TRANSPORT PROBLEMS REMAIN MAIN HURDLE TO BOOSTING TRADE WITH RUSSIA

Armenpress
Oct 13 2005

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 13, ARMENPRESS: Armenian defense minister Serzh
Sarkisian, who is also the Armenian cochairmen of the Russian-Armenian
commission on economic cooperation, said yesterday transport
problems were the main hurdle for drastic boosting of trade with
Russia. Addressing a recurrent meeting of the commission in Yerevan
Sarkisian said trade between the two countries in the first half of
this year was up 30 percent.

His Russian counterpart, transport minister Igor Levitin, said
Russian-Armenian trade-economic partnership was exemplary for other
CIS member countries. Vahagn Movsisian, the director of the Armenian
Development Agency, cited several figures, saying that inflation in
the first half of the year was 7 percent, GDP growth upped 15 percent,
a 5 percent higher from a year ago.

Levitin also said they were going to look into what should be done to
give a boost to a ferryboat line running from Georgian port of Poti
to Russian port of Kavkaz, but he blamed its inefficient operation
on small volumes of goods the ferryboat takes aboard.

Armenian prime minister Andranik Margarian met today the Russian
minister to discuss ways for enhancing bilateral trade. The government
press office said the two sides expressed satisfaction with growing
trade that constituted $120 million in the first six months of this
year. Margarian was reported to reaffirm Armenian government’s
readiness to help restore railway communication across Georgia’s
breakaway region of Abkhazia.

ARMENIAN FAIR IN MOSCOW GATHERS 200.000 VISITORS
By Aghavni Harutyunian

AZG Armenian Daily #184
13/10/2005

Russians Show Interest in Armenian Dairy Products, Dried Fruits
and Juices

“The first open-air fair of Armenian goods in Pushkin Square of
Moscow on September 20-25 gathered around 200.000 visitors”, Vahagn
Movsisian, executive director of Armenian Agency for Development,
told yesterday’s press conference.

The fair was organized within the frameworks of Armenian-Russian
trade-economic cooperation. The Moscow authorities supported the
organizers in opening the fair and did not even charge money for
using the Pushkin Square for two days.

Interestingly, the Muscovite Russians and Armenians were greatly
interested in Armenian cheese, dairy products, dried fruits and
juices. The pavilions selling cheese run out of it in 1.5 hour after
opening the fair; the remaining 20 kg was taken away to put up the
next day.

Among other products on the display there were 48 sorts of Armenian
wines, jewellery, gobelins, goods of ceramic, silverware and canvases
of Armenian painters.

One of the major events of the fair was the sale of self-tuition manual
of Armenian language, 80 percent of which was bought by Russians.