Author: Nahapetian Zhanna

18 PEOPLE APPLIED TO THE MIGRATION AGENCY DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR TO GET A TEMPORARY SHELTER IN ARMENIA

ARMENPRESS
July 30, 2009

YEREVAN, JULY 30, ARMENPRESS: During the first half of this year 18
people applied to the Migration Agency of RA Territorial Administration
Ministry for getting a temporary shelter in Armenia.

Head of the department of the shelter applicants of the Agency Ruzanna
Petrosyan told Armenpress that all of them are from Iraq. All of them
are provided with temporary certificates of stay for three months,
after which according to the order the application is studied and
decision made on giving a right for temporary shelter in Armenia. The
study of the cases of 18 Iraqi citizens is at present in process.

During the first half of the running year 4 people applied to the
Migration Agency for getting a status of a refugee, two of which are
from Iran, one – from Uzbekistan, one – from Ethiopia.

According to R. Petrosyan connected with the inter-political situation
in Iran after the presidential elections no flow of applications to
the Migration Agency has been noted.

Prost interested in working with Todt

Autosport.com
Tuesday, July 28th 2009

By Michele Lostia and Pablo Elizalde

Four-time world champion Alain Prost is not ruling out working
together with Jean Todt if the former Ferrari boss is chosen as FIA
president.

Todt announced he will stand for the presidency of the FIA in October,
with former world rally champion Ari Vatanen so far his only confirmed
opponent.

Prost believes Todt is the right man for the post, and he admitted he
would consider working with him if the opportunity arose.

"Jean Todt would be an excellent president, even though at the moment
the F1 teams seem unhappy about his candidature," Prost was quoted as
saying by Autosprint magazine.

"If there are the conditions to justify a role in the FIA for me, then
it would be with F1 and sport in general. Working next to Todt, why
not? This is a possibility we’ve talked about.

"We’ll see in the upcoming months."

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KHOSROV HAROUTIUNIAN: NKR AUTHORITIES UNDOUBTEDLY TRUST ARMENIA’S LEADERSHIP

Noyan Tapan
July 28, 2009

YEREVAN, JULY 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The Nagorno Karabakh Republic authorities
undoubtedly trust Armenia’s leadership and are not concerned at all that RA
President Serzh Sargsyan will cede Karabakh’s vital interests. Khosrov
Haroutiunian, the leader of the Christian-Democratic Union of Armenia,
stated at a July 28 press conference. He said that visiting Karabakh as a
member of the RA Public Council he made sure that there is close cooperation
between the Armenian and Karabakh governments in various issues.

Touching upon Madrid Principles, K. Haroutiunian mentioned that the Madrid
variant is the one more or less acceptable among all variants discussed in
the negotiations so far as it "can contribute to problem’s fair settlement."

"However, will we be able to keep Nagorno Karabakh people’s security"? It is
the issue, around which we should still negotiate," the party leader said.

In response to the question of what he means by saying "compromises" he said
that they should be adequate. "There are things that are impossible to cede,
for instance, Karabakh’s security, which in its turn is conditioned by the
Nagorno Karabakh status," K. Haroutiunian said.

As to the probability of resumption of a war, according to K. Haroutiunian,
it is really big in consideration of the circumstance of Azerbaijan’s arming
too much and the fact that the Azeri side is already voicing bellicose
statements in other states.

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14-YEAR OLD GADABAY RESIDENT CAPTURES ARMENIAN SOLDIER CROSSED AZERBAIJAN’S BORDER AND HANDS HIM TO AZERBAIJANI SERVICEMEN

APA
July 16 2009
Azerbaijan

Aghdam. Teymour Zahidoghlu – APA. An Armenian soldier, who crossed
the Azerbaijan’s border, was captured at about 20.30 on July 15 in
Mormor village of Gadabay region of Azerbaijan bordering with Armenia,
APA Karabakh bureau reports.

14-year old villager Fariz Nabiyev met an unknown soldier with
suspicious behavior while tending sheep in the area. The young shepherd
identified that he is an Armenian soldier, rendered him harmless and
handed to the Azerbaijani military servicemen. It is not clear yet
why the Armenian soldier crossed the Azerbaijani borders.

There is no official comment on the incident yet.

OSCE SENIOR POLICE ADVISER ENCOURAGES FURTHER POLICE REFORM IN ARMENIA

armradio.am
17.07.2009 17:55

The Senior Police Adviser to the OSCE Secretary General, Kevin Carty,
discussed Armenia’s police reform with authorities during a visit to
Yerevan today.

"The police are the most visible manifestation of government
authority responsible for public security. Democratic police develop
and implement their activities according to the needs of the public
and the State and is called to respect and protect human rights and
freedoms," Carty said.

"I welcome the existing co-operation between the OSCE and the Armenian
authorities, in particular the introduction of the community policing
model, and encourage further reform in this field."

During his visit, Carty met with the Head of the Armenian Police,
Maj.-Gen. Alik Sargsyan, the Adviser to the President of Armenia,
Gevork Kostanyan, and the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee
on Defence, National Security and Internal Affairs of the National
Assembly, Hrair Karapetyan.

In the meetings, Carty emphasized the importance of police education
reform and highlighted the need to incorporate practical skills
training and obligatory basic police training in the curriculum –
elements that are recommended in the preliminary results of two joint
OSCE-Armenian police working groups.

"The OSCE consider the democratic control of the police to be an
indispe nsable element of stability and security. Therefore, police
should be open to scrutiny by a variety of oversight institutions,
including the National Assembly and civil society," he added.

Carty also visited two community police outreach stations recently
opened with OSCE support in the Arabkir police district in Yerevan
and took part in a Citizen’s Advisory Group meeting.

The OSCE Office in Yerevan has been supporting Armenia’s police reform
since 2005.

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HIS HOLINESS ARAM I RECEIVES
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS OF HOMENETMEN

On Tuesday 13 July 2009, the Central Committee of the Armenian Athletic
Union (HOMENETMEN) met with His Holiness Aram I and informed him of their
activities in Armenia and in the Diaspora, and the forthcoming 8th World
Games to be held 1-8 August 2009 in Erevan. They asked for his blessings and
for a special message addressing the youth on the occasion of the games.

After accepting their request, his Holiness expressed his appreciation for
their work in youth formation through the scout movement during the past
eighty years.

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the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
the mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.

STATEMENT OF THE MFA OF NKR

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
2009-07-15 16:11

Due to the recent developments around the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict
settlement, the NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers it essential
to issue the following statement:

The NKR stance on the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict settlement
is stable. It is impossible to achieve the conflict settlement,
ignoring the existing reality. Any attempts to return the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic to the past are not only counterproductive, but
are also fraught with new escalation of the conflict. Real progress
at the negotiations is possible only under the Karabakh party’s
equal participation in all the stages of the negotiation process. No
agreement regarding the interests, fate, and future of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic can be adopted without the participation of its
people and leadership, which bears the principal responsibility for it.

We hope that all the actors interested in the peaceful settlement
will prevent any violation of the status-quo in the region caused by
the intensification of the negotiation process on the basis of the
current settlement wording.

Proceeding from the abovementioned, we consider it required to reset
the distorted negotiation process, to return the NKR to the negotiation
table as an equal party to the negotiation process, and to transform
the basic principles of the settlement.

MADRID VERSION OF KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO AZERBAIJANI AUTHORITARIAN REGIME FOR FULL AND FINAL SUPPRESSION OF WILL OF NON-TURKIC PEOPLES IN AZERBAIJAN

ArmInfo
2009-07-15 14:10:00

ArmInfo. The current version of the conflict settlement will provide an
opportunity to the authoritarian regime ruling in Azerbaijan for full
and final suppression of will of non-Turkic people’s of Azerbaijan –
Talyshes, Lezgins, Avars, Parses (Tats), and the others, says the
Talish Movement’s statement on publishing the Karabakh conflict
settlement principles. The statement is placed at the website of
Evrazia.ru.

"As a result, this will not at all mean the settlement of the
Karabakh conflict, but will create a bigger soil for appearance of new
conflicts on the ethnical base in Azerbaijan. Therefore we come out
for the Karabakh conflict settlement only if the problems of all the
above-mentioned peoples of our long-suffering Motherland are settled,
which have been fighting to survive under conditions of intensifying
assimilation conducted by the Aliyevs’ regime",- the statement says.

"One can’t settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict without solving the
problem of power in Azerbaijan. In other words, before settling the
given conflict, the world powers should exert efforts to create a
real democratic regime in Azerbaijan, which will provide all people
living here with autonomy, which is the only guarantee of maintaining
their originality and ethnical identity", the statement says.

To note, the OSCE site reports that the presidents of OSCE
MG co-chair-countries made a joint statement on the Nagorno
Karabakh Conflict at the L’Aquila Summit of the Eight, July 10,
2009.The statement also says that the Basic Principles reflect a
reasonable compromise based on the Helsinki Final Act principles
of Non-Use of Force, Territorial Integrity, and the Equal Rights
and Self-Determination of Peoples. The Basic Principles include, in
particular: return of the territories surrounding Nagorno- Karabakh to
Azerbaijani control; an interim status for Nagorno-Karabakh providing
guarantees for security and self-governance; a corridor linking Armenia
to Nagorno- Karabakh; future determination of the final legal status
of Nagorno-Karabakh through a legally binding expression of will;
the right of all internally displaced persons and refugees to return
to their former places of residence; and international security
guarantees that would include a peacekeeping operation.

ARMENIA DOESN’T SEEK FRIENDSHIP, BUT ONLY NORMAL NEIGHBORLY RELATIONS WITH TURKEY

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
14.07.2009 19:52 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia seeks rapprochement with Turkey without
preconditions or opening of Armenian-Turkish border, National Security
Council Secretary Arthur Baghdasaryan said in an interview with Spiegel
Online German newspaper. According to him, opening of borders with
Turkey spells new economic projects, new possibilities for energy
supply diversification. "Our neighbors are no enemy to us," he noted.

When questioned if friendship between Armenia and Turkey is possible
in case Ankara refuses to recognize the Armenian Genocide, Arthur
Baghdasaryan stated, "Armenian Genocide has already been recognized
by many states, and we have to take our best efforts to prevent such
tragedies from happening again. We don’t seek friendship, but only
normal neighborly relations with Turkey. There are dark periods in
the history of our nations. But we have to look into the future,
instead of living in the past."

VTB BANK (ARMENIA) OPENS A CREDIT LINE FOR ARMRUSGASPROM CJSC

ArmInfo
2009-07-14 16:48:00

ArmInfo. To support and develop the real sector of Armenian economy,
including enterprises of fuel and energy sphere, VTB Bank (Armenia)
decided to finance the Armenian-Russian CJSC ArmRusgazprom. The bank
took a decision to open a renewable credit line worth 7,5 mln USD.

As VTB Bank (Armenia) told ArmInfo, the credit funds will be spent
on completion of construction and upgrading of the fifth power unit
of Hrazdan thermal power plant in compliance with Hrazdan-5 project.

The project of construction and upgrading is estimated at over 200
mln USD.

To recall, ArmRusgasprom was founded in 1997. At the moment the
company’s shareholders are Gazprom OJSC (82.67%) and the Armenian
government in person of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources
(17.33%). At present the authorized capital of the company is 196,9 bln
AMD (about 580,8 mln USD). As of the end of I qt 2009, ArmRusgasprom
holds the second position on the list of the largest tax- payers of
Armenia. In April 2009 the Central Bank of Armenia awarded the rating
"B" to the company (the previous one was "B-").

Since April 2004 VTB Bank (Armenia) has been a member of the largest
Russian international financial group VTB. The sole shareholder of
VTB Bank (Armenia) is OJSC VTB Bank. The international rating agency
Fitch Ratings confirmed the ratings of CJSC VTB Bank (Armenia) at
"BB+" with "stable" outlook on April 30, 2009.