SALE AND PURCHASE TRANSACTIONS OF 1.4 MILLION DOLLARS CARRIED OUT AT NASDAQ OEMEX ARMENIA OJSC ON OCTOBER 22
NOYAN TAPAN
OCTOBER 22, 2009
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. Sale and purchase transactions of
1.4 million dollars at the weighted average exchange rate of 385 drams
per dollar were carried out at Nasdaq Oemex Armenia OJSC on October
22. According to the press service of the Central Bank of Armenia,
the closing price made 385 drams.
SIRUSHO (2008) RETURNS WITH NEW CD
oikotimes.com
Oct 22 2009
Armenian singer Sirusho who represented her country in the 2008
Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade has made a comeback to music
following a short break. In addition to launching a new CD, she has
got a new producer and her music is taking on a new style.
Sirusho recently appeared at the Yerevan birthday celebrations,
where the city held a concert to celebrate it’s 2791th birthday.
Arevik Udumyan, the singer’s new producer, will be working with her
as she approaches the launch of her fourth album, which is due to be
released in the near future.
Sirusho represented Armenia at the 2008 Contest, where she took 4th
place in the final with her song ‘Qele Qele’.
KAIDANOW MEETS WITH ARF LEADERS
ARF Press Service
Oct 22nd, 2009
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Tina Kaidanow in Yerevan.
YEREVAN (ARF Press Service)-US Deputy Assistant Secretary for
European and Eurasian Affairs Tina S. Kaidanow visited the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation Bureau headquarters, the Kristapor Mikaelian
Center, Wednesday and met with leaders of the organization.
The ARF representatives Bureau member Levon Lazarian, ARF Supreme
Council of Armenia chairman Armen Rustamian and the party’s political
director Giro Manoyan welcomed Kaidanow, who was accompanied by US
Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch.
The two sides discussed developments surrounding the Armenia-Turkey
protocols, the ongoing negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,
as well as the socio-economic situation and democratic reforms in
Armenia, with the ARF representatives outlining the party’s positions
on these matters.
UNLOCKING ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER TO RAISE INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS IN ARMENIA IMMEDIATELY
/ARKA/
October 21, 2009
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, October 21. / ARKA /. Unlocking the Armenian-Turkish border
will just increase the investment attractiveness of Armenia, and in
fact not only for Turkish investors, the head of OSCE Yerevan office
Sergey Kapinos said in an interview with ARKA News Agency.
"The opening of the border is a fairly lengthy process of harmonization
of procedures, monitoring mechanisms, involving different services,
such as security, customs, taxation and others, and this time should
be used to maximum benefit," the ambassador said.
Head of OSCE Yerevan Office believes that Armenia has no reason to
worry about competition from Turkey.
"Armenia has open customs borders with more developed economic states.
In addition, within the World Trade Organization and outside of
it there is always the possibility of preventing and countering
the actions that go beyond the concept of "healthy competition","
Kapinos said.
He believes that the vigorous implementation of the Turkish capital in
the Armenian economy can only play a positive role with a reasonable
approach.
However, according to the ambassador, "it will have to compete not
only with Armenian companies, but the business structures of developed
countries."
Head of OSCE Office in Yerevan is sure that opening of the border will
have a positive impact on the economic situation in Armenia and will
open up new markets for export of electricity, building materials,
foil and other products, and contribute to clearing the field of
competition in the country.
Armenia and Turkey signed protocols on the normalization of bilateral
relations on October 10 in Zurich.
The complex relationship between the two countries is caused by,
inter alia, Ankara’s position of support for Azerbaijan in the
Karabakh issue, as well as an acute reaction to Turkey’s process
of international recognition of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in the
Ottoman Empire.
85 FILMS FROM 30 COUNTRIES TO BE PRESENTED IN FRAMES OF "AREVORDI" SECOND ECOLOGICAL FESTIVAL
PanARMENIAN.Net
21.10.2009 20:01 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Arevordi" environmental festival will be held
October 25-29 in Yerevan. The festival, starting in 2007, is organized
every two years by the Wildlife and Cultural values protection fund
of Armenia. The program of the only ecological festival of the South
Caucasus includes film screenings on environmental topics, seminars,
exhibitions, concerts and various environmental actions.
This year the festival will show 85 films from 30 countries. Together
with the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and GTZ the festival
organizers will hold a workshop for 13 to 16 years old boys and girls
from Yerevan, Lori, Tavush, Vayots Dzor and Ararat.
The purpose of the festival is an open forum through seminars,
open discussions and trainings. For the first time the audience
award, established by OSCE will be given to participants this
year. More than 60 guests will attend the festival: film directors,
critics, representatives of international organizations and leading
environmentalists.
TURKISH GOVERNMENT SENDS THE PROTOCOLS WITH ARMENIA TO THE PARLIAMENT
armradio.am
20.10.2009 12:17
The Turkish government will send the two Zurich protocols on
normalizing relations with Armenia to Parliament this week, but there
is no deadline for their ratification, according to a senior Justice
and Development Party (AK Party) official.
"The process [of ratification] will proceed according to developments
in the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute," Bekir Bozdag, an AK Party deputy
parliamentary group chairman, told Today’s Zaman.
The Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers signed the two protocols
on Oct. 10 in Zurich, but they must be ratified in order to go into
effect. The protocols call for the opening of the border, closed
since 1993, and the restoration of diplomatic relations.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will address Parliament on
Wednesday regarding the documents. "As to when they will be ratified,
this is up to our Parliament," he told a press conference on Monday,
Today’s Zaman reported.
GULTEKIN HAJIBEYLI: "WE HAVE ALWAYS SUPPORTED TURKISH DELEGATION AT PACE"
APA
Oct 19 2009
Azerbaijan
Baku – APA. "We never changed our position toward Azerbaijan despite
that it did not recognize Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Sometimes they left us alone at the European Council Parliamentary
Assembly unawares, but we have never left them alone. We have informed
Azerbaijan about every round of talks with Armenia. This process is a
good chance for ending of occupation of Karabakh, which is difficult
for Azerbaijani troops to defend", Turkish State Minister Egemen
Bagish told Haberturk, APA reports. "It is impossible to understand
the lowering of our flags, closing of the mosques, gas threats like
Russian threats against Georgia and Ukraine and to explain it to the
Turkish community. It is impossible to separate us from our Azeri
brothers, because we need them and they need us. Heydar Aliyev said
we are two states and one nation".
Bagish said he hoped that this process would bring peace, stability
and richness to the South Caucasus. "If we don’t use this chance,
it will never come to us".
Member of Azerbaijani delegation to PACE Gultekin Hajibeyli told APA
that the Azerbaijani delegation was always together with the Turkish
delegation at PACE. "There was no discrimination between us. We
always supported the Turkish delegation. It must be so because the
Turks should be in union with each other".
Regarding non-recognition of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
by Azerbaijan, Hajibeyli said Turkey knew its reason very well.
"Everyone knows that if the independence of Turkish Republic of
Northern Cyprus is recognized, the issue of recognition of Nagorno
Karabakh independence will come to agenda immediately. It is not
correct to make difference between the Turks in the Northern Cyprus
and Nagorno Karabakh. All of us are Turks. It is not correct for the
high-ranking officials to make such statements and to create coldness".
ADVENTURES IN A FARM NEAR DIKANKA TO BE FILMED IN ARMENIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.10.2009 17:08 GMT+04:00
In frames of the Fifth International Festival of films for children and
youth, launched on October 15 in Yerevan, the premiere of the film,
directed by Nickolai Denisov "Adventures in a farm near Dikanka"
was held.
"I was lucky to present for the first time my film in Yerevan at the
festival. This is my long-cherished dream, to visit Armenia. Once I
played the role of an Armenian in the youth theater," Nikolay Denisov
told a press conference today.
According to the producer, a TV film is shot on the order of the
Moscow government within 18 days in Ukraine.
"My film "Adventures in a Farm near Dikanka " is about childhood,
summer, friendship and the feeling of first love. It is very inspiring
film. I hope to shoot continuation of the film in Armenia, " the
director said.
He also stressed: "Children’s films are, in fact, very rare now. We
should not deprive children of their childhood. We have grown watching
children’s films. I am very happy such festivals are held. They are
very important for the development of our children and the revival
of children’s and youth films.
The artistic director of the Children’s and youth Film and TV
Development Armenian Fund "Rolan Bykov" Neli Alelova said: "I promise
the fund will provide all resources to continue the production of
the movie "Adventures in a Farm near Dikanka" in Armenia.
The Fifth International Festival of Children’s and Youth Films is held
at the initiative of the Children’s and youth Film and TV Development
Armenian Fund after Rolan Bykov and aims to develop children’s interest
in movies, giving them the opportunity to watch the best children’s
and youth films produced over the past few years.
This year the festival will show 51 films produced in 23 countries.
The festival will also organize give master classes of renowned
producers. The festival will mark 80 years of Sos Sargsyan, Yervand
Manaryan and Rolan Bykov.
ARMENIAN WEIGHTLIFTING TEAM TAKES FIRST PLACE IN POLAND
Tert
Oct 19 2009
Armenia
Armenian team took first place in the men’s team competition in
the European weightlifting championship under 23, which was held in
Poland. Six out of eight Armenian athletes won medals.
The Armenian team under 23 years old won 7 gold (3 big, 4 small), six
silver (2 big, 4 small) and three bronze (1 big, 2 small) medals. This
was the best result in the championship.
All the eight athletes representing Armenia demonstrated good results.
None of them reached anything below sixth place in any exercise.
Armenia scored 587, followed by teams from Russia, Poland, Turkey,
Italy, and Spain. In total, teams from 32 countries were taking part
in the European championship.
ENDOWMENT LAW DISCUSSED IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.10.2009 12:42 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ RA Endowment Law was discussed in Yerevan on
October 19.
As stockholder of Grant Thornton Amyot LLC Gurgen Hakobyan told
PanARMENIAN.Net, the company developed the bill by order of Eurasia
Partnership Foundation.
"It aims at creation of legislative base for non-governmental
organizations to form and use targeted capital," he said. "The law will
help Armenian NGOs be more self-sufficient. An important provision in
this bill is that the income the NGOs will get from the capital will
be tax-free. The cash assets will work through investment companies
(pension fund, banks) and the NGOs will get dividends."
For her part, Eurasia Partnership Foundation Programs Manager Marina
Mkhitaryan said that the experience of Czech Republic and Germany in
introduction of corporate social management was used for development
of the bill, which will help efficient spending of funds.