KOMITAS’ 140TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY TO BE MARKED IN GEORGIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.11.2009 13:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An event dedicated to 140th birthday anniversary of
Komitas will be held in Georgia with the assistance of the Armenian
Embassy and AAC Georgian Diocese on November 11. The program includes
performance of composer’s works and presentation of historical
information about the epoch when Komitas lived and created.
RUSSIA RATIFIES AGREEMENT ON TRAINING OF PERSONNEL FOR SPECIAL SERVICES OF CSTO COUNTRIES
ArmInfo
2009-11-10 13:06:00
ArmInfo. On November 9, President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev signed a
Federal law on ratification of the agreement concerning training of
personnel for the law-enforcement, fire-fighting, emergency agencies
and special services of CSTO member-states, CSTO Secretary Vitaly
Strugovets told ArmInfo today.
The agreement provisions determine the personnel preparation procedure,
coordination of specialties and training programmes; introduction of
the list of special services for which the personnel is trained;
signing of the relevant contracts among the parties’ special
services; selection, examination and the procedure of enrollment of
candidates for training; admission on a mutual basis of equivalency
of the recipient party’s documents on graduation from educational
establishments.
The personnel training will be carried out under contracts on a paid,
preferential or unpaid basis. In case of training on a preferential
basis, the training expenses are born by the recipient Party, and the
expenses for maintenance – by the directing Party. In case of unpaid
training, the expenses for training and maintenance are born by the
recipient Party.
RA PRESIDENT TO OPEN ARMENIAN CULTURAL CENTER IN KALININGRAD
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.11.2009 13:30 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ RA President Serzh Sargsyan will open Armenian
Cultural Center in Kaliningrad on November 11. The ceremony will
be attended by Kaliningrad oblast governor Georgy Boos and other
officials.
The building will host a library, Sunday school, consulate, exhibition
and concert halls.
HUNGARY DOES NOT CONSIDERS POSSIBLE EXTRADITION OF RAMIL SAFAROV TO AZERBAIJAN
ArmInfo
2009-11-09 19:55:00
ArmInfo. Hungary is not considering possible extradition of Ramil
Safarov to Azerbaijan, a diplomatic source told ArmInfo correspondent.
According to the source, during Nov 9 negotiations in Budapest the
Hungarian party told the Armenian one that the given issue is not on
Hungary’s agenda.
On 19 Feb 2004, 26-year old lieutenant Gourgen Margaryan, who was
passing an English language training course at the National Defense
University of Hungary under a NATO program, was cruelly killed by
Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov. The Hungarian court sentenced
the Azerbaijani killer to life imprisonment without parole within
the next 30 years. Azerbaijan doesn’t give up its efforts to gain
Safarov’s extradition to his motherland where, by all appearances,
he will be awarded "a hero’s wreath".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
SECOND MEETING OF WORKING GROUP ON IRAN-ARMENIA RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION LIKELY IN NOVEMBER 2009
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.11.2009 13:33 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The second meeting of the working group on
construction of the Iran-Armenia railway will apparently be held in
November 2009.
"RA Ministry of Transport requested the Iranian Ministry of Transport
for a regular trilateral meeting on construction of Iran-Armenia
railway," Minister of Transport Gurgen Sargsyan said during a
news conference on Wednesday when responding to a PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter’s question.
"Enlisting consent, we will organize the meeting," he said.
ARMENIA SHOULD RATIFY PROTOCOLS AHEAD OF TURKEY
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.11.2009 13:35 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia should ratify the protocols ahead of
Turkey, according to Stepan Grigoryan, head of analytical center on
globalization and regional cooperation (ACGRC).
"Protracting the ratification process, Yerevan can provoke inclusion of
Karabakh issue into talks with Ankara," he said, adding that failure
of the Armenian-Turkish dialogue will entail greater pressure of
superpowers on Armenia.
KLIMKO IS ADMIRED BY THE NEW PROJECT OF "ARKA"
ARKA
Nov 9, 2009
YEREVAN, November 9. /ARKA/. Igor Klimko, General Director of
telecommunication company "ArmenTel" (brand Beeline) said that he
is admired by the new financial-banking portal of news agency "ARKA"
–
"I think that the presented sites are one of the most professional
and interesting news and analytical sites in Armenia", said Klimko
during the presentation of As part of its strategy
to develop Internet-based businesses ARKA news agency has launched
in October, 2009 new projects at , ,
The financial-banking portal www.armbanks aspires to
become the leading Internet edition in Armenia covering the country’s
financial and banking sectors.
Apart from on-line information the portal offers also analytical
research, exclusive stories and information about banks, insurance
and credit organizations, their comparative financial indices as well
as statistical data. New services-on-line conferences and on-line
consultations will be available to customers as well. The website
has a credit calculator and hard currency converter. In addition to
all of this, thanks to state-of-the-art technologies the visitors of
the website can listen to economic news of ARKA news agency.
Visitors to website may learn the latest news from
Armenia’s stock market, to look through the results of shares and
government bonds trading, to read comments and opinions of experts
and participants of the market. The website will
allow to monitor the situation of the Armenian economy, to be well
informed about the government anti-crisis steps. Visitors may offer
their recommendations and comments on various government decisions,
designed and passed to take the country out of the crisis.
TURKISH PARLIAMENT TO RATIFY PROTOCOLS IN DECEMBER-JANUARY
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.11.2009 13:44 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish parliament will ratify protocols in
December-January, according to Stepan Grigoryan, head of analytical
center on globalization and regional cooperation (ACGRC).
"Turkey will ratify the protocols without waiting for progress in
Karabakh talks," he said, adding that the border will be opened within
terms envisaged by the documents.
ECONOMY MINISTRY: TOURIST FLOW TO ARMENIA GROWS 5.8% IN JAN-SEPT 2009
ARKA
Nov 9, 2009
YEREVAN, November 9. /ARKA/. Tourist flow to Armenia grew 5.8% in
Jan-Sept 2009, compared with the same period a year before, Mekhak
Apresyan, chief of Armenian economy ministry’s tourism unit, said
Monday at a press conference in Novosti International Press Centre.
He said 422,8 tourists have visited Armenia for nine months of
this year.
"The pace of tourist inflow slowed down in Jan-Sept 2009, while
over the period between 2001 and 2008 Armenia used to record 25%
growth every year," Apresyan said adding that nevertheless, the
country enjoyed some growth in the mentioned period of this year,
and this is a positive fact.
He said that these results are close to the predicted indicators,
especially taking into account that the world faced 3% average decline
and Europe 10 to 17% fall in Jan-Sept 2009.
"Winter season is coming, but we hope that the growth will continue,
and we won’t record annual decline in tourism area."
Referring to statistical reports, Apresyan said that the tourist
outflow grew 1.2% in Jan-Sept 2009, and tourism inside the country
grew 0.12%.
Apresyan also stressed that despite the global recession, tourists’
expenses in Armenia are virtually remained unchanged – at $700 to
800 per tourist, excluding air fares.
"The majority of travelers to Armenia are above middle-age foreigners,
who live on pensions. They haven’t been impacted by the crisis."
The economy ministry’s figures show that Armenia can expect seven-
to ten-percent tourists inflow growth in 2009.
BILATERAL AGREEMENTS SIGNED DURING VISIT OF ARMENIAN FM TO SWITZERLAND
ARMENPRESS
Nov 11, 2009
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 11, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandyan after the state visit of the Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan to Hungary left for a short visit to Switzerland. Armenian
Foreign Ministry Media and Information Department told Armenpress that
in Bern Edward Nalbandyan met with his Swiss counterpart Micheline
Calmy-Ray.
During the meeting the sides discussed a number of issues of the
agenda of cooperation between the two countries, referred to regional
and international issues.
The sides noted that during the recent year unprecedented development
of bilateral relations has been registered which may be witnessed
by the meeting of the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Swiss
President Hans-Rudolph Merz, tens of negotiations between the foreign
ministers of the two countries and Swiss mediation in the process of
normalization of relations. The development of relations has been
marked by the appointment of Charles Aznavour Armenian ambassador
to Switzerland and establishment of Swiss diplomatic representation
in Armenia.
Highly assessing the dynamics of development of Armenian-Swiss
relations Edward Nalbandyan and Micheline Calmy-Ray highlighted the
high-level mutual visits, expansion of legal-agreement field as a
guarantee of consolidation of multi-lateral cooperation.
The ministers, highlighting the effective cooperation established by
the two ministries reached agreements to conduct regular consultations,
discuss possibilities of expansion of cooperation in international
organizations.
The interlocutors agreed to undertake steps toward promotion of
trade-economic relations between the two countries.
Referring to the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations
and Switzerland’s mediation Edward Nalbandyan expressed gratitude
for the mediation efforts.
Armenian and Swiss ministers referred to the regional developments
in South Caucasus.
Within the framework of the visit E. Nalbandyan and Micheline Calmy-Ray
signed an agreement on regular air communication and an agreement on
eliminating the demand of having entrance visas for the people with
diplomatic passport. After the signing ceremony the ministers gave
a joint press conference. November 11 Edward Nalbandyan arrived back
to Yerevan.