Mediamax, Armenia
July 1 2011
iGov.am app available for download on iTunes
Friday 1 July 2011 16:29
iGov application is available for download on Apple Corporation’s
iTunes online store.
The application is the version of Armenian government’s website,
especially optimized for use from iPhone and iPad.
The application is available for download here.
The application is elaborated by Helix Consulting Company.
Turkey provides Azerbaijan with armored vehicles
14:14 – 03.07.11
Turkish company Otokar completed deliveries of armored vehicles
ordered by Azerbaijani Armed Forces, Director General of Otokar Serdar
Gorguc told Azerbaijani news agency APA.
Gorguc did not indicate the number of armored personnel carriers. He
noted the cooperation between the parties will be continued and
expanded in the near future.
Gorguc praised the demonstration of the armored Otokar’s `Cobra’ and
`Scorpion’, as well as vehicles of Land Rover Defender during the
military parade in Baku on June 26.
`We’re proud of it. Our customers include nearly 30 countries, and the
inclusion of Azerbaijan in this list is a significant development for
us,’ he said.
Tert.am
Gagik Harutyunyan says media field needs to be regulated
15:14, 1 July, 2011
YEREVAN, JULY 1, ARMENPRESS:
It is necessary to regulate the media field, guide the propaganda
approaches: with that aim it is necessary to create a coordinated
institution, head of the “Noravank” scientific educational center
Gagik Harutyunyan said today at the meeting with reporters during the
round table-discussion on the “Issues of Cooperation of Armenian
Information Resources”. The attendees discussed the strong and weak
sides of Armenia’s media field in regional and international
propaganda directions at the same time referring to the inner issues
as well.
“It is necessary to keep under limelight not only the Armenian press
but the Diaspora press too for trying to understand what information
is being circulated about the inner and outer policy of Armenia. We
must work with the Diaspora institutions, including with Armenian
embassies and consulates”, expert Vahram Mirakyan said. According to
him, it will be good to organize journalists’ classes for the
representatives of Diaspora media field.
Iran builds its first wind-solar hybrid power plant
July 1, 2011 – 15:07 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Iranian experts and engineers managed to build the
country’s first wind-solar hybrid power plant in Kharg Island,
Southern Iran.
The plant, with a daily capacity of 50 kWh of electricity, was
installed in the Kharg island in the Persian Gulf by the Iranian
experts at a cost of $100 000, semi-official Fars News Agency
reported.
Inauguration of the plant came as Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjou
announced that Iran plans to generate more than 5,000 megawatts of
electricity from renewable energy resources by 2015.
“Iran is pursing to fulfill its major strategic objectives in the
field of renewable energies,” Namjou said during an international
energy forum in the Austrian capital of Vienna on June 22.
Namjou went on to say that renewable energies will account for about
three percent of Iran’s electricity needs by 2015.
He also called on all companies and organizations to invest in Iran’s
green energy projects to help develop the new sources of energy in the
country. “This cooperation will be beneficial for investors and will
also accomplish Iran’s objectives in developing the new sources of
energy,” the Iranian Minister said.
ARMENIE
Vardan Bostanjyan : le développement économique entre dans sa nouvelle phase
Le leader du parti du Nouveau Temps Aram Karapetyan et le membre du
parti Arménie Prospère Vardan Bostanjyan ont discuté des indices
économiques du premier trimestre de 2011 et des tendances du
développement économique.
Le leader du parti du Nouveau Temps n’a pas qualifié la politique
économique du gouvernement d’efficace. Il a noté que les mesures du
gouvernement visent à assurer “la gestion du dispositif” plutôt que le
développement économique.
Le représentant du Parti Arménie prospère dit que les indices
économiques sont assimilables à une situation post-crise. “Les
tendances économiques entrent dans une nouvelle étape a-t-il ajouté.
Bostanjyan est convaincu que la déclaration du Président sur la mise
en `uvre du système de privilèges fiscaux donnera des résultats
considérables.
vendredi 1er juillet 2011,
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news.am, Armenia
July 1 2011
Environmentalists protest against Armenia`s plans to build tailing dump
July 01, 2011 | 21:59
YEREVAN. – A tailing dump will be built in the central part of Armenia
near the rivers Hrazdan and Marmarik for wastes of gold-enriching
plant, Ekolur informs.
Existence of tailing dump in the center of Armenia is a real
catastrophe, president of Ecological academy NGO Greta Gabrielyan
states. Although the plant is not yet built the project is already
posted on the website of Armenian Ministry of Environment and Nature
Protection. Tailing dump is among the objects of the future plant.
The specialist believes the main threat is that the project has no
information on the size of the tailing dump. It is mentioned that only
close circulation of water will be employed.
`This means that it can work being overfilled. The tailing dumps are
grounded on the gravel and sand, thus all the content will penetrate
in soil and will poison the lower layers,’ Gabrielyan told and added
there is no second tailing bump in case of emergency.
Another threat is dust from raw processing, which contains heavy
metals. These mixtures are typical for Armenian multi metallic ores
and will pose a real threat for the environment nearby, including
Hrazdan city and Tsaghkadzor resort.
news.am, Armenia
July 1 2011
Medvedev sent his view of Karabakh to Armenian President
July 01, 2011 | 18:55
The Karabakh conflict has no other solution but the right for
self-determination, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said at joint
press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich.
`People of Nagorno-Karabakh are bearers of internationally recognized
right to self-determination. This right should be fully implemented,’
he said.
President Sargsyan said that during his talks with Ukrainian
counterpart the sides pointed out key role of the OSCE Minsk Group in
the Karabakh peace process.
Unsuccessful talks in Kazan are not indicative of end of the peace
process on the whole.
`At least one chance was missed. We have lost the chance before the
new meeting,’ he added.
Armenian President stressed that Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev and
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs reiterated their intention to continue
efforts into the Karabakh conflict settlement, Telegraf.by reports.
`During a phone conversation Russian President Medvedev informed me he
had sent his views of the problem in written form. I think we will
soon receive it to see how to move forward,’ Sargsyan concluded.
PARTIES TO KARABAKH CONFLICT WILL BE OFFERED NEW PROPOSALS – FRENCH FM
news.am
July 1 2011
Armenia
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe presented some details of future
plans of the mediators after the meeting of Armenian, Russian and
Azerbaijani Presidents in Kazan.
Parties to the conflict will be offered additional proposals to reach
agreement on the issue, said Juppe in an interview with Echo of Moscow.
“I welcome the efforts of Russia, the Russian President. He made great
efforts in Sochi and Kazan. But, nevertheless, it has not led to any
results. However, as far as I know, there will be additional proposals
to make it possible to reach some agreement on the issue,” said Juppe.
The meeting of Armenian, Azerbaijani held on the initiative of Russian
leader Dmitry Medvedev took place in Kazan on June 24.
The sides failed to agree on Basic principles of Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict settlement despite the calls of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing
states Russia, U.S. and France.
In a statement issued after the meeting the presidents noted “the
achievement of mutual understanding on a number of issues. Solution
of these issues contributes to creating conditions for the approval
of the basic principles.”
ARMENIA WANTS TO HAVE TRADE REPRESENTATIVE IN UKRAINE, SAYS UKRAINIAN AGENCY
Interfax
July 1 2011
Russia
Armenia wants to have its trade commissioner in Ukraine.
Armenia announced this during the fifth session of the
Ukrainian-Armenian intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation
in Kyiv, the press service of the State Agency of Ukraine for the
Management of State Corporate Rights and Property has said.
“The Armenian side has expressed its interest in having a trade
representative in Ukraine. Our partners are interested in the
Ukrainian market and in having more Armenian products on the market,”
the agency’s head, Dmytro Kolesnikov has said.
He also said that a final decision about Armenia’s trade
representative in Ukraine may be taken during the sixth session
of the Ukrainian-Armenian intergovernmental commission on economic
cooperation, which will be held in Yerevan in 2012.
Starting from this year, the intergovernmental commission’s sessions
will be held annually instead of every two years.
DALITA KHOURY
AZG DAILY
02-07-2011
Standard of Meat Must be Improved
The standard of food that is being sold in Armenia is becoming a
bigger problem. The government has created laws for the standards
of food, and these laws tell us whether something is safe to eat or
drink. However, many of these laws are not proving to be enough, and
the laws on food in Armenia need to be stricter, especially when it
comes to meat. One of the biggest problems Armenia faces with meat is
the animals we are taking it from. Not all of the meat that we consume
can come from healthy animals, and if they are not, the meat should not
be eaten. The animals are being slaughtered from all around Armenia,
and their meat is being distributed to many various places.
This can make things very unsanitary and also very dangerous for the
people who are purchasing the meat for food. It is our government’s
duty to make sure that the meat its people are eating is coming from
a safe and sanitary place. In order for customers to know where the
meat they are buying is coming from, stores should be obligated to
post stickers on the packaging with information as to where it came
from and whether it meets all of the requirements.