Month: May 2008

Panorama.am

17:28 27/05/2008

23-25 SPORTSMEN PRESENT ARMENIA IN OLYMPIC GAMES

23-25 sportsmen from Armenia will take part in Olympic
Games in Pekin, said the Minister of Sport and Youth
Affairs Armen Grigoryan in a meeting with journalists
today.

He said that the figure is not definite yet as the
International Olympic Committee should confirm it.
-Every country is given white cards invitation in
every Olympic Games which is decided by IOC,- said the
minister. Possibly swimming and light athletic will be
receive the cards.

-All the organizational problems are solved and for
this reason special committee is formed to meet the
requirements,- he said and added that the special
uniforms of our sportsmen are already ready which are
in the colorings of Armenian flag.
The minister said that the uniforms are made by
-Adidas- company. Albert Azaryan will hold our flag
during the march. He also said that the sportsmen are
under medical control all the time.

Source: Panorama.am

Panorama.am

17:28 27/05/2008

FOREIGN MINISTER IN MOSCOW

On 29 May Minister Edvard Nalbandyan leaves for Moscow
for three-days labor meeting. Minister Nalbandyan will
have a meeting with Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of
Russia, Aleksey Ostrovski, the chairman of State Duma
CIS countries affairs committee and Nikolay Borduzhay,
secretary in chief of Collective Security Contract
organization. On 1 June Minister Nalbandyan will
return back to Armenia.

In the frameworks of the meeting the minister will
visit state institute of Moscow International
Relations. He will have a meeting with the students
and professors of the institute. On 1 June Nalbandyan
will return wo Yerevan.

Source: Panorama.am

ARF Bureau representative speaks about party’s congress

27.05.2008 17:08

Yerevan (Yerkir) – Delegates from more than 30 countries participated
in the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, held on May 21-26 in Armenia.
The delegates discussed the party’s activities for the past four years,
and adopted resolutions for the four years to come. ARF Bureau
representative Hrant Margarian spoke at a news conference held at the
Christapor Mikayelian center on May 27.

He said the congress discussed thoroughly all the strategic Armenian
issues. The congress elected the ARF Bureau, comprising 11 members:
Hrant Margarian, Vahan Hovhannisian, Aghvan Vardanian, Davit Lokian,
Levon Mkrtchian, Vigen Baghumian, Mkrtich Mkrtchian, Hakob
Ter-Khachatrian, Vigen Hovsepian, Hayk Ohsakan, Mario Nalbandian.

"By electing the cabinet ministers to the Bureau, the congress
surprised us," Margarian said, adding that the ministers will soon
resign, and new ministers will be appointed. He said this was the
ministers’ decision. "Being a Bureau member is a higher position than
that of a minister’s, and they decided to resign to be able to fulfill
their tasks in the Bureau," Margarian said.

Speaking about the media reports about the congress, Margarian said:
"The ANM press published many reports that I don’t want to speak about.
We said the truth without disrespect to anybody. We will not get so low
to respond them."

Margarian said that the congress wrapped up by pointing to the need of
a stronger organization, fair Armenia and national unity.

Margarian then read out the statement by the congress and answered the
questions by journalists.

American congressman Adam Schiff worries about development of situation
in the post-election Armenia

2008-05-27 17:01:00

ArmInfo. American congressman Adam Schiff said in an interview with
Radio Liberty that he worries about development of situation in the
post-election Armenia. , – Schiff said.

Asked if he thinks there are political prisoners in Armenia, American
congressman replied that the Department of State worries about the fact
that there are prisoners in the country which had been detained because
of making speeches during the political campaign in the republic as
well as because of expressing their own viewpoints. This is not a
ground to arrest them. People cannot be arrested for expression of
their views, Schiff said.

Asked if the USA may impose pressure upon the Armenian authorities
trying to stop fulfillment of "Millennium Challenges" programme, the
congressman replied: ‘I think it will be a big tragedy if the programme
is stopped, since it is a very important programme. It will be shameful
if fulfillment of the programme may fail because of the problem of
democratizing of the republic’, – he said and added there has never
been such a precedent in the history of the programme fulfillment.

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Azad-Hye, United Arab Emirates
May 26 2008

`Lexicology and loanwords’ is a new book published by Syrian-Armenian writer Avo Katerjian

Azad-Hye Special

With its 1000 words and full Armenian equivalents, this is a unique
book, useful for teachers, students, researchers, translators and
others. It is an excellent resource to find out the meaning of foreign
words, nowadays in common use in everyday spoken and written Armenian.

In the introduction, Avo Katerjian explains about the two major parts
of the book: "Armenian lexicology" and "loanwords", referring to cases
of borrowing and adopting words from many sources (languages) and the
way they are used recently in the Armenian language.

Also he points out that the book could have been larger, but it is
only a collection of selected foreign words, that have been taken from
other languages and included in the Armenian language, both in Armenia
or in Diaspora. Such words are: alarm, allergy, embargo, ashugh,
dualism, energy, institute, humor, logo, global, icon, error message,
manifest, marathon, radical, screen, paragraph, capitalism, concrete,
formula, etc…

In order to cover the eastern and western Armenian language, the
author has added the western pronunciations in brackets, next to the
words with eastern pronunciations.

It is worth mentioning that the bibliography which is included in the
book is very diversified. The author has referred to Armenian,
English, Turkish, French and Arabic dictionaries, in addition to a
large number of books and sources about the Armenian language and
grammar. Index can be easily used to locate a word.

The book is the result of several years of compiling and gathering. It
could be very useful for those who lack knowledge of foreign
languages.

Avo Katerjian has published in 1996 a book dedicated to Nakhichevan
entitled `Armenian Nakhichevan or distorted NAXCIVAN’ (see link
below). He also has many articles in the Armenian press like
`Kantsasar’ (Aleppo), `Aztag’ (Beirut), `Droshag’ (Yerevan), `Horizon’
(Canada), `Asbarez’ (Los Angeles), `Abaraj’ (Karabakh), `Alik’
(Tehran).

Avo Katerjian could be reached at: [email protected]

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

RA Prosecutor General, Slovenia’s Justice Minister discuss bilateral
cooperation

armradio.am
27.05.2008 17:59

RA Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan received the Deputy Prime
Minister of Slovenia, Minister of Justice Stefan Harabin.

Press Secretary of RA Prosecutor General’s Office Sona Truzyan informed
that during the meeting the parties discussed issues related to
cooperation between the two countries, attaching special importance to
the collaboration in the judicial-legal sphere. Stefan Harabin informed
that the necessity of implementing certain judicial-legal reforms is
being discussed in Slovenia for the purpose of guaranteeing the full
independence of the system and ensuring the accomplishment of the
requirements of the legislation in force.

Presenting the reforms implemented in the system of prosecution in
Armenia, Aghvan Hovsepyan noted that the experience is being studied
now to correct the omissions if necessary. Underscoring the importance
of the exchange of experience, the parties agreed to develop
cooperation.

Armenian-Georgian Intergovernmental Commission to Hold its Second
Meeting in July

YEREVAN, May 27. /ARKA/. Armenian and Georgian premiers – Tigran
Sargsyan and Lado Gurgenidze – have decided last week to convene the
second session of Armenian-Georgian intergovernmental commission in
July, Armenian governmental press office reports.

The two countries prime ministers met in Minsk, where they traveled to
attend a regular prime-ministerial meeting of the Commonwealth of
Independent States.

The prime ministers think the session will give another impetus to
intergovernmental cooperation and economic relations between the two
countries.

The premiers find cooperation in energy area quite effective. However,
they pointed out the necessity of spurring mutual investment in
financial and banking sectors and cooperation within international
organizations.

Sargsyan raised some issues prompting Armenia’s concern and asked his
Georgian counterpart to support the efforts to solve them.

In particular, Sargsyan stressed the importance of keeping Armenia in
touch with the rice in fees taken for cargo transportation across
Georgia’s territory and explaining the reasons for raising fees.

The Armenian premier attracted Gurgenidze’s attention to the status of
Armenian Apostolic Church in Georgia and encroachment on Armenian
churches. He said this creates tension in the society.

The previous session of the commission was held in Yerevan on October
15, 2007.-0—

Anti-Monopoly Commission to Study Armenia’s Petrol Market

YEREVAN, May 27. /ARKA/. Armenian State Commission for Economic
Competition Protection is going to monitor the country’s petrol market,
Commission Chairman Ashot Shahnazaryan told reporters.

`Today prices in Armenia do not differ much from international prices,’
Shahnazaryan stressed.

The anti-monopoly commission will study the petrol prices within one
and a half months. `We have already requested the economic entities of
the sector for data and will start the research work in the nearest
future,’ Shahnazaryan said.

According to the National Statistical Service of Armenia, petrol prices
grew in Armenia by 2.5% in April 2008 as compared to March. An 11.5%
annual increase and 3.3% growth from the beginning of the year were
recorded.–0-

Japan Provides $370mln Worth Financial Assistance to Armenia over Last
10 Years

YEREVAN, May 27. /ARKA/. Japan provided a total of $370mln financial
assistance to Armenia over the last ten years, Ambassador of Japan to
Armenia Yasuo Saito said.

After gaining independence Armenia encountered serious difficulties,
yet it makes great efforts to develop its economy and build up its
democracy and is worthy of respect, the Ambassador told a press
conference in Yerevan.

Saito stressed that the country focuses on development of energy field
and for this purpose over $300mln has been allocated to Armenia. Of it,
$250mln was the loan of the Japanese JBIC Japanese bank for
construction of a modern heat and gas energy unit of combined cycle at
Yerevan Heat Station and $52mln for improving the distributor network,
the Ambassador said.

Japan provides assistance to Armenia for development of
infrastructures, social sector, poverty reduction, personnel training,
as well as to ensure freedom of speech and democracy and development of
education.

270 Armenian specialists have been trained in Japan under technical
assistance program, the Ambassador said.-0-

Armenia to Join Enterprise Europe Network on June 20

YEREVAN, May 27. /ARKA/. Armenia is to officially join the Enterprise
Europe Network (EEN) on June 20, Executive Director of Armenia’s Small
and Medium Entrepreneurship Development National Center Ishkhan
Karapetian.

This organization gives local companies broader opportunities for
accessing the European market, receiving cooperation offers and orders
from European enterprises and for participating in financial projects
implemented within the European Union, Karapetian told a press
conference.

Along with Armenia some EU-member countries, as well as Israel,
Switzerland and Chili will join the EEN.

Currently 40 countries are members of the EEN that includes 600
organizations and 23mln small and medium business entities and has
4,000 employees. -0–