Author: Chmshkian Vicken

FIRE AT "ROYAL ARMENIA"

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[12:27 pm] 05 June, 2007

On 14 June at 21.17p.m. a fire began in the premises of "Royal Armenia"
LTD. The fire was extinguished at 22.03p.m.. An energy conducting
machine of 800 liter volume has entirely burnt in the result of
the fire.

ROOF BURNT

On 4 June at 23.21p.m. a fire began in 14 apartment in 14/2 house
on Vardanants street. The fire was extinguished at 00.29 a.m. The
one-roomed apartment with 30 square meters belonging to S. Galstyan
has burnt. The roof of the house with 2 square meters was also
seriously damaged.

SERGE SARGSYAN: NEW SURPRISES ARE EXPECTED

ArmRadio.am
04.06.2007 17:58

Why do the negotiations on formation of coalition drag out? In
response to the question RA Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan said:
"I can assure that the newly-elected National Assembly will hold its
first sitting on June 7, and the Government will be formed in terms
envisaged by RA Constitution."

As for the negotiations with Dashnaktsutyun, Serge Sargsyan said
these are not over yet.

What kind of surprises should we expect? Serge Sargsyan responded
there will be surprises that have never been in our political culture.

According to Serge Sargsyan, the negotiations will sustain for 1-2
days. " The Government will have been formed on Thursday, when the
National Assembly calls its first sitting, but the public at large
will know about it when the Government sends all its suggestions to
the Armenian President," he said.

The Prime Minister did not rule out certain changes in the Government
structure. "When the Government is formed, we shall turn to structures
of some Ministries."

Matthew Bryza arriving in Baku today

armradio.am
04.06.2007 14:42

US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State Matthew Bryza is arriving in Baku today. Press Service of the US
Embassy in Azerbaijan informs that the main objective of the visit is
to participate in the `Oil and Gas of the Caspian Sea’ international
exhibition-conference scheduled 5-8 June.

In he framework of the visit Bryza is expected to meet with the
leadership of the country to discuss questions of further cooperation
between Azerbaijan and the United States, as well as the Nagorno
Karabakh issue.

Gift 2007: participants crossed Karabakh-Armenia border on foot

02-06-2007 13:34:59 – KarabakhOpen

On May 30 the 24 finalists of Gift 2007 festival arrived from Yerevan,
Hrazdan, Gyumri, Kapan, Moscow, Burgas, Sochi, Tbilisi, Esfahan. The
participants crossed the Karabakh-Armenian border on foot.

The Bulgarian participant is fascinated by the scenery. He thinks it
inspires to sing the song of the festival `Shushi’. `It is impossible
to sing about Artsakh without seeing it,’ Aram said.

Gayane from Artsakh says she will sing well after eating a piece of
jengyalov hats (a native pancake with herbs).

On the first day of the festival the participants sang Armenian songs.

Vadimir Karapetyan: Armenia is not going to talk about tertiary issues

ArmRadio.am
02.06.2007 13:54

Recently, speaking about possible progress in the Nagorno Karabakh
settlement process, there has been repeated reference to the return of
territories surrounding Nagorno Karabakh. According to certain news
sources, US Co-chair of the Minsk Group, Mattew Bryza, has also made a
similar statement just recently.

In response to this statement Vladimir Karapetian, Foreign Ministry
Acting Spokesperson responded: `Regardless of who says what, we can
only repeat what we have frequently explained: unless the issue of the
status of Nagorno Karabakh is clarified, and the right of
self-determination is fully assured, and unless an irrevocable
geographic link between Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia is secured, we
are not ready to talk about tertiary issues."

FIFTH IN SUCCESSION CRIMINAL CASE ON ELECTION RIGGING SUBMITTED TO THE COURT

ArmInfo
2007-06-01 16:28:00

The fifth in succession criminal case on violations during May 12
parliamentary election in Armenia has been submitted to the court.

The press-service of Armenian Prosecutor General’s Office reports that
Aragatsotn Regional Prosecutor’s Office has completed investigating
the falsifications in the 55th polling station of the 14th electoral
district. The investigation showed that Head of the Election Commission
of the above polling station Jivan Sargsyan cancelled several
ballot-papers for his own interest. These were the ballot-papers
in favor of the National Democratic Party (3), National Unity (6),
Democratic Way (2), Democratic Party of Armenia (1), People’s Party
of Armenia (2), and Communist Party of Armenia (2).

Moreover, he did not calculate a vote in favor of Dashink, 17 votes
in favor of the United Labour Party and "added" 15, 20 and 1 votes to
ARFD, RPA and Republic party, respectively. J. Sargsyan calculated
the votes independently taking advantage of tiredness and trust of
the Commission members. Sargsyan pled guilty and admitted that the
Commission members signed the final protocol without checking as
they trusted in him. Sargsyan is charged with Article 150 of Armenian
Criminal Code. The criminal case was submitted to the First Instance
Court of Aragatsotn region on May 31.

Earlier, 4 criminal cases against 13 people were submitted to the
court, including 10 members of election commission members.

RUSSIAN TROOPS LEAVE NATO ALLY

United Press International
May 31 2007

TBILISI, Georgia, May 31 (UPI) — Russian forces are continuing their
withdrawal from the territory of a former Soviet republic seeking
NATO membership.

The Georgian Defense Ministry announced Wednesday that the fifth
in a series of Russian military convoys had departed from a Russian
military base in Georgia under an agreement reached in 2006 on the
closing of Russian military bases, according to an RIA Novosti report.

"The truck convoy crossed the Georgian border mid-afternoon Moscow
time and headed to the Russian military base in Gyumri in Armenia,"
a Georgian official said, according to the report.

RIA Novosti said the Russian forces left their base at Akhalkalaki
in an area with an ethnic majority Armenian population. The base will
be emptied by the beginning of 2007, and another Russian base in the
Black Sea port of Batumi will be evacuated by two years after that,
RIA Novosti said.

Moscow plans to send five more truck convoys and 10 trains to complete
the evacuation of troops and equipment from the Akhalkalaki base by
the end of December, it said.

As part of the phased evacuation plan, Russia completed the evacuation
of all its troops from their base in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi,
in December 2006. Only 13 Russian soldiers will remain from the
Tbilisi base to work on the next stages of the evacuation.

Relations between Russia and the government of President Mikhail
Saakashvili remain tense. Georgian leaders are building their ties
to NATO and hope to eventually join the U.S.-led alliance.

ROBERT KOCHARYAN: ECONOMIC GROWTH IN ARMENIA WILL SUSTAIN

ArmRadio.am
30.05.2007 16:14

The economic growth will sustain in Armenia at least during the coming
3-5 years, RA President Robert Kocharyan said during the sitting of
the Presidential Council on Atomic Energy.

In his words, Armenia has been stably developing after the previous
sitting of the Council in October 2005. "Both in 2005 and 2006 the
republic showed double-digit numbers of economic growth," Robert
Kocharyan underlined, informing that a stable 12.5 economic growth has
been observed in the republic in the course of the past six years. The
President mentioned that in 2007 the paces of GDP growth are close to
these indices. In his speech the President laid a special emphasis
on the reforms without which the economic growth would be useless,
according to him.

Mr. Kocharyan reminded that Armenia was included in the New
Neighborhood Policy, adopted the Action Plan, which is mainly targeted
at social reforms.

Armenia has launched serious energy projects with the Russian
Federation. A trilateral project in the sphere of energy is being
implemented together with Iran and Georgia, negotiations are underway
on a number of other energy projects.

Projects have been launched with the US in the framework of the
Millennium Challenge Compact, which will also have a positive impact
on the economic situation in Armenia, President Kocharyan noted.

ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES ARMENIAN NATION ON 89TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST ARMENIAN REPUBLIC DECLARATION

Arka News Agency, Armenia
May 29 2007

YEREVAN, May 29. /ARKA/. Armenian Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan has
congratulated Armenian nation on 89th anniversary of First Armenian
Republic Declaration, governmental press office reported on Monday.

In his words, battles in Sardarapat, Bash-Aparan and Gharakilisa
laid precious groundwork for today’s independence. "Armenian people –
militia, clerics and intellectuals – fighting along with regular army,
displayed extraordinary heroism and won these battles", Novosti-Armenia
News Agency quoted the premier as saying.

In his national address, Sargsyan also said that the nation will
continue its efforts to strengthen statehood based on democratic
values, to preserve all achievements and to develop economy.

"I wish you sustainable peace, creative work and strong belief in
our country’s future", the prime minister said.

In May 1918, Armenians won battles near Sardarapat against Turkish
invaders.

May 28 is marked in Armenia as the First Republic’s Independence Day.

On May 26, 1918, after South-Caucasian Seym collapse and independence
declaration by Georgia, regional assembly of Armenian Revolutionary
Federation Dashnaktsutyun dictatorship powers to Armenian National
Council in Tiflis. On May 28, the Council declared Armenia’s
independence.

Armenia managed to retain its independence until soviet regime
institution here on December 2, 1920.

Soviet Armenia (1920 to 1991) is considered as the second republic
and the third republic declared its independence on September 21,
1991, after secession from Soviet Union.

POLICE INITIATES CRIMINAL CASE ON ATTEMPTED BURNING OF FLAT OF PPA ACTIVIST

ArmInfo News Agency
2007-05-29 18:02:00

Armenian Police has initiated a criminal case on the attempted burning
of Larisa Paremuzyan’s flat on Article 185 part 2 point 1 of Armenian
Criminal Code (intentional anientisement). Paremuzyan is an activist
of the People’s Party of Armenia.

The Police press-service reports that on May 28 approximately at 3:00
am, an unknown burnt a tire to burn with it the door of L. Paremuzyan’s
flat. The neighbors called the police and extinguished the fire.

PPA representatives declared that the incident had political
motives. Larisa Paremuzyan run for parliament in the 31st
single-mandate district from PPA.

At her request, the Prosecutor’s Office made a decision to recalculate
the votes in 30 polling stations and revealed about 6,000 inaccuracies
in the official result of the voting on both majority and proportional
systems. According to official data, candidate from the ruling RPA
Karen Saribekyan in the above district.