Author: Taslakhchian Andranik

PRESS RELEASE
From: Mira Yardemian
Public Relations Director
Haigazian University
Mexique Street, Kantari, Beirut
P.O.Box. 11-1748
Riad El Solh 1107 2090
Tel: 01-353010/1/2
01-349230/1

Beirut, 02/07/2008

Haigazian University Baccalaureate Service: A Thanksgiving Ceremony for
the Class of 2008

"The relationship between man and God is a joint venture, where God
provides the transportation and the transformation along the way, that
is, He takes us where we need to go and He transforms and strengthens us
as we allow Him," said Dr. Paul Sanders, Director of Institutional
Development, of the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary and Executive
Director of the Middle East Association for Theological Education,
facetiously to the graduating class of 2008 during the Baccalaureate
Service, on Sunday, the 29th of June 2008, held in the First Armenian
Evangelical Church in Beirut.
A large number of graduates and their families participated in this
ceremony, a service of dedication and thanksgiving, which began by the
graduating class walking through the church sanctuary during the
processional hymn.
The service began with a responsive call to worship, by student Razmig
Kaprielian, followed by a hymn of praise, "Our God, Our Help in Ages
Past", and the prayer of invocation, delivered by Rev. Robert
Sarkissian, Vice-Chair of the Haigazian University Board of Trustees.
In his word of welcome, the President of Haigazian University, Rev. Dr.
Paul Haidostian, invited the graduating class to pause and say thanks to
God.
"This generation wants to think of itself as a freer generation than the
ones past, free to think, decide, speak and act. If so, then I call upon
you dear ones, to free yourselves and thank God from the heart. To free
yourselves and thank others. To free yourselves and acknowledge that God
is God and humans and humans. To free yourselves and give God His place
in your lives," Haidostian noted.
Several graduates took part in the service: Talar Yacoubian played the
prelude on the piano, Mireille Jakmakjian read biblical selections,
Anita Moutchoyan shared her reflections as a student with the audience,
while Joyce Saddi performed a vocal solo "Just a Prayer Away."
"The Vision of the Invisible" was the theme of the message of the day,
delivered by Dr. Paul Sanders, who considered faith, "a spiritual
eyesight allowing us to see the invisible." Sanders also considered
faith an ongoing personal adventure with the invisible God, a real
relationship with an invisible but living God.
Dr. Sanders concluded his speech by motivating students to be "dreamers,
practitioners and dream practitioners through their personal faith in
God."
A prayer of commitment by President Haidostian followed, after which
students Elias Bahnan and Carla Yedalian read the pledges of the
graduates to carry the light of truth, freedom & service to the world:
"We, the class of 2008 of Haigazian University, in receiving this light,
pledge to hold high the light of truth, to defend the light of freedom,
and to spread the light of service to our communities, our country and
our world."
While the graduates shared the flame among fellow-classmates, student
Arek Dakessian played Bach?s Suite 1 on the cello.
At the end, the President of the Union of the Armenian Evangelical
Churches in the Near East, Rev, Megrdich Karagoezian pronounced the
benediction, whereupon the class of 2008 marched out the sanctuary with
the recessional, each carrying a light out into the world.

THE ERGENEKON OPERATION

Hurriyet
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 14:59
Turkey

The Ergenekon operation started with the investigation of 27
hand grenades found in a house in Istanbul last year. Then the
investigation widened and transformed into an operation to crackdown
on the "Ergenekon Terror Organization", which allegedly aimed at
paving the way for a military coup against the government.

More than 100 people were taken into custody in the operation,
while almost 50 of them were arrested, including journalists and
retired commanders.

The Ergenekon organization was claimed to be the mastermind behind
the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, and is
planning to kill Nobel prize-winner Orhan Pamuk.

However the Ergenekon operation intensified after the closure case
was filed against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The
operation was not limited to retired army members or ultra-nationalist
but widened to prominent opponents of the ruling AKP.

Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has previously said the closure case
was a response to the government’s determination in the Ergenekon
operation. However some observers say the wider Ergenekon operation
could be seen as an instrument to suppress the opponents of the
government.

People who were taken into custody or arrested under the operation
include:

— Dogu Perincek – Labor Party leader

— Ergun Poyraz – A writer of couple of books about Erdogan and
President Abdullah Gul

— Kemal Alemdaroglu – Former rector of Istanbul University

— Ilhan Selcuk – Owner of leftist, anti-AKP Cumhuriyet daily

POLITICS ON THE WEB BLOG STANDARD

economist
june 26 2008
uk

Authoritarian governments can lock up bloggers. It is harder to
outwit them

WHAT do Barbra Streisand and the Tunisian president, Zine el-Abidine
Ben Ali, have in common? They both tried to block material they dislike
from appearing on the internet. And they were both spectacularly
unsuccessful. In 2003 Ms Streisand objected to aerial photographs of
her home in Malibu appearing in a collection of publicly available
coastline pictures. She sued (unsuccessfully) for $50m–and in doing
so ensured that the pictures gained far wider publicity.

That self-defeating behaviour coined the phrase "Streisand effect",
illustrated by an axiom from John Gilmore, one of the pioneers of the
internet, that: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes
around it." But the big test of the rule is not whether it frustrates
publicity-shy celebrities. It is whether it can overcome governments’
desire for secrecy.

In November 2007 Tunisia blocked access to the popular video-sharing
sites YouTube and DailyMotion, which both carried material about
Tunisian political prisoners. It was not for the first time, and many
other countries have blocked access to such sites, either to protect
public morals, or to spare politicians’ blushes. What was unusual this
time was the response. Tunisian activists and their allies organised a
"digital sit-in", linking dozens of videos about civil liberties to
the image of the presidential palace in Google Earth. That turned a
low-key human-rights story into a fashionable global campaign.

It was the same story in Armenia in March, where the president,
Robert Kocharian, ended his term in office with a media blackout that,
supposedly, extended to blogs (self-published websites which typically
contain the author’s personal observations and opinions). Like all
other outlets, the authorities said, blogs could publish government
news only. The result was a soaring number of blogs hosted on servers
outside Armenia–all sharply critical of the authorities.

Some countries still think that the benefits of censorship are worth
the opprobrium. China unabashedly blocks foreign news sites, with
state-financed digital censors playing an elaborate game of cat and
mouse with those trying to elude them. Saudi Arabia makes a positive
virtue of the practice, warning those trying to access prohibited
websites of the dangers of pornography: sources cited include the
Koran and Cass Sunstein, an American scholar who argues that porn
does not automatically deserve First Amendment protection.

Such authoritarian countries are increasingly co-operating: Chinese
software for finding keywords and spotting dangerous sites is among
the best in the world. But international co-operation cuts both
ways. If Egypt, for example, buys Chinese web-censorship technology,
the Egyptian bloggers may learn ways to bypass it from their Chinese
colleagues before the technology arrives.

That may keep information flowing fairly freely. But it does not keep
bloggers out of prison. Security officials who once scoffed at blogs,
or ignored them completely in favour of bigger and more conspicuous
targets, are now bringing their legal and other arsenals to bear. A
common move is to expand media, information and electoral laws to
include blogs. Last year, for example, Uzbekistan changed its media
law to count all websites as "mass media"–a category subject to
Draconian restriction. Belarus now requires owners of internet cafés
to keep a log of all websites that their customers visit: in a country
where internet access at home is still rare and costly, that is a big
hurdle for the active netizen. Earlier this year Indonesia passed
a law that made it much riskier to publish controversial opinions
online. A Brazilian court has ruled that bloggers, like other media,
must abide by restrictions imposed by the law on elections.

The chilling effect of such moves is intensified when governments back
them up with imprisonment. From Egypt to Malaysia to Saudi Arabia to
Singapore, bloggers have in recent months found themselves behind bars
for posting materials that those in power dislike. The most recent
Worldwide Press Freedom Index, published by Reporters Without Borders,
a lobby group, estimates their number at a minimum of 64.

International human-rights organisations have taken up their cause. But
the best and quickest way of defending those in prison may be with
the help of other internet activists. Sami ben Gharbia, a Tunisian
digital activist who now lives in exile in the Netherlands, says that
this beats traditional human-rights outfits when it comes to informing
the world about the arrest of fellow bloggers. He co-ordinates the
campaigning efforts of Global Voices Online, a web-based outfit that
began as a collator of offbeat blog content and has now branched out
into lobbying for free speech.

Such issues were expected to be in sharp focus at Global Voices’ annual
summit in Budapest this week, where hundreds of bloggers, academics,
do-gooders and journalists from places like China, Belarus, Venezuela
and Kenya were due to swap tips on how to outwit officialdom. The aim,
says Ethan Zuckerman, a Harvard academic who cofounded Global Voices,
is to build networks of trust and co-operation between people who
would not instinctively look to the other side of the world for
solutions to their problems.

That is a worthy if ambitious goal. Doubtless, authoritarian
governments are in close touch too, sharing the best ways of
dealing with the pestilential gadflies and troublemakers of the
internet. But they will not be posting their conclusions online,
for all to see. Which way works better? History will decide.

–Boundary_(ID_pAjXD5Kl1XjjbC4QDgL0+w)–

PRESS RELEASE
Armenian Center for National and International Studies
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Yerevan 0033, Armenia
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26 June 2008

ACNIS Examines Armenian-Russian Relations

Yerevan–The Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS)
today convened a foreign policy roundtable to take a comprehensive look at
the new prospects of Armenian-Russian relations and to consider the existing
military, political, and economic relations between the two countries
against the backdrop of global developments and new realities in the broader
region. The meeting brought together MPs, foreign embassy and mission
personnel, leading analysts, policy specialists, public and political
figures, and media representatives.

ACNIS director of administration Karapet Kalenchian welcomed the audience
with opening remarks. "I am confident that in addition to presenting an
impartial assessment of the current relations between Armenia and Russia,
today’s interventions will shed light on the prospects for deepening the
bilateral ties–which are based on the precepts of equal partnership and
mutual interests–and giving a new meaning to these ties, and also elucidate
the position of our country’s friend Russia with respect to Armenia’s
present domestic political situation, specifically the post-election
developments in the country," Kalenchian said.

The day’s first speaker, ACNIS senior analyst Manvel Sargsian, analyzed
Armenia’s internal political matters in terms of Russian interest. He noted
that recently an apparent uncertainty was noticed in the relations between
the Russian and Armenian leaders. As indicated by Sargsian, official Moscow
is not in a hurry to open its arms to the new authorities of Armenia. It
seems the Russian administration has come to understand that the traditional
attitude of Russia toward its strategic partner, Armenia, has exhausted
itself, "It already is clear for Russia that it is gradually losing the
affection of the Armenian body politic. What is more, no assistance being
provided by Russia to the ruling administration of Armenia does in any way
reflect on the commitments of that administration and the consolidation of
mutual ties," noted Sargsian. Sargisian concluded that the incumbent
Armenian government presented a slow-but-sure threat to the stability of
Russia.

Armenia’s former minister of defense Vagharshak Harutiunian reflected on the
security issues of Armenia and the relevant role played by Russia in the
region. "So long as Turkey, one of our immediate neighbors, continues to
keep its borders closed and brings forth unacceptable preconditions toward
establishing diplomatic relations with Armenia, and we have the unresolved
Karabagh conflict with Azerbaijan, our current membership in the Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an imperative," Harutiunian stated.
He also reminded that one of the provisions stipulated in the military
doctrine of the Russian Federation reserves that country the right to use
nuclear weapons against any danger which threatens the security of Russia
and its strategic allies and this, according to Harutiunian, stands as a
restraining factor for any likely aggressor.

The next speaker, ACNIS senior analyst Hovsep Khurshudian, explored the
economic perspective of Armenian-Russian relations and pointed to the
relevant crying injustice which, as a rule, is not addressed. Khurshudian
noted that Russia was always envious of Armenia’s attempts to integrate with
the neighboring countries, or the state members in the European Union, and
therefore it resorted to every means to keep Armenia in "complete check."
"And the most apparent evidence of this phenomenon is the notorious
‘Property for Debt’ Resolution. In line with this agreement, our several
strategic enterprises which–despite assurances by the Russian side–are not
in operation to date, were sold to Russia for approximately one-fifth of
their actual value," Khurshudian emphasized. By presenting a number of
facts which corroborated his standpoint, he maintained that such demeanor
was the "defect" in Armenian-Russian relations.

In his turn, chairman Karen Bekarian of the "European Integration" NGO
examined the Armenian-Russian relations in view of the policy of European
integration. He remarked that these relations were rather imitational than
real because Armenia’s upper class for long was accustomed to resolving
matters with Russia, or receiving its "approval, by way of shady and corrupt
dealings. "It is quite easy to explain to the West as to why there is a
Russian military base in Armenia because this has a certain objective
reason. But it is fairly difficult to explain to the Europeans as to how the
state-owned property of an ally country can be transferred over to Russia
without an attempt to hold a formal tender," Bekarian underscored. He also
stated that the Armenian body politic had created political and geopolitical
myths for many decades and had become the slave of those myths.

The policy roundtable concluded with an exchange of opinions and policy
recommendations among former deputy minister of foreign affairs of
Mountainous Karabagh Masis Mailian; chairman Boris Navasardian of the
Yerevan Press Club; political analyst Davit Petrosian; ACNIS analyst
Hovhannes Manukian; Heritage Party’s board member Gevorg Kalenchian; editor
Hovhannes Nikoghosian of the Aktualnaya Politika monthly; journalist Artak
Barseghian; and several others.

The roundtable discussants also included Political Officer Nigel De Coster
of the US Embassy; Bulgarian Ambassador Todor Marinov Staykov; Captain
Alexsander Frolov, Military and Air Force Attache of the Russian Embassy;
First Secretary Wu Lianwen of the Chinese Embassy; First Secretary Igor
Skvortsov of the Ukrainian Embassy; Colonel Murtaz Gujejiani, Military
Attache of the Georgian Embassy; and Second Secretary Catalin Balog of the
Romanian Embassy.

Founded in 1994 by Armenia’s first Minister of Foreign Affairs Raffi K.
Hovannisian and supported by a global network of contributors, ACNIS serves
as a link between innovative scholarship and the public policy challenges
facing Armenia and the Armenian people in the post-Soviet world. It also
aspires to be a catalyst for creative, strategic thinking and a wider
understanding of the new global environment. In 2008, the Center focuses
primarily on civic education, democratic development, conflict resolution,
and applied research on critical domestic and foreign policy issues for the
state and the nation.

For further information on the Center call (37410) 52-87-80 or 27-48-18; fax
(37410) 52-48-46; email [email protected] or [email protected]; or visit

FINALLY O.S. IS EIGHTEEN, DINK’S TRIAL WILL BE OPEN TO THE MEDIASINCE THE ACCUSED O.S. IN DINK’S MURDER TRIAL WILL BE EIGHTEEN IN THE NEXT HEARING, THE TRIAL WILL BE OPEN TO THE MEDIA.

BÄ°
June 25 2008
Turkey

Bia news center

O.S., the accused in the murder trial of Hrant Dink, the founder and
chief editor of Agos, the Armenian- Turkish weekly, who was slained
on January 19, 2007, will be eighteen years old on June 28, Saturday,
and therefore the hearing on July 7 will be open to the media and
the public.

The Judiciary Medical Institution (the coroner’s jury) had inspected
the bone information of the accused and had determined that he was
not seventeen, but nineteen on the day of the murder. However, the
court had refused to take this information into consideration.

The accused was born on June 28, 1990, according to the records of
Zeynep Kamil hospital and therefore he will be eighteen on June 28.

The next hearing of Dink’s murder trial will be at the Ä°stanbul 14th
High Criminal Court on July 7.

Since the confidentiality decision of the previous hearings will
be removed, the media will be able to publish the statements of the
accused. (NZ/EZO/TB)

–Boundary_(ID_shFsFLnr3SA7riP1mG3YeA )–

ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN EXTENDED NEGOTIATIONS TAKE PLACE

ARMENPRESS
JUNE 24

The face-to-face meeting of the Armenian and Russian presidents
in Moscow today was followed by the extended Armenian-Russian
negotiations. Opening the meeting Russian president said that the first
part of the bilateral negotiations has already ended, they discussed
developing relations between Armenia and Russia, political issues,
including issue on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict regulation.

"Now we offer to focus on the trade-economic relations. In this
respect the progress is quite good and the increase of the trade
turnover between the two countries is essential. The volume of mutual
investments is also increasing. Particularly, the Russian investments
exceeded 1.2 billion USD which is a great achievement in our relations
and a very good basis for the further development of our relations,"
the Russian president said, noting that cultural cooperation also
exists between the two countries and particularly referred to the
conduction of the cultural years which he said were very good events
directed to the future.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsian once again expressed gratitude
for the invitation and warm reception expressing assurance that the
relations between the two countries will develop drastically. He agreed
that Russian investments in Armenia are quite large and bilateral trade
turnover between the two countries increases, "but our aim is that in 1
or 1.5 years these indexes be measured not by million but by billion."

D. Medvedev said it is a good intention. Serzh Sargsian noted that
the development of cooperation in the humanitarian sphere is also very
important. "We must pass to the future generations the best we have."

AFRIKIAN APPOINTED DEPUTY CHIEF OF STATE CUSTOMS SERVICE

A1+

23 June, 2008

On June 23 Armenia’s Prime Minister Tigran Sarkissian signed a decree
on relieving Karen Matevossian from the position of Deputy Chief of
the State Customs Service adjunct to the Government of the Republic
of Armenia.

Under another decree of the RoA PM, Arthur Afrikian was appointed
Deputy Chief of the State Customs Service.

ARMENIA: EUROPEAN COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF EMBATTLED TELEVISION STATION

CPJ Press Freedom Online, NY
n08na.html
Committee to Protect Journalists
June 19 2008

New York, June 19, 2008–The European Court of Human Rights ruled
Tuesday that Armenia’s repeated denials of a broadcasting license
to the independent A1+ television station violated Article 10 of
the European Convention on Human Rights. According to the verdict,
the Armenian government must pay the station 20,000 euros (US$31,000)
in damages.

Famous for its criticism of Armenian authorities, A1+ was forced
off the air in 2002 when the National Committee on Television and
Radio–a regulatory body whose members are directly appointed by the
president–awarded the station’s frequency to another company. Since
then, the agency has repeatedly rejected A1+ applications for a
broadcasting license–moves widely viewed as retaliation for the
station’s journalism. When local courts dismissed A1+ appeals as
unfounded, station owner Mesrop Movsesyan filed an appeal with the
Strasbourg-based court in 2004.

"We urge Armenian authorities to view this ruling as a signal to
grant a license to the station," said Nina Ognianova, CPJ’s Europe
and Central Asia program coordinator. "By granting a license to A1+,
newly elected President Serzh Sarkisian will demonstrate his commitment
to press freedom in the country."

In its verdict, the court found that government regulators refused to
provide reasons for the denials despite numerous requests from A1+
management. According to the verdict, the court considered "that a
licensing procedure whereby the licensing authority gives no reasons
for its decisions does not provide adequate protection against
arbitrary interferences by a public authority with the fundamental
right to freedom of expression."

The court found that the repeated and unexplained denials violated
the right to impart information and ideas as outlined in the European
Convention on Human Rights.

Armenia: ‘insufficient progress’ on PACE demands, an urgent debate
therefore warranted

Strasbourg, 19.06.2008 – An urgent debate on Armenia at the plenary
session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is
warranted, according to the head of PACE’s Monitoring Committee.

Progress made so far by the Armenian authorities in meeting the
Assembly’s demands
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judged insufficient by the committee’s co-rapporteurs Georges Colombier
(France, EPP/CD) and John Prescott (United Kingdom, SOC), its chair
Serhiy Holovaty said in a letter today to the Assembly’s President.

The two parliamentarians made a two-day visit to the country (16-17
June) to assess progress, in line with an earlier decision
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THE DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN COURT REGARDING "A1+" TV COMPANY
Arthur Hovhannisyan

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
June 19, 2008
Armenia

The European Court of Human Rights recently published its decision
on the following case: "’Meltex’ LLC and Movses Movsisyan vs. the
Republic of Armenia". As reported by the press, ‘A1+’ TV company has
won the case. The TV company’s claim was satisfied, "The European
Court has de facto stated in its claim that ‘A1+’ was deprived of
airtime illegally" etc. As a matter of fact, the court satisfied the
claim of ‘Meltex’ LLC., the owner of "A1+".

Moreover, the court decision contains no statement saying that "A1+"
was deprived of airtime illegally; as to the victory of "Meltex"
ltd. and the defeat of Armenia, it’s not absolutely appropriate and
right to touch upon the topic in this particular case.

In a press conference convened yesterday, Deputy Minister of Justice
GEVORG KOSTANYAN, authorized representative of the Armenian Government
in the European Court, touched upon the issue.

According to Mr. Kostanyan, "If we have a formal approach to this
decision of the European Court, I can declare officially that the
Republic of Armenia is a winner rather than a loser with respect to
the decisions (It’s not accidental that I mention the word ‘decisions’
in the plural). If we consider our disputes with ‘Meltex’ LLC. in the
European Court, I can state that the Republic of Armenia has won 5/6
of the case while ‘Meltex’ LLC has won only 1/6 of it."

As confirmed by G. Kostanyan, it’s not accidental that the lawyers
of "Meltex" ltd. do not speak about the May 27 decision of the same
court. The case of "Meltex" ltd. has been under the proceeding of the
European Court since 2002. The claim submitted by the above-mentioned
company on October 17, 2002, was rejected by the European Court on
May 27, 2008.

"That’s to say," the Deputy Minister of Justice continued,
"the European Court has made a decision on declaring the case
inadmissible. The matter was originally addressed to the claim
submitted to the European court with regard to the participation in
the contest for frequency No. 37."

As we know, it is the very first contest in which the company
participated but didn’t win and thus was deprived of a license. Only
in 2004 did "Meltex"LLC and its Chairman Movses Movsisyan submit the
second claim against Armenia, and what’s more, they argued the fact
of not having been granted a license in the sixth contest.

"From this point of view too, if we speak in the language of the
respectable attorneys, we can’t say that we lost the case," the
authorized representative said. "The plaintiffs had submitted three
claims, arguing violations under 3 Articles of the Convention (the
‘violations’ are their allegations). With respect to 2 articles,
the court made a decision on inadmissibility, and two claims were
thus rejected.

The court passed an admissibility decision with respect to one claim
and found that there had been a violation.

>From the point of view of winning or losing the case, let me mention
the following: whenever a relevant claim goes to the European Court,
the parties undoubtedly have certain expectations. The expectation of
Micro Movsisyan and ‘Meltex’ LLC was to receive around 1500000 Dollars;
that’s to say, claimants expected the Republic of Armenia to pay them
that sum as a compensation. As a result of the Government’s objection,
the European Court decided to satisfy the claim in the amount of 30000
Euros. That’s to say, when considering the expectations of the parties,
it is necessary to specify whether the conversation is about victory
or defeat."

Giving more details, G. Kostanyan said that the plaintiffs of the
second case were Mesrop Movsisyan and "Meltex" LLC. Based on the
objections of the Government, the court removed Mesrop Movsisyan’s name
from the case, recognizing him as an unrightful claimant and did not
recognize him as an aggrieved party. That’s to say, it confirmed the
fact that the decision made by the National Committee on Television
and Radio as well as the further decisions of the relevant courts did
not constitute a violation of any law in relation to Mesrop Movsisyan,
as he was not a even a subject of telecommunication sphere in the
frameworks of the law on Telecommunication and Radio.

As informed by G. Kostanyan, the European Court discussed only the
violation of the right to freedom of speech.

"The violation of freedom of speech," he continued, "was recognized
purely in consideration of the fact that refusing to grant a license
to the company, the National Committee on Television and Radio did
not clearly specify the reasons which served as grounds for rejection.

That’s to say, it was exclusively the absence of clear-cut reasons
that led to a violation of the law."

Touching upon the specified financial compensations, the Deputy
Minister said, "Meltex’ LLC and Mesrop Movsisyan claimed that the
Government pay material and non-material damages and cover the
defense costs. The material damages made up around 1350000 Dollars,
and the non-material damages made up 50000 Dollars. In the meantime,
the costs for defense were classified into two groups: sums spent
on the local attorneys and sums spent on the well-known KHPR law
organization of London.

The European Court totally rejected the material claims of "Meltex"
company and satisfied the non-material claims in the amount of
20.000 Euros.

As regards the costs for defense, it only satisfied the claim for
the sums to be paid to KHRP company of London.

G. Kostanyan underlined that the European Court had not confirmed
the statements which "Meltex" had been making since 2002, saying that
the company had been denied a license on political motives.

He also said that the court decision doesn’t mean that Armenia (the
given committee) is obliged to grant a license to "Meltex" LLC; the
company is free to participate in contests for frequencies as it did
in the past and be granted a license in case of winning the contest.