Author: Kanayan Tamar

VICE-PREMIER; ARMENIA HAS A PROPER AND EFFECTIVE CADASTRE SYSTEM

/ ARKA /
June 8, 2011
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, June 8. /ARKA/. Armenia has a proper and rather effectively
functioning cadastre system, said Armenian Vice-Premier, Minister of
Territorial Administration Armen Gevorgyan.

“However, it is necessary to further develop the system for reformation
of cadastre system and registration of real estate”, he said during
the 31st session of interstate council on geodesy, cartography,
cadastre and distance zoning of the land of CIS countries.

The main goal is the improvement of services rendered to population in
registration the real estate for the right of ownership, introduction
of new information technologies, quality increase, accessibility
and accuracy of cadastre information, as well as facilitation of
procedures of transactions with real estate and property circulation.

“Currently, the process of restructuring passes rather successful
which gives us hope that despite the large scale of upcoming works in
this direction, we can manage to fulfill all the envisaged concepts
of reforms and events in timely manner and on a proper level”,
said Gevorgyan.

He expressed interest in learning the opinions of the participants
of Interstate Council about the reforms in the system of cadastre
in Armenia.

“I hope that exchange of opinions on this issue will be another chance
for us to comprehensively understand the started process”, he said.

Representatives of authorized bodies of Armenia, Russia, Belarus,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan participated in
the activities of 31st session which will last to June 9. The agenda
of the session includes reports on geodesy and cartography of State
Real Estate Cadastre of Armenia. The project of electronic database
on renaming geographical names will also be presented at the session.

PRIME MINISTER SARKISIAN PRESENTS ARMENIA’S ECONOMIC PRIORITIES TO AUSTRIAN COUNTERPART

/ ARKA /
June 8, 2011
YEREVAN

Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian spoke about Armenia’s economic
priorities during a Wednesday meeting in Vienna with his Austrian
counterpart Werner Faimann, the press service of the Armenian
government reported. It said the main emphasis was on information
technology, energy, mining and tourism.

Sarkisian was quoted as saying that Armenian travel agencies will gain
from using the experience of Austrian colleagues. He and his Austrian
counterpart were said to have also discussed ways of attracting
European tourists to Armenia. The Austrian prime minister was said
to inquire about economic reforms in Armenia.

“We know that Austria has a participation experience in the capital
of commercial banks and we suggest that Austrian banks acquire shares
in Armenian banks. They can also take part in the establishment of
investment funds,” Sarkisian was quoted as saying.

He said Armenia is going to introduce voluntary pension insurance
funds this year and mandatory savings funds in 2014, which may become
attractive to leading financial companies wishing to work in Armenia.

The sides also touched upon the Armenian-Turkish relations and the
latest developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.

Armenian Prime Minister is visiting Vienna to attend a regional summit
of the World Economic Forum on Europe and Central Asia.

PACE BUREAU LIKELY TO PUBLISH REPORT ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH IN LATE 2011

news.am
June 8 2011
Armenia

YEREVAN. – The Subcommittee on Nagorno-Karabakh of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe intends to publish PACE Bureau’s
report on Karabakh conflict till the end of this year, head of
the Armenian delegation to PACE Naira Zohrabyan told Armenian
News-NEWS.am. In any event, such conclusion comes to mind from the
statements by subcommittee chairman Jordi I Costa, she noted.

With this in regard, the chairman of the subcommittee on Karabakh and
PACE President Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose mandate expires in January 2012,
will make every effort to break the deadlock in its activities.

According to her, those deputies who once backed the idea of
re-establishment the subcommittee have realized its inefficiency.

As for the fulfillment of Armenia’s commitments to the Council of
Europe, it will be discussed during the PACE autumn session.

WASTE IS SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR LAKE SEVAN

news.am
June 8 2011
Armenia

YEREVAN. – There are twenty seven official places for waste in ninety
two communities near the lake Sevan in addition to uncontrolled waste
dumps. According to Armenian Ministry of urban development, those
places do not meet ecological and hygienic criteria. Dumps around
lake Sevan are sources of pollution of water, soil and air and prevent
the reconstruction and protection of ecosystem of the lake Sevan.

The share of azoth, phosphor and other toxic materials increased in
the lake.

The Ministry of urban development presented a new scheme of places
for waste near the Sevan to the government discussion. There will be
only five places for waste, from where it will be taken to special
plant for waste recirculation.

PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN VISITED THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN YEREVAN

AZG DAILY
09-06-2011

On the occasion of a national holiday of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland – official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II,
President Serzh Sargsyan visited today the British Embassy in Yerevan.

President Serzh Sargsyan congratulated the British Ambassador Charles
Lonsdale and the staff of the Embassy on the occasion, noting that
Armenia attaches great importance to the relations with Great Britain.

The President of Armenia highlighted the role and import of the United
Kingdom in global affairs and its efforts aimed at the promotion
of Eurointegration.

OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS MET WITH BAKO SAHAKYAN

AZG DAILY
09-06-2011

OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs met with the president of NKR Bako
Sahakyan. After the meeting French co-chair Bernard Fassier told “We
hope that presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will give approval
to the regulation document at the meeting in Kazan. It is the vary
document that the sides were represented three months ago in Sochi”.

Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian presidents will meet in Kazan on
June 25. Russian co-chair Igor Popov said that a number of issues
require further work, which is being done by the ministers and the
final version, if agreed, may be finalized in Kazan. “We hope that
the sides will show a constructive approach in Kazan”, Popov said.

And American co-chair Robert Bradtke stated that the war will not
bring the solution of the problem, it will kill more people and more
people will suffer.

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SCHEDULED TO ADDRESS COE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

news.am
June 8 2011
Armenia

YEREVAN.- Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan is scheduled to deliver
speech on June 21 during forthcoming session of Parliamentary Assembly
of the Council of Europe (PACE), Naira Zohrabyan, head of the Armenian
delegation to PACE, told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

In this context, the Azerbaijani and Turkish delegations will intensify
their efforts during the session held on June 20-24 in Strasburg,
she said. Zohrabyan noted that representatives of the delegation have
already applied to address questions to the Armenian President.

The MP stressed that no issues regarding Armenia are included in
session’s agenda. However, the Armenian delegation will voice key
regional problems.

“I am confident that the Azerbaijani delegation will hardly miss a
chance to use PACE platform for anti-Armenian propaganda, but the
Armenian delegation is ready or it,” she concluded.

SERZH SARGSYAN VISITED BRITISH EMBASSY TO CONGRATULATE BIRTHDAY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Panorama
June 8 2011
Armenia

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan visited today Embassy of the United
Kingdom to congratulate the national holiday of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II.

President’s Cabinet reports, Serzh Sargsyan has congratulated
Ambassador Charles Lonsdale and the Embassy staff on the holiday.

President stated that Armenia signifies relations with the United
Kingdom.

UNE SOIXANTAINE DE PERSONNES EMPOISSONNEES PAR L’EAU
Marion

armenews.com
jeudi 9 juin 2011

Les forces de l’ordre et les autorites sanitaires enquetent depuis
mardi 7 juin, sur une serie d’infections intestinales qui ont touche
une soixantaine de personnes dans un quartier d’Erevan.

Vivant dans la meme rue a Nubarashen, elles ont ete hospitalisees
avec une forte fièvre, des nausees et d’autres symptômes graves qui
se manifestent depuis vendredi dernier. Selon les responsables d’un
hôpital d’Erevan specialise en maladies infectieuses, 26 d’entre
elles sont sorties lundi soir, alors que d’autres etaient toujours
dans un etat grave.

Le ministère armenien de la Sante privilegie la thèse de
l’empoisonnement qui aurait ete cause par une contamination de l’eau.

Artavazd Vanian, a la tete de l’Inspection de l’hygiène et de la
lutte epidemiologique rattachee au ministère, a souligne, lundi,
que la distribution d’eau potable a Nubarashen a ete interrompue en
raison de la rupture d’un conduit la semaine dernière.

Le bureau du procureur general a annonce le lancement d’une enquete
penale plus tard dans la journee. ” Un examen preliminaire des
materiaux a montre que l’infection intestinale a ete cause par l’eau
potable “, a-t-il indique dans un communique.

Le communique ajoute que les enqueteurs ont preleve des echantillons
d’eau et des fragments de la canalisation endommagee pour un ” examen
sanitaire ” detaille. Des tests de laboratoire similaires ont egalement
ete menes par les autorites sanitaires.

Gor Grigorian, a la tete de la societe Yerevan Jur qui gère le reseau
de distribution d’eau de la ville, a averti que les autorites n’ont pas
encore identifie la cause definitive de l’epidemie. Il a indique que la
societe sera prete a indemniser les malades si elle est officiellement
tenue pour responsable de leur hospitalisation.

Yerevan Jur est gere par le groupe francais Veolia, conformement a
une convention de gestion de 10 ans qu’il a signe avec le gouvernement
armenien en 2006. Veolia avait soutenu le pret de la Banque mondiale
et du gouvernement francais visant a remettre a niveau le reseau de
distribution d’eau obsolète de la capitale de l’Armenie.

NEW MEDICAL JOURNAL LAUNCHED IN ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
June 8, 2011 – 12:41 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Presentation of Farma scientific quarterly journal
published on the initiative of the Medicine Producers and Importers
Union of Armenia took place in Yerevan on June 8.

According to MPI Union chairman Samvel Zakaryan, the journal will focus
on the general trends in the field and will offer scientific workers,
academicians and professors an opportunity to publish their articles
free-of-charge. 5000 copies of the journal will be disseminated among
the republic’s medical institutions, also for free.

The articles will be published in Armenian, Russian and English.

According to GXP Center of Excellence head, editor-in-chief of
the journal Aram Ghazaryan, an ethic code for those engaged in
pharmaceutical activity will be developed to create equal conditions
at the market.