Author: Nalchajian Markos

2003 WAS A BREAKTHROUGH

Azat Artsakh, Republic of Nagorno Karabakh (NKR)
June 25 2003

The last meeting of the eighth session of the NKR National Assembly
adopted the government report on 2003 state budget performance. The
GDP grew by 20 percent and budget receipts by 18 percent. In fact,
budget receipts exceeded the expected number by 485 million 136
thousand drams. The members of parliament expressed anxiety connected
with the inappropriate and non-transparent expenditure of the
so-called proficit (NKR economy has budget deficit of 9.5 billion
drams which is met by the interstate loan provided by Armenia.), prime
minister of NKR A. Danielian said that this agitation of information
is first of all connected with the fact that the government did not
provide sufficient information to the parliament and the public. The
thing is that in 2003 about 125 million drams was spent for
acquisition of cars for the government agencies. The prime minister
mentioned that the state car park had not been innovated since
1999. This question was not in the agenda unless the proficit and it
was decided to solve the question once and for all. According to
Anoushavan Danielian, for the sake of economizing second-hand cars
were bought for the speaker ofthe National Assembly and the prime
minister. As to the accusations of the mass media that a month before
the end of the fiscal year the budget proficit was used for the
construction of the buildings for the government and the parliament
and the reconstruction of a number of roads, Anoushavan Danielian said
thatin order not to freeze the proficit means for a whole year the
government extended to the parliament the suggestion to include the
construction and repairs of a number of buildings in the plan of
2003. “As in December of 2003 means were provided for the construction
of the buildings for the parliament and the government we started the
projecting and estimate of costs and in the upcoming month the tender
will be held,” mentioned the prime minister adding that ifthe means
were transferred to the budget of 2004 the works would be postponed
for a year. Thus, according to him, the state means were used
effectively. It is another question to what extent it is appropriate
(be it a year later) to build new administrative buildings for the
government and the parliament. The prime minister admitted that the
government is to blame for what aims and how the state means will be
spent. Especially that part of those means were directed towards
gasification of most regions. Anoushavan Danielian announced that 2003
was a breakthrough for the Karabakh economy. What is more, for the
first time the main macroeconomic rates – the possibility of
forecasting several years before – can be concerned. The prime
minister especially mentioned about the growth of amount of production
which totaled 11 billion drams (against 4 billion in 2000). The
representative of the parliament faction of the Liberal Democratic
Union called to vote against the adoption of the report and the
representative of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation announced that
theyabstain. The report was adopted by 22 votes. 5 were against and 4
abstained. After the subscription the list of the evaders of military
service will be published.During the traditional meeting with the
government in the National Assembly memberof parliament Kamo
Barseghian reminded the prime minister about his promise to publish in
the newspapers the names of the famous people whose sons were
illegally released from military service. The prime minister mentioned
thatafter the subscription at the end of June he intends providing the
list to the mass media. During the briefing in answer to the question
of Ararat Petrossian why there is not a hatchery it was informed that
instead of the former hatcheryin Stepanakert the construction of an
apartment building will start in 2005. Member of parliament Levon
Hayrian addressed to the police asking to explain why in the rivers of
Karabakh in particular Ishkhanaget explosives are used for fishing and
especially by adolescents. Besides the ecological harm it is also
dangerous for their life. The vice head of the NKR police Arshavir
Gharamian promised to attend to this question and suggested the member
of the National Assembly to offer facts known to him. In 2005 either
Hadrout or Martakert will be supplied with gas. In answer to Arpik
Khasapetian when gas will reach Hadrout, prime minister Anoushavan
Danielian mentioned that the construction of the high-pressure gas
pipeline in the section Togh-Hadrout was estimated 420 million
drams. Now the estimate of construction of the medium pressure
pipeline is done, which will cost twice cheaper. He emphasized that
after the estimate is ready they will decide where to build the
pipeline first, in Hadrout or in Martakert. In any case the prime
minister stated that in 2007 all the worksof gasification will be
completed. The parliament adopted the changes in the law “On excise
tax” according to which the products with illegal excise stamps
willnot be destroyed as maintained by the law. The head of the state
tax service Hakob Ghahramanian mentioned that these will be withdrawn
from circulation in other ways. If these products are fit for use,
these will be priced, sold and the receipts will go to the state
budget. According to the changes made to the law “On added value tax”
tourism business is exempt from the VAT. At the briefing member of
parliament Ararat Petrossian made a statement that no investments were
made in the Stepanakert factory of building materials privatized for
the aim of rehabilitation. No jobs were created and, what is more, the
equipment is dismantled and sold, and the personnel expects new
dismissals. As a former worker of the factory the member of parliament
asked to think for the personnel of the factory. Member of parliament
Levon Hayrian proposed to introduce a change in the law “On the
repressed” which supposes the possibility of providing the status of
the repressed without the reference of the judicial organ which
reached the verdict. The member of parliament explained that according
to the law in effect the repressed has to present a document from the
court which reached the verdict. In the years of the Movement many
citizens of NKR appeared in Azerbaijani prisons where they were kept
without trial and verdict. Receiving references from corresponding
Azerbaijani bodies seems impossible. Therefore the people who suffered
in prison suffer twice. The change to the bill was adopted at the
first reading. The bill will be discussed in the next session by the
second reading in September.

NAIRA HAYRUMIAN.
25-06-2004

ArmenPress
June 23 2004

MOST NEED REFUGEES TO RECEIVE HOUSING

YEREVAN, JUNE 23, ARMENPRESS: An inter-agency commission, set up
to handle a government-approved plan of actions aiming to resolve the
housing problems of Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan who arrived
here between 1988-1992 held a meeting today, attended also by
representatives of international donor organizations, contributing to
the program.
According to the head of migration and refugees department of the
Armenian government Gagik Yeganian, housing will be provided to the
most needy 3740 refugee families. The project cost 16.2 mln dollar, 5
mln of which will be released by Armenian government on medium term
expenditure program and the other part is expected to be invested by
the donor organizations.
According to Yeganian, a study of refugee families and an
assessment of primary needs was conducted while developing the
project. Refugees living on rent or with their relatives are not
eligible . Some 3,470 refugee families will be provided with
permanent housing by the project costing 16.2 mln dollars. The
project is implemented in two main parts – housing certificates will
be provided to 3,218 families and houses will be built mainly in
rural areas for 252 families with a slot of land.
It is planned to establish a project implementation office. The
committee will mainly aim to attain funds for the project and
supervision. Donor organization are suggested to notify about their
participation in 20 days time.
About 360,000 ethnic Armenians arrived in Armenia between 1988-92
as a result of the conflict in Karabagh. Some 60,000 have acquired
Armenian citizenship since 2000 while their number totaled only 5000
before 2000.

EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO TIGRAN PETROSIAN IN NATIONAL LIBRARY

ArmenPress
June 17 2004

YEREVAN, JUNE 17, ARMENPRESS: Exhibition dedicated to the 9-th world
chess champion Tigran Petrosian’s 75 anniversary was launched today
at the National Library, Vernatun. According to library head David
Sarkisian, the exhibited books, periodical and newspapers are only
part of the publications dedicated to Tigran Petrosian.

Particularly, books by P. Clark, I. Bondarevski, V. Vasiliev and others
are exhibited together with dozens of periodicals. T. Petrosian is
still subject of interest for many researchers, scientists, chess
players and funs. Recently a book was written by academician Gevorg
Brutian about T. Petrosian which will come up soon. The exhibition
will run one week.

Business Wire (press release), CA
June 17 2004

Tech Museum Awards Applicants Reach Record Number; From Armenia to
Zimbabwe, Global Program Honors Those Benefiting Humanity Through
Technology

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 17, 2004–The Tech Museum
Awards, which honors individuals and groups around the world who
leverage technology to benefit humanity, received its highest ever
volume of applicants for the 2004 season from a record number of
countries. This year, 321 applications were sent from representatives
in 60 countries, a 5% and 20% jump from 2003 in number of applicants
and represented countries, respectively. Select wide-ranging
countries represented include developing countries like Armenia,
Malawi, Moldova, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe and industrialized countries
like China, Hong Kong, India, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

Applicants are currently under independent review by Santa Clara
University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society, a global
network of academic and industry experts dedicated to understanding
and influencing how science and technology impact society. Worldwide,
the center assembles panels of judges for each category, recruited
from research institutions, industry and the public sector.

“We couldn’t be more pleased with the tremendous response The Tech
Museum Awards is receiving from the international community,” said
The Tech’s President and CEO Peter Giles. “The Tech Awards celebrates
the creation of technologies for the sake of humanity rather than
just for the sake of technology, and the increased interest from an
even wider range of countries this year underscores that growing
trend.”

Five laureates in each of five categories – Equality, Environment,
Economic Development, Education, and Health – will be announced in
early September 2004. Subsequently, one laureate in each of the five
categories will be granted a $50,000 cash prize at the November 10,
2004 awards gala to further their work. Annually, twenty-five Tech
Award laureates are recognized for their pioneering use of technology
to improve the quality of life for people around the world.

Presented in partnership with Applied Materials, Inc., The Tech
Awards give primary recognition to technologies with a high potential
of yielding lasting, beneficial impact. In addition to Applied
Materials’ presenting sponsorship, award category sponsors include:
Intel, Accenture, Microsoft, and Agilent.

About The Tech Museum Awards

The concept for The Tech Awards and its five categories was inspired
in part by The State of the Future report of The Millennium Project
of the American Council for the United Nations University, which
recommends that award recognition is an effective way to accelerate
scientific breakthroughs and technological applications to improve
the human condition. The Tech Awards were inaugurated in 2001, and
have since recognized 75 Laureates for their pioneering work to
benefit society through the use and/or development of new
technologies. For more information visit

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Armenians take on world
By Malcolm Pein

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON)
June 16, 2004, Wednesday

THE Armenian team scored their first victory over the Rest of the
World at the fifth attempt as world title challenger Peter Leko
defeated Vishy Anand after converting an advantageous rook and pawn
endgame on the 68th move. Leko’s win combined with Smbat Lputian’s
somewhat fortuitous victory over Francisco Vallejo Pons, also in a
long endgame, resulted in a 4-2 win and the score is 16-14 to the
Rest of the World with a game to play.

The contest is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the late
Armenian world champion Tigran Petrosian, whose birthday is today.
Each member of the two teams plays all six of his opposite numbers.

SVIDLER gives up the two bishops to play against Kasparov’s weakened
queenside pawns and care is required. After 17.Qb4 Qxb4 18.axb4 a6
White might try and play f4, e5 and Nf3 when the d4 pawn could become
exposed although 19.f4 0-0-0 20.Nf3 Rd7 seems OK if a little passive
but the bishops could be strong later. Kasparov’s solution creates a
very weak pawn on c5 and Svidler’s pawn to e5 and the sacrifice 23.e6
are designed to free the squares e4 and e5 for White knights from
where they dominate the bishops and pressure the pawns. Kasparov
responds by exchanging one knight and then liberating his king and
white squared bishop with the counter sacrifice 28 c4! Svidler’s c4
and c2 pawns are then so vulnerable and Kasparov’s king so active
only Black has winning chances from that point on. 39.Nf5 Bf7 40.Nxh6
Bxc4 41.Kf2 Kb5 heading for the a3 pawn is good for Black. Svidler
holds the balance by keeping his knight in the centre and 48.f4!
creates counterplay just in time. If 48 gxf4 49.Kf3 Kxc2 50.Kxf4 d3
51.Nxd3 followed by g4, h4 h5 and g5 exchanging the last pawn.

P Svidler – G Kasparov

1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 g6 4 Bxc6 dxc6 5 d3 Bg7 6 h3 Nf6 7 Nc3 Nd7 8
Be3 e5 9 0-0 Qe7 10 Qd2 h6 11 Nh2 Nf8 12 Ne2 Ne6 13 a3 Nd4 14 b4 Be6
15 bxc5 Qxc5 16 Bxd4 exd4 17 Qb4 b6!? 18 Nf3 0-0-0 19 Qxc5 bxc5 20
Nf4 Bd7 21 e5 Rhe8 22 Rfe1 g5 23 e6! fxe6 24 Nh5 Bh8 25 Ne5 Kc7 26
Ng3 Bxe5 27 Rxe5 Kd6 28 Re2 c4! 29 dxc4 e5 30 Rae1 Re7 31 f3 c5 32
Rb1 Kc6 33 Rb5 a6 34 Rb3 Ree8 35 Re1 Rb8 36 Rxb8 Rxb8 37 Rxe5 Re8 38
Rxe8 Bxe8 39 Ne4 Bf7 40 Nd2 Bg6 41 Ne4 Bf7 42 Nd2 Kb6 43 Kf2 Ka5 44
Nb3+ Ka4 45 Nxc5+ Kxa3 46 Nxa6 Bxc4 47 Nc5 Kb2 48 f4! Kxc2 49 fxg5
hxg5 50 Kf3 Kc3 51 Ne4+ Kc2 52 Nc5 Bd5+ 53 Kg4 Kc3 54 Kxg5 Bc6 55 Kf4
Kc4 56 Ne6 d3 57 Ke3 Kc3 58 Nf4 d2 draw

Kasparov
p p p p p p p p p – p p p p p p p p p l p p e d p b p o p b p p p p p

Svidler

Final position after 58…d2 now 59.Ne2+ Kc2 60.Nd4+ Kc3 61.Ne2+
forces a draw.

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May 20, 2004
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BAPTISM DISPLAYS CONTINUANCE OF ARMENIAN FAITH

There were a few unusual aspects to the baptism at St. Vartan Cathedral
on May 13, 2004. First off, it wasn’t a child being baptized, it was a
24-year-old named Sergey Grigoryan. Secondly, since he is a pastry chef
who works on the weekends, he had to get baptized on a Thursday. And
that meant that along with his family, the St. Vartan Cathedral Avaks —
who normally meet on Thursdays — were in attendance for the
celebration.

Grigoryan was born in Russia and came to America in his teens. His
mother is Jewish, his father is Armenian. He decided to receive baptism
after years of reflection and more recently discussions with Fr.
Mardiros Chevian, dean of St. Vartan Cathedral.

“It was just my free will,” said an emotional Grigoryan, who took on the
additional Armenian name of Sarkis. “It feels good; very good.”

After the baptism, Grigoryan and his family were congratulated by the
Avak members who attended. With hugs and kisses, they welcomed their
newest grandson into the church.

“This is a great chance to join two generations of Armenian faithful,”
Fr. Chevian said. “Through this unusual Thursday baptism, we were able
to welcome a new member to our church family, and the Avaks were witness
to the fact that our faith does live on.”

— 5/20/04

E-mail photos available on request. Photos also viewable on the Eastern
Diocese’s website,

PHOTO CAPTION (1): Members of the St. Vartan Cathedral Avaks group
attended the baptism of Sergey Grigoryan on Thursday, May 13, 2004, at
the cathedral in New York City.

PHOTO CAPTION (2): An immigrant from Russia, Sergey “Sarkis” Grigoryan
decided to be baptized at St. Vartan Cathedral on Thursday, May 13,
2004, in front of his family and the members of the Avaks, his newly
adopted church family.

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Iran, Armenia Sign Agreement on Gas Main Construction

RIA OREANDA
Economic Press Review
May 16, 2004 Sunday

An agreement on construction of a gas pipeline Iran-Armenia was
signed on Thursday. The agreement was signed by Energy Minister
of Armenia Armen Movsesyan and Irani Minister of Petroleum Bijan
Namdar-Zanganeh. According to the agreement, Iran is to supply 1.1bn
cubic meters of natural gas annually, and Armenia is to pay for it
with electric energy. Presumably, the supply volume will be further
increased to 2bn cubic meters per year. Companies to take part in
the project’s execution are to be singled out by means of a tender.
Earlier, the Armenian part had meant to participate in the project
designed by Gazprom and Ukrainian companies. Building of the gas
pipeline will cost the Armenian part about $90mln, and the Irani one
– $120mln.

Houston Press, TX
May 14 2004

The End Game
A widow just wanted her home. But that was asking too much.

BY SARAH FENSKE

Strangers are inside Rose Sanjakian’s A-frame house in West
University, touching her belongings. They paw through boxes of
scarves and hankies, examine the purses strewn across the bed and
scavenge within the closets. Always a lady, Sanjakian owned more than
two dozen pairs of prim white gloves, now available at the low price
of $2 each.

The house is packed with items. There’s an old Victrola, two
television sets and a dressmaker’s dummy. Painted china lines the
cupboards, piles up in the drawers and covers the table. A stack of
Better Homes & Gardens from the 1970s is wedged between an endless
supply of tchotchkes and knickknacks on the floor.

The strangers are mostly unimpressed. “Where’s the good stuff?” one
man asks plaintively. Another eyes the house. “It’s really very
solidly built,” she says.

Nearly 40 years after Sanjakian and her husband bought it, the house
is for sale. So is the vanity set with its hand-painted pink roses,
the big bottle of Jean Naté bath splash, the box of Depends.
Sanjakian kept things obsessively, hoarding them until they filled
every room. But she no longer lives here, and soon, none of this will
be hers. First the estate sale, then the house sale; her life is
winding down just like that old Victrola.

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The final chapter of Rose Sanjakian’s life started with her husband’s
death nearly three years ago. A Turkish-born Armenian, Sanjakian told
people she’d grown up in an Istanbul orphanage and come to the United
States as a 12-year-old bride. No one knows if that’s precisely true
or exactly how old she is: Various forms of ID put her age anywhere
from 69 to 97.

Once she was in America, her first husband died, and so did a
stepdaughter. Sanjakian was living in Michigan when she met Mike
Sanjakian, another Armenian. They came to Texas together.

Hawking raffle tickets, Sanjakian organized the effort to purchase
land for Houston’s St. Kevork Armenian Church. “She was a social
butterfly,” says Rose Berberian, her goddaughter. “They were always
having parties in their home.”

The couple had plenty of godchildren, but no children of their own.
And Rose Sanjakian left the church in a huff, Berberian says. When
98-year-old Mike died in August 2001, she was alone.

“He had taken care of everything,” Berberian says. “She had no clue.”

The home, already one of the oldest on a gentrifying block of Belmont
Street, suddenly seemed to sag. The City of West University sent
Sanjakian a letter ordering her to repair the ramshackle garage. (She
responded by calling the city’s code-enforcement officer and
shrieking into his voice mail.) She couldn’t remember to pay her
bills, and she began to pester her neighbors. Her gas had been shut
off, she told them. Could she use theirs? She’d shuffle over to
Randalls and struggle with paying by check; sometimes she’d sign her
name, then ask a stranger to fill in the rest.

Last September, an anonymous letter arrived at Harris County Probate
Court. “She stops total strangers, walking by her house, to attend to
small chores such as changing a light bulb, fixing a light socket,
looking for batteries, chasing her pet parakeet, or taking her to the
bank,” the letter says. “Yet she will not allow people of authority
access to her home, depending on the time of day. Her garage roof
collapsed on top of her car, several years ago, yet she continues to
go into the garage to wash clothes, ignoring all warnings pertaining
to safety.”

A court investigator confirmed the information, and a physician
concluded that Sanjakian suffered from “mild dementia” and paranoia.
Her home was dirty, her clothes torn and her judgment impaired, he
wrote. Appointed by the court, attorney Suzanne Kornblit found that
Sanjakian had no relatives, but had two friends willing to serve as
her guardian: her goddaughter, Berberian, and a neighbor, Jackie
Green.

Both say they wanted to keep Sanjakian out of a nursing home. “She
wanted to die in that house,” says Green, a special education
teacher. “She told me she’d promised her husband not to trust
anybody, because they’d get her out of the house.”

It meant even more to Berberian. Half Armenian, she holds that
community’s belief that it should take care of its own. “Since she
didn’t have any grandchildren of her own, I thought she could live
with me,” she says.

But Berberian was working as a purchasing manager and finishing
courses for her MBA; she hardly had enough time to take on the
administrative responsibilities, much less care for Sanjakian full
time. She thought she could hire nurses.

Probate Judge Mike Wood wanted something more concrete. He rejected
pleas from Berberian and her parents and appointed Green as the
guardian.

To Berberian, it seemed dreadfully unfair. She’d known Sanjakian all
her life. “I’m the closest thing she has to family — and they give
it to a stranger? A neighbor!” She tearfully blames herself for not
acting sooner and not applying for guardianship herself before a
neighbor got involved.

Green says she didn’t even want the guardianship. She applied only
because she worried Berberian was too “flaky” and she didn’t want to
have her neighbor’s affairs managed by an impersonal lawyer. Wood’s
decision surprised her, she claims, and the Berberians’ anger scared
her. “I’m like, ‘Oh, great, not only do I have to do this, but I have
to deal with these mad people who didn’t.’ ”

Green may be painting herself as more of a novice than she is. Her
husband, Steve, is an estate attorney. And, as Green admits, she
wrote the original letter to the court that started the process.

Judge Wood told the women that he thought Green would be better
equipped to make the tough decision: to force Sanjakian into an
assisted care facility. He even chose the place, Colonial Oaks at
Braeswood. (Kornblit says the judge only suggested that facility;
Green and Berberian say they believed Wood ordered it.)

Getting Sanjakian there wouldn’t be easy. She had refused to come to
the hearing and refused to give Berberian power of attorney — had
she done either, she might have been spared from Wood’s decision. Now
she was livid about being forced from her home. She told Green she
wasn’t leaving. If they came to get her, she vowed, she’d come out
shooting.

When deputy constables arrived on December 30 to move her, Sanjakian
bit them and pulled their hair. They had to use handcuffs to take her
away.

Today, in Sanjakian’s room at Colonial Oaks, an aide watches as she
naps and entertains visitors. Her room is tidy, if impersonal. The
framed black-and-white photos of Sanjakian and her late husband are
the only real reminder of her earlier life.

When Berberian comes to visit, Sanjakian kisses her and proudly tells
the assistant, “That’s my goddaughter.” A tiny woman with a long
white braid and sunken cheeks, she looks nothing like the robust
image framed on the wall. Her Turkish accent is thick; her voice,
high and quavering.

She gets her hair washed every other day, which she loves. The staff
is kind, she says.

But she wants to go home.

“That Jackie wants to sell my house,” Sanjakian announces angrily.
“She is a bad girl. If she comes in here, I will call the police.”

Green knows her former neighbor blames her. Sanjakian refuses to see
her, Green admits, and has told her to go to hell. “She says she’s
going to get out in a year and sue me,” she says. “But the doctors
say she doesn’t have a year to live.”

Unknown to Sanjakian, her things were sold last month: her dresses,
her husband’s ties, her perfume and china.

Everything that didn’t sell was packed up and taken away, to be given
to charity or rummaged at later sales. Nobody has need for her reams
of colorful scarves, or records of Armenian hymns, or dozens of pairs
of white gloves.

Her house will be sold soon, too, and likely demolished. The county
values the lot at $500,000; the old house is more liability than
asset in such a tony neighborhood.

She’s a rich woman. Although she worried constantly about money, she
had some $200,000 in the bank, according to court records. While
Green and Berberian each suggest that money is the only thing the
other cares about, neither will get any of Sanjakian’s funds. There’s
enough to pay for her care at Colonial Oaks and attorney Kornblit,
who has earned $8,200 to date and continues to handle the widow’s
legal affairs.

After she dies, whatever funds are left will be sent to an Armenian
hospital in Istanbul. And that, at least, is what she wanted.
Sanjakian was hardly organized, but she had her own unique filing
system.

Just before the estate sale, Green found her will, tucked carefully
into her box of Depends.

Ukraine-Armenia trade grows 14 times in 2003
By Vitaly Matarykin

ITAR-TASS News Agency
May 11, 2004 Tuesday

KIEV, May 11 — The Ukraine-Armenia trade enlarged by 1.4 times in
2003, and doubled in January-March 2004 as compared to the first
quarter of last year, Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich
said at a joint press conference with Armenian counterpart Andranik
Margaryan on Tuesday.

The press conference followed a sitting of the bilateral cooperation
commission.

Yanukovich said trade had intensified within a brief period. Ukraine
is interested in the construction and modernization of industrial
facilities in Armenia, he said.

Armenia will buy or lease several dozens of Ukrainian tractors before
the end of this year, Margaryan said. Yerevan will also consider
using Ukrainian cargo planes. Armenia and Ukraine will intensify
cooperation in tourism.

Trade between Ukraine and Armenia neared $60 million in 2003.

Armenian Leader Kocharyan Passes on NATO Summit

Zaman, Turkey
May 11 2004

Armenian President Robert Kocharyan reportedly will not participate
in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit, which will
be held in Istanbul in late June. In his statement to the Russian
Itar-Tass news agency, Armenian Presidential Press Secretary Ashot
Kocharyan said that the decision of President Kocharyan could be
explained by ‘the current situation of the relations between Armenia
and Turkey’.

Kocharyan stressed that there has not been any further development
in the Armenia-Turkey relationship.

“I want to emphasize that Armenia is ready to develop its relations
with Turkey without putting forward any pre-conditions,” said the Press
Secretary. Kocharyan then added that Foreign Affairs Minister Vardan
Oskanyan would represent Armenia at the NATO summit. He finished by
saying that the relations between Armenia and NATO would continue
around the concept of Partnership for Peace.