Author: Antonian Lara

APPEARANCE AND COLOR CHANGES OF BUILDING FACETS TO BE REGULATED

Panorama.am
14:55 03/09/2007

"Regulation on protection, repair and renovation of the facets of
buildings under commission" was approved by the mayor’s decision and
is already effective.

Yerevan Chief Architect Samuel Danielyan told reporters today
that according to regulation either the owners of the building
or the persons contractually in charge of the building must bear
responsibility for "any changes in the appearance, color and form." The
mayor or an authorized person is in charge of the total supervision
of the process.

Tigran Torosyan: Nagorno Karbakh’s international recognition is a
matter of time

arminfo
2007-09-02 10:24:00

ArmInfo. The Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Tigran Torosyan
congratulated the residents of Nagorno Karabakh Republic on the 16th
anniversary of the Republic’s independence.

The NA Speaker’s felicitation, received by ArmInfo, says that 16 years
are not a long time for history, but for a state, having gone through
the furnace of war and having stood the tests of peacetime, it is an
important development stage, at which the will and ability for
independence and dignified life of Karabakh’s people became undeniable.
The fact of existence of the second Armenian state is undisputable and
the march of history is non- reversible. Day by day Nagorno Karabakh
gets more and more powerful, free and democratic a country, the
international recognition of which is a matter of time.

"I congratulate Nagorno Karabakh on the 16th anniversary of
independence, and pay my tribute to the memory of the fallen in the
war-the soldier-liberators, being sure that today their work has its
worthy imitators in the name of their homeland’s and the world’s
security", the Speaker’s message says.

ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
September 1, 2007 Saturday 9:03 AM EST

Over 1,000 children of servicemen to go to school in N Caucasus

ROSTOV-ON-DON September 1

More than 1,000 children of servicemen on September 1 will go to
schools of the Russian Defence Ministry situated in military
garrisons of the North Caucasus Military District (NCMD), and 105 of
them will go to school for the first time, ITAR-TASS learnt at the
NCMD press service.

A total of 124 teachers will conduct lessons in all subjects
envisaged by school programs.

Schools of the Russian Defence Ministry are situated in garrisons in
Ingushetia, Dagestan, Chechnya, Karachai-Cherkessia, as well as at
the Russian military base Gyumri in Armenia.

According to the press service, all conditions have been created for
high-quality organization of studies at all the schools. Classrooms
were repaired and new furniture delivered.

A new secondary school will be opened in Dagestan’s Botlikh where
children of servicemen of a mountain motor-rifle unit dislocated
there will study.

SCHOOL BOOK FEE AT 300-400 DRAM

Panorama.am
21:04 31/08/2007

"This school year, as well as 2007-2008, first-graders will receive
their books without charge," stated Narine Hovhannisyan, head of
the Education Minstry’s middle education department, today at a
press conference.

We point out that foreign language and music books will not be
free. For the other grades, a price of 300-400 dram per book, for
the school year, has been set. Hovhannisyan stressed that the "rent"
for each book will be determined by its condition, as each book is
used for four years, and "we need to recover the cost of the book."

"Each and every principal has signed a contract with the World Bank,
with a certain amount to be transferred to the school’s budget,
foreseen for the purchase of new books," she said in reference to
what the WB money would be used for.

ST. CROSS FAST APPROACHES

Panorama.am
18:11 29/08/2007

St. Cross is one of the festivities of the Armenian Apostolic
Church and it is the last that our church will celebrate this year
on September 16. Until then, the believers have the chance to clean
themselves by means of a five-day fast. In addition to cleaning their
spiritual self, they may clean their physical bodies by abstaining
from animal originated food.

According to the tradition, a mass is served in all Armenian churches
during St. Cross. The following Monday of St. Cross is the Day of
Respect to the Dead when relatives of those who passed away pay visit
to their cemeteries.

ORINATS YERKIR PARTY DOES NOT SUPPORT THE DRAFT LAW ‘ON THE NKR INDEPENDENCE RECOGNITION BY ARMENIA’ SUBMITTED BY THE HERITAGE PARTY LEADER TO THE PARLIAMENT

arminfo
2007-08-29 16:21:00

Orinats Yerkir party does not support the draft law "On the NKR
independence recognition by Armenia" submitted by the Heritage party
leader Raffi Hovannisian to the parliament, the member of the OY party,
deputy of the parliament Mher Shakhgeldyan said at the press-conference
in Urbat club, Wednesday.

He also added that the negotiating process on recognition of Nagornyy
Karabakh Republic independence should continue. , – he emphasized.

Commenting on the present state of the OY party, Shakhgeldyan said
that the battle mood prevails in the party. , – he said. He also said
that cleansing continues in the OY party.

PROGRESS RECORDED IN STOCK-RAISING IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH IN 1ST HALF OF 2007

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Aug 27 2007

STEPANAKERT, August 27. /ARKA/. Certain progress was recorded in
stock-raising in Nagorno-Karabakh in the first half of 2007.

In the period the gross value of cattle-breeding made AMD 4,055.6
mln at actual prices, which is a 2.6% increase (at comparable prices)
as compared with the same period of the previous year.

As of July 1 2007 the livestock grew by 7.6% in the country as compared
with the same period of 2006, including the livestock of cows by 3.3%,
pigs by 12.9%, smalls by 14.7% and poultry by 6.4%.

In the first half of 2007 1,329.4 tons of meat and poultry (live
weight) was sold; 15,891.8 tons of milk, 7,362,500 eggs and 67.9 tons
of wool were produced.

In January-June 2007 production of meat, milk, eggs and wool increased
by 5.1%, 0.6%, 12.1% and 2.7% respectively.

BBC MONITORING QUOTES FROM THE TURKISH PRESS 27 AUGUST 2007

BBC
Aug 27 2007

The following is a selection of quotes from articles and commentaries
published in the 27 August 07 editions of Turkish newspapers:

Presidential election

Hurriyet (centre-right)

"Wheter we accept it or not, Abdullah Gul will tomorrow be chosen
as the 11th President of The Republic of Turkey… Thus, thanks to
Hayrunnisa Gul [Gul’s wife], the politicized version of the headscarf
will enter Cankaya (the presidential residence)… We are worried that
the whole world will misunderstand the event and see Turkey as an
‘underdeveloped Middle Eastern country’. What can we do? Our people
and distinguished statesmen wanted it so." (Commentary by Rahmi Turan)

Cumhuriyet (secular, Kemalist)

"Elections are just one of the preconditions of democracy. However, one
cannot achieve democracy just by elections. It is also a condition of
democracy to criticize the elections that ignored the basic democratic
principles… As Mr Gul, who will be chosen president in the elections
that will be held tomorrow, does not symbolize a compromise in Turkey,
he is not a choice for peace and trust but for discontent." (Editorial)

Yeni Safak (liberal, pro-Islamic)

"The discussions on the ‘new [government] term’, which have been given
secondary importance because of the presidential election crisis,
will begin with the formation of a government, the establishment of a
government programme and putting urgent subjects on the agenda… [This
time], the AKP [ruling Justice and Development Party] will not face
many of the problems it faced in the past. The guarantees of this
are the powerful support of the people, the parliamentary majority
and the president who will be chosen by majority." (Commentary by
Koray Duzgoren)

Iraq

Hurriyet

"The real question is not the ability of [Iraqi Prime Minister] Maliki
or the level of influence of the neighbouring countries of Iraq. The
real problem is to what extent the US Administration wants to share
the destiny of Iraq with Iraq’s neighbours and the international
community. Similar to the fact that the PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party]
settling in northern Iraq is actually the USA’s responsibility, it
is again the US Administration who is responsible for the failure of
the Maliki government." (Commentary by Ferai Tinc)

Armenian issue

Radikal (centre-left)

"It is obvious that the Jewish lobby did not like Hamas leader Halid
Mashal’s having been received in Ankara, and Ankara almost reaching
a deal on natural gas with Iran. However, for now it is impossible
to know whether a feeling of punishing Ankara has played a role in
all that have been experienced [last week when two Jewish lobbies in
Washington declaring that they would support Armenia]. What is known
is that the Anti-Defamation League [one of these two Jewish lobbies]
has opened Pandora’s box. A very painful process will start if the
recognition of the Armenian Genocide gains strength through support
for a bill in the US Congress." (Commentary by Ceyda Karan)

Milliyet (centrist)

"If the ‘Armenian Genocide bill’, which has received sufficient
support, is put on the agenda by the US Congress Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
it will pass. It is said that Pelosi stopped because of the events
in Iraq now… The countries like the UK and Israel do not recognize
the Armenian Genocide not because they do not believe in this but
because of their national interests." (Commentary by Semih Idiz)

RA PRIME MINISTER VISITS LORI AND ARMAVIR

armradio.am
27.08.2007 12:12

RA Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan has left for Lori Marz to take part
in the ceremony of burial of Marz Prosecutor Albert Ghazaryan.

Later in the evening, the Prime Minister will travel to Armavir Marz
to attend the opening ceremony for Lernagog village secondary school
which has been refurbished by Armenia’s Children Foundation.

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Aug 25 2007

Azerbaijani Defense Ministry: Armenian Armed Forces Violate Ceasefire
Agreement in Different direction

Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend E.Huseynli / On 24 and 25 August
divisions of the Armenian Armed Forces fired at the National Army of
Azerbaijan using machine and sub-machine guns from their positions
located in 1.6km northeast of Tahirbeyli villages of Azerbaijan’s
district of Agdam from 23.10 to 23.30 and in 2km of northeast of
Garashli village of Agdam from 04.35 to 05.00, according to the
Azerbaijani Defence Ministry.

The National Army of Azerbaijan retaliated and no casualties were
reported.

Over the past three months, several soldiers of the Azerbaijani
National Army have been killed as a result of frequent violation of
the ceasefire agreement by the Armenian Armed Forces in the
directions of Agdam, Terter and Goranboy districts.

Adgam is located in 375km of Baku, Terter in 350km and Goranboy in
320km.