Author: Tigranian Ani

YOUNG ARMENIAN FOOTBALL PLAYERS DRAW GAME WITH FOOTBALL PLAYERS OF THE SAME AGE FROM FRANCE

Noyan Tapan
Nov 16, 2007

PARIS, NOVEMBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian football youth national
team held an unofficial match with the French national team on November
15 in France. The match ended in a draw, with the score of 1 to 1.

The Armenian football players will compete with football players of
the same age of Lichtenstein on November 16 in that country by the
Europe Championship’s elimination tour’s group tournament program.

TITAL JNDOYAN AND GAGIK VOSKANIAN APPOINTED MEMBERS OF RA CONTROL CHAMBER’S BOARD

Noyan Tapan
Nov 15, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 15, NOYAN TAPAN. By RA President Robert Kocharian’s
November 14 decrees, Tital Jndoyan and Gagik Voskanian were appointed
members of RA Control Chamber’s Board. The first was appointed for
two years’ and the second for one year of tenure. Noyan Tapan was
informed about it by the RA President’s Press Office.

CZECH DOCUMENTARY SOURCE WINS FESTIVAL IN ARMENIA

CTK National News Wire
November 7, 2007 Wednesday 12:48 PM (Central European Time)
Czech Republic

Czech documentary The Source (Zdroj) directed by Martin Marecek won
the main award at the Sun Child film festival in the Armenian capital
of Yerevan, the AutoMat civic association told CTK today.

The film from 2005 reveals the negative impact of oil mining on the
environment, human rights observance and the political situation.

These days it was officially premiered in the Caucasus where it
was shot.

The Source has been presented in almost 30 countries and has won 17
awards at film festivals.

The film shows not only oil leaks, police repressions against
inhabitants, poverty and extensive corruption in Azerbaijan, but it
also points to the alleged share of the BP British corporation in
keeping the authoritarian regime in power.

The Source was premiered at the One World 2005 international human
rights film festival in Prague where it won the audience award and
the special award of the jury.

It has been broadcast on TV in Estonia, Finland, Germany, and Spain
and distributed in French-speaking countries.

The Human Rights Watch organisation has selected the Source, as the
first Czech documentary, for its touring festival in the USA. The
film was also screened at the conference on oil and politics in London
this year.

In mid-November, the documentary will compete at the international
Environmental Film Festival festival in Turin, Italy.

SERZH SARKISIAN ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF REPUBLICAN PARTY AND NOMINATED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

ARMENPRESS
Nov 12, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: Some 650 delegates of a congress
of the governing Republican Party elected Saturday prime minister
Serzh Sarkisian as chairman of the party. Serzh Sarkisian said it
was a great responsibility to be chairman of a party whose previous
leaders were its founder Ashot Navasardian and former prime ministers
Vazgen Sarkisian and Andranik Margarian, who contributed immensely
to building an independent country.

Serzh Sarkisian said he will do his best to increase the role of the
party in all areas of Armenian life.

Parliament chairman Tigran Torosian, Mushegh Lalayan, Razmik Zohrabian
and Galust Sahakian were elected deputy party chairmen.

The congress also increased the number of the party’s governing board
from 72 to 100 and set up also a 13-member executive body.

The 11-th congress of the party nominated Serzh Sarkisian as a
presidential candidate of the party for the next year’s election.

Thanking the delegates of the congress Serzh Sarkisian said
presidential election is an opportunity to assume the entire
responsibility for the country for the next five years, an opportunity
for a reconciled work of the legislative and executive branches
of power and an opportunity of avoiding meaningless political
confrontation.

He said this gives a good chance for materialization of a very
ambitious development plan designed by the government.

In his address to the congress Serzh Sarkisian focused on what the
government has done so far and shared also his party’s vision of
Armenia in five years.

In a reference to domestic policies he said over the last 15 difficult
years ‘we have succeeded in building a sovereign state based on
democratic principles."

He also referred to foreign policy challenges saying Armenia will
never agree to Turkey’s and Azerbaijan’s demands and will remain
committed to unconditional improvement of ties with Turkey.

In a reference to Nagorno-Karabakh conflict he said Armenia will press
for the international recognition of its right to self-determination
and will help crate soil for it.

He also said the government has enough political will to hold free
and just presidential election scheduled for November 19.

LITHUANIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY DELEGATION ARRIVING IN ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.11.2007 18:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A delegation of the Lithuanian National Defense
Ministry led by Minister Juozas Olekas is arriving in Armenia
November 12.

RA Defense Minister’s Spokesman, col. Seyran Shahasuvaryan told
PanARMENIAN.Net that meetings with President Robert Kocharian,
Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and
Defense Minister Mikael Harutyunyan as well as with chairman of the
parliamentary committee on security, armed forces and internal affairs
Artur Aghabekian are scheduled.

The Lithuanian delegation will also attend the Memorial to the Armenian
Genocide victims, the Military Institute after Vazgen Sargsyan and
Depository of Ancient Manuscripts Matenadaran.

TO MAKE THE PROCESS MORE ACTIVE

"Hayots Ashkharh" Daily Newspaper
7 Nov 07
Armenia

"I am optimistic that we will be able to move forward with the
Karabakh settlement process in OSCE, under the Chairmanship of
Finland," announced Tarya Halonen, the President of Finland, in
a joint press-conference organized after the meeting with the RA
President Robert Kocharyan who is in Finland on an official visit.

According to her, Finland is thoroughly preparing for taking over
the OSCE Chairmanship next year, and, having been involved in the
settlement processes since the ’90s, it is well-aware of the problem,
which is "quite complex and important for the parties".

"We realize the Armenian people’s clear interest in that matter, and
I can already say that we will try to make the process more active,"
T. Halonen said.

USAID ORGANIZES A CONFERENCE LAUNCHING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY

armradio.am
07.11.2007 11:50

On November 7, in conjunction with the Government of Armenia and its
Anti-Corruption Strategy Monitoring Commission, the USAID Mobilizing
Action Against Corruption activity, with co-funding from UNDP,
organized a conference marking the development of the new National
Anti-corruption Strategy of Armenia.

The speakers of the conference included US Chargé d’Affaires Joseph
Pennington, Minister of Finance and Economy Vardan Khachatryan,
Minister of Education Levon Lazarian, UNDP Resident Representative
Consuelo Vidal, Council of Europe Special Representative of the
Secretary General Bojana Urumova, OSCE Deputy Head of Office Marc
Bojanic, the Chairman of Anti-Corruption Strategy Monitoring Commission
Gevorg Mheryan, Transparency International-Armenia Chairwoman Amalya
Kostanyan, representatives of government agencies, NGOs, media,
and the international community.

The main objectives of the Conference were as follows: â~@¢To make
the general public, civil society activists, and international donor
community aware of the Government of Armenia agenda and plans about
the fight against corruption, and, in particular, about development of
a new multi-year anti-corruption strategy, action plan, and monitoring
system with key performance indicators; â~@¢To inform the development
of new Anti-corruption Strategy (Phase 1) by inviting main groups of
stakeholders to present their viewpoints and recommendations for the
new Anti-corruption Strategy in terms of priorities, policy directions,
content or structure of the strategy paper; and â~@¢To introduce the
USAID/Armenia Mobilizing Action Against Corruption (MAAC) activity
to stakeholders and the public in general.

The conference will provide an opportunity to make the process
of developing the new Anti-corruption Strategy more open and
transparent. The aim of the conference was to launch a broader
discussion among key stakeholders including NGOs, mass media,
government agencies.

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EARTHQUAKE MEASURING 4-5 HAPPENS ON NOVEMBER 6 IN ARMENIA

Noyan Tapan
Nov 6, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 6, NOYAN TAPAN. An earthquake with the magnitude
of 3.2 happened on November 6, at 15:36 in the territory of Armenia,
2 km to south-west of the town of Spitak. It measured 4-5 in the
epicenter. As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Seismic Protection
National Service, the earthquake was also felt in Spitak and
Shirakamut.

SOURCIO RECEIVED IT MARK: FIRST ARMENIAN CERTIFIED BY EUROPEAN SOFTWARE INSTITUTE

SBWIRE
11/05/2007

Sourcio CJSC, a leading IT consulting company, which provides offshore
development and support for business web applications, got IT Mark
certification from the European Software Institute.

Yerevan, Armenia — (SBWIRE) — 11/05/2007 — Armenian-based Sourcio
specialized on customized web applications development, monitoring
and support services heavily utilizing open source products. Sourcio
is a developer of global monitoring products like Mon.itor.Us
which became popular and gained lots of buzz and thousands of users
worldwide. Sourcio provides cost effective solutions for companies of
all sizes and has number of marquee customers in Europe and United
States. IT Mark certification proves significant progress that the
young but fast growing company achieved in short period of time.

IT Mark is developed by European Software Institute to enable IT
companies make use of ESI knowledge and become more competitive in the
markets. IT Mark is a business and technical process Certification
that assesses companies’ quality and maturing from 3 complimentary
points of view: Business Management, Information Security Management,
and Software and Systems Processes. As is stated on ESI website
"in matters relating to Business Management the reference used is
the 10-Squared model, which was developed to assess applications
for Venture Capital. From the Information Security Management point
of view, the reference model is ISO 17799, whereas for Software &
Systems a lightweight version of CMMI® is used, a standard globally
acknowledged by the IT world with which ESI has broad experience
providing services to enterprises in all five continents."

According to Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO and Founder of the company and
former General Manager of Lycos Europe Company: "IT Mark provides
Sourcio excellent opportunity to gain market recognition and achieve
market differentiator for IT capability".

ABOUT SOURCIO Sourcio CJSC is an Armenian based company which
provides global web applications development and operations support
services. Utilizing open source and offshore location advantages,
Sourcio provide cost efficient solutions for small and large companies
worldwide. Sourcio developed such popular web destinations like
mon.itor.us, Monitis.com, semonics.com, emrian.com and complex web
applications for well known brand names.

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Presidnet Kocharyan to visit Finland

armradio.am
03.11.2007 12:33

RA President Robert Kocharyan will pay an official visit to Finland
November 5-7, President’s Press Office reports.

The delegation headed by President Kocharyan comprises Foreign Minister
Vartan Oskanian, Chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee
on European Integration Avet Adonts, Minister of Trade and Economic
Development Nerses Yeritsyan, Mayor of Yerevan Yervand Zakharyan,
President of the Central Bank of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan, other
officials.

After the official welcome ceremony Presidents Robert Kocharyan and
Tarja Halonen will have a face-to-face meeting, followed by an enlarged
meeting of the official delegations of the two countries and a press
conference.

The Armenian President will make a speech at the Parliament of Finland,
and will have meetings with the country’s Prime Minister and heads of
business companies.

Robert Kocharyan will visit to the City Hall of Helsinki and will speak
at the Alexander Institute of the local university.

The Armenian President will visit the `Nokia’ Company and a number of
historical-cultural places.