Author: Jagharian Tania

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT PAYS A WORKING VISIT TO ARARAT AND ARMAVIR PROVINCE

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 25, ARMENPRESS: Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan
paid a working visit to the `Massis Tobacco’ factory, got acquainted
with the production powers, walked in the factory, spoke with the
leadership and employees. During the working visit the president was
accompanied by vice prime minister, territorial administration
minister Armen Gevorgyan, agriculture minister Gerasim Alaverdyan,
Ararat governor Vardges Hovakimyan. In the factory they were
accompanied by the president of the company Hrant Vardanyan.
This year in January-September the company exported 30,968 boxes of
cigarette production costing 3 million 408,632 USD. A ready product is
being exported to USA, Russia, Sweden, Georgia, Abkhazia, Iraq,
Turkmenistan, China, Afghanistan, Zambia, Israel. The raw cigarette is
being exported to Italy, Moldova, Netherlands, Georgia, Egypt,
Belgium.
Hrant Vardanyan said that the global financial-economic crisis will
not impede very much the development of such small companies as
Armenia if all the businessmen, collectives continue their natural
activity. `Who works will not be effected by the crisis,’ H. Vardanyan
said, expressing assurance that the crisis had a very small impact on
the food industry.
H. Vardanyan said the opening of the border with Turkey will create
new market and concerns that products will be imported from Turkey and
create troubles for producers.
`Massis Tobacco’ ensures 900 people with jobs some of them work for
a season and 520 are permanent employees.
Armenian president also visited in Ararat province the Aygavan
branch of the Yerevan Brandy Factory, then Armavir’s `MAP’ company.

GABRIEL SARKISYAN LOSES THE 6TH ROUND

Aysor
Thursday, September 24

Armenia’s Grand Master Gabriel Sarkisyan lost Antwerp’s International
Chess’2009 6th round to India’s Krishnan Sashikira. Currently he
seeds places of 5-6 together with Anna Muzichuk.

The tournament’s leaders Emil Sutovsky and Etienne Bacrot again won:
Emil Sutovsky won over Bart Michels and Etienne Bacrot won over
Anna Muzichuk.

Sutovsky leads the Tournament Table with 5 points, followed by Bacrot
with 4.5 points.

Sashikira who won over Armenian chess player took 3.5 points sharing
with Antoinette Stefanova places of 3-4. By the way, Stefanova won
over David Houel

Jan Timan, in his turn, won over Bartosz Socko and seeded 7-8 with
2.5 points.

Bart Michels took 2 points; David Houel added 0.5 to his portfolio.

ARMENIA STARTS PRIVATIZING COMPANIES THROUGH AUCTIONS ON STOCK EXCHANGE

ARKA
September 23, 2009
Yerevan

YEREVAN, September 24. /ARKA/. On Wednesday, Armenian government
permitted to privatize six companies by selling their stocks through
auctions on NASDAQ OMX Armenia Stock Exchange.

Karine Kirakosyan, chief of the state property agency, named these
companies – the Urban Planning Institute, Atomservice Company,
Nedrolog, Yerevan Section of Water Supply System, as well as Kaputak
and Narek rest house.

"These companies have been selected as a result of discussions with
the stock exchange. Companies and their stocks were evaluated on the
stock exchange for selection. The privatization process will give
the great number of people room for participation", Kirakosyan said.

She said that all the companies to be put up for sale function and
bring profit.

However, she didn’t indicate areas of their activities and the size
of the state participation.

In her words, the government approves the list of companies selected
by the agency and the stock exchange for privatization.

Kirakosyan said that before undergoing privatization process, companies
are transformed into open joint stock companies.

Under the government’s decision, the privatization will be completed
within six months.

NASDAQ OMX Armenia (Armenian Stock Exchange OJSC until January 27,2009)
was founded in 2001 as a self-regulating organization, a voluntary
association of 21 b rokerage firms.

Early in November 2007, the stock exchange was transformed to an
OJSC. On January 7, 2008, OMX (at present NASDAQ OMX) became sole
owner of NASDAQ OMX Armenia and of the Central Depository of Armenia.

As of June 23, 2009, 11 shares and 12 corporate bonds were listed on
NASDAQ OMX Armenia.

The capitalization of the stock exchange was 50.3bln AMD. ($1 =
AMD 382.05).

HEADS OF ALL DEPARTMENTS TO SUBMIT PROGRAMS AND PRIORITIES FOR 2010 TO ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT BY OCTOBER 15

NOYAN TAPAN
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. By the instruction of the Armenian
prime minister, the heads of all the departments must submit the 2010
programs and priorities of their departments to the government by
October 15. Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said at the September 23
sitting that the department heads will be given the order and format
of developing these measures.

SPAIN INTERESTED IN STABILITY IN SOUTH CAUCASUS

PanARMENIAN.Net
22.09.2009 18:31 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia’s National Security Council Secretary
Artur Baghdasaryan received the newly appointed Ambassador of Spain
in Armenia (residence in Moscow), Juan Antonio Marc Pujol.

The officials discussed the development of Armenian-Spanish relations,
as well as issues related to the South Caucasus.

As Artur Baghdasaryan mentioned, Armenia supports cooperation with
all countries in the region. The two sides also discussed issues
related to normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations.

Artur Baghdasaryan presented the position of the Armenian side in
the process of normalization of relations between the countries,
stressing that Armenia advocates for establishment of relations with
Turkey without preconditions, press office of the National Security
Council reports.

SERGE SARGSYAN MUST SEE
Hakob Badalyan

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Those who doubt that the Armenian government will sign the
Armenian-Turkish protocols and the Armenian parliament will ratify them
are few. Serge Sargsyan says openly that he realizes the difficulties
of this path but he is completely decisive in passing it up to the
end. There are two circumstances because of which he will refrain
from signing: first, if the public has clear opinion and expresses
it. And second if some powerful player in the international society
does not let him sign.

There is no "hope" in connection with the international public. In
other words, no one seems to want to keep Serge Sargsyan’s hand for
him not to sign the protocols against the Armenian interests. Each
of the "representatives" of the international public tries to serve
this reality for their own interest.

As the process of 6-week home political discussions shows, there is
still no hope that the Armenian public will forbid Serge Sargsyan
to sign them either. At least, the past two-three weeks did not
pre-determine at all any possibility of public repression. If clearer,
Serge Sargsyan does not see the consequence he can feel after signing
the Armenian and Turkish protocols in this form.

Who will say him anything inside the country if he sign the
protocols. Of course, there will be criticizers but no one is able
to worry the Armenian government through criticisms. Moreover, this
criticism is even in favor of the Armenian government because this way
the value of what they did enhances among the international public. The
main worry of the Armenian government is to sell the signature as
expensive as possible to the international society. So, the criticism
heard until today contributes to increase of the price of singing.

Those political forces which are honestly against the content of the
Armenian and Turkish protocols, if they want to prevent their singing
or their further ratification by the NA, have to find a way to show
Serge Sargsyan in practice the possible consequence of this step. He
knows clearly what his own interests in signing he also knows that
he will not have a concrete problem inside the country. Until the
forces criticizing him have not cleared up to him, the problems he
will have with the public in case of signing the protocols, all the
criticism will be willy-nilly expedient for Serge Sargsyan.

NORMALIZING ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS PROCESS WILL CONTINUE, SAYS TURKOLOGIST

Tert
Sept 21 2009
Armenia

"Serzh Sargsyan’s visit to Turkey must not be conditional on the
process of the Protocols. Simply, Sargsyan invited Turkey’s president,
who came, and Sargsyan’s visit will be simply a response visit;
particularly, if the visit on the occasion of the football match is
not bound to any issue. I think, however, that the president will
go, and the process of normalization will continue," Turkologist
Hakob Chakrian told Tert.am, in response to the question on upcoming
developments in the process of establishing Armenian-Turkish relations.

In the issue of establishing Armenian-Turkish relations, Chakrian views
the possible developments in this way: "In this matter, the Turkish
side also doesn’t have the possiblility of maneuvering much. Finally,
international powers initiated this process and is it their position
which will be decisive."

The Turkologist doesn’t exclude the interruption of the process
either. "Turkey’s authorities express changing views: on one hand, they
are for the normalization [of Armenian-Turkish relations]; on the other
hand, they connect the issue with the settlement of Nagorno-Karbakh,
which is unacceptable in the international arena. Even if the process
is interrupted let it be Turkey’s fault that it’s interrupted, so
that Armenia doesn’t become a target of international pressures. The
process failing is not excluded, since Erdogan’s leadership has a
serious opposition," Chakrian commented.

Continuing, the expert expressed his surprise at Armenia’s opposition,
which, according to him, doesn’t believe their independent country’s
president’s statements and prefers to believe its own assumptions,
according to which there are preconditions in the Armenian Turkish
Protocols.

"There is not a single precondition in the documents. There are tenets,
on which diverse comments can be made. Generally speaking, those from
the opposition who in previous years were expressing another opinion on
Armenian-Turkish relations are now saying the diametrically opposite,
which is concerning because [it shows that] governing bodies are unable
to express their own point of view and they are condemned to having
incessant opinions and changing points of view," stated Chakrian.

YEREVAN’S MAYOR VISITS MATERNITY WARDS ON INDEPENDENCE DAY

Tert
Sept 21 2009
Armenia

Yerevan’s mayor, Gagik Beglaryan, in honour of Independence Day in
Armenia, paid a visit to three maternity hospitals operating under city
hall’s supervision. The mayor congratulated those women who experienced
the joy of motherhood on a historically important day for Armenia:
Independence Day, which commemorates the reinstatement of the Republic
of Armenia as an independent country, after 70 years of Soviet rule

According to an announcement made by Yerevan City Hall, the mayor
expressed his confidence that the children would grow up in a safe
and peaceful country. He also distributed flowers to the new mothers
and gold crosses on chains to their newborn children.

First Deputy Mayor Taron Margaryan, Deputy Mayor Kamo Areyan and the
mayor’s advisors paid visits to the other seven maternity hospitals
operating in Yerevan.

Le Monde, France
16 septembre 2009 mercredi

Missak Manouchian, itinéraire de roman

AUTEUR: Jean-Luc Douin

DEUX ROMANS accompagnent la sortie du film de Robert Guédiguian. C’est
par le biais d’une enquête réalisée par un journaliste de L’Humanité,
et flanqué d’un photographe nommé Willy Ronis, que Didier Daeninckx
propose un portrait fictif de Missak Manouchian, le chef du réseau
d’immigrés résistant à l’occupant (Missak, Perrin, 290 p., 16,90
euros).

Dans Itinéraire d’un salaud ordinaire (Gallimard, 2006), l’auteur
avait reconstitué une époque et l’état d’esprit d’un flic collabo au
fil d’une histoire rendant hommage aux feuilletons populaires. Cette
fois, il entraîne son journaliste chez les Arméniens de Paris (un
certain Charles Aznavour passe au Moulin-Rouge), onze ans après
l’exécution de Manouchian, à l’occasion de l’inauguration d’une rue
qui doit porter le nom de son groupe dans le 20e arrondissement de
Paris.

Il s’agit, pour le journal communiste, de confondre les calomniateurs
qui ont fait circuler des rumeurs pour salir le parti. Au fil des
témoignages recueillis, le journaliste acquiert la certitude que
Manouchian a été trahi par une certaine Katia. Cette jeune fille de 19
ans qui faisait partie du groupe de jeunes communistes juifs dirigé
par Henri Krasucki avait été pincée à faire du marché noir et voulait
sauver sa peau. Il apprend aussi que le flic français auquel Katia
avait donné ses camarades fut révoqué de la police et jugé en 1947
pour avoir prévenu des résistants de l’imminence d’une rafle. Certains
militants de la MOI (Main-d’oeuvre immigrée) témoignèrent en sa
faveur, en particulier Krasucki, à qui cet homme avait proposé de
s’évader…

Didier Daeninckx signe également le texte de Missak, l’enfant de
l’affiche rouge, un album jeunesse illustré par Laurent Corvaisier (à
partir de 8 ans, Rue du Monde, 60 p., 17 euros).

Scrupuleuse analyse

Interprété dans le film par Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, le lycéen
parisien Thomas Elek fait, lui, l’objet d’une scrupuleuse analyse de
comportement d’Alain Blottière (Le Tombeau de Tommy, Gallimard, 218
p., 16,50 euros). L’écrivain se met dans la peau d’un cinéaste
réalisant un film sur ce jeune juif hongrois. Son récit est une sorte
de journal où il justifie ses choix, un commentaire sur un scénario
dont il livre ici et là quelques pages. La quête de l’acteur approprié
l’amène à dénicher un certain Gabriel, et par lui à confronter un
adolescent d’aujourd’hui avec le caractère de son modèle. Fiévreux et
déterminé, avec l’aide de la mère d’Elek, à dépeindre l’individu
autant que le dérailleur de trains, Alain Blottière explore dans son
livre les ressorts de l’approche du comédien, bouleversante
identification qui le rend mort-vivant.

Côté essais, signalons la réédition de L’Affiche rouge, de Benoît
Rayski (Denoël, 150 p., 13 euros).

AAP Newsfeed, Australia
September 18, 2009 Friday 12:46 PM AEST

Box: Darchinyan planning first major Aussie bout in five yeras
by Adrian Warren

SYDNEY Sept 18

Super flyweight world champion Vic Darchinyan is planning his first
major Australian fight for five years, but his immediate objective is
overcoming the tallest challenger of his boxing career.
Darchinyan has revealed an ambitious wish-list for 2010 after
returning to the gym this week in preparation for his December 12 WBC
and WBA super flyweight title defences against Mexican Tomas Rojas in
California.

The 33-year-old southpaw’s plans for next year include a potential
rematch with his first conqueror Nonito Donaire and world title fights
in his nation of birth Armenia and adopted country Australia.
He also intends returning to bantamweight at some stage after
dropping a points decision to that division’s IBF champion Joseph
Agbeko in his last fight in Florida back in July.
All but one of Darchinyan’s last 11 fights have been overseas, with
the one exception being a low key IBO super flyweight title fight
against Filipino Federico Catubay at Sydney’s Auburn RSL club.
He said American pay television network Showtime was excited about
the possibility of coming to Australia.
A candid Darchinyan still believes he lost that fight due to a
tactical error by trying to take out the Ghanaian with one punch
rather than using the skills which overwhelmed Mexican superstars
Christian Mijares and Jorge Arce in his two previous bouts.
The big hitting Sydney-based fighter must first overcome the
biggest height disadvantage of his world title career when he takes on
fellow southpaw Rojas.
The 29-year-old Mexican is listed at 174 centimetres, eight
centimetres taller than the Australian.
While Rojas has a modest 31-11 record, Darchinyan pointed out the
Mexican was unbeaten in his last six contests over the past two years
since being stopped by Arce, who he was leading on points.
"He (Rojas) is much taller than me and in the last two years after
Arce he has won nearly all his fights by knockout," Darchinyan told
AAP.
"He was winning every round of his fight against Arce until he got
hit with a good shot in the liver."
Darchinyan said he was looking for a rematch in America against
Donaire after his clash against Rojas.
Donaire, the only other professional apart from Agbeko to defeat
Darchinyan, holds the WBA interim super flyweight crown.
While Darchinyan’s promoter Gary Shaw has consistently ruled out a
rematch after an acrimonious split with Donaire, Darchinyan revealed
that was no longer an obstacle.
"Gary Shaw was with me in Armenia and we talked about that and I
told him how much I wanted the fight and I think he’s OK with it now
and he’s going to make the fight for me," Darchinyan said.
If Donaire can’t be tempted into a rematch, Darchinyan said he
would like to challenge Mexico’s WBO interim bantamweight champion
Fernando Montiel.