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NKR PRIME-MINISTER CALLED PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS A ‘NATION-WIDE VICTORY’
On June 28, a regular session of the NKR Government took place, at which
resolutions on over 20 issues were adopted. At the beginning of the session
NKR Prime-Minister Anoushavan Daniyelian focused on the results of the
Parliamentary elections in the NKR, calling them `a nation-wide victory’.
`Our hopes have been realized. I think I’ll be right to say that we managed
to conduct fair and democratic elections. The fact is testified to by
international observers as well’, head of the Government said.
The Government members adopted draft laws `On Insolvency’, `On Legal
Profession’, `On Order of State Registration of Departmental Normative
Acts’, etc.
A resolution concerning the order of licensing the activity of guides was
adopted. In this connection the Premier stressed the great importance of the
development of tourism, which, according to him, must become one of the most
principal sources of the NKR incomes in 7 years.
The Government adopted a decree on monthly payments of 25 thousand drams to
people granted in corresponding spheres the title of `People’s’. By another
resolution of the Government, cash benefit of 16 thousand drams will be
allotted monthly to children without parental care.
A resolution on creation of a commission on the celebration of the 14th
anniversary of the proclamation of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was also
adopted at the session. The Commission will be headed by Vice-Premier Ararat
Daniyelian.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

SYNOPSYS CONGRATULATED ITS GRADUATES
Pan Armenian News
27.06.2005 04:35
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ June 26 in Yerevan the solemn ceremony of handing the
diplomas of Synopsys Armenia CJSC SG also known as Interdepartmental
Chair of Microelectronic Circuits and Systems of the State Engineering
University of Armenia took place. 64 students received the diplomas. 28
of them became the first graduates of the post-graduate program
of the chair. The heroes of the occasion were congratulated by
the SEUA and Synopsys Armenia staff as well as government members,
representatives of public organizations and IT elite of Armenia. It
should be also noted that Aart de Geus, President of Synopsys, who
arrived in Armenia on 2-day visit. He noted that the company highly
appreciates the talent and knowledge of the students of Synopsys
Armenia CJSC SG. In his turn SEUA pro-rector Ruben Aghashian handed
the supreme award of the University – the Memorable Gold Order – to
the President of Synopsys. To remind, Synopsys Corporation is one of
the world leaders of producing chips and microelectronic systems. It
has representations in 60 countries of the world. The corporation has
launched its education program in 1986 and now it is implemented in
over 450 educational institutions.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Le Nagorny Karabakh elit son parlement
Agence France Presse
19 juin 2005 dimanche 4:30 AM GMT
STEPANAKERT (Azerbaïdjan) 19 juin 2005 — Les habitants de la
republique autoproclamee du Nagorny Karabakh, une enclave armenienne
en Azerbaïdjan, ont commence a voter dimanche pour elire leur quatrième
Parlement.
Le parlement de ce petit “pays” de 150.000 habitants en grande majorite
Armeniens, est elu pour cinq ans et compte 33 deputes. Onze sont elus
au scrutin proportionnel et 22 au scrutin majoritaire.
Cent cinq candidats se presentent au scrutin majoritaire et 80 a la
proportionnelle. Pour que le scrutin soit valide, la participation
doit atteindre au moins 25% des quelque 89.000 electeurs inscrits,
attendus dans 274 bureaux de vote.
Une centaine d’observateurs, representants d’organisations
non-gouvernementales, venus de Russie, d’Ukraine, des Etats-Unis
et d’Asie centrale, notamment, devaient suivre le deroulement des
elections.
Le “president” du Karabakh, Arkadi Goukassian, a declare a la veille
du scrutin qu’il garantirait “un vote honnete et transparent”.
“Toute tentative de violation des normes, quel qu’en soit l’auteur,
sera denoncee et ses initiateurs punis avec toute la severite de la
loi”, a-t-il declare a la television.
Il a explique que le scrutin devait repondre aux normes europeennes
pour eviter de porter tort a l’image du Nagorny Karabakh et, partant,
“au processus de règlement pacifique avec l’Azerbaïdjan”.
Selon les observateurs locaux, le Parti democrate Artsakh
(Karabakh), pro-gouvernemental et le parti “Patrie libre” devraient
franchir le seuil des 10% des suffrages et la coalition d’opposition
Dachnaktsoutioun – Mouvement 88 celui des 15%, necessaires pour faire
entrer ses candidats au parlement.
Les resultats preliminaires devraient etre connus dans la nuit de
lundi a mardi.
Le Nagorny Karabakh a proclame son independance en 1991 et l’a defendue
armes a la main avec le soutien de l’Armenie jusqu’a un cessez-le-feu
conclu en 1994. Les affrontements, qui avaient commence en 1988, ont
fait entre 25.000 et 30.000 morts selon les estimations et entraîne
l’exil de quelque 20.000 Azeris, deplacant en outre, selon Bakou,
jusqu’a un million de personnes.
Le Nagorny Karabakh etait partie integrante de l’Armenie jusqu’en
1923, date a laquelle ce territoire a ete rattache par Staline a
la Republique socialiste sovietique d’Azerbaïdjan avec le statut de
region autonome.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Zaman, Turkey
June 12 2005
Period of ‘Wait and See’ in Turkish-American Relations
By Bilge Isa Seyran
Published: Sunday 12, 2005
zaman.com
Dr. Soner Cagaptay, director of Turkey program of the prominent US
think tank organization The Washington Institute, said that a period
of “wait and see” has started in Turkish-American relations following
the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Commenting on Erdogan’s US visit to the Cihan News Agency, Cagaptay
noted that although the talks did not pass as warmly as the earlier
ones, they were still a nice beginning for the normalization of
Turkey-US relations, which were spoilt after the issue of the March 1
deployment motion and which have been fluctuating for the last two
years. “It was a crucial meeting between two leaders, US President
George W. Bush and Erdogan, who listened to each other on various
issues and that lasted 70 minutes. The threat of the Kurdistan
Worker’s Party (PKK) terrorist organization was discussed and
Turkey’s perspective on Armenia was shared. The issue of Syria was
also discussed, which I think was the most important of all,” the
director noted.
Cagaptay explained that Turkey’s policy on Damascus in the next
period would be a determining factor in relations with Syria, which
is the issue that caused the biggest difference of opinion between
Bush and Erdogan during their meeting. Remarking that the
international community aims to isolate Syria and push it into a
corner, Cagaptay added: “Turkey, on the other side, wants to engage
Syria into the international community and not to cut off the
dialogue process. That’s why, we need to observe how Turkey’s Syria
policy will evolve during the summer.” The Washington Institute
expert signified that Damascus sees its relations with Ankara as a
chance to break its own strategic isolation and added: “It should not
be forgotten that Syria is a country, which indirectly caused the
death of tens of thousands of Turks due to its support to the PKK a
few years ago.”
Making positive comments on the Cyprus issue, one of the most
important issues in Erdogan’s agenda, Dr. Cagaptay said: “In fact,
Cyprus is not a problem of the US but the UN. It is a matter between
the EU and Turkey. The fact that Washington makes efforts about an
issue that is not its problem, shows its sincerity.” Cagaptay
explained. Emphasizing that the expressions ‘strategic relation’ used
by Bush and ‘strategic partnership’ used by Erdogan carried a very
different meanings in international relations, Cagaptay said: “While
partnership means a strong and mutual dynamics, relation is a weaker
word. Erdogan’s use of this expression shows his desire to return to
the old days. Bush’s use of the term ‘relation’ shows that this is
not yet so.”
Cagaptay said that Turkish-American relations will get better in the
autumn with the steps taken on Cyprus, strengthening of the positive
attitude from Turkey to the US, the support of the AKP government and
the positive remarks by both sides recently. The improvement also
depends on Syria’s not causing a serious crisis.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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Friday, June 10, 2005
Michigan’s AGBU Manoogian School Scores Big:
TWO AREA CHARTER SCHOOLS GET HIGH MARKS
By Dave Groves (The Oakland Press, May 23, 2005)
While standardized test scores in a majority of Oakland County charter
schools have lagged behind those of their traditional public school
counterparts, two local charters continue to buck the trend.
The recent release of 2005 Michigan Educational Assessment Program
test scores for elementary and middle schools indicates Holly Academy
and A.G.B.U. Alex and Marie Manoogian School in Southfield not only
strongly outpace other area charter schools, but rank among the
county’s top-performing traditional public school districts.
“Our motto at Holly Academy is inspiring excellence,” said Tina
Craven, deputy director of the school.
“We usually attract families who are interested in having their
children see (academic) challenges at the next level.”
This year, an average of 73 percent of academy students were found to
be proficient in math, reading, writing, science and social studies
portions of the MEAP test.
That average compares with roughly 81 percent proficiency rates in the
Rochester and Troy school districts and tops the proficiency rates of
21 other county districts.
This success, Craven said, is largely a result of teacher and
administrator efforts to align curriculum with state learning
benchmarks, ramp up instruction in curriculum areas where students
have shown weaknesses and encourage parents to play an active role in
the education process.
“Schoolwide, I think our teachers have really honed in on how they can
help students be successful,” Craven said.
The Manoogian School – a long-established, private Armenian school
that became a public charter school in 1995 – has seen similar
success.
It posted an overall test proficiency rate of about 76 percent and
topped all but five traditional public school districts in the county.
Principal Nadya Sarafian attributed much of the success to dedicated,
veteran teachers who are fortunate to work with students in small
class sizes.
“We try to keep the best teachers,” she said. “We try to encourage
them to do the best they can with each student.”
Sarafian was hesitant to compare the academy’s scores with those of
traditional public school districts because year-to-year fluctuations
in test results for the few hundred students at Manoogian will be more
dramatic than those of a school district with several thousand
students.
She also acknowledged that Manoogian had the advantage of a running
start over other charter schools when publicly funded academies were
authorized in Michigan roughly a decade ago. A tested curriculum,
teaching staff and school philosophy were already in place.
“It takes time to develop all those things,” Sarafian said.
While charter schools are sometimes seen as competing with traditional
public schools for limited state public education funding, this
appears not to be the case for Manoogian.
Ken Siver, deputy superintendent for the Southfield school district
and a vocal opponent of charter schools, said he does not take issue
with the academy operating as a charter.
“It’s an extremely well-run school,” he said.
Because Manoogian tends to draw students from around the metropolitan
Detroit area rather than just from Southfield, it does not draw
significantly from state funding Southfield receives, Siver said.
“It is not one of those schools I would be critical of,” he said. “My
concern is more with the charter schools that are run by
businesses. In my view, some of those businesses are not particularly
qualified to provide education.”
Dan Quisenberry, executive director of the Michigan Association of
Public School Academies, said Manoogian and Holly academies are
shining examples that charter school students can achieve as well as
any others.
He added that this year’s MEAP scores indicate students in charter
schools across the state are making considerable gains in achievement
levels.
“When you compare them to their peers … they’re meeting and
exceeding those scores,” he said.
Still, most local charter schools have substantial ground to cover
before keeping pace with student test scores in the area’s traditional
public schools.
Newly released MEAP scores show that 10 of 17 Oakland County charter
academies posted average student proficiency rates below that of all
28 local traditional school districts. Five remaining academies had
average student proficiency rates on par with the county’s four most
challenged school districts.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Russia plans global TV channel to boost image
By Guy Faulconbridge
MOSCOW, June 6 (Reuters) – Russia is planning to launch a global,
24-hour English-language television channel to project Moscow’s view
of the world and help spruce up its image.
“Russia is a major country and a massive country so it needs to make
its position known to audiences all over the world,” Margarita
Simonyan, 25-year-old editor-in-chief of the new channel that will be
called Russia Today or RTTV, told Reuters.
The launch of the channel, initially funded with $25-30 million, comes
as Kremlin officials have long complained that foreign media
misrepresent Russia and reflects their growing concern about Russia’s
standing.
The decade-long conflict in Chechnya has tainted Russia’s image abroad
as well as the Kremlin’s two-year battle with the owners of oil major
YUKOS and the trial of its founder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, or Moscow’s
perceived interference in Ukraine’s pro-Western “Orange Revolution”
last year.
President Vladimir Putin’s adviser Mikhail Lesin, a former head of the
Press Ministry, was one of the prime motors behind the project,
Russian daily Vedomosti said.
The channel, due to start by the end of this year, will draw heavily
on resources from state news agency RIA Novosti and will be
transmitted via satellite to audiences in the former Soviet Union, the
United States, Europe and Asia.
Simonyan, a former Kremlin correspondent for state television channel
Rossiya, said funds for the project would come from commercial banks
and the state. But she declined to be more specific.
“It has been long overdue for Russia to have a channel of this kind —
other countries have them so it is only correct for Russia to have one
too,” she said, adding that the channel would provide “objective and
interesting” reporting on Russia.
06/06/05 15:01 ET
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

May 28, 2005. 11:35 AM
RON BULL/TORONTO STAR
Bittersweet symphony
After lacklustre seasons and lagging sales, orchestras are getting their
voices back
WILLIAM LITTLER
“Winnipeg Symphony can’t pay musicians, may collapse”
“Calgary orchestra seeks $1.5 million to survive”
“Orchestral manoeuvres in the red”
“As funds disappear, so do orchestras”
These are only a few of the newspaper headlines to have appeared in
recent seasons above stories of gloom and doom in the symphonic world.
The situation is not a new one. Chronically underfunded, our orchestras
lurch from crisis to rescue and back to crisis again, without achieving
long-term stability.
“Our orchestras are dysfunctional,” accuses a blunt Ed Wulfe, recently
re-elected president of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, traditionally
one of North America’s Top 10.
“The musicians have their own goals, management has its agenda and
so has the board. But our orchestras can only work if everybody is
playing on the same team.”
Ed Smith came to the same conclusion. When he accepted the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra’s managing directorship, the man who discovered
Simon Rattle found when he arrived in Canada an organization divided
in its goals and unable to work as a team. It took his subsequent
resignation to expose the depths of dysfunction.
That was only a few years ago. Today, according to the available
evidence, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra is a different organization
and Andrew Shaw credits the board chairmanship of former provincial
premier Bob Rae with bringing about much of the change.
“It was a matter of leadership,” Shaw recalls. “He pulled the
organization together and had people speaking to each other again. He
bought us time.”
He also helped recruit Shaw, himself a former orchestral player,
credited with turning the Royal Conservatory of Music’s publishing
arm, the Frederick Harris Music Co., into a profitable business,
as the orchestra’s new president and CEO.
“It was a real mess 3 1/2 years ago,” concedes Shaw. “Negative press,
negative attitudes inside and outside the organization. Our goal the
first year was just to be able to get to the end of the year and set
up a search committee to find a new music director.
“The second year we developed a market plan and set the stage for
the music director to make a statement. Some people thought it was
an impossible timeline, but we had to work quickly. Nobody is going
to give money to an abstraction.
“Engaging Peter Oundjian (as music director) was a bit of a risk,
but he has turned out to be a dream come true. He is so intelligent,
so aware of what needs to be done.”
The upshot? Over a three-year period, audiences have risen by 25 per
cent. There are now 25,000 subscribers and the orchestra sells 230,000
seats per season. More than 20,000 young people (aged 15 to 29) have
been recruited to the new “tsoundcheck” program alone, offering them
good seats over the Internet for only $10 a ticket. The price makes
going to the symphony competitive with a first-run movie.
Has all this put the Toronto Symphony Orchestra where it needs to be
to achieve long-term stability? Not yet.
Although its endowment, at about $20 million, stands second among
Canadian performing arts organizations to the Stratford Festival ? an
unprecedented figure for a Canadian orchestra ? this is still only a
fraction of what the major American orchestras have at their disposal.
He also wants to eliminate the accumulated deficit of $7 million. It’s
less than the Houston Symphony Orchestra’s $10 million, but Toronto’s
red ink flows from year to year. “We still have a $1-million structural
problem annually that has to be addressed,” Shaw admits.
`Our orchestras are dysfunctional.’
Ed Wulfe, president, Houston Symphony Orchestra
“So we are taking a page from the health services and universities. We
have to have an integrated approach to fundraising. And our operation
has become lean, if not mean.”
As Shaw and his colleagues have worked behind the scenes to improve
the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s bottom line, Oundjian has worked out
front to put a new face on what happens in and around Roy Thomson Hall.
Within a few weeks, he will have reached the end of his first full
season as music director, sometimes making music before full houses,
often speaking informally with his listeners to introduce the music
and soloists. The atmosphere is warmer in the hall than it has been
in many years.
“My opening season with the Toronto Symphony continues to be an
incredibly rewarding and fulfilling experience,” Oundjian says. “The
orchestra is filled with extraordinary musicians who continue to
share their love and passion for music with the audience.”
Some of those musicians are new and some have returned to the
orchestra in order to make music with him. Principal double bass Joel
Quarrington came back from Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra,
principal trumpet Andrew McCandless from the much richer Dallas
Symphony Orchestra. Winona Zelenka has made her mark as new principal
cellist and Teng Li has turned out to be a principal violist worthy
to follow in the distinguished footsteps of Steven Dann.
Orchestras sometimes fail to acknowledge the visual impact they make,
conditioning the way audiences listen. The Toronto Symphony has had
more than its share of apparent zombies over the years, particularly
in the string sections, but under Oundjian even some of the sitting
dead are beginning to look re-energized.
The strings are a symphony’s backbone and his credentials as former
first violinist of one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles,
the Tokyo String Quartet, have given him the background and impetus
to improve the string sound.
His credentials as a conductor have been less impressive, since it is
only for the past several years that he has been waving a stick. The
performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony with which he opened the
season sounded more like a reading than an interpretation, and much
of the seasoning necessary to turn a talent into a maestro has yet
to take place.
The good news is that he and the orchestra seem mutually engaged. And
for a new music director to inaugurate a contemporary music festival
(New Creations) in his first season bodes well for his commitment to
revitalizing the repertory. All 11 of the works presented over three
programs were being heard in Toronto for the first time.
Talking conductors is a controversial issue. Even Leonard Bernstein
was raked over the critical coals for daring to converse with his
listeners. With his lightly English-accented voice (although born
in Toronto, he received most of his education in England), Oundjian
simply has a better knack than most of his colleagues for breaking
the ice verbally.
If there is starch in his collar, none of it is attitudinal. He
radiates friendliness from the stage and in these days of fierce
competition for the cultural dollar, symphony orchestras can use all
the friends they can get.
A radical? He is obviously not that. Balancing the New Creations
Festival was a Mozart Festival, just about the safest programming
imaginable. But as his quartet-playing years demonstrated, this
man knows his Mozart, and there isn’t a composer better suited to
cultivating refinement in an orchestra.
Mozart will return in 2005-06, along with New Creations. So will
some of the conductors around whose special talents the orchestra
is building a complementary support structure to balance Oundjian’s
12-week exposure. Former music directors Sir Andrew Davis and Gunther
Herbig continue to make welcome returns, along with Gianandrea Noseda
and Thomas Dausgaard.
It used to be said that the Toronto Symphony is a far better orchestra
than the world knows. That situation has not changed. Largely through
its Decca recordings and the tours flowing from them, the Montreal
Symphony has been the Canadian orchestra with an international profile.
Having lost its record contract and its truly distinguished music
director, Charles Dutoit, Montreal’s orchestra is now far more
debt-ridden and dysfunctional than its Ontario rival. Whether the
appearance of the high-profile Kent Nagano as music director in 2006
and the still-unfulfilled promise of a new concert hall will be the
catalysts for change remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, with sister orchestras in Calgary and Winnipeg in trouble,
and others across the country barely holding their deficits at bay,
the Canadian orchestral world is increasingly looking to Toronto as
a model for recovery.
“I don’t think a lot of orchestras got over the cutbacks of the early
’90s,” suggests Mike Forrester, Toronto’s vice-president for marketing
and development. “When they downsized, they lost marketing people
trained at a level to close the income gap.
“We have expanded our fundraising and we’ve targeted new audiences in
ethnic communities. We run ads in Cantonese and Mandarin newspapers
and work with the Russian and Korean communities. And we’ve lowered
the average age of our audience, with the help of our tsoundcheck
program and singles series. There is now such a thing as date night
with the Toronto Symphony. Who’d have thunk it?”
Who, indeed. Year One of the Age of Oundjian seems to be ending on
one of the highest notes the Toronto Symphony Orchestra has hit in
years. The struggle continues, but the smiles are returning to Roy
Thomson Hall.
Copyright Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. All rights reserved.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Legrand back in Moscow with Les Paraplues de Cherbourg
By Olga Svistunova
ITAR-TASS News Agency
May 30, 2005 Monday 3:41 AM Eastern Time
MOSCOW, May 30 — Michel Legrand will present once again his undying
Les Paraplues De Cherbourg melodies at the State Kremlin Palace in
Moscow on Monday night. The French maestro will give a single concert
in Moscow titled “The Return of the Umbrellas of Cherbourg”.
Music to the world famous film Les Paraplues De Cherbourg released in
the mid 1960s was destined to bring worldwide fame to its author and
become his introduction card. The wonderful melody was not the only
masterpiece in Michel Legrand’s music career. The talented composer
who has Armenian blood running in his veins proved worthy of his
catching name Legrand that is translated as “grand”.
Michel Legrand enjoys success since early childhood. He began to study
at Paris Conservatoire when he was a ten- year old boy. He learned to
play the piano perfectly well and later, began to play jazz. A gift
for improvisation developed to become his main passion. Years of
joint work with celebrated jazzmen are the brightest landmark in
his artistic career. World music stars Edith Piaf, Barbara Streisand,
Frank Sinatra performed his music. Legrand recorded more than a hundred
albums, composed music to around 200 films and several musicals and
ballets. Michel Legrand has three Oscar prizes and five Grammy awards
among other innumerable prestigious awards.
At the age of 73 Michel Legrand is as busy as ever, creating music
that is now often performed by his son Benjamin who will star in the
concert in the Kremlin tonight in which several popular French cafe
chantant-style singers will take part.
Although tickets to the concert are rather expensive the Moscow
audiences who love good music will spare no expense to meet the
celebrated composer who promised to show the best from his repertoire.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Warsaw meeting of Azeri, Armenian leaders achieves no result – Armenian paper
Aravot, Yerevan
17 May 05
Text of article by Tigran Avetisyan entitled “Failure” carried by
Armenian newspaper Aravot on 17 May
Although the results of the meeting between Robert Kocharyan and
Ilham Aliyev, which took place on 15 May in Warsaw, were kept secret,
everything is clear: they failed. First, after the tete-a-tete meeting
of the presidents that lasted for two hours, they declined to give a
press conference and abstained from coming forward with a statement. It
is clear that had the talks been more or less successful they would not
have lost the opportunity of hinting to the international mediators
that they were constructive officials and that “successful dialogue”
had taken place.
The foreign ministers of the two countries were given the unthankful
job of mitigating the presidents’ failure and of making it more or
less “palatable”. In particular, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister [Elmar]
Mammadyarov commenting on the meeting said that the parties discussed
elements of the Prague option for a Karabakh settlement, regarding
which they “achieved a slight result”. Without going into details of
the “slight result” mentioned by the latter, let us only note that
Mammadyarov said some words which everybody expected from someone
in his position and immediately added that “there are issues around
which the positions of the sides deeply differ”. At this moment, it
is enough to compare “slight” and “deeply” to understand the results
of the Kocharyan-Aliyev meeting.
One more notable point: at the beginning of the meeting between
Kocharyan and Aliyev, the Russian, French, Armenian and Azerbaijani
foreign ministers as well as the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen were
present. Even if their had been just a little success, it may be
assumed that the mediators would have immediately announced their
contribution to this positive result. But the co-chairmen are silent.
It was only Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who said: “I
cannot comment on the issues that are on the negotiating table of
the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents.”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

President.am
13 May 2005
President Robert Kocharian will leave for Warsaw
On May 15, President Robert Kocharian will leave for Warsaw to participate
at the Third Summit of the European Council.
In Warsaw President Kocharian will hold bilateral meetings with a number of
foreign states leaders.
In the framework of the Summit by the proposal of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs
there will take place a meeting between President Robert Kocharian and
President Ilham Aliev.
Delegation headed by President Kocharian will return to Yerevan on May 17.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress