Author: Kanayan Tamar

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.

SARGIS HATSPANYAN TO QUIT JAIL ON JUNE 9

Tert.am
08.06.11

French-Armenian political prisoner and a former hero of the Karabakh
liberation war, Sargis Hatspanyan, will be set free tomorrow.

The Penitentiary Department of the Armenian Justice Ministry told
Tert.am that his term of imprisonment expires on Thursday, June 9.

Hatspanyan was jailed over charges of false crime reporting accompanied
by grave or particularly grave crime (Clause 1, Section 2 of Article
333 pf the Armenian Criminal Code).

He had told the media that Armenia’s second president, Robert
Kocharyan, was plotting a death attempt against Serzh Sargsyan.

The opposition alliance Armenian National Congress considers Hatspanyan
a political prisoner. Following the parliament declared amnesty,
Hatspanyan, together with another political prisoner, Murad Bojolyan,
continues to remain in prison. Bojolyan’s term of imprisonment expires
in a couple of days’ time.

ARMENIAN AND GEORGEAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO VISIT JAVAKHQ
By Hasmik Haroutyunian

AZG DAILY
08-06-2011

His Holiness Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II will pay a visit
to Georgia on June 10. The head of the Information Services of the
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin Father Vahram Meliqyan said to “Azg”
daily. He also told that the agenda of the Catholicos is very busy.

On June 11, the Catholicos will meet with the Catholicos-Patriarch
of Georgia Ilya II and President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. On
the second half of the day the Catholicos will visit the pantheon
of Khojivank.

On June 12, His Holiness Karekin II will re-consecrate the church of
Havlabar and will celebrate Mass.

“On June 13 the Armenian Catholicos accompanied with the Georgian
Patriarch will depart for Javakhq. On the next three days the
Catholicos will visit Akhaltskha, Akhalkalak, Ninotsminda and Tsalka”,
said Father Vahram.

In the month of March, during a dialog with “Azg” daily, His Holiness
Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II touching upon the state of the
Armenian churches in Georgia, expressed hope that they will succeed
in registration of diocese of the Armenian Church in Georgia and
in return of the Armenian churches located in Georgia. At that time
the Catholicos mentioned that the diocese of the Armenian Church in
Georgia submitted a request to the Georgian authorities for getting
back the 6 Armenian churches existing in Georgia, as they could serve
the population living there. And now they are waiting for the answer.

“At the meetings that we would have in Georgia we will raise the
issues that concern the diocese of the Armenian Church in Georgia,
as well as the issue of the churches”, said the Catholicos.

“Would the religious leaders discuss the issue of the Armenian
churches at their meeting?” to this question Father Vahram answered,
“All issues, which were concerning over the years, will be discussed”.

The visit of the Armenian Catholicos to Georgia was scheduled in the
past year, but it was delayed to November, and then was cancelled.

Let’s remind that since 1894, when Catholicos of All Armenians Khrimyan
Hayrik visited Javakhq, any Armenian Catholicos did not pay an official
visit to Javakhq.

NKR: AZERBAIJAN HAS TAKEN NO STEPS TOWARDS KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT

PanARMENIAN.Net
June 7, 2011 – 21:50 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Azerbaijan hasn’t taken any constructive steps
towards Karabakh conflict settlement, according to the head of the
Central Information Department of the NKR President’s Office David
Babayan.

As he stated, OSCE MG co-chairs have already arrived in Stepanakert;
a meeting with Artsakh President was scheduled for June 8.

“The meeting agenda will include the following issues: Artsakh
involvement in negotiations, ceasefire violation on the line of
contact,” he stated.