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ARMENIE

Le ralentissement de l’economie de la Russie resultant des sanctions
occidentales affecte negativement l’Armenie, mais pourrait aussi etre
une occasion, disent les economistes.

Lors d’une discussion au Media Center a Erevan, Ashot Khurshudyan,
un expert du Centre international pour le developpement humain, a
predit que si les prix du petrole saoudiens continuent de baisser,
le dram armenien deja affaibli sera davantage degonfle. La monnaie
nationale a ressenti l’impact d’une depreciation de 34% du rouble
russe, chutant a 475 drams / dollars (par opposition a 409 drams
cette fois l’an dernier).

Selon Khurshudyan, la situation actuelle n’est pas rentable pour les
producteurs armeniens et de nombreux produits d’origine russe peuvent
devenir moins chers et mettre les producteurs locaux hors competition.

Neanmoins, l’appreciation du dollar americain ne peut pas durer
longtemps, car, selon l’economiste Tatul Manaseryan, chef du Centre
de recherche alternative, en raison de la diminution des volumes
d’exportation aux Etats-Unis cela pourrait mettre en oeuvre une
devaluation artificielle du dollar.

“Les tendances mondiales toucheront l’Armenie, et afin d’empecher le
pays d’etre un destinataire simplement passif, nous devons utiliser
les opportunites que la crise a cree”, a declare Manaseryan.

Selon l’expert, l’Armenie peut profiter de l’occasion et reduire
sa dependance sur les transferts, ou d’importer des materiaux moins
chers en provenance de la Russie et de les utiliser dans la production.

US MOVE TO CUT AID TO ARMENIA UNLIKELY TO HAVE NEGATIVE IMPLICATIONS – ECONOMIST

10:29 * 05.02.15

The Obama administration’s decision to reduce its annual aid to
Armenia to a record low is not likely to have economic implications,
an Armenian economist has said, considering the move too symbolic to
require any consideration.

“The aid is supplied also to many post-Soviet and developing
countries which demonstrate a political will to establish democracy,
implement reforms and so on,” Tatul Manasaryan told Tert.am, ruling
out pessimistic scenarios.

Instead, the economist called for viewing the issue in a comparative
perspective. “The second platform is that the dynamically changing
world sees also priorities changing, so naturally, humanitarian aid
is now much more important – objectively and subjectively – due to
the developments in Ukraine,” he said, pointing out to the country’s
priority-based approach.

The economist said he isn’t inclined to attribute all that to Armenia’s
membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), noting that the United
States has been traditionally maintaining high-level relations with
the country.

“Its manifestation is not only that aid – which I find important but
not decisive – but also the rhythmic consistent development in all
spheres of relations,” he explained.

Recalling the one-time tensions in the Iran-West relations, the
economist noted that Armenia had never before been viewed as an ally
of the Islamic Republic or faced any restriction at all.

“In this respect, the United States and the West have the appropriate
understanding, which means they do not link the relations with Armenia
to third countries. These are direct relations,” he said, adding that
the same also applies to Armenia’s EEU membership.

“The important thing is that Armenia will continue developing its
relations with third countries. I think the United States’ approach is
a quite positively evaluated phenomenon. After all, we ourselves choose
the path to development, the possible ways and the friend countries. I
find that the United States has an adequate and commensurate approach
to all those fundamental issues,” Manaseryan noted.

Warning against any attempt of protests against what he called a
good-will gesture by a foreign country, the economist said he finds
that the issue would really deserve attention in case Azerbaijan were
to receive more funding.

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CLOSING OF TURKISH-ARMENIAN BORDER

Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Feb 5 2015

Maxime Gauin

A growing campaign, inside and outside Turkey, is advocating the
opening of the Turkish-Armenian border, without asking anything of
Armenia, as if the Turkish government was the only, or at least the
main, actor responsible for the current situation. To understand the
real causes of blockade, we can begin with two recent events. This,
month, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invited his Armenian counterpart
to the centennial of the Canakkale (Gallipoli) battle. Mr. Serge
Sarkisian answered negatively. After all, he had the right to refuse,
but his letter was unsophisticated and aggressive. He stressed the
Armenian sufferings only.

Yet, nobody can expect the vast majority of the Turks to deny the
very existence of the war crimes committed by Armenian volunteers
of the Russian army, crimes that begin months before the forced
relocation of 1915-16, as proven by complaints of Russian officers
and even verdicts of Russian martial courts. Mr. Sarkisian also used
more than questionable arguments, such as the misleading memoirs of
Sarkis Torossian, submitted years ago to a devastating analysis, even
by Turkish historians who are notoriously critical of the traditional
stance of Turkey on the Armenian issue (a detailed rebuttal was written
by Hakan Yavuz in Daily Sabah). Nobody can expect being taken seriously
by using debunked hoaxes.

Another incident, much less covered by media, was the visit of
Hasan Cemal in Yerevan. In spite of his acceptance of the “Armenian
genocide” label, Mr. Cemal was vehemently attacked by the audience,
because he called ASALA terrorists, who planted bombs in Orly and
Esenboga airports, and because he called the occupation of western
Azerbaijan by Armenia since 1992-94 an occupation. The audience
was surprised: Indeed, at the request of the Hrant Dink Foundation,
the Armenian translator had suppressed these parts of the book. Even
extreme nationalists of the diaspora, such as the former spokesman
of the ASALA in France, Jean-Marc “Ara” Toranian, did not dare to
attack Mr. Cemal – far from that. Armenian nationalists did.

The reason is actually simple. In western democratic countries,
nationalists have to care about their image – even more after the
trials won against some of them in France, and after I sued Mr.

Toranian himself for defamation last year. In Armenia, they do not care
at all. In 1998, the “moderate” President Levon Ter-Petrossian asked
Jacques Chirac for a presidential pardon for the main perpetrator of
the Orly attack, Varoujan Garabidjian. After Mr.

Garabidjian was released in 2001 by a court decision, he was welcomed
as a national hero by the prime minister and by the mayor of Yerevan –
just try to imagine the reactions in the world if an Islamist terrorist
was welcomed by the prime minister in a Muslim country. Even more
concerning, the Republican Party in power in Armenia openly claims
they find inspiration in the writings of Garegin Nzhdeh, who, after
having practiced ethnic cleansing of the Azeris (1918-1920) and
theorized (during the 1930s) a “religion of race,” went to Germany at
the beginning of the World War II and was a member of the Armenian
National Council established in Berlin in 1942. In February 2013,
Nzhdeh was celebrated in Yerevan State University, the place where Mr.

Cemal was attacked, and last year, the municipal council of Yerevan
decided to unveil a new statue of this Nazi.

According to Armenian media, such as armenianow.com, there was
certainly a controversy, including in the municipal council, but
about the place for the statue. To put the problem very directly,
a society where the only apparent debate on the statute of a Nazi
war criminal is a dispute about its location is not a society ready
to make peace with her neighbors.

So, you are warned: the Turks are requested to open the border
without pre-conditions, namely to say nothing about the territorial
claims included in the Armenian Constitution, to stop any support to
its main regional ally, Azerbaijan, whose percent of the territory
is occupied by Armenia, and not to worry about the celebration of
anti-Turkish terrorists and Nazis in Yerevan. It would be interesting
if the proponents of this solution clearly explained how peaceful,
democratic and realistic it is.

*Maxime Gauin is a researcher at the Center for Eurasian Studies
(AVIM) and a PhD candidate at the Middle East Technical University
history department.

February/05/2015

ARMENIA WANTS TO EXCHANGE DATA ON MISSING PERSONS WITH AZERBAIJAN

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 4 2015

4 February 2015 – 5:38pm

Armenian Deputy Defense Minister David Tonosyan said at a meeting
today with Sarah Epprecht, the head of the IRCC office in Armenia,
that Armenia wanted to exchange data missing persons with Azerbaijan,
according to the international humanitarian law, RIA Novosti reports.

The sides discussed ways to exchange data about people I missing
in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The deputy minister reminded that
Armenia had been cooperating with the IRCC since 1992.

Epprecht emphasized that the IRCC was an impartial and independent
organization. It wants to find out about the fates of about 4,500
people missing in the conflict.

SYMPHONIC WINDS ENSEMBLE TO SHARE MUSICAL TALENT

Vidette Online – Illinois State University
Feb 4 2015

By Gianna Annunzio on February 3, 2015

The ISU Symphonic Wind Ensemble rehearses Monday, Wednesday and
Friday from 4-6pm under the direction of Dr. Martin Seggelke. They
are preparing for their concert this Friday February 6. (Paige
Meisenheimer, Photographer)

As ensembles of Illinois State University’s finest instrumentalists
prepare to perform their first concert of the spring semester,
supporters of live music will soon bare witness to the epitome of
refined musical talent.

The culprits of this melodious mastery: ISU’s Wind Symphony and
Symphonic Winds ensemble. Performing four distinctly different concerts
every semester, the band’s webpage describes the group’s musicality
as at an extreme caliber.

Both ensembles are dedicated to showcasing a new repertoire and
concert cycle with each concert production.

Martin Seggelke, the school of music’s director of bands, will be
conducting the Symphonic Winds concert from 8-10 p.m. on Feb. 6 in
the Center for Performing Arts alongside co-conductor Joe Manfredo,
a music education professor.

“Each concert is programmed in a way that a large variety of styles,
composers, genres and time periods is featured. Someone who attends
this concert will at least find one or two pieces that will really
resonate with them,” Seggelke said.

Both Seggelke and Manfredo have selected pieces of their choice to
be performed by Symphonic Winds.

“My selection is a large piece [that is] almost a half hour long,
it’s called ‘Poema Alpestre,’ the Alpine poem by composer Franco
Cesarini,” Seggelke said.

“[The piece is] very much in a Neo-Romantic tone language. All
selections are very different in their approaches, and provide very
challenging music.”

Manfredo will be performing three shorter pieces ranging from Percy
Granger’s “Gum Sucker’s March,” to the second part, third movement
of Alfred Reed’s “Armenian Dances.”

“[Gum Sucker’s March] is an upbeat, bouncy, very positive piece.

Reed’s ‘Armenian Dances,’ is very fast and furious, with minor modes
typical to Armenian folklore,” Seggelke said.

Glenn Block, the orchestra conductor, will guest conduct the Wind
Symphony cycle on Feb. 8. His program selections include a variety
of pieces ranging from Georg Friedrich Handel’s “Music for the Royal
Fireworks,” all the way to Schonberg’s “Theme and Variations.”

Seggelke said the pieces contain “very different language” furthering
the concert’s diversity.

Even while considering the vast musical demand included in
these pieces, they present no obstacle for the ensemble’s skilled
performers. While every school holds their own band program, ISU’s
is one of the top 40 in the country.

Seggelke strongly invites the community to take a bigger role in the
ensemble’s high-caliber talents, urging students to participate by
attending and supporting.

“It is one of the crowned jewels we have, not just in the college of
fine arts, but really on the entire campus,” Seggelke said. “Every
year, the top band even puts out an international CD release, with
major labels like Naxos and Albany Records.”

As both band director and conductor, Seggelke invites all attendees
to become invested in the music and use the inspiration to create
themselves. He also embraces more unconventional responses to the
concerts.

“[One attendee] remained in the concert hall after it was being
cleared out, just sitting looking a bit pale,” Seggelke said.

“They said, ‘the music just overwhelmed me, just let me be. I’ll
probably sit here for another 10 minutes, I’m fine.’ Those are so
much stronger reactions than ‘the concert was great,” Seggelke said.

“I love those too, don’t get me wrong, but those [unconventional
reactions] come from clearly altered, moved people who had a strong
reaction to what just went on.”

“That performance aspect, that uniqueness of the moment, is what’s
always wonderful,” Seggelke said. “It really has the chance to emote
in that very moment and leave you changed. Minimally so, but it does
alter you.”

Ultimately, Seggelke strives for these ensembles to appeal to their
audiences.

“We hope to every time present a large variety so you will always
find something that you like. Maybe you’ll find something that
challenges you, or surprises you, hopefully in a way that triggers
you to come again.”

PRESS RELEASE:
Haigazian University
Mira Yardemian, Public Relation Director
Kantari – Beirut
Email: [email protected]

Conference on `Armenian Genocide Centennial: Addressing the
Implications’ at Haigazian University

Beirut, 4/2/2015 – On the occasion of the centennial commemoration of
the Armenian Genocide, and under the high patronage of the President
of the Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East,
Rev. Mgrdich Karageozian, a conference titled `Armenian Genocide
Centennial: Addressing the Implications’ was organized by Haigazian
University and the Armenian Genocide 100th Anniversary Commemoration
Lebanon Committee, from January 31 to Februray 1, 2015.

The auspicious opening, which was attended by ministers, members of
parliament, officials, religious leaders, and academicians, featured
guest speaker, prominent scholar and historian, Prof. Masoud Daher
from the Lebanese University, on the topic of `the Armenian Question
in the Age of Globalization: the Current Situation and its Prospects’.

The conferenced also witnessed parallel events: a worship service in
the First Armenian Evangelical Church, with a special message by
Haigazian University President, Rev. Paul Haidostian, in addition to
two Arabic book launches and presentations, `100 years of the Armenian
Genocide: 100 Testimonials’, by author Dr. Nora Arisian, and `Karabagh
Dailies, Green and Black: no War no Peace’, by author Tatul Hakobyan.

The conference convened four sessions on two consecutive days,
covering eight topics, presented by eight scholars coming from
Armenia, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon.

Panelists were Dr. Suren Manukyan on `The Demographic, Cultural,
Psychological, Geographic, Economic, Psychological and Political
Consequences of the Armenian Genocide’, Dr. Vladimir Vardanyan on
`Responsibility for the Armenian Genocide: International Legal
Obligations of the Ottoman Empire Concerning its Armenian Population’,
Dr. Zaven Messerlian on `the Reaction of the International Community
during and after the Armenian Genocide’, Dr. Saleh Zahreddine on `the
Blackmailing of Turkey by the Great Powers Regarding the Armenian
Genocide’, Prof. Arsen Avagyan on `the Relations of Turkey and the
Republic of Armenian (1991-2014), Mr. Tatul Hagopyan on `the Relations
of Turkish-Armenian non-state Actors’, Dr. Bulent Bilmez on `the
Position of the Turkish State vis-à-vis its Minorities (1923-2014)’,
Dr. Hranush Karadian on `the Status of the Armenians in Contemporary
Turkey: the Case of the Converted Armenians.’

Presentations and sessions were moderated by Dr. Antranig Dakessian
and Mrs. Seta Khedeshian.

WALES’ ARMENIANS: STILL CAMPAIGNING FOR RECOGNITION OF THE GENOCIDE SUFFERED BY THEIR PEOPLE IN 1915

walesonline.co.uk
February 3, 2015 Tuesday 8:20 PM GMT

By Martin Shipton

Genocide is a highly emotive term – so much so that when a cross
commemorating the Armenian “genocide” was placed outside the Temple
of Peace in Cardiff a few years ago, it was soon smashed up.

In Turkey it remains a crime to use the term when describing the
events of 1915 that saw nearly 1.5m ethnic Armenians murdered.

Among many others, the Turkish Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan
Pamuk has faced prosecution after telling his country to admit to
what happened. But so far there is little sign of Turkey doing so.

In Wales, where there is a small but thriving Armenian community,
preparations are under way to mark the centenary. But community members
are disappointed by the lack of support shown for their cause by the
Welsh Government.

Historians have described what happened in Turkey 100 years ago as
the first full-scale ethnic cleansing of the 20th century.

Armenians were uprooted from their homes by the thousand, deported
to remote locations within Turkey and murdered.

The political scientist RJ Rummell has written: “Turkish leaders
decided to exterminate every Armenian in the country, whether a
front-line soldier or pregnant woman, famous professor or high bishop,
important businessman or ardent patriot. All two million of them.

Rummell has used the term “democide” to describe “the murder of any
person or people by their government, including genocide, politicide
and mass murder”.

Of the Armenian massacres he wrote: “Democide had preceded the Young
Turks’ rule and with their collapse at the end of World War I, the
successor Nationalist government carried out its own democide against
the Greeks and remaining or returning Armenians. From 1900 to 1923,
various Turkish regimes killed from 3.5 million to over 4.3m Armenians,
Greeks, Nestorians and other Christians.”

Based on all the available evidence, Rummell estimates that the
Turks murdered between 300,000 and 2,686,000 Armenians – probably
1.4 million.

A report in the New York Times from November 1915 reported the
testimony of an American committee set up to investigate the
atrocities. It quotes an unnamed official representative of the
committee who went to a camp occupied by displaced Armenians saying:
“I have visited their encampment and a more pitiable site cannot be
imagined. They are, almost without exception, ragged, hungry and sick.

This is not surprising in view of the fact that they have been on the
road for nearly two months, with no change of clothing, no chance to
bathe, no shelter and little to eat. “I watched them one time when
their food was brought. Wild animals could not be worse. They rushed
upon the guards who carried the food and the guards beat them back
with clubs hitting hard enough to kill sometimes.”

“To watch them one could hardly believe these people to be human
beings. As one walks through the camp, mothers offer their children
and beg you to take them. In fact, the Turks have been taking their
choice of these children and girls for slaves or worse. There are very
few men among them, as most of the men were killed on the road. Women
and children were also killed. The entire movement seems to be the
most thoroughly organised and effective massacre this country has
ever seen.”

Many relatives of Cardiff businessman John Torosyan, a leading
member of the Welsh Armenian community, were murdered, including his
grandfather’s twin.

He said: “More than 75% of Armenians were killed. At the time Britain
was at the forefront of calls for justice for this genocide. The word
‘genocide’ was in fact coined by a Jew, Raphael Lemkin, with the
Armenians uppermost in his mind.

“One hundred years on and how things have changed. The UK Government’s
position is clear – they do not want to use the word genocide because
it would upset Turkey, a Nato ally.

“Nevertheless, 22 other countries have accepted the Armenian genocide
as fact, some of them being in Nato with no diplomatic or trade issues
with Turkey.

“Neither Israel nor Jewry in the UK including such commendable
organisations as the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust acknowledge the
Armenian genocide.” Progress in Wales towards getting official
recognition of the genocide

Mr Torosyan said there had been progress in Wales towards getting
official recognition of the genocide: in 2004 a vote was taken by
Gwynedd council to recognise it, and last year a plaque was erected
at the council’s offices in Caernarfon.

He said: “Prior to 2006 the Armenian community participated in the
Holocaust Memorial Day events in Cardiff. It was then a hit and miss
affair, where we were remembered in some years but not in others. The
last even we participated in actively was in 2010.

“In 2007 the National Assembly gave us some land at the Temple of
Peace and allowed the word ‘genocide’ to be used on the memorial. The
then Presiding Officer conducted the opening ceremony.

“We had two statements of opinion where a majority of AMs accepted the
reality of the Armenian genocide. The Church in Wales voted unanimously
to recognise April 24 as Armenian Genocide Day and special prayers
were written in Welsh and English.

“We currently have three memorials in Wales – at the Temple of Peace,
in Caernarfon and at St Deiniol’s Church at Hawarden, Flintshire,
where Armenians gave a silver chalice, a silver Bible and a stained
glass window in recognition of help given by Britain at the time of
the first Armenian genocide in 1896.

“Soon we will be erecting a statue at St Davids Cathedral, the
spiritual centre of Welsh Christianity.

“Unfortunately we feel that with the exception of the Church in Wales,
the country’s official institutions are now completely sidestepping
the Armenians’ cause. The Welsh Government deems it a foreign policy
matter and not within the remit of a devolved administration. This
is a very convenient and easy solution, but it ignores the Armenian
community in Wales.

“We wrote to the First Minister last year, but only received an
acknowledgement. Our appeals for nine months that Holocaust Memorial
Day events this year should just mention the Armenian victims fell
on deaf ears. Unfortunately Cardiff is toeing the Foreign Office line.”

Geoffrey Robertson QC, one of Britain’s most distinguished human
rights lawyers, wrote a lengthy legal opinion six years ago condemning
the UK Government’s unwillingness to describe the events of 1915 as
genocide. His conclusion said: “The truth is that throughout the life
of the present Labour Government and – so the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office (FCO) admits – throughout previous governments, there has been
no proper or candid appraisal of 1915 events condemned by Her Majesty’s
Government (HMG) at the time and immediately afterwards in terms that
anticipate the modern definition of genocide and which were referred
to by the drafters of the Genocide Convention as a prime example of the
kind of atrocity that would be covered by this new international crime.

“HMG has consistently … wrongly maintained both that the decision
is one for historians and that historians are divided on the subject,
ignoring the fact that the decision is one for legal judgement and
no reputable historian could possibly deny the central facts of the
deportations and the racial and religious motivations behind the
deaths of a significant proportion of the Armenian people.”

Mr Robertson states that the “inevitable” conclusion is that the
treatment of the Armenians in 1915 answers to the description of
genocide. “Foreign policy is a matter reserved to the UK Government”

A Welsh Government spokesman said First Minister Carwyn Jones had
written a letter to Mr Torosyan dated September 1 last year, which
said: “I am writing in response to your letter of July 17 on behalf
of the Armenian community in Wales.

“Foreign policy is a matter reserved to the UK Government and one for
which the Welsh Government has no remit. However, the UK Government
has acknowledged the terrible suffering that was inflicted on the
Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th Century. The
crimes committed were rightly and robustly condemned by the British
Government of the day.

“While we remember the victims of the past, our priority today must
be to promote reconciliation between the peoples and governments of
Turkey and Armenia.”

The spokesman issued a slightly amended statement to us, which said:
“Foreign policy is not devolved, but we condemn any persecution and
mass loss of life.

“The UK Government has acknowledged the terrible suffering that
was inflicted on the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire in the
early 20th century and the crimes committed were rightly and robustly
condemned by the British Government of the day.

“The First Minister has paid homage to Armenian victims during
Holocaust Memorial commemorations in the past and there are a number
of memorials in place around Wales including one in the capital. But
while we remember the victims of the past, the priority today must
be to promote reconciliation between the peoples and governments of
Turkey and Armenia.”

MKHITARYAN ENVISAGERAIT UN DEPART DE DORTMUND CET ETE SELON SON AGENT

FOOTBALL

Le meneur de jeu armenien du Borussia Dortmund Henrikh Mkhitaryan
souhaiterait quitter l’Allemagne cet ete a la fin de cette saison. Le
joueur star du football armenien, venu en Allemagne en juin 2013
après un transfert de 26 millions d’euros, avait reussi une honorable
première saison ponctuee de 13 buts toutes competitions confondues.

Mais le natif de Yerevan connaît des difficultes a confirmer les
attentes placees en lui cette saison. Mkhitaryan n’a toujours
pas marque le moindre but en championnat cette saison, freine par
plusieurs blessures et par le niveau de jeu de son equipe qui pointe
a la dernière place du classement après 18 journees.

Mino Raiola, agent de Mkhitaryan et connu dans le milieu du football
pour etre l’agent de Zlatan Ibrahimovic ou de Mario Balotelli,
a affirme a des journalistes italiens de Calciomercato que > après avoir nie
un possible transfert cet hiver : >

Selon les informations du meme site italien, le joueur armenien serait
suivi par plusieurs clubs de haut niveau europeen comme la Juventus
Turin, Arsenal et Liverpool.

Arthur Altounian

mercredi 4 fevrier 2015, Ara (c)armenews.com

NEW ‘THEMATIC’ SEWER MANHOLES MAY APPEAR ON YEREVAN STREETS

YEREVAN, February 4. / ARKA /. New ‘thematic’ sewer manholes may appear
on the streets of Yerevan, Yerevan Productions company’s development
director Gayane Manukyan said today.

Last April this company unveiled a project called “1000 and one sewer
manholes.’ The idea is to install new sewer manholes with unique
thematic designs.

Speaking at a news conference she said 26 sewer manholes can be
installed in the main Republican Square in downtown Yerevan. She said
designers suggested that manholes be decorated as ancient Armenian
coins. Such manholes could be installed in front of Converse Bank,
located in the main square.

“We offer two solutions: the first is to paint the already installed
sewer manholes in special colors and the second is to manufacture
new iron manholes,” Manukyan said.

She said decorated sewer manholes can be found in many countries,
where they became ‘ a perfect complement of urban environment.’

She also said there is a proposal to create special designs for
electricity and water distributors, telecommunications and other
companies.

She said this project is still in the initial stage of discussion,
although it was already approved by the municipality. She said the
project can not be started due to lack of financing.

The “1000 and one sewer manholes’ is developed as part of a larger
project known as ‘Yerevan 2.0.” Its goal is to change Yerevan and show
the difference between what is there today and what should be there.-0-

RUSSIA ALLOCATES OVER $5 MILLION FOR ARMENIA’S AGRICULTURE UNDER UNDP PROGRAM

YEREVAN, February 4. /ARKA/. Russia’s government has allocated over $5
million under the UNDP program for development of rural communities
in Armenia in 2015-2019, Russia’s foreign ministry reported today at
its official website.

The project implies particular measures to be taken in Tavush province
for ensure development, increase income from framing, reduce poverty
and improve living conditions here. It targets 62,000 beneficiaries.

the ministry says in its report.