President Of Armenia Does Not Consider Kazan Meeting Failed Though E

PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA DOES NOT CONSIDER KAZAN MEETING FAILED THOUGH EXPECTATIONS WERE HIGH

PanARMENIAN.Net
July 28, 2011

PanARMENIAN.Net – I would not call Kazan meeting failure although
expectations from the meting were great. We expected to face namely
what happened in fact, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said.

“First of all, the meeting lacked respective atmosphere, as Azerbaijan
every day poisons its own people by all possible methods,” the
President said at a joint press conference with his Polish counterpart
Bronislav Komorovsky.

As Mr.Sargsyan said, people of NKR and Armenia have only one demand:
Karabakh issue must be settled within the frames of international
law and bases of that law must be reflected in Madrid principles,
offered to the parties by the co-chairs of OSCE Minsk Group.

The summit between Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia in Kazan on June
24 completed without an agreement on basic principles of Nagorno
Karabakh conflict settlement because the Azerbaijani leader Ilham
Aliyev attempted to impose 10 new proposals, thus precluding the
possibility of any agreement on the issue.

After Kasan meeting failure, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
handed over personal messages and suggestions of RF President Dmitry
Medvedev to Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders Serzh Sargsyan and
Ilham Aliyev. Armenia and Azerbaijan already replied to President
Medvedev’s suggestions.

Richard Guiragossian Rencontre Des Officiels En Turquie

RICHARD GUIRAGOSSIAN RENCONTRE DES OFFICIELS EN TURQUIE

collectifvan.org
28-07-2011

Info Collectif VAN – – Le Collectif VAN vous
invite a lire la traduction d’un article en anglais du journal armenien
PanArmenianNet parue sur le site de la Federation Euro-Armenienne
pour la Justice et la Democratie le 26 juillet 2011.

FEAJD

27 juillet 2011

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Traduction Gerard Merdjanian – Commentaires du site de la Federation
Euro-Armenienne :

Depuis quelques annees que Bakou engrange des milliards de petrodollars
grâce a ses exportations d’hydrocarbures, le clan Aliev et son areopage
se sentent pousser des ailes.

Cela consiste notamment a refuser toute concession a l’autre partie, et
ne prendre qu’une seule des propositions des mediateurs : L’integrite
territoriale. La negociation ne fonctionne que dans un sens.

La Turquie qui au moment de la guerre armeno-azerbaidjanaise a plus
precede que suivi les vicissitudes de son petit frère, en mettant
l’Armenie sous blocus et en se preparant a l’envahir (Quatre divisions
turques s’appretaient a franchir la frontière), a depuis change de
strategie. D’abord a cause des negociations d’adhesion avec l’UE
(droit de regard), puis par la signature avec l’Armenie de l’accord
sur les protocoles, mais surtout depuis son accession au G20 et sa
politique neo-ottomane qui prône le ‘zero problème avec les voisins’.

L’UE et les instances internationales commencent a voir d’un mauvais
~il le pourrissement des negociations sur le conflit du Karabakh avec
en prime une Turquie qui frappe a la porte de l’UE mais qui continue
toujours l’occupation de Chypre, le blocus de l’Armenie et un soutien
inconditionnel des desideratas de Bakou.

Bakou remercie son grand frère en lui consentant des remises sur ses
hydrocarbures. Revers de la medaille, Ankara se trouve en position
de faiblesse et commence a trouver l’addition une peu lourde. Après
les grands travaux dans la region en prenant soin de contourner
l’Armenie, Erdogan traine les pieds sur la realisation du chemin de fer
Bakou-Tbilissi-Kars et c’est Aliev qui se charge de payer la facture.

Bien qu’en sommeil actuellement, le point noir le plus gros entre
l’Armenie et la Turquie reste la reconnaissance du genocide armenien
et les reparations qui en decoulent.

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Les cinq representants d’ONG armeniennes sont recemment rentres de
Turquie, où ils ont rencontre des Hauts-fonctionnaires turcs et le
ministre des Affaires etrangères, Ahmet Davutoglu. Le directeur du
Centre d’Etudes Regionales et Internationales, qui faisait partie du
voyage, a saisi l’occasion pour transmettre un message important.

Decrivant les relations armeno-turques, Richard Guiragossian a
declare : “Le President armenien joue aux echecs, tandis que son
homologue turc donne un spectacle. Je ne crois pas en la sincerite
des efforts des autorites turques en vue d’ameliorer les relations
avec l’Armenie.” Toutefois, il y a des points d’optimisme.

“La raison de mon optimisme est que la Turquie n’a pas d’alternative.

L’amelioration des relations avec l’Armenie est sa seule chance pour
qu’elle puisse s’impliquer dans les processus regionaux, et Ankara
est conscient que c’est dans son interet.”

Selon Richard Guiragossian, la proposition du ministre turc des
Affaires etrangères de rencontrer les delegues armeniens etait une
tentative pour demontrer au monde que la Turquie poursuit le processus
de normalisation des relations avec l’Armenie.

La Turquie reconnaît que l’Azerbaïdjan entrave l’amelioration des
relations armeno-turques, de plus, les relations Turquie-Azerbaïdjan
ont de nouveau empire après la reunion de Kazan, car il a ete
clair pour tous que l’echec etait imputable a l’Azerbaïdjan, ce
qui a entraine la colère du ministre Davutoglu. Le politologue a
eu l’impression que les relations entre les deux pays ne sont plus
au beau fixe. “Le mythe d’un peuple et deux Etats n’existe plus”,
a-t-il declare ajoutant qu’Ankara n’apprecie pas que Bakou lui lance
des ultimatums et lui dicte sa conduite.

Lors de leur entretien avec Davutoglu, les delegues armeniens ont
souleve trois grandes questions.

“Tout d’abord, c’est Ankara qui entrave le processus de normalisation
des relations, alors qu’Erevan a tout fait pour les ameliorer. Par
ailleurs, les representants armeniens ont fait valoir qu’Erevan ne
peut pas attendre indefiniment le bon vouloir d’Ankara.

Deuxièmement, il y a deux sujets unificateurs des Armeniens du monde
entier, a savoir : la reconnaissance du genocide armenien et la
resolution du conflit du Karabakh ; ce qu’Ankara ne peut ignorer.

Et enfin, nous avons rappele que la Turquie a signe un document
pour l’amelioration des relations et ce sans conditions prealables,
maintenant elle met une pre-condition, ce qui n’est pas juste,”
a declare le politologue armenien.

Guiragossian a eu l’impression que la Turquie va bientôt essayer
de tester la solidite de l’Armenie. “Toutefois, ils seront decus
de constater que l’Armenie est forte. Elle a renforce ses positions
suite au blocus impose par l’Azerbaïdjan et la Turquie. Et il n’est
pas exclu maintenant que le temps soit venu pour l’Armenie de pouvoir
dicter des conditions prealables,” et d’ajouter : “qu’aucun progrès
dans le processus armeno-turque n’est prevu dans un proche avenir,
cependant la Turquie peut faire un geste avant 2015.”

Les representants de la societe civile armenienne ont souligne a
Davutoglu que : “l’Armenie est en position de force aujourd’hui,
qu’elle peut survivre meme sans l’ouverture de la frontière
armeno-turque et que reconnaitre le genocide armenien est dans
l’interet de la Turquie.”

Abordant les negociations de paix sur le conflit du Karabakh, les
suggestions du president russe Dmitri Medvedev sont plus proches de la
position de l’Azerbaïdjan que de la position de l’Armenie. Toutefois,
l’expert n’a pas precise lesquelles. “Ce qui s’est degage de la
reunion de Kazan, c’est que l’Azerbaïdjan a volontairement fait
echouer la rencontre soit pour des raisons de politique interne soit
pour prolonger l’inevitable finale.”

Une autre question se pose regulièrement : quelle a ete la reponse de
Serge Sarkissian aux suggestions de Dimitri Medvedev ? La reponse de
l’Armenie tout comme celle de l’Azerbaïdjan sont disponibles uniquement
pour certaines ‘sources diplomatiques’, aussi le public tant azeri
qu’armenien n’en saura rien si ce n’est des bribes par ci par la.

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Aryans To Celebrate Vartavar In Western & Eastern Armenia

ARYANS TO CELEBRATE VARTAVAR IN WESTERN & EASTERN ARMENIA

hetq
July 27, 2011

The Armenian Aryan Union has issued a statement saying that on July 30,
candidates for the rank of “high priest” will officiate at Vartavar
holiday ceremonies in western and eastern Armenia.

Celebrations to the Armenian deities before the advent of Christianity
will be held at an undisclosed site in Moush, western Armenia, and
somewhere on the Ararat Plain in the sight of Masis on this side of
the border.

The ancient festival is traditionally associated with the goddess
Astghik, who was the goddess of water, beauty, love and fertility.

The festivities associated with this religious observance of Astghik
were named “Vartavar” because Armenians offered her roses as a
celebration (“vart” means “rose” in Armenian), also releasing doves
and sprinkling water on each other. Vartavar was celebrated during
harvest time.

Hrant Bagratyan: "Armenia’s Greatly Yields Both Its Neighbors And Th

HRANT BAGRATYAN: “ARMENIA’S GREATLY YIELDS BOTH ITS NEIGHBORS AND THE WHOLE WORLD WITH ITS ECONOMIC GROWTH”

Noyan Tapan

27.07.2011

(Noyan Tapan – 27.07.2011) Armenia greatly yields both its neighbors
and other countries of the world with its economic growth. During
the press conference on July 27, the RA Former Prime Minister, the
representative of Armenian National Congress Hrant Bagratyan noted
that world economy develops by 4 %.

In his words, Azerbaijan’s and Turkey”s economies also rise rapidly.

“Turkey becomes a country of economic wishes for us,” noted H.

Bagratyan.

In his opinion, this situation is resulted from wrong economic policy.

“And for all these we “owe” to the President Serzh Sargysan and then
the Prime Minister Tigran Sagsyan,” noted H. Bagratyan.

He thinks that the resignation of the Prime Minister is a way to
overcome the serious economic situation.

According to H. Bagratyan possible economic crisis in the USA will
have a negative influence on Armenia’s economic state.

www.nt.am

Senator Menendez Calls For Delay In Consideration Of U.S. Ambassador

SENATOR MENENDEZ CALLS FOR DELAY IN CONSIDERATION OF U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA NOMINEE JOHN HEFFERN

ARMENPRESS
July 27, 2011
YEREVAN

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, at the request of Senator
Robert Menendez (D-NJ), today deferred consideration of U.S.

Ambassador to Armenia nominee John Heffern until its next business
meeting, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

The panel’s Chairman, John Kerry (D-MA), announced at today’s business
meeting that the Heffern nomination had been “carried over,” a move
typically used by Senators to allow additional time

to review a nominee’s credentials and testimony.

“We would like to thank Senator Menendez for affording his colleagues
greater time to scrutinize and make an informed determination,”
stated ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. “As

a matter of policy, we remain deeply troubled that the Administration’s
complicity in Turkey’s denial of the Armenian Genocide so manifestly
fails to meet the clear-cut moral standard set by President Obama
during his tenure on this very Senate panel. The painful spectacle of
watching a senior U.S. diplomat forced to dance and dodge around the
plain truth – in the service of a patently immoral policy imposed
upon America by a foreign government – undermines U.S. interests,
and compromises American values.”

During Mr. Heffern’s July 13th confirmation hearing, Sen. Menendez
pressed him regarding the Obama Administration position regarding the
Armenian Genocide, and also about his own understanding of this crime.

The nominee cited the killing of over 1.5 million Armenians at the
end of the Ottoman Empire, but stopped short of properly referencing
these acts as “genocide,” arguing that “the characterization of
those events is a policy decision that is made by the President of
the United States. He added that this policy is enunciated in the
President’s April 24Remembrance Day

statement.”

Senator Menendez remarked, “This is an inartful dance that we do. We
have a State Department whose history is full of dispatches that cite
the atrocities committed during this time. We have a convention that
we signed on to as a signatory that clearly defines these acts as
genocide. We have a historical knowledge of the facts that we accept
would amount to genocide. But we are unwilling

to reference it as genocide. And if we cannot accept the past,
we cannot move forward. And so I find it very difficult to send
diplomats of the United States to a country in which they will go –

and I hope you will go, as some of your predecessors have – to a
genocide commemoration and yet never be able to use the word genocide.

It is much more than a question of a word. It is

everything that signifies our commitment to saying ‘never again.’

And yet, we can’t even acknowledge this fact and we put diplomats in
a position that is totally untenable.”

Sen. Menendez was echoing a 2008 statement by then Senator Barack
Obama, who, in questioning U.S. Ambassador to Armenia nominee Marie
Yovanovitch, expressed concern about the Bush Administration’s position
on the issue. Then Senator Obama stated:

“Nearly 2 million Armenians were deported during the Armenian Genocide,
which was carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, and
approximately 1.5 million of those deported were killed.

It is imperative that we recognize the horrific acts carried out
against the Armenian people as genocide. The occurrence of the Armenian
genocide is a widely documented fact, supported by an

overwhelming collection of historical evidence. I was deeply disturbed
two years ago when the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia was fired after he
used the term ‘genocide’ to describe the mass

slaughter of Armenians. I called for Secretary Rice to examine what
I believe is an untenable position taken by the U.S. government.”

French Presidential Election: ARF Dashnaktsutiun Support Francois Ho

FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: ARF DASHNAKTSUTIUN SUPPORT FRANCOIS HOLLAND
Jean Eckian

Lragir.am

27/07/2011
Paris

In an official statement published today, the president of the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation for Western Europe, Mourad Papazian, calls the
Armenian community of France to support the former first secretary of
the French Socialist Party in the primary campaign for presidential
election 2012. ARF justifies its choice by the fact that Francois
Holland is always ‘faithful to the combat for the Armenian cause,
as well as the recognition of the Armenian genocide by Turkey,
penalization of the Armenian genocide denial, without forgetting
the regulation of the Karabakh issue and entry of Turkey in the
European Union.’

Francois Holland and Martine Aubry are currently nip and tuck in
the primaries.

http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics22757.html

L’industrie " Clef De La Croissance Armenienne En 2011 "

L’INDUSTRIE ” CLEF DE LA CROISSANCE ARMENIENNE EN 2011 ”
Stephane

armenews.com
mercredi 27 juillet 2011
ARMENIE

L’industrie sera la principale force agissante du retablissement de
la croissance economique de l’Armenie cette annee celui-ci ayant deja
grimpe de plus de 10 pour cent a annonce le Ministre de l’economie
Tigran Davtian.

Selon le Service National de la Statistique (NSS), la production
industrielle armenienne a grimpe de plus de 4,8 pour cent dans le
premier quart de 2011. Les donnees montrent que cette croissance
s’accelere a 11 pour cent par rapport a avril 2010 et a 25 pour cent
par rapport a mai 2010.

L’augmentation internationale des prix a beaucoup aide la production
industrielle de cuivre et d’autres metaux de base qui est devenu le
premier secteur exportateur d’Armenie.

Tigran Davtian a affirme que cela n’etait pas la seule raison des
performances du secteur industriel. Il a dit qu’il y a aussi eu
une croissance robuste dans le secteur du traitement du diamant,
la construction mecanique et de l’industrie legère.

S’exprimant lors d’une conference de presse, le ministre predit que
la production industrielle sera de plus de 10 pour cent lors de la
première moitie de cette annee.

” Je pense que [la croissance du PIB] sera un peu plus rapide ”
a ajoute Tigran Davtian.

Le PIB de l’Armenie a augmente de 2,6 pour cent l’annee dernière après
uns chute de plus de 14 pour cent en 2009 a cause de la recession
mondiale.

Tigran Davtian a pretendu que le gouvernement armenien merite le
credit de la reprise de la croissance de l’economie et l’industrie
en particulier. Il a indique les efforts du gouvernement d’ameliorer
l’environnement des affaires dans le pays et l’apui a l’activite
industrielle.

Tigran Davtian a aussi souligne la decision du gouvernement d’ouvrir
trois zones de libres-echanges.

President Serzh Sargsyan Visited Museum-House Of Martiros Saryan

PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN VISITED MUSEUM-HOUSE OF MARTIROS SARYAN

Panorama
July 26, 2011
Armenia

President Serzh Sargsyan visited on Tuesday Museum-House of Martiros
Saryan. President was being accompanied by the Minister of Culture
Hasmik Poghosyan and the director of the Museum-House Ruzan Saryan.

“Martiros Saryan cannot be compared with any world famous and Armenian
artists,” R. Saryan stated.

Saryan was a great master of psychological portrait, and that he is
the author of an exclusive heritage left to the future generations.

Saryan had unique treatment with women and they have had unique role
in his art.

“Respect towards woman was born from his love and respect towards
his mother, whom Saryan drew as a sacred icon,” Ruzan Saryan said.

Moscow: President’s Amour A Sens Unique

PRESIDENT’S AMOUR A SENS UNIQUE
Victor Krestianinov

WPS
July 25, 2011
Russia

ANALYSIS OF THE RUSSIAN-FRENCH RELATIONS; Analysis of the
Russian-French relations. Russia seems to be outmaneuvered or plain
tricked at every turn.

Foreign relations is definitely a sphere handled by heads of states and
by them alone. Dmitry Medvedev is no exception. Medvedev emphasized
on more than one occasion that no meddling with what he considered
his sole prerogative would be tolerated. The president never misses
a chance to make it plain that foreign affairs is where he feels
at home. That he is entirely uninhibited, that he tries to make
relations with his foreign opposite numbers informal and develop
friendly relationships with them.

Medvedev has particular fondness for the president of France even
though he is friends with Nicolas Sarkozy against all political rules.

The Golden Rule of politics states that “there are no friends or
enemies in politics, only interests”. The French follow this rule
faithfully, by the way. Regrettably, but it took a whole series of
foreign political fiascoes for Medvedev and his closest associates
to finally acknowledge it.

Lost game in Deauville

NATO leaders who had started the war in Libya quite openly asked
Moscow to talk to Libyan leader Gaddafi and persuade him to step down.

Medvedev agreed.

Giving his consent to it in Deauville, Medvedev should have realized
that Gaddafi was to smart not to understand what awaited him in
retirement. That was why Gaddafi would not even met with Mikhail
Margelov, presidential special representative, whose forthcoming
mission in Tripoli was widely publicized.

Russia’s colossal losses in Libya, NATO air-raids, and countless
casualties in this country turned out to be what Russian ex-ambassador
in Tripoli had said would happen. Russia lost a good deal of profits
and, even more significantly, Russia lost face in the Arab world for
years to come – if not forever. The Arab world had always had respect
for Russia seeing in it a guarantor of stability in the region. Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov repeated Gaddafi’s arguments in an interview with TV
Channel I and made it plain that Russia had been tricked again.

When a friend turns out to be anything but

France itself is rocked by one scandal after another. Two French
lawyers intend to file a lawsuit against Sarkozy with the European
Court of Human Rights. To be more exact, Sarkozy is to be charged
with crimes against humanity. The lawsuit is to be filed in the
name of 30 Libyan families who call themselves victims of NATO
air-raids. The lawyers made a statement in their name claiming that
the NATO operation launched to protect non-combatants in the first
place was killing them nowadays. The impression is that the amount
of lawsuits like that will increase before long.

The operation in Libya that the French president expected would
boost his low rating is doing just the opposite. Sarkozy’s trial is
unlikely to improve the image of his Russian colleague. Trust the
media to start looking for everyone who never even tried to prevent
bombardments of Libya.

Mistral saga

Friendship between the presidents of Russia and France already resulted
in some erratic developments in the bilateral military-technical
cooperation. What Russia needs Mistrals for remains unclear even
now. Not even hard collective thinking on the part of Defense
Ministry’s analysts produced a convincing explanation justifying the
purchase. If Russia really needed helicopter-carriers, it could also
discuss the matter with the Koreans, Spaniards, and Germans. All of
them could supply the ships – and at a cheaper price.

For some reason, however, Moscow decided to save the shipyards on
the Atlantic coast of France instead.

DCNS issued an official statements to the effect that the Mistral
contract would ensure upwards of 1,000 new jobs for the French. Russia
did not say anything like that. Which probably means that the Russian
military-industrial complex will emulate participation in the project
rather than actually participate in it.

Of course, the opportunity to lay hands on SENIT-9 is a serious
argument. Unfortunately, Russia at its current level will need 5-7
years to master the system while the rest of the world will keep making
progress beyond it. Moreover, SENIT-9 is not as advanced a system as
promoters of the contract like to pretend. It is a simplified version
of SENIT-8, a system designed for the French aircraft-carrier Charles
de Gaulle in the 1990s. We can only hope that our bureaucrats will
opt for KA family helicopters and not for Eurocopters to be carried by
the Mistrals. (Unfortunately, it is whispered already that hangars of
the French helicopter-carrier are too small for Russian helicopters.)

In a word, the hideously expensive French surface combatants the
Russian Navy expects in 2014 and 2015 might become a constant headache
for Russian admirals.

In Boris Yeltsin’s days, the Duma screamed bloody murder over
considerably less questionable (and expensive) projects. Not any more.

Kazan fiasco

Back to Deauville. Presidents of Russia, United States, and France
(Medvedev, Barack Obama, and Sarkozy) made a joint statement on
Karabakh conflict resolution there. The document in question appealed
to the involved parties to take steps to promote resolution, etc.

Existence of profound discord between Baku and Yerevan was signalled by
the no-nonsense tone of the statements presidents of Azerbaijani and
Armenia made on the eve of the conference in Kazan. Ilham Aliyev for
one announced that Baku was going to suggest nothing at all in return
for the withdrawal of the Armenian troops from the territories around
Nagorno-Karabakh “because Karabakh has always been Azerbaijani.” Serj
Sargsjan in his turn formulated a number of demands all but calculated
to be turned down by Azerbaijan.

Why then organize a conference that had practically no chance of
being successful? Was the meeting organized because France had been
making countless compliments to Armenia? And because the Kremlin once
against decided to help Sarkozy and therefore repeat the joint South
Ossetian experiment everyone had forgotten?

And by the way, the Kremlin vetoed the subject immediately. TV reports
from Kazan were removed from the broadcasting schedule. Newspapers
played mum’s the word. Well, what could they say when the results
were exceptionally frustrating?

The recent meeting with President of South Africa Jacob Zuma in Moscow
became another fiasco. It had been Zuma who rallied African leaders
into a joint boycott of Libya and its leader. On the other hand, the
African states that would not join the boycott said that they would
not acknowledge the Hague Tribunal resolution condemning Gaddafi as
a criminal. What it all left Russia in need not be said.

… Opening the heart before his Western counterparts, Medvedev
discovered to his dismayed amazement that he was tricked and deceived
again and again. This is the only term that might be applied to the
decision of the Alliance to station its latest ballistic missile
defense systems near the Russian borders. And no amount of shoulder
patting helped Medvedev persuade Obama and Sarkozy that this was not
how friends were supposed to behave.

Dmitry Anatolievich, stop being amazed and remember the Golden Rule.

Or read your Karamzin or Soloviov.

It stands to reason to assume that the incumbent president of Russia
will be remembered as author of the “enigmatic” foreign policy of
the Russian Federation in the early 21st century.

Consumption Of Natural Gas In Armenia Might Go Up By 5% In 2011

CONSUMPTION OF NATURAL GAS IN ARMENIA MIGHT GO UP BY 5% IN 2011

Interfax
July 25, 2011
Russia

YEREVAN. July 25

Consumption of natural gas in Armenia might increase this year in 2011
by 5% in comparison with 2010, the director of AEG Service (Armenia’s
monopoly operator of its gas supply system), Ashot Ovsepyan told
Interfax.

Ovsepyan said that a slight increase is expected thanks to rising
industrial consumption of gas, as well as that of the population and
vehicle gas-filling compressor stations. In addition, consumption will
increase thanks to the start up of the fifth power block at the Razdan
combined heat and power plant.

Ovsepyan also said that gas consumption increased slightly in the
first half of 2011 largely because of cement plants and gas filling
stations. Consumption on the part of households increased even as
prices have risen over recent years. In several smaller settlements,
consumption decreased but this has not been significant, Ovsepyan
said.

Total natural gas imports form Russia to Armenia in January-June 2011
went up by 12.6% to 832.5 million cubic meters, of which 736 million
cubic meters has been sold, which is a year-on-year increase of 0.3%.

Total imports of natural gas from Russia to Armenia in 2010 went down
by 11.6% to 1.44 billion cubic meters from 1.629 billion cubic meters
in 2009.

Armenia purchases gas from Russia. The country has received some gas
from Iran since mid-2009 in exchange for electricity. Armenia imported
400 million cubic meters of gas from Iran in 2010.