Author: Boshkezenian Garik

THE SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

"Hayots Ashkharh"Armenian Daily
10 Nov 07

During the session yesterday the Central Election Commission
confirmed the schedule of the main events of RA Presidential Elections
of February 19, 2008.
The documents of the nominated presidential candidates must be
submitted to the CEC from November 21 to December 6, 6.00 p.m. The
pre-election funds will be formed from the day of receiving the
certificate confirming the fact of the nomination.
The registration of the candidates is from December 31 to January 20
and pre-election campaign is from January 21 to February 17, midnight.
The candidates have the right to withdraw their candidacy before
February 9. From February 12 to February 19, 8.00 p.m. it is prohibited
to publish any information about the survey on the rating of the
candidates. The ballot papers will be released from February 10 to 16.
The candidates will be informed about the day, the place, and the
time of the elections before February 16. The election constituencies
and the precinct centers will be set up before January 5. Information
regarding this must be submitted to the CEC two days after the
approval. Precinct election commissions will be set up from January 31
to February 3.
The list of those under in-patient care and willing to vote and have
the right to vote must be submitted to the corresponding competent
bodies and the heads of the corresponding local subdivisions. The list
of those in prison must also be made before February 16. The same day
the list of those registered in the military subdivisions must be
introduced to the President.
The final lists of the voters as well as the forms to make
additional lists of the voters must be introduced to the Chairs of the
Precinct Election Commissions before February 17. Two days before the
voting day the final lists of the voters will be on the walls of the
precinct centers.
The voter-register, according to the election precincts, will be
submitted to the Commission before January 9, later to be posted in CEC
website.
The primary results of the presidential elections are ratified by a
protocol, and officially reported by the Public TV and Radio not later
than 24 hours after the end of voting.
The re-calculation activities are realized in the Constituency
Election Commissions, from February 21, 9,00 a.m. to February 24, 2,00
p.m.
The Presidential election returns are summed up and ratified by a
protocol not later than seven days after the voting day, that is to say
before February 26.

LITHUANIA TO ASSIST IN IMPLEMENTATION OF EU AND NATO PROGRAMS IN ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.11.2007 14:59 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Armenia has much to learn from Lithuania in
respect of integration into European structures and we are hopeful that
Lithuania as a EU member state will assist in successful implementation
of the Armenia-EU Action Plan within the ENP," RA Foreign Minister
Vartan Oskanian said at a joint news conference with his Lithuanian
counterpart Petras Vaitiekunas.

Embassies of Armenia and Lithuania will be soon established in Vilnius
and Yerevan, he said.

For his part, Mr Vaitiekunas said, "Lithuania is not satisfied with the
current state of relations with Armenia. We should develop economic
ties. Lithuania will also assist in implementation of EU and NATO
programs in Armenia. We agreed on serious and constructive measures
in this field and seminars on European integration will be held in
Vilnius and Brussels December 14."

He informed that Lithuanian Prime Minister will pay a visit to Armenia
next year and emphasized the significance of the South Caucasus for
energy security of Europe.

BAKU CONCERNED OVER POSSIBLE PASSAGE OF H.RES.106 MORE THAN ANKARA

PanARMENIAN.Net
07.11.2007 17:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s statement
on an Armenia trace in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party was not made
accidentally. It will serve as one more reason to continue the blockade
of Armenia," political scientist Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan told a news
conference in Yerevan.

"Turkey can state that there are terrorist camps in Armenia and
keep the border closed as support to Azerbaijan. However, it forgets
that the list of organizations supporting the PKK includes 45 Azeri
organizations. By the way, Baku is concerned over possible passage
of Armenian Genocide House Resolution much more than Ankara, since
it fears to lose the only ally – Turkey," the political scientist said.

LITHUANIAN FM SUGGESTS ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN TO ADOPT THE EXPERIENCE OF BALTIC COOPERATION

armradio.am
08.11.2007 16:08

Lithuania supports the efforts of the parties to solve the Karabakh
conflict on the basis of the negotiation process and the diplomatic
work of the OSCE Minsk Group. The Foreign Minister of Lithuania told a
news conference in Yerevan today that all the conflicts of the region
must be solved through mutual consent reached in a peaceful way and
based on international norms.

"We do not interfere with domestic affairs of other countries. The
only thing we can suggest the countries of the region, to Armenia and
Azerbaijan, is the experience of cooperation of the Baltic states,
which has become a "political brand" and a "brand of success," the
Foreign Minister of Lithuania declared.

RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian presented the current stage of
the Karabakh settlement process: the parties are waiting for the next
steps, the Co-Chairs are trying to contact the parties for possible
unilateral meetings. According to the Minister, during the latest
visit to the region the mediators got some insight into the stance
of the parties on non-agreed questions and are trying to find new
formulations to suggest the parties.

Vartan Oskanian expects either a meeting or a written suggestion.

FREEDOM OF KARABAKH IS NOT FOR SALE

Lragir.am
07-11-2007 17:11:22

The president of Armenia does not think the situation in
Nagorno-Karabakh is close to a resolution, although he believes in
its likelihood. He made this statement in the capital of Finland,
in his address to the Aleksanteri Institute of Helsinki.

The independence of Nagorno-Karabakh is not for sale, nobody sells
their freedom, and it is immoral to sell others’ freedom, the president
of Armenia stated.

THE COUNTRY MUST TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Karine Safaryan

KarabakhOpen
06-11-2007 17:21:17

Dozens of people in Karabakh have spine injuries and are taking
treatment at Caroline Cox Rehabilitation Center in Stepanakert. One
of the gravest problems of people who cannot walk is pressure ulcer
which may take a fatal turn.

"When I arrived in Stepanakert many years ago to set up the
rehabilitation center here I could not meet any of my former
patients from Karabakh whom I had treated at the Red Cross hospital
in Yerevan. They had died of pressure ulcer," tells the director of
the Rehabilitation Center Vardan Tadevosyan. "When we launched the
educational program in 1999 for the staff in Stepanakert, we started
visiting them at home and treating them, otherwise they would not
live until the opening of the Center."

Vardan Tadevosyan says the best way out is plastic surgery which
requires a two-month period of adaptation. Recently the Vita NGO
has invited two specialists from Yerevan who operated two people
with disabilities.

"Two underwent operation, and now they are taking post-surgical
treatment at the Center. I think there is no need to invite specialists
from Yerevan every time, there are good surgeons in Stepanakert as
well. We only need to cooperate with them. Nevertheless, this effort
is highly necessary," says the director of the Center.

Presently there are 10 people in Karabakh suffering from grave
ulcers. They are getting medicine from the Center, the staff provides
medical care at home and at the center.

The Rehabilitation Center is currently implementing a program
with Jinishian Memorial Foundation. The organization intends to
provide assistance to people with first category disabilities in
Karabakh. Currently the Center and the organization are conducting
monitoring in the region to make the list of people who will get
assistance within 6-7 months. The program includes buying special
equipment for people suffering from pressure ulcer.

Such programs have strategic importance because, Vardan Tadevosyan
says, "the country must take care of people with disabilities who
lost their health in defending the homeland."

TURKEY VIEWS DELAY OF DISCUSSION OF RESOLUTION N106 ON THE FLOOR OF US CONGRESS WITH CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM

arminfo
2007-11-06 12:13:00

ArmInfo. Turkey views with cautious optimism the fact that supporters
of the Resolution N106, which envisages recognition of the Armenian
Genocide, addressed speaker of the Nancy Pelosi, having called to
delay discussion of this Resolution on the floor of US Congress,
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan said in his speech in the
National press-club in Washington.

As FDCH e-MEDIA reports, the prime minister said that this draft has
the potential to deeply damage Turkey-USA strategic cooperation. And
it is important to ensure that it is not discussed on the floor of
the Congress.

Some circles say that resolutions of this kind are nonbinding, but the
fact that Congress, as the legislative body of our strategic partner
the United States is engaged in efforts that amount to a political
judgment of Turkey is sad for us to see.

DECISION ON PRODUCING MINERALS IN TEGHUT IS AGAINST ARMENIA AND ITS PEOPLE

Lragir.am
06-11-2007 12:53:39

The government granted license to Valex Group’s owner Valery Mejlumyan
to produce copper in Teghut on illegal documents, despite warnings of
environmentalists, stated the president of the Union of Greens Hakob
Sanasaryan on November 6 at the National Press Club. "The decision of
the government does not have legal grounds, the government decision
is illegal, it is based on false documents," Hakob Sanasaryan says.

According to him, the program of the operation of mine violates
the law.

"The program includes miscalculations, false facts, abuse. They say
they have held public hearings but the stakeholder held the hearings,
in other words, the Valex Group company. According to the law, or
they say according to the law, the relevant agency is supposed to
hold hearings, that is the ministry of environmental protection,
but no hearings have been held," Hakob Sanasaryan says.

According to him, the ministry of environment has granted itself
a license for studying the mine. "The same ministry made a final
environmental conclusion. It was sheer bias," says the president of
the Union of Greens.

According to him, the operation of the mines will destroy the entire
environmental area of Teghut, turning it into a dead area. "Four
rivers, the Krunk, the Pakasajur, the Kharatanogh, will be completely
destroyed, the Shnogh river will be polluted with such materials,
heavy metals which get into the flora and fauna and stay there forever
because those are heavy metals and pollutants which never decay and
disappear," Hakob Sanasaryan says. He says according to scientific
literature, these substances may cause grave diseases, genetic
mutations, heritable diseases, babies are born dead or with defects.

Hakob Sanasaryan says the decision to operate the mine in Teghut is
against Armenia and its people. "They sell their souls, the future
of our people, to acquire positions and enjoy other benefits, or
they occupy high-ranking positions being absolutely ignorant," Hakob
Sanasaryan says. He says he envies people who have not gone deeper into
the subject because in case they do, they will feel deeply depressed.

The president of the Union of Greens says they have urged the president
to deal with this problem but he has not reacted, and the Greens do not
know the president’s opinion. The efforts to meet the prime minister
are also in vain. Hakob Sanasaryan says he phones the assistant of
the prime minister two or three times a week to find out when Serge
Sargsyan will appoint a meeting. However, it is impossible to find
the assistant, Hakob Sanasaryan says.

ARKA NEWS AGENCY RELEASES BULLETIN "CREDIT ORGANIZATIONS OF ARMENIA" FOR 3RD QUARTER 2007

ARKA
Nov 5, 2007

YEREVAN, November 5. /ARKA/. The ARKA News Agency has released
a regular issue of the financial and economic bulletin "Credit
organizations of Armenia" for the 3rd quarter of 2007.

This quarterly product is based on officially published reports
of credit organizations. The bulletin has about 25 pages of tables
containing information on credit organizations’ activities and has
12 sections:

1. General description of credit organizations;
2.Assets. 3. Liabilities; 4.

Capital; 5. Profit/Losses. 6. Information on movement of funds;
7. Activity indicators of credit organizations; 8. Capitalization
indicators; 9.

Profitability indicators; 10. Activity aggregates of credit
organizations (summed up). 11. Efficiency aggregates of credit
organizations; 12.

Principal services rendered by credit organizations.

The information contained in the bulletin provides a general picture
of credit organizations’ financial situation and allows of comparative
analysis of their activities.

The product contains technical and methodological commentary. The ARKA
News Agency launched its activities on May 1, 1996. It specializes
in financial and economic information.

Since 1999, the agency has been publishing the quarterly bulletin
"Key indicators of Armenia’s banks". Since March 2005, the agency
has been releasing the bulletin "Credit organizations of Armenia",
and since May 2006 "Financial indicators of banks" based on annual
independent audits.

IRRESPECTIVE OF FACT THAT ARMENIAN SPORTSMEN DID NOT RECIEVE MEDALS,
THEY WERE AWARDED 3 PASSES FOR OLYMPIC GAMES

CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The single combats of the 1/4 finals
took place on November 1 in the World Boxing Championship, which is
continuing in Chicago. Armenian delegates Hovhannes Danielian (48kg,
Yerevan), Hrachya Javachian (60kg, Vanadzor) and Eduard Hambardzumian
(64kg, Yerevan) were defeated in the quarter final, correspondingly, by
the representatives of Thailand, Italy, and Japan. The three of the
Armenian boxers were awarded only passes for the "Beijing-2008" Olympic
Games.