WATER PRICE WENT UP
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02:17 pm | June 08, 2009 | society
Starting from July 8 Yerevan citizens will have to pay 181 drams
for one cubic meter of water. The new tariff was fixed by the Public
Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) of the Republic of Armenia.
Presently Yerevan citizens pay 172.8 drams per a cubic meter of water.
Note that "Yerevan Dzur" CJSC demanded that the Commission fix 189.9
drams instead of 181.
The price of water in Armenian marzes went up on April 1.
AZERBAIJAN THREATENS TO CHANGE ITS POSITION ON NAGORNO KARABAKH
PanARMENIAN.Net/
09.06.2009 12:19 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ There was no progress in Prague and Saint
Petersburg we expected and the co-chairs promised, said Novruz
Mammadov, head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Presidential
Administration. According to him, if there are nor moves, Azerbaijan
can change its position. "Although the meeting in St. Petersburg
was hosted and mediated by the Russian president and that meeting
was supposed to differ from Pargue meeting, there was no serious
difference", said Mammadov. He said the co-chairs made statements that
the document would be signed on basic principles soon. According to
him, there was no progress so far. "The co-chairs introduce Armenia as
constructive country with a constructive president to the international
community, and therefore the world thinks that they are going to the
negotiations, everything is OK. If the negotiations go in this way
and no progress is achieved, Azerbaijan can change its position,"
Mammadov said. The department chief didn’t rule out the Azerbaijani
and Armenian presidents’ meeting in July and said the meeting could
take place in Russia again.
YEREVAN CITY COUNCIL HOLDS THE FIRST SITTING
Hasmik Dilanyan
"Radiolur"
08.06.2009 15:38
The first sitting of the Yerevan City Council took place at the
City Hall today. Accordingt o law, it was chaired by the eldest
member of the Council, President of the Union of Journalists Astghik
Gevorgyan. There were two issues on the agenda of the first sitting:
the decision on organization of the first inauguration ceremony for
the Mayor of Yerevan and fixing the date for the first session of
the City Council.
For the first time in history Yerevan has an elected Mayor – Gagik
Beglaryan. As a result of the elections of May 31, the seats in the
city Council were distributed in the following way: the Republican
Party got 35 seats, Prosperous Armenia Party and the Armenian National
Congress received 17 and 13 seats respectively. The Armenian National
Congress was not participating in the sitting. Pro-government members
of the Council think that their absence will certainly affect its
activity. "The more keen eyes, the better the work will be," Astghik
Gevorgyan says.
Press Secretary of the Armenian National Congress told "Radiolur" that
they would not participate in the sittings. "We think that the Central
Electoral Commission has committed a crime by forging the elections.
We have declared that we refuse form our mandates," Arman Musinyan
said.
DISTRICT ELECTORAL COMMISSION HEAD ARRESTED
2009/06/05 | 18:02
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Onik Aleksanyan, President of the District Electoral Commission
of the 8/15 polling precinct was arrested today by the RoA Special
Investigative Service for tampering with the vote count in the May
31 Yerevan municipal council election.
PROSPEROUS ARMENIA REFUSES TO COMMENT
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08:23 pm | June 04, 2009
Politics
Rumor has it that the Prosperous Armenia party is going to drop its
seats in the Council of Elders because, like the ANC, it is also sure
that the elections were falsified.
Recently, press speaker for the Prosperous Armenia party Baghdasar
Mheryan refused to make any comments and advised "A1+" to ask MP
Naira Zohrabyan, but the latter refused to comment on the elections.
Let us remind that secretary of the faction Aram Safaryan recently
called on recognizing the results of the elections in at least one
polling station of the Ajapnyak district as invalid.
SENATE OF CALIFORNIA STATE APPROVES PROJECT LAW ON GENOCIDE OF ARMENIA
/ARKA/
June 4, 2009
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, June 4. /ARKA/. According to the Armenian Assembly of America
(AAA) the Senate of California State approved the project law on
recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
AAA hails author of the resolution Senator Wyland for his efforts to
promote the resolution in the State Senate.
Assembly’s Western Region Director Yeghig Keshishian stated passing
the resolution once again placed California in the forefront of
national politics.
Upon successful passage the act will then be signed into law by
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The first genocide in the 20th century by the Ottoman Turkey, the
Armenian Genocide took lives of over half million Armenians during
the First World War. Turkey keeps on denying the fact of the Armenian
Genocide and reacts strongly on any critical approach from the West
on the issue.
Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, the Lower House of Italy, the
majority of the United States, as well as the Greek Parliament, Cyprus,
Argentina, Belgium, Wales, the National Assembly of Switzerland, the
House of Commons of Canada and the Polish Seim have all recognized
the Armenian Genocide.
Today 42 out of US states recognize the Armenian Genocide.
INVALID ELECTIONS IN SEVERAL POLLING STATIONS
LRAGIR.AM
13:51:51 – 04/06/2009
The press service of the Central Electoral Commission informs that in
case the results of the election are declared invalid, the present
materials are presented to the office of the Prosecutor General to
bring criminal cases.
Hence, on June 4, the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia presented
the Office of the Prosecutor General of Armenia the decisions of the
electoral commissions of the 7 and 8 electoral districts on declaring
invalid the elections at 7/7, 7/9, 8/15 polling stations based on
relevant grounds, the 7/7, 7/9, 8/15 packets of documents and the
registers of the commissions.
SHUSHA CITY OF AZERBAIJAN NOW ON US STAMP
Today.Az
2824.html
June 3 2009
Azerbaijan
The Board of American Azerbaijanis presented the first US stamp with
Shusha city featured on it.
According to Day.Az, the stamp featuring Shusha city of Azerbaijan
is now available at website. The stamp was approved
by the US national post office.
The Shusha city, located in Nagorno Karabakh, was occupied by Armenians
on May 8 of 1992. Hundreds of civilians died and about 60 were taken
hostages or went missing.
There were women and children among the killed, wounded and
hostages. Most of them have not been released yet. About 22,000 people
were turned into refugees in the result of occupation.
VAHAGN KHACHATRIAN: AMBULANCE PERSONNEL CHANGED BALLOT BOX AT A POLLING STATION
Noyan Tapan
June 3, 2009
YEREVAN, JUNE 3, NOYAN TAPAN. "What took place on May 31 in Yerevan
cannot be named "elections," Vahagn Khachatrian, ANC representative,
coordinator of ANC Malatia-Sebastia community’s election headquarters,
stated at the June 3 press conference. According to him, as a
result of mass stuffing of ballot boxes with ballot papers done by
pro-governmental forces 90% and more turnout was recorded at many
polling stations of electoral districts N 7 and 8. Besides, according
to V. Khachatrian, all known and unknown means of rigging elections
were used on May 31, from organization of "karoussels" to attack of
"bandit groups" on polling stations. And all this, according to the
ANC representative, was done in the presence of policemen and with
their "silent approval."
V. Khachatrian also said that at one of Malatia-Sebastia polling
stations immediately before counting the votes the ambulance car
arriving on the occasion of alleged worsening of health condition of
a commission member brought a ballot-box already stuffed with ballot
papers and took away the ballot box placed at the polling station. As
a result, according to him, nearly 1300 ballot papers were counted,
while ANC’s proxy had recorded participation of nearly 700 voters
within the day.
V. Khachatrian added that in the house where he lives the
resident carrying out RPA’s election campaign was a thief and
hooligan. According to the ANC representative, that young man had a
big sum of money during the campaign and he started, on the one hand,
to bribe and, on the other hand, to intimidate the house residents.
TIGRAN KARAPETYAN – HAK SHOULDN’T TAKE SEATS IN CITY COUNCIL
Astghik Khachatryan
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2009/06/01 | 15:31
Important Society
Tigran Karapetyan, leader of the People’s Party, stated to "Hetq"
that the results of yesterday’s municipal elections do not reflect
reality. His party only received 2.14% of the vote according to
official results.
"I’m not talking about my party’s votes. I’m referring to the elections
process. The voting must be voluntary but they are directed with
bribes and fraud," he stated.
He claimed that all were responsible for the situation, but most
especially the regime. "They literally brought the votes to the
polling stations. The regime isn’t worthy of those votes."
Mr. Karapetyan also criticized the statement of the head of the
Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities that
declared the vote to be in line with European standards. He said
that the international monitors probably visited only a few polling
stations were the vote proceeded normally. "They should have gone to
the Zatikyan School, to P.S. #39, to see what was going on."
Mr. Karapetyan said that he would call a press conference tomorrow
to protest the election and that the People’s Party would chart its
future course of action in an upcoming congress. He said that the
party did not intend to contest the election results in court since
it would be a waste of time.
He added that if he represented the HAK (Armenian National Congress)
he would not take seats won in the Yerevan City Council and that he
expected HAK to so the same.