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ARMENIA’S PARTICIPATION IN SHANGHAI EXPO-2010 EXHIBITION TO COST 569MLN AMD

Noyan Tapan
July 2, 2009

YEREVAN, July 2. /ARKA/. A total of 569mln AMD have been allocated
from the state budget for Armenia’s participation in the SHANGHAI
EXPO-2010 exhibition, said RA Minister of Economy Nerses Yeritsyan.

"Of this amount 77.7mln will be spent the preparatory stage this year,
with the rest of the funds to directed to the design of the Armenian
pavilion next year as well as to organization costs," Yeritsyan said
at the Government’s sitting today.

The SHANGHAI EXPO-2010 exhibition is to be held in Shanghai next
May-October, its motto being "Better City, Better Life".

Yeritsyan also reported that the Chinese side’s share is about
US $650,000, which is to be directed to construction, design and
maintenance of pavilions.

The Minister said that a contest for the design of the Armenian
pavilion has been held, and, after it has been approved, the main
work will get under way.

RA Premier Tigran Sargsyan pointed out that the budget has yet to
be specified and the costs may increase as Armenia will celebrate
Independence Day on September 21. The Premier said that a cultural
program will be mapped out on that occasion.

"We have to make up a schedule: if we take Spartak ballet to Shanghai,
we have to notify the Chinese side of that for them to assign the
necessary room to us, Sargsyan said.

He pointed out that commercial sponsors can be attracted. Sargsyan
stressed that the RA Ministry of Diaspora should be involved in the
organization as works by architects from the Armenian Diaspora are
expected to be displayed at the exhibition.

"We will thus be able to unite the Armenians," Sargsyan said.

CO-CHAIRS HOPE TO ACHIEVE PROGRESS IN TALKS ON RESOLUTION OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT: RUSSIAN CO-CHAIR

Today.Az
01 July 2009 [17:05] – Today.Az

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs will arrive in the region next week to meet
with Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan, Russian Co-Chair of
the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov told Trend News over telephone
from Moscow.

"We will come to the region to prepare meeting between Armenian and
Azerbaijani presidents to be held in Moscow in mid-July," he said.

The last meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenia Presidents Ilham
Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan took place in St. Petersburg on June 4. This
was fifth meeting on resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The previous meeting was held in Prague on June 7. The first meeting
was held in St. Petersburg in June 2008 and second meeting in Moscow
in late November 2008 and third was held in Zurich on Jan. 28, 2009.

Merzlyakov said OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs are making every effort so
that this meeting will be held in a constructive atmosphere. ‘We hope
to achieve progress in talks on resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict," he said. The conflict between the two South Caucasus
countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims
against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent
of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and
7 surrounding districts. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire
agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia,
France, and the U.S. – are currently holding the peace negotiations.

CONSULTATIONS ON TRANSCAUCASUS CONSTRUCTIVE

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
02.07.2009 13:24 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Geneva hosted the 6th round of international
consultations on security and stability in the Caucasus was held in
Geneva with the participation of delegations from Russia, Georgia,
Abkhazia, South Ossetia and the United States under the patronage
of the United Nations, the European Union and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe. The three chairmen representing
the EU, UN and OSCE said the meeting was productive enough. The
participants agreed on mechanisms for prevention of incidents. The
next round of consultations will be held on September 17, the UN news
center reported.

TURKISH STATE MINISTER: "ANY RELATIONSHIP WITH ARMENIA IS OUT OF THE QUESTION WHILE KARABAKH IS REMAINING UNRESOLVED"

APA
01 Jul 2009 16:14

Astana. Laman Aghayeva – APA. "Any relationship between Turkey and
Armenia is out of the question while Karabakh problem is remaining
unresolved", Turkish State Minister Faruk Celik told Azerbaijani
journalists during the Third Congress of Leaders of World and
Traditional Religions in Astana, Kazakhstan, APA reports.

He said Turkey supported the dialogue. "It will be better if the
dialogues and negotiations turn into the action. Unfortunately the
negotiated issues remain only words".

IGOR SAGIRYAN APPOINTED TROIKA DIALOG PRESIDENT

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
01.07.2009 11:26 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Troika Dialog Group announces the appointment of Igor
Sagiryan as President of the Group. Mr. Sagiryan’s responsibilities
will include overseeing new business development for Troika Dialog
Group as well as managing the company’s strategic tasks in its
operations with institutional and private clients, the company’s
press center reported.

Igor Sagiryan joins Troika Dialog from Renaissance Group, where
he worked as President of the Company overseeing the Group’s key
commercial ties, government relations, and the company’s Investment
Banking and financial services unit.

Speaking about his appointment, Mr. Sagiryan said, "The global economic
changes we have witnessed simultaneously pose new challenges and
open unique opportunities going forward. The future of the economy is
on the emerging markets, especially such countries as Russia, China
and Africa. The changes taking place in the financial industry laid
the groundwork for new approaches to building product offerings and
customer service models. Traditional investment banks are giving way
to institutes with wider and more universal service offerings. For me,
mapping out the next format of the financial institute together with
Troika’s team is both a challenge and an honor."

Founded in 1991, Troika Dialog Group is the leading independent full
service investment bank and asset management firm in Russia. The
Group’s business consists of securities sales and trading, investment
banking, private wealth and asset management, retail distribution
and alternative investment. Troika Dialog’s operations are located
in 24 cities across Russia plus offices in London, New York, Kyiv,
Almaty and Nicosia.

CO-CHAIRS HOPE TO ACHIEVE PROGRESS IN KARABAKH TALKS

armradio.am
01.07.2009 17:43

OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs will arrive in the region next week to meet
with Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan, Russian Co-Chair of
the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov told Trend News.

"We will come to the region to prepare meeting between Armenian and
Azerbaijani presidents to be held in Moscow in mid-July," he said.

Merzlyakov said OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs are making every effort
so that this meeting is held in a constructive atmosphere.

"We hope to achieve progress in talks on resolution of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict," he said.

YEREVAN METRO TO GET $10 MLN CREDIT FROM THE EBRD UNDER THE LIBOR + 1 FOR 15 YEARS AND $5 MLN GRANT FOR ENERGY SAVING PROGRAMME

ArmInfo
2009-07-01 12:54:00

ArmInfo. The Yerevan subway after Karen Demirchyan will get $10
mln credit from the EBRD under the Libor + 1 for 15 years and $5
mln grant for the energy saving programme, director of the subway,
Paylak Yaloyan, told journalists today.

He also added the funds will be directed to construction of the
drainage tunnel from the metro station ‘Zoravar Andranik’ to the gorge
of the Razdan river for diverting of ground water. Because of shortage
of funds this programme was delayed more than 10 years ago. The
leadership of the subway is going to lead the water diverting tunnel to
the ‘Repiblic Square’ metro station and make it gravity flowing. This
will make it possible to reduce electric power consumption by the
subway. The programme of work will be ready at the beginning of autumn.

Yaloyan also recalled that Yerevan mayor’s office, Economy Ministry of
Armenia and Asian Development Bank signed a memorandum on development
of the transport infrastructures, within the frames of which 2 new
metro stations will be built in Achapnyak district of Yerevan and a
new exit for ‘Yeritasardakan’ metro station. ‘We are going to determine
the cost of the work, but one can be said for sure that expenses will
be very big and we cannot still allow ourselves construction of metro
stations using the funds from the state budget’, – Yaloyan said.

Earthtimes (press release)

Three Russian police found guilty in burning suspect to death
Posted : Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:53:46 GMT
Author : DPA

Moscow – A Russian jury has found three policemen guilty of murder for
burning a suspect to death during an interrogation, the Gazeta
newspaper reported Tuesday. Reporting on the trial in the Volga River
city of Saratov, the paper said the jury accepted the evidence from
the October 2008 incident in which the policemen, who were drunk at
the time, had first beaten an Armenian suspected of theft and then
poured petrol over him and set him ablaze. They buried his body in a
forest.
The three policemen face possible life sentences after the verdict.

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES BIRTHDAY CONGRATULATIONS

ARMENPRESS
JUNE 30, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JUNE 30, ARMENPRESS: President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan
will mark his birthday anniversary with members of his family and
close friends, spokesman for the president said, informing that the
president has received various congratulatory messages and kind wishes
from state and political figures of foreign countries, Armenia, Artsakh
and Diaspora, from cultural figures, intellectuals and individuals.

ARMENTEL CONGRATULATES SCHOOL LEAVERS OF PARAKAR RURAL COMMUNITY

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
30.06.2009 17:28 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ ArmenTel (trade mark Beeline) congratulated school
leavers of Parakar rural community Armentel’s Director General Igor
Climko handed cell phones and gold numbers to students who finished
school with honors. "ArmenTel is pleased to celebrate this holiday with
you today. We attach great importance to education and development
of children and young people, because knowledge is eternal value,"
Igor Climko said. Ashot Ghaghramanyan, governor of the Armavir region,
congratulated graduates. "You are the future of our country. Today
you enter the life. I wish you a favorable wind in your endeavors,
and I’m confident that you will become worthy citizens of our country,"
Governor of the Armavir region said.