Author: Andres-Papazian

NO CEASEFIRE VIOLATION REGISTERED DURING THE OCE MONITORING
Alisa Gevorgyan

“Radiolur”
03.11.2010 18:31
Tavush

No incident was registered during the recurrent OSCE monitoring at the
Armenian-Azerbaijani contact line. The monitoring was conducted near
Berkaber village instead of Kirants as it had been agreed upon before.

According to Senior Officer of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
of the Republic of Armenia, Lieutenant Colonel Samvel Asatryan,
issues related to the exchange of fire at the line of contact were
discussed during the 10-minute monitoring. It’s worth mentioning that
the ceasefire was violated 37 times in that part of the contact line
over the past month.

Representative of the General Staff refrained from commenting on the
exchange of prisoners in order not to harm the process.

Deputy Marzpet of Tavush Vahe Vardanyan presented the situation in
nearby villages and pointed to the existing threats. He said the shots
in Chinar and Berkaber villages are mainly targeted at civilians.

According to the Deputy Marzpe, this causes great harm to agricultural
works.

The Armenian side suggested the Field Assistants of the Personal
representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office to organize a meeting
with the Azerbaijani side to negotiate on the situation and come to
an agreement.

From: A. Papazian

PRESIDENT SARGSYAN VISITS TAVUSH MARZ
Karen Ghazaryan

“Radiolur”
03.11.2010 18:06

President Serzh Sargsyan left for a working visit to Tavush marz
today. The President visited the fully reconstructed and modernized
Ayrum-Jiliza checkpoint and the administrative building of the Ayrum
station.

President Sargsyan familiarized himself with the working conditions in
the new customs house, which allow providing services corresponding
to international standards and make the customs administration more
effective.

At Ayrum station the Director General of the “South Caucasus Railway”
Shevket Sheydulin briefed President Sargsyan about the work in the
direction of reconstruction of the railway and improvement of the
quality of transport services.

Later on President Sargsyan visited Bagratashen checkpoint, where he
convened consultations, featuring Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of
Territorial Administration Armen Gevorgyan, Head of the State Income
Committee Gagik Khachatryan, Minister of Transport and Communication
Manuk Vardanyan, other officials.

From: A. Papazian

ARMAVIA EXPANDS THE GEOGRAPHY OF FLIGHTS AND DEFINES SPECIAL THROUGH RATES

ARKA
November 3, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, November 3. /ARKA/. National air carrier of Armenia “Armavia”
is expanding the geography of its flights and defines special through
rates, press-0secretary of “Armavia” Nana Avetisova informs.

“Armavia” together with the airline company “El AL” (Israel Airlines)
provides opportunity to make flights to several countries of the
world from Yerevan and back via international airport “Ben-Gurion”
in Tel-Aviv by special through rates.

There are flights to the following destinations: Los Angeles,
New-York, Toronto, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cairo, San Paulo and
Johannesburg. Prices for the mentioned flights vary from 320 to 810
EURO excluding taxes.

“Armavia” together with “Uthair” provides opportunity of flights to
some countries via international airport “Vnukovo” in Moscow and back
by special through rates.

Flights will be implemented to Russian cities Krasnoyarsk, Barnaul,
Volgograd, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Nizhnevartovsk, Omsk,
Surgut, Tomsk, Tyumen, Ufa, Perm, Astrakhan, Anapa, Belgorod, Yeysk,
Magnitogorsk, Minvodi, Murmansk, Nizhnekamsk, Noyabrsk, Siktivkar,
Ulyanovsk, Usinsk, Ukhta, Khanti-Mansiysk, Lugansk, Nikolayev, Lvov
and Zaporozhye.

There will be flights Yerevan-Moscow (Vnukovo)-Vilnius and
back, Yerevan-Moscow (Vnukovo)-Gyanja and back, Yerevan-Moscow
(Vnukovo)-Baku and back, Yerevan-Moscow (Vnukovo)-Nakhijevan and back
and Yerevan-Moscow (Vnukovo)-Lenkoran and back.

Prices for the above mentioned flights will vary from 320 to 596 EURO
excluding taxes.

Today “Armavia” makes more than 100 flights by 35 directions to 20
countries of the world weekly. In 2009 “Armavia” transported more
than 700 thousand passengers. Currently the air-park of the company
consists of 9 planes (a320-3, a319-3, CRJ-200, YAK-42-VIP).

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIA AMONG CIS COUNTRIES FACING HIGHEST YEAR-ON-YEAR INFLATION IN JAN-SEPT 2010

ARKA
November 3, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, November 3. /ARKA/. In Jan-Sept 2010, Armenia was among the
CIS countries having the highest year-on-year inflation.

According to the statistical service of the Commonwealth of Independent
States, Armenia faced 7.8% year-on-year inflation in Jan-Sept 2010
as price rise in the CIS countries averaged 7%.

The statistical report states that consumer prices in Armenia went 0.2%
down in September, compared with August.

All the CIS member countries faced inflation in Jan-Sept 2010.

The highest, 9.3% price hike was recorded in Ukraine, Moldova, with
its 7.2% inflation, follows Ukraine.

The CIS statistical service says 7% inflation was recorded in
Kazakhstan, the same inflation rate in Belarus, and 6.4% in Russia.

Consumer prices rose 5.6% in Tajikistan, 5.2% in Azerbaijan and 4.9%
in Kyrgyzstan.

No data on Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are available.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIA AND UAE SHOULD DEFINE JOINT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

ARKA
November 3, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, November 3, /ARKA/. Shiekha Lubna Bint Khaled Al Qasimi,
minister of foreign trade of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who heads
a 40-member delegation of Arab businessmen who have arrived in Armenia
for a business forum, said Armenia and UAE should determine a joint
economic development strategy.

~QTime has come to strengthen ties between Armenia and UAE,~R she said
at the opening of the forum, organized by the Armenian Development
Agency (ADA). According to her, last year the trade between the two
countries totaled $70 million. She said both countries have capacities
to increase it substantially.

According to Armenian government data, Armenia~Rs trade with UAE in
2006-2009 amounted to an overall $130 million, including some $28
million of Armenian exports and some $100 million of imports. In 2009
Armenia exported $5.3 million worth goods to UAE and imported $30.7
million worth goods.

Shiekha Lubna Bint Khaled Al Qasimi said her government is keen
to develop active cooperation with Armenia in the area of nuclear
power plant. ~SIn 2002 the demand for electrical power in the UAE is
expected to grow to 40,000 megawatt and development of nuclear power
is a strategic development direction,~R she said.

The Armenian side will present several large projects which are either
underway here or are planned to be launched, expecting UAE~Rs support.

The Arab businessmen will also visit some Armenian provinces to see
their industrial potential and tourist sites.

The UAE delegation comprises 40 public and private sector
representatives from governmental and federal entities, chambers of
industry and commerce, and private corporations.

From: A. Papazian

PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN VISITS RENOVATED BORDER CHECK POINT AYRUM-JILIZA ON ARMENIA-GEORGIAN BORDER

ARKA
November 2, 2010
AYRUM

Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan visited today a renovated border
check point Ayrum-Jiliza located on Armenia-Georgian border. Hovik
Abovian, head of Gugark regional customs office, told journalists
the renovation and technical re-equipment of the border check point
funded by the government cost 125 million Drams.

He said the renovation has enabled to increase the check point~Rs
capacity to 70 train carriages a day and 400,000 metric tons of goods.

The bulk of goods going through this border check point are foods,
wheat and flour.

From: A. Papazian

1.1% PETROL PRICE HIKE IN ARMENIA IN OCTOBER

ARKA
November 2, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, November 2. /ARKA/. Petrol and diesel prices went 1.1% and
1.6% down in October, compared with September, National Statistical
Service of Armenia reports.

Petrol prices rose 3.9% and diesel 11.8% in Jan-Sept 2010, compared
with the same period a year earlier.

In October 2010, compared with December 2009, petrol became 1.6%
cheaper, while diesel prices climbed 4.4%.

Prices for nonfoods went 0.9% up in October, compared with September.

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIA HOSTS 487,902 TOURISTS IN JAN-SEPT 2010

ARKA
November 2, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, November 2. /ARKA/. Some 487,902 tourists visited Armenia
over the period between January and September 2010 against 422,081
in Jan-Sept 2009 (15.6% year-on-year growth), National Statistical
Service of Armenia reports.

In Jan-Sept 2010, 474617 Armenian tourists traveled abroad (19.2%
year-on-year growth).

From: A. Papazian

7.1% YEAR-ON-YEAR FREIGHT TRAFFIC GROWTH IN ARMENIA IN JAN-SEPT 2010

ARKA
November 2, 2010
YEREVAN

Freight traffic in Armenia for Jan-Sept 2010 totaled 7.2 million tons
(7.1% year-on-year growth), National Statistical Service of Armenia
reports.

According to the statistical report, 4.1 million tons or 57.9% of all
the cargoes were transported by motor vehicles, 2.1 million or 30.2%
were carried by trains, 6,300 tons or 0.1% by aircrafts and 854,400
tons or 11.8% were conveyed through pipes.

The country’s freight turnover was 2088.4 million ton/km in Jan-Sept
2010 (15.7% year-on-year growth). ($1 = AMD 357.98).

From: A. Papazian

ARMENIA TO RETURN THE AZERBAIJANI CITIZEN

armradio.am
03.11.2010 16:19

The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia informs that
in accordance with the agreement reached during the meeting in
Astrakhan between the Presidents of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan,
on November 4 the citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan, who crossed
illegally crossed the Armenian border in 2010 will be returned to the
Azerbaijani side on the north-eastern part of the Armenian-Azerbaijani
contact line, on the Ijevan-Ghazakh road.

In accordance with the norms of international humanitarian law, the
name of the Azerbaijani citizen will not be made public before he is
handed over to the Azerbaijani side.

From: A. Papazian