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BEGLARYAN: YEREVAN WILL BENEFIT THROUGH THIS CO-OPERATION

Aysor.am
Tuesday, October 06

Yesterday Yerevan’s Mayor Gagik Beglaryan received French delegation
headed by President of the Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur regions Michel
Vauzelle. The delegates have already experienced of inter-regional
cooperation with Armenia, and currently the mutual openness to
inter-urban is expressed.

"Yerevan will benefit through this co-operation," said Mr. Beglaryan
mentioning that Yerevan-city is at a new stage of management, and
there’s a need to share experiences. The sides agreed that focus of
mutual interests include health, transport and waste collection.

Gagik Beglaryan praised France’s cooperation with Armenia expressing
confidence that bilateral ties would be strengthened by further
new visits, arrangements, and agreements, reports Municipality’s
press office.

OLD AND NEW MPS IN ARMENIA’S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

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16:55 05.10.09

Heritage Party Founder Raffi Hovannisian, who had submitted an
application, later withdrawn, to resign from his mandates, came to
the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia to participate in
the National Assembly’s regular four-day session. In his presence,
Parliamentary Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan announced that Raffi Hovannisian
had withdrawn his application to resign from his mandates.

Today, along with Raffi Hovannisian, two new MPs appeared at the
National Assembly. Ruben Gevorgyan was registered as a member
of parliament at the Central Electoral Commission and came to the
legislative body today instead of Rubik Harutyunyan from the Prosperous
Armenia Party. As already reported by Tert.am, Rubik Harutyunyan was
appointed Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations by decree of the
Armenian prime minister.

Hovhannes Sahakyan was registered as a member of parliament at the
Central Electoral Commission instead of Myasnik Malkhasyan from
the Republican Party of Armenia. Sahakyan also came to the National
Assembly today.

The National Assembly Speaker announced the old and new members of
parliament, and the other MPs welcomed their colleagues into the
National Assembly with applause.

ARMENIA TO DEEPEN COOPERATION WITH EURO-ATLANTIC STRUCTURES

PanARMENIAN.Net
05.10.2009 19:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On October 5, Interagency Commission on Armenia-NATO
Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) held a session presided
over by National Security Council (NSC) Secretary Arthur Baghdasryan.

Program aims at developing cooperation between Armenia and
Euro-Atlantic structures. Of 122 clauses envisaging organization of
42 events, 84 have already been implemented.

Arrthur Baghdasaryan attached importance to maintaining systematic
interagency cooperation and implementing programs aimed at enhancing
mechanisms to combat terrorism and organized crime.

Committee decided to set up working groups for elaborating national
concept on civil defense and national information strategy, RA NSC
press service reports.

ARCHBISHOP CHOLOYAN: NORMALIZATION OF ARMENIA-TURKEY RELATIONS IS ALL-ARMENIAN ISSUE

PanARMENIAN.Net
05.10.2009 20:51 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Normalization of the Armenia-Turkey relations is
an All-Armenian issue, Archbishop Oshakan Choloyan, the Primate
of the Eastern Diocese of the U.S. of the Great House of Cilicia
said. He praised highly the initiative of the Armenian President to
meet with representatives of Diaspora and hear their views on the
Armenian-Turkish Protocols. Archbishop Choloyan characterized as
natural the reaction of Armenian communities, being concerned over
the future of Armenia.

""It’s positive that Serge Sargsyan is trying to settle relations
between countries, but it shouldn’t be at the cost of the Armenian
Genocide," Oshakan Choloyan said. This will be the first document in
the history to be signed between Turkey and Armenia, he said. Prior to
that, the Armenian side had not participated in negotiation processes,
and then the countries signed a document, the Treaty of Kars, which
was signed by Turkey and Russia. As Archbishop Choloyan noticed,
the president’s visit to the Armenian communities is another reason
to carefully discuss the Armenian-Turkish Protocols.

"WE HAVE MANAGED TO GET THE MAXIMUM"

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01:47 pm | October 05, 2009

Official

Serzh Sargsyan continues his pan-Armenian tour in support of the
pre-signed Armenian-Turkish Protocols. Mr. Sargsyan made the second
stop in New York, where he met with representatives of the Armenian
communities of the East Coast and Canada.

Serzh Sargsyan is escorted by President of the RA Constitutional Court
Gagik harutiunian, NKR’s ex President Arkadi Ghukasian, Minister of
Diaspora Hranush Hakobian.

Turning to the process of normalization of the Armenian-Turkish
relations and the concerns connected with the pre-signed Protocols,
Serzh Sargsyan once again underlined that Armenia moves forward to
establish relations with Turkey without preconditions.

"I think we have managed to get the maximum at this point," said Serzh
Sargsyan, referring to the concerns that it was possible to arrive at
a more-pro-Armenian document as a result of the Armenian-Turkish talks.

"When we voted for Armenia’s independence most of us had concerns about
the future as nothing was calculated to the end. Similarly, during
the Karabakh war we fought for Karabakh’s independence and right to
self-determination with many concerns left behind. But we believed our
cause and the struggle was crowned with success," noted Mr. Sargsyan.

Serzh Sargsyan underlined that the fact of the Genocide could not
be discussed within the framework of normalization of relations
with Turkey.

Summing up the meeting in New York, Serzh Sargsyan said: "The most
important for us is to be able to be strong enough to understand each
other in this responsible phase. I believe in the bright future of
Armenia. I believe because I see the correct path."

WORLD ANIMAL WELFARE

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11:03:50 – 05/10/2009

The 11th International Companion Animal Welfare Conference 7-9 October
Budapest, Hungary

The 4th of October is the Animal Welfare International Day. Each year
since 1996 the International Companion Animal Welfare Conference
(ICAWC) is held in which the largest animal welfare international
organisations and representatives of local organisations from almost
50 countries around the world come together.

ICAWC is the leading conference of its kind. It is held in a different
European city each year and provides a platform where delegates working
in the field of animal welfare, exchange knowledge and experience,
establish the international and regional cooperation.

One of the main focuses of the 11th Conference will be on the
importance of understanding the issues in animal welfare, breeding
control and neutering.

Topics include public health and safety as well as implementation of
the education programs, publicity, and promotion of legislation.

Armenia is the only country of the Council of Europe which never took
part in Conference. Armenia has an opportunity on participation at
this year’s Conference.

Considering the problem of stray dogs is bad in Armenia and also till
now the attempts to solve a problem are countereffective, a number of
the international organisations have offered the partnership to the
Municipality of Yerevan in developing and implementing of the complex
program on the problem solving of the stray dogs population control.

RA PRESIDENT’S MEETINGS WITH DIASPORA ATTACHED NEW COLORING TO RELATIONS

PanARMENIAN.Net
05.10.2009 21:51 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The meetings with the Armenian President helped get
answers to a number of questions, philanthropist Albert Boyajian said.

"These meetings attached new coloring to Armenia-Diaspora ties. I
believe our President has chosen the right way," he said, adding
that normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations will offer a new
opportunity for development of the republic.

PARIS: POLICEMEN VS ARMENIANS

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12:00:37 – 03/10/2009

The first day of Serge Sargsyan’s pan-Armenian trip in Paris was
marked by an incident. As Serge Sargsyan was laying flowers to the
statue of Komitas, the policemen attacked about 1000 Armenians
gathered there.

There was a scuffle, the policemen hit those gathered. Some people
were lightly injured. The Armenians were protesting against the
Turkish-Armenian protocols and Serge Sargsyan’s policy.

Watch video by the reporter Tatul Hakobyan at
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Photos by Jean Eckian, Paris

Diaspora not affected by President’s meeting with Europe’s Armenian
communities
03.10.2009 15:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ RA President Serzh Sargsyan’s meeting with Europe’s
Armenian community representatives in Paris did not particularly
affect Diaspora’s position on Armenian-Turkish Protocols, Head of
Armenians’ Union in Italy Paykar Svazlyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter.

At that he found Diaspora’s demands for receiving Armenian
authorities’ explanations natural. `Diaspora’s reaction is a
psychological complex which should be overcome through a dialogue,’
Svazlyan noted.

According to him, Turkey is attempting to exert pressure on
Armenia. `We must be strong enough to resist all that with united
efforts,’ he said, considering Armenia’s desire to normalize ties with
Turkey quite natural.

During RA President’s meeting with Europe’s Armenian community,
Armenians’ Union of Italy was represented by RA Honored Consul in
Milano Pietro Kuchukyan.

HIGH FEST Festival opened with "The Overcoat" by the Bulgarian "Credo"
theater.
03.10.2009 17:39 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ HIGH FEST theater festival started October 1 in
Yerevan. The festival was opened with the Gogol’s play "The Overcoat"
staged by the Bulgarian "Credo" theater.
Theater "Credo", established in 1992 in Sofia (Bulgaria) performed
"The Overcoat" in different countries around the world for the last 18
years. The play was performed in 9 languages – English, French,
German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian.

"We are very close to the style of Gogol, it’s absurd," the director
of the "Credo" theater Nina Dimitrova said.

HIGH FEST Festival will be held from October 1 to 8 in Yerevan under
the auspices of the President of Armenia and with support of the
ministry of culture.
33 theaters from 22 countries, including Britain, Canada, Iceland,
France, Kazakhstan, Slovenia, Poland, Iran will take part in the
festival. 50 plays at 16 Yerevan theaters will be staged during the
festival during 8 days.