PURCHASE AND SALE TRANSACTIONS OF .1 MILLION CONDUCTED AT NASDAQ OMX ARMENIA OJSC ON JANUARY 12
Noyan Tapan
Jan 12, 2010
YEREVAN, JANUARY 12, NOYAN TAPAN. Purchase and sale transactions of
.1 million at the weighted average exchange rate of 377.83 drams per
dollar were conducted at Nasdaq OMX Armenia OJSC on January 12.
According to the press service of the Central Bank of Armenia, the
closing price was 377.25 drams.
HERITAGE PICKETS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
PanARMENIAN.Net
12.01.2010 13:46 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Heritage party has organized a picket in front of
the RA Constitutional Court premises.
As a PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent reports from the scene,
the protesters demonstratively burn leaflets reading, "No to
Armenian-Turkish Protocols and Madrid Principles". People are
holding posters featuring the maps of Armenia and Great Armenia. One
of demonstrators tore apart a picture of Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Prosecutor General Aghvan
Hovsepyan, Head of RA Police Alik Sargsyan.
Party members also submitted to the court a statement demanding to
recognize Armenian-Turkish Protocols unconstitutional.
The Protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
the common border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich
by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish
counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of
diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation.
Founded in 2002, Heritage a National Liberal Party, is national by
its roots, liberal in its economic principle, and an advocate of the
democratic system of governance and due process for its citizens. The
party’s objective is the development of Armenia as a democratic,
lawful, and rights-based country that anchors its domestic and foreign
policies in the nation’s sovereign interest. During the party’s Third
Congress on May 30, 2005, Raffi K. Hovannisian was elected chairman.
The other eight members of the party board were elected by secret vote.
ARMENIAN PEACEKEEPERS TO TRAIN IN GERMANY AHEAD OF AFGHAN DEPLOYMENT
Asbarez
Jan 11th, 2010
YEREVAN (Itar-Tass)-The first grouping Armenia’s 40-solider
peacekeeping contingent to Afghanistant left for Germany on Monday to
begin a four-week training mission before deploying to Afghanistan
as part of the German contingent, Armenian Defense Minister Seiran
Ohanyan said Saturday.
According to the Russian Itar-Tass news agency, the remaining 30
peacekeepers will fly to the German city of Cologne on January 17
for their training. The entire contingent will begin its six month
tour of duty in Afghanistan in February.
Armenia launches its peacemaking mission in Afghanistan, joining the
German contingent there. The first soldiers, ten of the total 40,
have left for a four-week training mission in Germany,
The division will be guarding the coalition airport in the northern
city of Kunduz, Ohanyan said, thanking the German Army for its "overall
support" to Armenia’s soliders both in Germany and in Afghanistan.
Armenia has been an active partner in the NATO-led peacekeeping
operations in Kosovo and Iraq since 2003.
ARF DASHNAKTSUTYUN’S PROTEST RALLY NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR PROSPEROUS ARMENIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.01.2010 14:41 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Any rally or protest action, including today’s event
of ARF Dashnaktsutyun, aimed at exerting pressure on the conclusion
of the RA Constitutional Court is not acceptable, since the judicial
system of Armenia is an independent authority, said Aram Safaryan,
secretary of the Prosperous Armenia parliamentary group.
According to MP, the action of Dashnaktsutyun would be acceptable
and understandable only if it is aimed at drawing public attention
to their point of view. "I cannot say whether this protest would
affect the decision of the Constitutional Court or not," he told a
PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
According to Safaryan, at the moment in the process of Armenian-Turkish
normalization, Turkey is at an advantage. If the Turkish parliament
ratifies the Protocols without any preconditions and reservations,
then Armenia will do likewise," Mr. Safaryan said.
He also noted that if Turkey introduces preconditions, then Armenia
will adequately react in the framework of international law.
The protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
the common border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich
by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish
counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of
diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation.
Prosperous Armenia was founded on 30 April 2004. The founder of the
party and its chairman is RA National Assembly’s MP Gagik Tsarukyan.
Prosperous Armenia is the party of civil accord and holds a centrist
position on Armenia’s political area. Advocating democracy and
liberalism, Prosperous Armenia supports preservation of national and
traditional values, attaching great importance to family, church and
state. The party has joined the government coalition and is currently
represented by 26 MPs in the National Assembly of Armenia.
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun is an Armenian
political party founded in Tiflis (Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia)
in 1890 by Christapor Mikaelian, Stepan Zorian, and Simon Zavarian
The ARF has the largest number of members from the political parties
present in the Armenian Diaspora, having established affiliates in
more than 200 countries.
The ARF Dashnaktsutyun led the effort toward the establishment of
the first Armenian Republic in 1918 and was the party in power for
the duration of its existence. Following the Sovietization of Armenia
in 1920, the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun was banned by the Communists and its
leadership exiled.
In the Diaspora, the ARF Dashnaktsutyun fought Soviet rule over
Armenia and championed the cause of Armenian rights and independence;
it played a leading role in organizing a social and cultural framework
aimed at preserving the Armenian identity.
The ARF Dashnaktsutyun officially re-emerged in Armenia during the
dissolution of the USSR, in 1990.
On December 28, 1994, the activities of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun were
"temporarily suspended" by the Armenian authorities. In view of
the political nature of the anti-ARF interdictions by the Armenian
authorities, the ARF continued to operate in Armenia. On February 9,
1998, less than a week after the resignation of the then president
Ter-Petrossian, the Justice Ministry lifted the ban on the ARF
Dashnaktsutyun.
Armenian chess players claim third win at World Team Championship
09.01.2010 13:57 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The 4th tour of World Team Chess Championship 2009
took place in Bursa, Turkey, was held yesterday, January 8. Current
leaders, Armenians claimed their third win, beating Brazilians
2,5-1,5.
In the 5th tour, Armenian grandmasters will rival Indians.
The World Team Championship was established in 1985 and is being held
in four year cycles. It was first planned that the event be played in
Lucerne for keeps, but recently this idea has been dropped. Due to
instability of the results produced by the Swiss system adopted at the
Olympiads the World Team Championship was scheduled to be an
invitational round robin event. Only ten teams qualify; the invitation
rules varied over decades evolving to the following contemporary
formula: the host team, three top teams from recent Olympiad, four
continental champions, winners of Women’s Olympiad and one invited
team.
At the Championship, Armenian National Team won bronze in 1997, 2001
and 2005.
Levon Ter-Petrosyan: Hnchak party has essentially contributed to ANC’s
formation
09.01.2010 17:22 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Leader of Armenian National Congress (ANC) Levon
Ter-Petrosyan delivered a speech during the 7th session of
Social-Democrat Hnchak Party.
Highly appreciating the party’s role, Armenia’s ex-President said, `I
am quite familiar with the history of establishing Hnchak Party in
Armenia and can definitely say that as a political force it gained
popularity among Armenians over the recent two years. It has
essentially contributed tgo the formation of ANC,’ he noted.
According to Mr. Ter-Petrosyan, ` The opposition’s weakening is
possible only in case the authorities’ efforts prove successful, but
over the past two years the country only experienced defeats and
failures.’
Touching on the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement, Mr. Ter-Petrosyan
approved the party’s negative stance on the process.
Levon Ter-Petrosyan is the first President of Armenia (1988-1998).
Starting from February 1988, he headed Karabakh committee. From
December 1988 till May 1998, he was arrested together with other
committee members.
In November 1989, Levon Ter-Petrosyan was elected as member of
Pan-Armenian National Movement’s governing board, and subsequently
became its Chairperson (August 27, 1989). He was later elected to ASSR
Supreme Council and held the Speaker’s post in 1990-91.
Ter-Petrosyan was elected as Armenia’s first President on October 16,
1991 and was subsequently re-elected in 1996.
In 1998 he resigned from post because of disagreements over Karabakh
issue, In 2008, Ter-Petrosyan ran for presidency again, but was
defeated by the country’s current leader Serzh Sargsyan. He is the
founder and leader of Armenian National Congress, the central
pro-opposition force in Armenia.
The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party is one of the oldest political
parties in Armenia and the first Socialist party in the Ottoman Empire
and in Persia in the 1880s. It was founded in 1887 by Avetis
Nazarbekian, Mariam Vardanian, Ruben Khan-Azat and others, who studied
in Geneva, Switzerland, with the goal to gain Armenia’s independence
from the Ottoman Empire, which is part of Armenian national liberation
movement Its name, taken from its newspaper Hunchak, means "Bell" in
English, and is taken by party members to represent "awakening,
enlightenment, and freedom."
Hunchak party fought many battles against the Ottoman Empire, to free
the Armenian people from Turkish rule. One of Armenia’s famous
national heroes Andranik Ozanian, at first, joined the Hunchak party,
but disagreement with party policies led Andranik to leave the Hunchak
ranks and join the Dashnak party.
The party also played role in establishment of Democratic Republic of
Armenia, as party members took part in the Battle of Sardarapat,
during the World War I at Caucasus Campaign, which defended the
Armenian capital of Yerevan from Army of Islam of Ottoman Empire.
In the early 1990s, it took part in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
This party is operates branches in United States, Lebanon, Syria,
Kuwait, Armenia, Egypt, Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, Australia,
Britain, France, Cyprus etc.
It was also active in Lebanon, where it competes for the six National
Assembly seats reserved for ethnic Armenians.
In Armenia it forms part of opposition bloc. Party member Yeghia
Jerjerian is a member of Lebanese parliament.
The Hunchakian party has established affiliate organizations such as
the AEBU which is an organization that helps with educational, health
and social care, the Armenian Dkhrouhi Youth Association and HMM
(Homenmen) which is a sporting organization (not to be confused with
Homenetmen).
news.am, Armenia
Jan 8 2010
Germany calls on Ankara to ratify Protocols
12:14 / 01/08/2010In the course of his visit to Turkey, German Foreign
Minister Guido Westerwelle called on Ankara to ratify Armenia-Turkey
Protocols immediately.
According to Gercekgundem website, German Foreign Minister supported
Turkey’s membership to EU on behalf of his country at the joint press
conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu. Westerwelle
also underlined that Turkey is a significant country for Germany.
Armenia-Turkey Protocols were signed October 10 in Zurich and should
be ratified by both countries’ parliaments.
A.G.
APA, Azerbaijan
Jan 5 2010
Azerbaijani Men’s Chess Team wins over Armenia in a World Chess Cup
[ 05 Jan 2010 23:32 ]
Baku – APA. Men’s World Chess Cup between national chess teams has
begun today in Bursa city of Turkey, where Azerbaijan and chess teams
from 10 countries will compete between each other, Apasport.az
reports.
Among the participant countries there are winners of continental
champion chess teams from Russia, Brazil, India and Egypt. Armenia,
Israel and USA have gained licenses to the competition during the 2008
World Chess Cup, where they shared first three places. Turkey is a
host country.
Azerbaijan and Greece have joined the Chess Cup after the invitation
came from FIDE.
Our national Chess team includes Vugar Heshimov (2759), Teymur Recebov
(2733), Shehriyar Memmedov (2741), Rauf Memmedov (2640), Qedir
Huseynov (2614) and Nicat Memmedov (2610). As a result of drawing our
country faced Armenian national chess team holding the victory.
Note that, our national chess team has lost the final two sets against
Armenia. Our chess team members lost the Armenian national chess team
in 2008 Chess Olympiad held in Germany, as well as in European Chess
Cup in Serbia with the same results (1,5 : 2,5).
I tour, January 5, 2010
Azerbaijan – Armenia – 2,5 ; 1,5
1. Vugar Heshimov (2759) – Levon Aronyan (2781) – 0,5 – 0,5
2. Teymur Recebov (2733) – Vladimir Akopyan (2678) – 0,5 – 0,5
3. Shehriyar Memmedov (2741) – Arman Pashikyan (2647) – 1:0
4. Rauf Memmedov (2640) – Tigran POetrosyan (2627) – 0,5 – 0,5
First set between the chess players finished by the 25 move. Heshimov
playing with white figures was successful to bring score to our
country.
Shehriyar Mammedov left no chance for his rival in the III board. This
victory brought our team much more forward in the competition.
Recebov also finished his sets, playing draw with Akopyan. Mammedov
had draw with Petrosyan at the IV board. However, our men’s chess team
won the Armenia with the victory of Mammedyarov.
Other results:
Turkey – USA – 1:3
India – Greece – 2,5 – 1,5
Russia – Brazil – 2,5 – 1,5
Egypt – Israel – 1:3
Turkey Has Guts to Say to Israel:
`We Will Not Condone Genocide’
Turkey and Israel’s once-close relations have been hurt by the Gaza
war. Turkey canceled military exercises this week, while Israel
protested a Turkey state-TV series that shows Israelis killing
Palestinians in cold blood.
uts_202.html
(Issue # 48, November 30, 2009)
By Yigal Schleifer
Israel and Turkey’s once-close ties have entered a frosty period in
recent years, particularly since Israel’s invasion of Gaza this past
January. But ties
between the two countries took a further dive recently when Turkey
indefinitely postponed annual military exercises because of Israel’s
planned involvement.
Israeli officials this week also expressed outrage over a new drama
series being shown on Turkish state television that shows Israeli
soldiers mercilessly killing Palestinians, including one scene of a
soldier shooting a young girl at point-blank range.
Observers say the new tension between the two countries may be another
indication that Turkey’s changing domestic and foreign policy
considerations are leading to a redefinition of the country’s
relationship with Israel.
`In Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s ideological framework,
Israel doesn’t play a central role. Things have changed,’ says Ofra
Bengio, an expert on Turkey at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle
Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Ankara, for the past few years, has actively sought to establish
itself as a kind of regional soft-power broker, working to strengthen
relations with neighbors that it has previously kept at an arm’s
length, most notably Syria and Iran, both of which flank its eastern
border.
Turkey also inked an agreement with Armenia recently that will move
the two long-hostile countries toward renewed diplomatic ties.
Davutoglu – the main architect of this new foreign policy – and 10 other
ministers visited Syria on Oct. 13 for the first meeting of a newly
created `Strategic Cooperation Council’ and to sign an agreement doing
away with visa requirements between the two countries. This change
reflects a fundamental shift from the period when Turkey and Israel
began developing their strategic relationship. At the time, the two
looked at countries like Syria as a common threat. Turkey and Syria
almost went to war in the late 1990s after Ankara accused Damascus of
supporting the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
But observers say that domestic changes in Turkey, particularly the
diminishing power of the military, are also playing a role in the
changing nature of Turkey and Israel’s relationship.
`Had it been up to the military, the exercise would have continued as
planned, but the military can’t dictate its policies on the government
the way it used to,’ says Lale Kemal, a military affairs analyst based
in Ankara. `The equation is changing. We see this in other areas and
in the Turkish-Israeli relationship also.’
Yigal Schleifer is a freelance reporter based in Istanbul. His work
has appeared in many newspapers.
Spain takes over EU presidency
02.01.2010 11:45 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The six-month rotating post passed from Sweden to
Spain at the stroke of midnight, and the country launched EU
presidency stint in the helm with a spectacular sound and light show
for New Year’s Eve revelers gathered at the Puerta del Sol, one of
Madrid’s most emblematic plazas.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Spain’s main goal as
EU president is "to fight for economic recovery, for recovery from the
crisis, and make Europe an economy that is more and more productive,
more and more innovative and more and more sustainable."
Zapatero also said that under the new Treaty of Lisbon, which went
into effect Dec. 1, the 27-member European Union must work to assert
itself more on the global stage as it deals with powerhouses like the
United States and China.
"We have to make Europe an ever stronger factor in the international
context; a Europe that defends and extends the values of peace,
cooperation, and dialogue among all peoples and nations," Zapatero
said in a short video posted on a Web site the government has created
to launch the presidency.