Author: Andres-Papazian

HEAD OF MOUNTAIN JEWS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SEMYON IKHILOV MAKES SPECIAL STATEMENT

APA
Nov 4 2011
Azerbaijan

Baku. Parvin Abbasov – APA. Head of Mountain Jews Religious Community
of Baku Semyon Ikhilov made a special statement concerning the Russian
radio program “Utro s Vladimirom Soloyovim Polniy contact”, where
the program presenter Vladimir Solovyov used expressions incompatible
with the mankind values and journalist ethics, against the Republic of
Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani people. APA reports that the community head
called Solovyov’s statements as hypocrisy, provocation and slander.

Ikhilov said Solovyov unsuccessfully attempted to compare Azerbaijanis’
attitude toward Armenians with Holocaust. He said Azerbaijanis had
never committed genocide acts against Armenians: “On the contrary,
the Azerbaijani people suffered from genocide in the present territory
of Armenia and the occupied Azerbaijani territories”.

The statement underlined that there is no national and religious
discrimination in Azerbaijan and the representatives of all people
are living here in good neighborly conditions: “Opinions, hysterical
replicas of Russian journalist against Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis
caused the anger of Jews living in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is an
economically strong, civil and democratic country. Kind-hearted and
well-wishing people of this country meet everyone with hospitality
and respect everybody, who comes to Azerbaijan with peace, good
intentions”.

Ikhilov called Solovyov to apologize to Azerbaijani state and people.

The above-mentioned program was on air on November 1. Solovyov is
Russian citizen of Jewish-origin.

From: A. Papazian

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY’S PURSUITS CANNOT HELP ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS

Panorama
Nov 4 2011
Armenia

The Armenian-Turkish relations remain unmovable and are supposed
not to advance even in the near future, expert of Turkish studies
Hakob Chaqryan said in a news conference. According to the expert the
interests of international community won’t either save the situation,
as Turkey has much to bargain.

“If Turkey is forced to mend relations with Armenia, the authorities
may demand more in Syrian affairs, thus they have much stuff to
bargain,” said the expert.

Chaqryan said he didn’t have expectations from the Armenian-Turkish
protocols.

“I don’t think the Turkish Parliament will refer to the
Armenian-Turkish protocols soon,” said the expert.

From: A. Papazian

KIM KARDASHIAN PUBLICIZES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BUT TURKEY , US, ZIONISTS, APARTHEID ISRAEL AND PRO-ZIONISTS DENY OR IGNORE
By Dr Gideon Polya

CounterCurrents.org

Nov 4 2011

The Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) followed the Namibian Genocide
(1904-1907) in which the Germans murdered 0.1 million Namas and
Hereros in South West Africa . 1.5 million Armenians perished in the
Turkish-imposed Armenian Genocide (1915-1923). However Turkey denies
the Armenian Genocide and the US , US Zionists and Apartheid Israel
refuse to acknowledge the genocidal nature of the atrocity. British
and Australian invasion of Turkey in 1915 contributed to the deadly
and catastrophic Turkish xenophobia but British and Australian
historians have largely deleted this atrocity from their national
histories. While Armenian American celebrity Kim Kardashian has
demanded recognition of the 1.5 million-victim Armenian Genocide,
arguing that genocide ignored will yield more genocide, even the most
progressive of Australia ‘s major newspapers evidently does not want
its readers to read, know or think about this.

The Armenian Genocide.

The Armenian Genocide commenced on 24 April 1915, the day before the
Allied invasion Turkey at Gallipoli and 24 April is commemorated as
Armenian Genocide Day. The 25 April is commemorated as Anzac Day
by Australia and New Zealand after the Australian and New Zealand
Army Corps (ANZAC) that was involved in the invasion that occurred
after months of Allied shelling in the Dardanelles . The Turks
were being attacked in the West by the British, French, Australian
and New Zealand invaders and in the East by the Russians and this
greatly exacerbated xenophobia to a deadly and disastrous level. The
Armenian Genocide began with the rounding up of Armenian community
leaders and thence butchery of the Armenian population with millions
being driven into the Syrian desert to die. It is estimated that
1.5 million Armenians died in the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923)
(see: ).

Armenian Genocide denial by Turkey, the US, racist Zionists and
genocidal Apartheid Israel .

Turkey has consistently denied the reality of the Armenian Genocide
and indeed has made assertion of an Armenian Genocide a criminal
offence. The US , the pro-Zionists, the US B’nai B’rith (see:
), the racist
Zionists and the race-based, genocidal, Anglo-American racist Zionist
colony of Apartheid Israel all refuse to recognize the atrocity as
an Armenian Genocide.

Armenian American Kim Kardashian urges recognition of Armenian
Genocide.

Kim Kardashian and her sisters are famous as lifestyle entrepreneurs.

Kimberly Noel “Kim” Kardashian (born October 21, 1980 ) is an American
businesswoman, socialite, television personality, model, and actress.

She is known for the TV reality series that she shares with her
family called “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”. Her paternal
great-grandparents emigrated from Armenia to Los Angeles .

“Kardashian” in Armenian means “stonemason”. Kim Kardashian has
two sisters, Kourtney and Khloe, and one brother, Robert. She has
stepbrothers Burton Jenner, Brandon Jenner, and reality TV star Brody
Jenner, step-sister Casey Jenner, and half-sisters Kendall Jenner
and Kylie Jenner (see: ).

Kim Kardashian has spoken thus about the Armenian Genocide (2011):
“My family and I are incredibly proud of our heritage. My dad taught me
a lot about Armenian culture, and I have a strong connection with my
roots. Every year, I honor the memory of the martyrs who were killed
during the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Even though so many countries
around the world recognize the Genocide, the government of Turkey
still denies it.

It happened before Rwanda , Darfur , and the Holocaust. Maybe none of
those other genocides would have happened if more nations had condemned
the Armenian Genocide, when 1.5 million Armenians were massacred.

Some people might wonder why I’m talking about history on my blog. And
that’s what I’m trying to show…it’s not history. Until this crime
is resolved truthfully and fairly, the Armenian people will live
with the pain of what happened to their families and the fear of what
might happen again to their homeland. So out of respect for all those
innocent people that died, I’m putting a spotlight on it today.

Today, thousands of Armenians will come together in Los Angeles
to protest against the denial of the genocide and urge the United
States government to recognize the Armenian Genocide. I hope that I
can bring some attention to this today.

And, this year, April 24 falls on Easter Sunday. Armenians are the
first Christian Nation in the world, and almost everyone will be
in church to celebrate Easter. Even on this really happy day, we’re
going to be remembering the Genocide.

There’s going to be a National Day of Prayer in churches across
America to celebrate Easter and commemorate the Genocide.

My thoughts and prayers are with all my fellow Armenians on this really
important day. I stand proud with you always” (see Kim Kardashian,
“Time to recognize the Armenian Genocide”, Celebuzz, 21 April 2011:

).

Australian Armenian Genocide ignoring and genocide ignoring in general.

Australia was intimately connected with the Armenian Genocide because
its invasion of Turkey helped precipitate the genocidal destruction
of the first Christian nation in the World. While Australia ‘s
invasion of Turkey at Gallipoli is regarded by historians as a
key event in Australia ‘s history and nation building, the linked
Armenian Genocide is scrupulously ignored by Australian historians
writing histories of Australia . Indeed Australia has been involved
in 24 genocidal atrocities, 10 of them ongoing, but these are
utterly ignored by Australian media, academics, politicians and
people. Politically correct racist (PC racist) White Australia
declares itself to be non-racist but has been involved in – and
continues to be involved in – appalling genocidal atrocities,
noting that genocide represents the ultimate in racism (see
Gideon Polya, “Australian Anzac, Armenian Genocide. Australia
‘s secret genocide history”, MWC News, 25 April 2011:

).

Australian genocide ignoring, and ignoring of the Armenian Genocide
in particular, is well illustrated by recent censorship by The Age
newspaper, arguably Australia’s most progressive Mainstream medium
but pro-Zionist like the rest of the Australian Mainstream media. On 2
November 2011, The Age On-line National Times published an article by
lawyer and writer Emma McDonald about the Kardashian celebrities and
entitled , “Why do so many of us keep up with the vacuous Kardashians”:

. Key quotes: ” the reality is that millions of people follow the
lives of the Kardashians. I take my hat (and fascinator) off to them
for successfully and ruthlessly feeding the insatiable appetite of an
audience hungry for news and information about a bunch of fabulous
nobodies. ” Kim Kardashian was visiting Australia in early November
2011 but left very upset after only a few days.

I sent the following 2 carefully researched comments on the
article to The Age but both were completely censored, evidently as
containing material that the Age does not want its readers to read,
know or think about (for details of the article and the censorship see:

).

Censored comments #1: “Kim Kardashian is not just a “fabulous nobody”
as asserted by the article but a person whose serious commitment to
human rights should be urgently emulated by presently genocide-ignoring
academics, journalists, politicians and Mainstream “celebrities”
around the world, not least in look-the-other-way Australia.

Thus this is Kim Karadashian on the Armenian Genocide: “My family and
I are incredibly proud of our heritage. My dad taught me a lot about
Armenian culture, and I have a strong connection with my roots. Every
year, I honor the memory of the martyrs who were killed during the
1915 Armenian Genocide. Even though so many countries around the world
recognize the Genocide, the government of Turkey still denies it. It
happened before Rwanda , Darfur , and the Holocaust. Maybe none of
those other genocides would have happened if more nations had condemned
the Armenian Genocide, when 1.5 million Armenians were massacred.”

Kim Kardashian is saying what the Mainstream steadfastly refuses
to say. Thus the US refuses to acknowledge the genocidal reality
of the Armenian Genocide and is complicit in an ongoing Palestinian
Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Somali Genocide, Afghan Genocide and Climate
Genocide (Google these terms describing ongoing genocides recognized by
non-racist scholars but essentially unknown to the taxpayer-funded ABC,
“Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide” and “Climate Genocide”).”

Censored comments #2: “My previously-submitted, carefully researched
comments having not been published, I feel morally compelled to
re-state their essence in another way.

Kim Kardashian is not a “vacuous Kardashian” or “fabulous nobody”
– she has spoken out about the Armenian Genocide (1.5 million
murdered, 1915-1923) and the vital, core message (remorselessly
ignored by Mainstream media, academics and politicians in the Western
Murdochracies and Lobbyocracies) that ignoring genocide helps lead
to new genocides.

Thus the following US Alliance-imposed genocides ignored by
the mainstream (war-and occupation-related deaths/ refugees in
parentheses): Palestinian Genocide (0.3 million/7 million), Iraqi
Genocide (4.6 million/5-6 million), Afghan Genocide (5.6 million/3-4
million), Somali Genocide (2.2 million/2.0 million), Pakistani Pashtun
Genocide (0.1 million?/2 million), Libyan Genocide (0.04 million/0.1
million) and the worsening Climate Genocide (about 10 billion people,
overwhelmingly non-European, are predicted by top climate scientists
to perish this century due to unaddressed man-made global warming).

To discover what Australian and Western mainstream academics ,
politicians and media (notoriously the taxpayer-funded ABC) resolutely
ignore simply Google the above phrases. Holocaust ignoring is far,
far worse than repugnant holocaust denial.?”

While non-historian, non-academic, non-college graduate Kim Kardashian
has spoken out about the Armenia Genocide, given an estimate of how
many people died (1.5 million) and enunciated the core message that
genocide ignoring may lead to further genocides, leading Australian
historian Professor Geoffrey Blainey (Companion of the Order of
Australia and formerly of the University of Melbourne) totally ignored
the Armenian Genocide in his books “A Short History if the World”
(Viking 2000), “A Very Short History of Australia” (Viking, 2004)
and “The Great Seesaw. A new view of the Western World, 1750-2000”
(Macmillan, 1988).

British ignoring of the Armenian Genocide.

British Imperialism against Turkey and the Ottoman Empire (tricking
Turkey into WW1; British invasion of Iraq , 1914; British invasion of
the Dardanelles , 1915) evidently exacerbated Turkish xenophobia. The
Armenian Genocide occurred after months of Anglo-French shelling of
the Dardanelles and specifically commenced the night before the Allied
invasion at Gallipoli. Yet the Armenian Genocide is shockingly ignored
by historians writing histories of England e.g. it is not mentioned,
for example, in “A History of Britain” by E.H. Carter and R.A.F. Mears
(Clarendon, 1960), G.M. Trevelyan’s “History of England” (Longmans,
1960), Colin McEvedy’s “The Century World History Factfinder”
(Century 1984), and Simon Schama’s “A History of Britain” (BBC,
2002). Andrew Roberts’ 736-page “A History of the English-speaking
Peoples” (Harper, 2007) merely allocates the following words:
“nationalism is the antithesis of a cosmopolitan empire” [Hugh
Trevor-Roper]. Although Armenians, who suffered badly, would take
exception to that generalisation being extended to the Ottoman Empire
” and H.G. Wells’ “The Outline of History” (Cassell, revised edition,
1951). merely refers to post-WW1 massacres of Armenians: “He [the
Turk] was not only driving back the attacking Greek, but he was,
after his age-long traditions, massacring Armenians”. Just imagine
a history of Germany that failed to mention the WW2 Holocaust.

Summary.

The Armenian Genocide killed 1.5 million Armenians in 1915-1923 but
has been denied as a genocide by Turkey , the US , racist Zionists
and genocidal Apartheid Israel . Armenian American entrepreneur
and celebrity Kim Kardashian has urged recognition of the Armenian
Genocide, indicating that genocide ignored may lead to genocide
repeated. While British, French, New Zealand and Australian invasion
of Turkey on 25 April 1915 evidently disastrously exacerbated Turkish
xenophobia and helped precipitate the Armenian Genocide, this atrocity
has been remarkably excluded from Australian History and World
History works by Australian historians and from histories of England
and Britain . Genocide ignored yields genocide repeated and genocide
ignoring is far, far worse than repugnant genocide denial or holocaust
denial because the latter at least admit the possibility of debate.

Dr Gideon Polya currently teaches science students at a major
Australian university. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade
scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text
“Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (CRC Press/Taylor
& Francis, New York & London , 2003). He has recently published
“Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya,
Melbourne, 2007: ); see also his
contributions “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies,
Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney,
2007):
) and “Ongoing Palestinian Genocide” in “The Plight of the
Palestinians (edited by William Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010:

). He has just published a revised and updated 2008 version of his
1998 book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (see:
) as biofuel-, globalization-
and climate-driven global food price increases threaten a greater
famine catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that
killed 6-7 million Indians in the “forgotten” World War 2 Bengal Famine
(see recent BBC broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate
Professor Amartya Sen and others:
bengalfamine_programme.html ).

When words fail one can say it in pictures – for images of Gideon
Polya’s huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see:
and
.

From: A. Papazian

YEREVAN TO HOST IPA CIS COMMITTEE SESSION

National Assembly of RA

Nov 4 2011
Armenia

On November 3 the session of the Permanent Commission on Culture,
Information, Tourism and Sport of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly
was held.

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Samvel Balasanyan delivered a
welcoming speech. He highly appreciated the legislative activity of the
Assembly with regard to approximating and improving the legal documents
of the CIS member countries, expressing hope that the works of this
session of the Commission will be efficient and fruitful in the light
of adopting model laws and direct contacts with the relevant spheres.

The Commission Chairman Evgeniy Tarlo thanked for the warm reception
and for creating excellent working environment. He has said that a
dozen of important model drafts and organizational items are included
in the agenda of the commission session, which can be a guideline for
elaboration, improvement of the legislation of cultural field of the
CIS member countries, their correspondence, as well as with regard
to the activation of the cultural relations.

The second item of the agenda referred to the election of the
Commission Chairman. By the proposal of the Deputy Chairman of the
Commission Eduard Sharmazanov the members of the commission unanimously
reelected Commission Chairman- Evgeniy Tarlo.

Thereafter the Commission touched upon the model drafts included in
the agenda. The model bills of “Information Code,” “On Preservation
of Archaeological Heritage,” “On Technopark,” “On Preservation of
Non-Material Values, Artistic and folk works of art,” “On Intellectual
Property,” “On Amending the Code on Library Work,” which were designed
for the CIS member countries, were discussed.

The Commission also discussed a number of organizational issues, which
referred to the preparation of celebration dedicated to the 100th
anniversary of the well-known scientist L. N. Gumilyov, the creation
of honorary badges in the sphere of culture, art, information, tourism
and sport, the organization of the international conference dedicated
to the history of the State Duma of Russia, international musical
events in Olympic cities, and the creation of the textbook-manual on
the CIS History.

Issues pertaining to the upcoming works to be done in the Commission
were also discussed.

From: A. Papazian

CO-CHAIRS OF OSCE MG PRESENT REPORT

Vestnik Kavkaza
Nov 4 2011
Russia

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Bernard Fassier (France),
Robert Bradtke (USA) and Igor Popov (Russia) – and the special
representative of the OSCE chairman, Andrzej Kasprzyk, have presented
a report on OSCE work, ANS PRESS reports.

They informed that they had visited the Nagorno-Karabakh region 8
times and held 14 meetings with the presidents of Azerbaijan and
Armenia. They have crossed the contact line of forces 4 times in
the last 4 months. This has demonstrated that the contact line is a
barrier for the region and it demands preparation of the sides for
enforcement of the cease-fire regime.

The co-chairs reported on additional measures to enforce the
cease-fire regime and improve the atmosphere of trust and mutual
understanding. The OSCE officials plan another visit to the region
in late November for development of proposals on the Nagorno-Karabakh
peace process and negotiations.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIAN MINISTER OF TRANSPORT MEETS WITH ADB REP

Tert.am
04.11.11

Armenian Minister of Transport and Communication Manuk Vardanyan
held a meeting Nov. 4 with the newly appointed head of the Armenia
Resident Mission, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Mr. David Dole.

Minister Vardanyan congratulated Mr. Dole on his appointment and
expressed hope for deeper cooperation.

Minister Vardanyan presented the ADB-implemented road construction
programs in Armenia, particularly the North-South highway project,
as well as further plans. Minister Vardanyan informed Mr. Dole of the
successful completion of the ADB-funded rural road renovation project.

The sides also discussed the road maintenance problem, road design
and safety standards.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA TO HAVE CONCERT

Tert.am
04.11.11

Armenian Youth Orchestra is having a concert at Chamber Music Hall
at 7pm on Saturday.

The orchestra will play pieces by Edward Grig and Frederic Chopin.

The soloist will be Zhora Sargsyan, the winner of 7th contest of named
after famous Armenian composers Arno Babajanyan and Aram Khachatryan.

The Armenian Youth Orchestra will this time be conducted by famous
young Russian conductor Andrey Rubtsov.

On November 21 the orchestra headed by Sergei Smbatyan will open
the autumn concert season of composing art festival named after
Arno Babajanyan.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIAN AGRICULTURE MINISTER CALLS NOT DO MIX CONSUMER COOPERATIVES WITH COLLECTIVE FARMS

/ARKA/
November 4, 2011
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, November 4. /ARKA/. Consumer cooperatives should not be
mixed with collective farms, said Armenian Agriculture Minister Sergo
Karapetyan on Friday to the journalists.

“Cooperatives should be established on volunteer basis. People are
united for the organization of joint work. Property of each farmer
remains for him, and he may any time get out of the cooperative”,
said Karapetyan.

Next year the government will undertake certain steps to support
cooperatives and promote their development.

“Consolidation of land is our future. Nothing is required from the
farmers forming the cooperative”, he said.

He also added that today there are about 125 cooperatives in Armenia,
of which 33 are established this year.

Government of Armenia on November 3 approved consolidation of the
farms.

From: A. Papazian

OTTOMAN DREAMER

Nov 5th 2011

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s activist foreign policy has its strengths.

Cheap populism is not one of them

IN THEIR awakening this year, many Arabs have looked to Turkey for
inspiration. Turkey is not just a fellow Muslim country and their
former imperial power. It also offers, for all its faults, a shining
(and rare) example in the Islamic world of a strong democracy and a
successful free-market economy. And the Turks have responded well, if
sometimes belatedly. They were early to call for change in Egypt. They
endorsed NATO’s intervention in Libya. They are now unequivocally
backing the opposition to the Assad regime in neighbouring Syria.

Yet Turkey’s active foreign policy has attracted censure in parts of
the West, especially America. Critics in Washington recall the Turks’
2003 refusal to allow American troops to cross their territory to
invade Iraq. Nowadays they accuse the Turkish government of turning its
back on the European Union and NATO. They point to continuing harsh
treatment of Turkey’s Kurds and soft treatment of Iran. Above all,
they blame Turkey for switching from being a firm friend of Israel, the
only other established democracy in the region, into an implacable foe.

Are such sweeping accusations justified? On the whole, no. The
mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) government led by Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, is right to pursue a policy,
first enunciated by Ahmet Davutoglu, now foreign minister, of “zero
problems with the neighbours”. This is a big improvement on previous
governments that largely ignored their own backyard. Turkey remains
a bastion of NATO, with the biggest army after the United States
and a vital American air-force base at Incirlik. It is EU members
like Cyprus, France and Germany-and not Turkey-that have done most
to stall Turkish negotiations to join their club.

Even if broad-brush criticisms of Turkey’s foreign policy are overdone,
some narrower ones are closer to the mark. It is no use professing to
want zero problems with the neighbours without making a much broader
effort to resolve such ancient quarrels as those with Armenia or over
Cyprus. Turkey’s newly strong support for the Syrian opposition may
be both brave and admirable, but the Turks should have urged reform
and some dialogue between the opposition and the regime at an earlier
stage (see article).

The mercurial and often autocratic instincts of Mr Erdogan are
not conducive to careful diplomacy, as his belligerent recent
outbursts over Greek-Cypriot and Israeli gas exploration in the
eastern Mediterranean have shown. As complex relations with Syria,
Iran and Iraq are also confirming again, Turkey must reach a political
settlement with its own Kurds if it is to play a positive role in the
region. Yet Mr Erdogan seems to be moving back to a purely military
solution to the conflict with rebels in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party
(PKK).

Mend fences with Jerusalem, too

And then there are relations with Israel, which have never
recovered after the Israeli army’s killing of eight Turks and one
Turkish-American aboard a Gaza-bound ship, the Mavi Marmara, last
year. The intransigent Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister,
is not popular with many EU governments or with the current American
administration. He has been foolishly stubborn to refuse even the
smallest apology over the Mavi Marmara. But if Mr Erdogan calculates
that he can pander to anti-Israeli prejudice at home without paying a
price abroad, he is making a mistake. Turkey stands to gain from stable
Arab-Israeli relations, which it ought ideally to be well-placed to
promote. And, like it or not, many in the West take Turkey’s attitude
to Israel as a yardstick of its broader intentions.

If Turkey wants to preserve good relations with the West, it must
find some way of mending fences with Israel as well.

From: A. Papazian

Zvartnots Airport new departure hall put into operation Nov 7

November 5, 2011 – 16:03 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – On November 7 the departure hall of Zvartnots
International Ariport new passenger terminal will be put into
operation replacing the famous round building, airport spokesman told
a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

Zvartnots Airport arrival hall was officially introduced into
operation on October 5.

The official opening ceremony of Zvartnots Airport new terminal was
held on September 16, during which Argentinean entrepreneur of
Armenian descent Eduardo Eurnekian expressed readiness to foster
Armenia’s development.

The terminal covering 34 000 m² will comprise upscale halls for
passengers and diplomats, a check-in hall with 46 desks. The new
terminal envisages central heating system, modern high-quality
ventilation system, new parking area of 24000 m².

Having 9 magnitude earthquake resistance the terminal will continue
operating in case of an earthquake.

Airport improvement projects have been implemented since 2002 by
Armenia International Airports CJSC in accordance with Government
provided 30-year concession management. Cost of investment programs
total about USD 160 mln. The new terminal will enable the airport to
serve about 3.5 mln passengers. Zvartnots Airport currently serves 1.1
million passengers.

From: A. Papazian