Author: Hambardsumian Paul

Turkey: EU Enlargement Commissioner Says Talks Must Not Be Delayed
By Ahto Lobjakas
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Tuesday, 13 September 2005
(AFP)
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn told the European Parliament’s
Foreign Relations Committee today that Turkey has cleared all hurdles
necessary to start accession talks on 3 October, as planned. However,
he said EU member states, which must make the final decision on
Turkey’s eventual EU membership, are still hotly debating the issue. A
key point in this debate is when and if Turkey should recognize the
Greek government of divided Cyprus, an EU member.
Brussels, 13 September 2005 (RFE/RL) — Commissioner Rehn repeated his
long-held view that the EU has no grounds to delay launching accession
talks with Turkey.
He said EU member states gave Turkey two conditions at a summit last
December, both of which Ankara has now fulfilled.
`There was a unanimous decision by the European Council that they
expected Turkey to fulfill two conditions: the entry into force of the
six pieces of legislation that were essential for the legal and
political [accession] criteria, and the signature by Turkey of the
adaptation protocol of the Ankara agreement [creating a customs union
with the EU] knowing that this would not amount to an explicit, formal
recognition [of Cyprus]. These two conditions are now met,’ Rehn said.
However, Rehn conceded that EU member states are still locked in what
he described as `heated’ debates. These are expected to culminate in
an unscheduled meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on 26
September.
Before negotiations can start with Turkey, the EU must adopt two key
documents.
One is the so-called `negotiating mandate’ allowing the European
Commission to start talks. The other is a `counter-declaration’ to a
statement last July in which Turkey said its extension of the existing
customs union with the EU — the so-called Ankara Protocol — to the
10 new EU members does not amount to a recognition of Greek Cyprus.
A previous draft of the counter-declaration urged Turkey to normalize
its relations with Nicosia. Turkey is the only country to formally
acknowledge the Turkish side of Cyprus as an independent state.
The wording of these two EU documents will be crucial. Diplomats in
Brussels say the EU’s British presidency has struck a deal with France
effectively removing the threat of a formal EU stipulation that the
talks could lead to a `privileged partnership’ rather than full
membership.
Rehn today sought to allay the latent anxiety many member states feel
about the long-term consequences of Turkish membership. He noted that
as all member states need to unanimously approve all of the 35
chapters into which accession talks have been divided, opportunities
to put a brake on the process abound.
`The member states will have to approve unanimously all the documents
[concerning] the negotiations on each and every chapter. That means
that there will be 35 decisions to be taken concerning the opening of
chapters and 35 decisions concerning the closing of chapters, and
perhaps in 10 or 15 years’ [time] a decision concerning the possible
closing of negotiations. This means that after the opening of the
negotiations has been decided there will be all together 71
`veto-points’ for each member state,’ Rehn said.
Rehn said some EU policy areas would remain closed for Turkey, while
permanent safeguard measures would be put in place to block
immigration from the country. Also, he said, Turkey would be subject
to rigorous monitoring by the European Commission. The commission is
issuing annual `progress reports,’ the next of which is due on 9
November.
However, Cyprus remains a stumbling block. Turkey’s overt repetition
of the fact it does not recognize Cyprus continues to raise hackles in
the EU. To add insult to injury, Turkey also refuses to implement the
extended customs union with the EU when it comes to Cyprus. Its ports
and airports remain closed to Cypriot boats and planes.
The Cypriot government today warned it is ready to veto the start of
accession talks with Turkey.
Rehn sought to steer a cautious course. He said the issues with Cyprus
do not have to be resolved before 3 October. He said Turkey would be
forced to accept Cypriot transport or find itself unable to end talks
on some chapters.
Rehn said it is `evident’ Turkey must recognize Cyprus by the time it
accedes to the EU.
But Rehn also sought to pressure Cyprus. He noted that it was the
Greek part of Cyprus that voted down a UN compromise last year in a
referendum. Had they not done so, Rehn noted, the problem of
recognition would not exist today.
He obliquely criticized Cyprus for single-handedly blocking an EU aid
package to the Turkish part of Cyprus worth hundreds of millions of
euros.
`It is regrettable that those who have in fact suffered from the
current situation are in the first place the Turkish Cypriot
community, because regardless of our decisions more than a year ago,
we have not been able to provide the package on financial assistance
and direct trade, which would help in ending the economic isolation of
the northern part of Cyprus and enhancing economic development and
trade relations in that part of the island — which is also necessary
to facilitate a comprehensive settlement in Cyprus,’ Rehn said.
Currently, the EU views northern Cyprus as EU territory where EU laws
are suspended.
Responding to criticism voiced by some European Parliament deputies
today, Rehn said the recent indictment in Turkey of the celebrated
author Orhan Pamuk is `clearly in breach of the principles of the
European Convention on Human Rights.’
Pamuk was indicted earlier this month after he spoke of the `genocide’
of Turkey’s Armenian population during World War I. A prosecutor in
Istanbul said his remarks amounted to a “public denigration” of
Turkish identity.
Rehn said the decision by an Istanbul district judge to set 16
December as the trial date is a `provocation’ — as it was on that day
last year that the EU summit decided to authorize accession talks with
Turkey.

PARTIAL BOYCOTT, OR THE OPPOSITION RETURNED PARTIALLY
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The RA authorities or the coalition has not met the demand of the
opposition to settle law in the country. In answer to this the
opposition had announced total boycott. Now the National Unity has
decided to cease the boycott and return to the session.
“~SNational Unity” will remain faithful to the policy it adopted,
but it has found necessary to introduce some strategic changes. In
the special session where the Constitutional reforms were discussed
we made sure that the actions of the opposition put the authorities
into a dead block and prove to the people that there is a united
political power in the person of the Parliamentary opposition which
will lead the movement of the wide population. Saying No to the draft
Constitution it will prove to the people and to the international
organization that the authorities are not legitimate and do not enjoy
the trust of the people”, said Artashes Geghamyan.
And the Justice bloc convened a session today during which they
decided to partially go on with the boycott. They will participate
in those discussions which are most important for the society. Viktor
Dallakyan reminded that they are boycotting the work of the Parliament
as their draft of the confidence referendum was left out of agenda.

INJURED JANKULOVSKI NOT TO PLAY QUALIFIER AGAINST ARMENIA
Czech News Agency
September 5, 2005
PRAGUE, Sept 5 (CTK) – National soccer team-member Marek Jankulovski
will not play qualification match against Armenia in Olomouc, north
Moravia, on Wednesday, Czech national team spokesman Lukas Tucek
announced today.
The AC Milan defender who did not finish Saturday’s game against
Romania due to ankle pains has already left for Italy to receive
medical treatment, Tucek said, adding that doctors agreed Jankolovski’s
ankle needs to rest.
Jankulovski is the second player to leave national soccer team coach
Karel Brueckner’s starting lineup. Goalie Petr Cech already left for
London on Sunday.
Jankulovski broke his ankle in May but felt 100 percent fit at a
national team rendezvous. But when he kicked a ball with the tip of
his foot on Saturday the screws in his leg began to ache him and he
had himself replaced.
Though a medical check-up on Sunday proved the ankle did not break
again, national soccer team doctor Petr Krejci said Jankulovski’s
start in Wednesday’s match was not assured.
Health problems have also concerned Tomas Rosicky, who’s thigh muscle
insertion has been troubling him. On the other hand, national soccer
team captain Tomas Galasek should train again fully today. Coach
Brueckner did not decided yet whether to call up a substitute player.

LESSONS FOR A MOLOKAN
by Onnik Krikorian
Transitions Online, Czech Republic
5 September 2005
How can one educate Armenia’s equivalent of the Amish? From UNICEF
Armenia.
FIOLETOVO, Armenia | It’s not often that you encounter a village
that makes you feel like an “outsider” in Armenia but this is one of
the few that do, and in every sense of the word. It’s not that the
residents of this ethnically homogenous village made up of Russian
Molokans don’t like visitors. It’s simply that their presence is not
considered essential for Fioletovo to survive and prosper.
The Molokans are Russians that split from the Russian Orthodox Church
in the 17th Century. Fioletovo, a village inhabited by less than
1,500 people, is the largest community outside of Yerevan. Their
total population in Armenia stands at just 5,000 although 14 years
earlier, when independence was declared, there were approximately
12,000 Molokans living in the republic. Since then, most have left.
To call the community “closed” is not too far from the truth. Apart
from venturing out of Fioletovo and nearby Lermontovo to sell their
famous sauerkraut at market, the village resembles a traditional
Russian enclave cut off from the rest of Armenia. You might even be
forgiven for thinking you had entered a settlement somewhere deep in
the heart of Russia.
Many consider the Molokans as something akin to the Amish in the
United States.
True, the Molokans use motorized vehicles but otherwise, alcohol
is forbidden as is marriage outside the community. And, for the more
strict adherents to the faith, so is television. Streets are impeccably
clean with every other house sporting a fresh coat of paint. The men
wear long beards that haven’t been cut in years while most of the
women cover their heads.
Their fiercely blonde and blue-eyed children are unable to communicate
in any language other than Russian.
And herein lies the problem. As idyllic and refreshing as the scene
might be, the situation in terms of education is just the opposite.
In fact, according to a recent survey of education in national minority
communities by the Hazarashen Armenian Centre of Ethnological Studies,
“Molokans continue retaining [their] virtues over education and thus,
the inertia of perceiving education as secondary continues.”
The report, conducted for Armenia’s education ministry and the
National Statistics Service was made possible through the financial
and technical support of UNICEF. It follows a generic survey on
education in Armenia held during 2001. Then, UNICEF discovered that
school drop-out rates for national minority communities, in addition
to those made up of refugees, were twice the national average.
As a result, one of the recommendations from that 2001 report was to
conduct a new assessment but specifically focusing on national minority
communities. Although Armenia is considered a largely mono-ethnic
country, 2.2 percent of the population comprises ethnic groups such
as Yezidis, Assyrians, Russians and Jews. The report chose to focus
on the three largest in the republic – the Yezidis and Kurds, the
Assyrians, and the Russian Molokans.
“We discovered that there were no problems whatsoever in the Assyrian
community,” says Marine Soukhudyan, UNICEF’s Education Project
Officer. “Historically, as well as culturally, the Assyrian community
values education highly and does everything it can to ensure that
their children receive a normal education. Of course, there is still
a problem with the availability of textbooks and this is a serious
issue for every minority community in Armenia.”
Like the Molokans, the Assyrians receive much of their own education
in Russian but the textbooks that exist are mainly left over from
the Soviet era and do not comply with the requirements of the
new curriculum. There is also an insufficient quantity of teaching
materials in minority languages, but Soukhudyan says that the National
Institute of Education in Armenia is currently contacting intellectuals
within each community to address this problem.
However, she says that there are more serious concerns. “For example,
during the last 15 years, only a handful of children from minority
communities entered higher education,” she explains. “We also
discovered that in Yezidi communities, children attend school for
two to five months on average per year. At first, we thought this was
connected to poverty but later, we discovered that this reflected an
attitude within the community towards education.”
“With the exception of the Assyrians, the Molokan and Yezidi
communities prioritize labor,” continues Soukhudyan. “There is also
a great difference between attitudes towards education for girls
compared to boys. In many communities, grade 8 is considered the end
of the education cycle. This is mandatory under Armenian law but the
real picture is hidden away by many other factors.”
Children from national minority communities are instead expected to
tend the fields and shepherd livestock rather than attend school. The
UNICEF-funded report also noted that some Molokan families have even
been known to pull their children out of school as early as the second
or third grade.
“Parents think that 3 years of education is enough for a child to
know how to sell milk, cabbage and count 10 eggs, which means that
the child will be able to earn money,” says the report, summarizing
the attitude of Molokans in Lermontovo towards education. “Having a
full stomach is better than having an education.”
Education in minority communities is therefore seasonal and governed
by the agricultural calendar. At the same time, because teachers in
rural communities are also engaged in farming, they have no interest
in recording low attendance figures because they too are absent.
Soukhudyan calls it a “mutually beneficial situation for both teachers
and the families of schoolchildren.”
Indeed, when the survey team for the report visited Lermontovo
in August during harvest time, there was not a single child in the
village. Even pre-school children had been sent to help their parents
in the fields. Every year, they work there until mid-October and
sometimes, the beginning of November.
Even so, school work is still marked as “satisfactory” although
children have learned little or next to nothing. In some cases,
especially in Yezidi communities, pupils and teachers cannot even
communicate with each other. In these communities, while the teachers
are Armenian, each new intake of children from Yezidi families can
hardly understand anything other than their mother tongue.
“Textbooks are also in Armenian but it takes two or three years
before Yezidi children can understand the language,” says Soukhudyan.
“Until then, the child’s development is frustrated and, actually,
prevented. There are some Yezidi teachers, of course, but as they
generally come from other villages, there is also the problem of
transportation, especially during the winter months.”
Armenian teachers sometimes use body language instead of words to
“explain and impart knowledge to students.”
And while adverse socio-economic conditions faced by rural settlements,
as well as the poor upkeep of village schools, are detrimental to
education, the main problem is cultural. This is especially true for
females. “There are those who even consider education dangerous for a
girl,” says the report. “They reason that an educated woman may have
ideas and not be as obedient to men.”
However, despite these obstacles, there are children in minority
communities that would like to enter higher education. In the Yezidi
village of Zovuni, for example, one girl cries as she tells of her
inability to study French when she finishes school. Another Yezidi
girl says that if given the opportunity, she would like to study,
and later teach, Armenian language and literature.
Key to effectively addressing this issue, however, will be to launch
a public awareness campaign highlighting the importance of education
among national minority communities. The governor of the Aragatsotn
region in Armenia has already committed himself to supporting UNICEF
in this endeavor. In particular, there will be a specific focus on
teaching Yezidi and Molokan children the Armenian language from an
early age, especially in pre-schools.
UNICEF will also supply 100 schools in five regions of Armenia with
“school in a box” kits that contain essential supplies to meet
the needs of 8,000 schoolchildren. The kits will also be supplied
to vulnerable Armenian communities, especially those situated in
depressed border regions.
“It is my dream to become a doctor,” says one girl in Lermontovo,
“but how can a Molokan enter university? We can’t receive a higher
education because we don’t know Armenian. Nobody here does.”
Onnik Krikorian is a journalist and photographer based in Yerevan.
This article first appeared on the website of UNICEF Armenia.
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AREXIMBANK (ARMENIA) ANNOUNCES ABOUT CHANGES IN CONDITIONS RELATED TO SEASONAL DEPOSIT “AUTUMN”
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 5 2005
YEREVAN, September 5. /ARKA/. The Areximbank (Armenia) announced
about changes in conditions related to the seasonal deposit “Autumn”,
press-service of the Areximbank reported ARKA News Agency. From
September 15 to October 15, 2005 the bank accepts USD deposits for
1-12 months at 8% interest rate (previously for 6-12 months at 9%
interest rate). According to press-release, the interests are paid
immediately after the registration of the deposit. All depositors,
if they wish, are given Visa Electron plastic cards for free if the
deposits amount to USD 10,000-USD 50,000; Visa Classic if the deposits
are up to USD 50,000, and Visa Gold if the deposits exceed USD 50,000.
Areximbank CJSC was registered on June 3, 1998 to support business
and servicing of the financial flows between Armenia and Russia.
Total assets of the Areximbank made AMD 10.8bln by June 30, 2005, the
bank’s credit portfolio made about AMD 4.7bln. Total capital of the
bank made AMD 2.8bln by June 30, 2005 and the profit in January-June,
2005 made AMD 95.3mln. ($1 = AMD 463.27). A.A. –0-

CYPRUS ARMENIAN MP, BEDROS KALAYDJIAN DIES
01/09/2005
Bedros Kalaydjian, the Representative of the Armenian minority in
the Cyprus parliament, died Thursday after a long illness.
Kalaydjian, who turned 71 a week ago, served in the House of
Representatives for two terms. He was first elected in the by-election
of October 22, 1995 and at the parliamentary elections of May 26,
1996 and May 27, 2001.
Through his parliamentary duties, he often support for Armenia and
Nagorno Karabakh, while like all his predecessors often raised the
issue of Turkey’s denial of the 1915 Genocide. At home, Kalaydjian’s
main priorities were educational reform and improvement of the Nareg
elementary schools in Nicosia, Larnaca and Limassol.
He played a decisive role in the ratification and adoption by Cyprus
in 2002 of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages,
one of the first European countries to do so. The Charter anticipated
the continuation of the Melkonian Educational Institute school in
Nicosia, which the AGBU Central Board in New York decided to close
citing financial reasons.
Kalaydjian fervently opposed the decision to close the school and sell
off the land, but was unable to persuade the organisation’s leadership
of the importance of maintaining the only Armenian secondary school
in the European Union, with its unique boarding facility attracting
students from around the world. He assisted in securing a preservation
order and declaring most of the school grounds a ‘national historic
site.’
He was a founding member of the Cyprus – Armenia Friendship Association
and convinced the Cyprus government to sponsor dance, orchestral and
art groups from Armenia to visit the island.
Kalaydjian supported government decisions to maintain Armenian
monuments, including the 19th century historic cemetery near
Paphos Gate that was recently destroyed but was expected to
be restored. However, he did not live to see his dream project
materialise, the establishment of a ‘monument of gratitude’ that is
expected to be built on the Larnaca seafront to mark the arrival of
Armenian refugees and survivors of the massacres in Turkey and the
subsequent welcome offered by the people of Cyprus.
For many years he was president of the Larnaca AGBU club, on the
board of the Armenian Church Committee, chairman of the board of the
American Academy in Larnaca and Limassol and president of the Larnaca
Rotary Club.
Bedros Kalaydjian studied Business Administration at Fallowfield
College, Manchester, and headed the family business that included a
group of trading, real estate and hotel companies. After his brother’s
death ten years ago, Bedros worked hard to extend and upgrade the
Kalaydjian Rest Home they had established in Nicosia for elderly
people, adding a new floor and chapel in recent years.
He was married to Lisa Jackson and is succeeded by his son, Dickran,
and daughter, Julia, and three grandchildren.
The funeral will take place at the Sourp Stepanos (St. Stephen’s)
Armenian Church in Larnaca on Saturday, September 3, at 4pm.

TURKEY CHARGES NOVELIST OVER REMARKS ABOUT MASS DEATHS
Orhan Pamuk could face three years in prison for speaking about his
nation’s alleged slaying of Armenians and, more recently, Kurds.
By Amberin Zaman, Special to The Times
Los Angeles Times, CA
Sept 1 2005
ANKARA, Turkey – Orhan Pamuk, one of Turkey’s best-known novelists,
has been charged with insulting the nation and its people for speaking
out against the mass deaths of Armenians during and after World War
I and the more recent killings of Kurds, his publisher said Wednesday.
Pamuk will go on trial in December and could face three years in
prison under the country’s revised penal code, which deems denigrating
Turks and Turkey a punishable offense, Iletisim Publishing said in
a written statement.
Officials declined to comment on the charges. Turkish law prohibits
Pamuk from commenting on his case while it is pending.
Pamuk drew nationalist ire here and even received anonymous death
threats after he told the Swiss daily newspaper Tagesanzeiger in an
interview published Feb. 6 that “30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians
were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it.”
Turkey has long denied that more than 1 million members of its
once thriving Armenian community were the victims of systematic
annihilation between 1915 and 1923. Armenians and many others label
the campaign genocide.
The Turkish government position is that several hundred thousand
Armenians died as a result of exposure, famine and disease as they
journeyed to Syria after being deported for collaborating with invading
Russian forces.
Pamuk’s most recent bestselling novel, “Snow,” explores tensions
between Turkey’s secular elite and religious conservatives.
News of Pamuk’s case came a day before European Union foreign ministers
were scheduled to meet in Wales, mainly to discuss Turkey’s bid to
join the 25-member bloc. The EU has long cited Turkey’s checkered
record on human rights as the chief obstacle to membership.
Turkey won a date to open membership talks after its parliament passed
numerous reforms that, among other steps, eased restrictions on the
language spoken by the country’s large Kurdish minority. The talks
are scheduled to begin Oct. 3. Several countries, including France,
are seeking to block Turkey’s entry amid mounting public opposition
to the inclusion of a large, poor and predominantly Muslim country.
Other critics charge that Turkey’s new penal code, which came into
force in June, still falls short of EU standards by proscribing free
debate of the Armenian tragedy and criticism of Turkey’s 1974 invasion
of the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus.
“How can Turkey possibly claim to be a European country if it has
such laws on the books and prosecutors can bring such cases?” British
novelist Maureen Freely, who translated “Snow” to English, said in an
editorial published Wednesday in the Independent, a London newspaper.
Some EU diplomats speculated that the case against Pamuk was timed by
elements within the Turkish government seeking to derail the country’s
membership in the alliance.
“This can only be the work of those within the Turkish state who
stand to lose influence under the [EU-oriented] reform process,”
said a Western diplomat who asked not to be identified, reflecting
a common practice among envoys. “How else can one explain the case
being launched so long after Pamuk’s statement?”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER DESCRIBES NAGORNO-KARABAKH TALKS AS ‘STEP FORWARD’
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic
Aug 30 2005
29 August 2005 — Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov
said weekend talks between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia
over Nagorno-Karabakh marked a step forward.
But Mammadyarov told reporters in Baku today that “it’s still early
to speak of serious progress.”
Armenian President Robert Kocharian and his Azerbaijani counterpart,
Ilham Aliyev, discussed the conflict on 27 August following a CIS
summit in Kazan.
Mammadyarov said the issues being discussed include the return of
refugees and the restoration of roads and other contacts between
Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani exclave separated from
the country by Armenian territory.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

PROSPECTS OF COOPERATION
Yerkir/arm
August 26, 2005
Sponsored by Cilicia Catholicos Aram I, a conference entitled “Looking
for prospects of Armenia-Diaspora cooperation” was held on August
11-13 in Antelias. Intellectuals from Armenia and Diaspora were
invited to participate.
In his opening remarks on the direction the conference should take and
its prospects, Aram I said: “We hope that the unique nature of this
gathering would provide an opportunity for free thought, realistic
analyses and honest judgments away from all kinds of influences and
prejudiced approaches.” said His Holiness.
His Holiness stressed the importance of dialogue. “Talking
about each other away from one another leads us to alienation,
polarization. Being together and talking with one another lead us to
unity and progress. Our nation should choose the second path.”
His Holiness called upon the attendants to come out of their closed
circles and stay open to new challenges. “We need new and wider spaces
to inter-act with each other”, said Aram I. He stressed cooperation
as the pivot of the Armenian nation’s collective struggle.
“The sense of belonging to one nation has become the unshakable basis
of our unity, our strength, our survival. Therefore, we should talk
about cooperation between the two societies of a single nation. Any
other approach is not acceptable,” said His Holiness.
His Holiness summarized the main purpose of the conference in the
following three points: giving a new impetus to the cooperation between
Armenia and the Diaspora, challenge intellectuals to make people’s
voices and will heard, discussing the factors hindering cooperation
and looking for ways for giving a new drive to this cooperation.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT TO REFUGEES
Azat Artsakh Nagorno Karabakh Republic [NKR]
29 Aug 05
The first refugees came to the region of Hadrut on February 29, 1988,
after the atrocities in Sumgait. The flow of refugees continued
from Baku, Kirovabad, Mingechaur, Khanlar, Fizuli, Shamkhor,
etc. Housing and other problems of the refugees were constantly
in the focus of attention of the regional administration. The main
problem was housing. In March 1988 the construction of a block of
24 flats was completed. Two flats were provided to two families
from Sumgait. In the area of Khmarats Bagher in the town of Hadrut
10 houses were built for refugees. Many families were provided with
homes. However, it would not be correct to say that everything was
done for the refugees. The refugees who settled down in villages
were ignored. From 1988 to 1992 200 refugee families came to the
region from different places of Azerbaijan. In accordance with the
NKR law on refugees and the decisions of the NKR government these
families were registered by the district agency of social service of
the administration of Hadrut region, and the files were sent to the
NKR Agency for Migration, Refugees and Resettlement. It is planned to
provide allowances to 25 families in September of the current year. The
construction of two houses for refugee families has started in the
town of Hadrut. According to the head of the agency of social service
of the administration of Hadrut region S. Hakobian, the construction
of another 4 houses is planned.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress