CBA PRESIDENT TO PAY A WORKING VISIT TO BISHKEK
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
09.09.2009 18:12 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ CBA President Arthur Javadyan will participate in
governing banking organizations club sitting for Central Asia, Black
Sea region and Balkans due in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on September 10-13,
CBA press service reported.
The sitting will focus on monetary and crediting policy in financial
crisis circumstances.
PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I DECORATES THE PRESIDENT OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS MARIUS GAROYAN
On Thursday 3 September 2009, His Holiness Aram I expressed his appreciation
to Mr Marius Garoyan, President of the House of Representatives of the
Republic of Cyprus during a reception organized in his honor. In the
presence of Cypriot, Lebanese and Armenian officials and members of the
brotherhood His Holiness said: "Mr Garoyan is a political leader who has
been able to locate the just demands of the rights of the Greek Cypriot and
the Armenian people from Turkey within the current geopolitical context.
Declarations and Conventions on genocide and human rights become ossified
unless justice is actualized. Recent agreements regarding open frontiers and
good neighbourliness cannot over-shadow evidence of the Armenian Genocide.
Demanding the recognition of the Armenian Genocide is a collective
responsibility because we are accountable to our martyrs." At the end of his
message, Catholicos Aram I decorated Mr. Garoyan with the highest award of
the Catholicosate, "Knight of Cilicia".
Mr Marius Garoyan thanked His Holiness Aram I and reaffirmed his commitment
to the just causes of the people of Cyprus and the Armenians in Lebanon and
the Diaspora. He said that these two just demands from Turkey should be
pursued simultaneously.
The evening ended with a visit to the Martyr’s Chapel where the
distinguished guest paid his tribute to the memory of the martyrs of the
Armenian genocide.
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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
the mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.
"COMPUTER FOR EVERYONE": DIGITECH EXPO 2009 DEDICATED TO OUR "DIGITAL FUTURE"
Marianna Gyurjyan
"Radiolur"
07.09.2009 15:19
The 5th annual "DigiTech Expo 2009" will take place in October at the
Sport and Concert Complex after Karen Demirchyan. About 50 companies
will present their innovative technologies at "Your Digital Future"
exhibition. Organizers expect 11-12 thousand visitors.
Local and foreign companies will present their production and introduce
the future programs, most of them supported by the Armenian Government.
Director of the Enterprise Incubator Foundation Bagrat Yengibaryan
attaches special importance to the "Computer for Everyone" exhibition,
the business forums and business-consultations to be conducted within
the framework of the "DigiTech Expo 2009."
Organizers of the event remind that the objective of the expo is
to create a business environment between the clients of the best
companies in the sphere of information and communication technologies
and the society.
MEMOS SIGNED, DOCUMENTS DRAFTED,TO ENRICH SYRIAN-ARMENIAN BILETRAL RELATIONS
Cham Press
cle/view/43844
Sept 8 2009
Syria
Syrian-Armenian Joint Committee Meetings Concluded by Signing Memos
of Understanding
The Syrian-Armenian Joint Committee for Commercial, Economic,
Scientific and Technical Cooperation concluded activities on Monday,
with the two sides signing several documents of cooperation and
understanding.
The signed documents include a memo of understanding in the field
of veterinarian vaccines and medicine and a memo of understanding
between the Central Bank of Syria and the Central Bank of Armenia,
in addition to the protocol of the fifth session of the Committee.
Several documents were also drafted to enrich the legal framework
regulating paperwork in the fields of tourism, housing, construction,
industry and communications.
During the meetings, the two sides discussed cooperation in the
fields of trade, investment, customs, banking, industry, standards,
transport, electricity, energy, petroleum, gas, communications,
technology, agriculture, irrigation, culture, higher education,
health, tourism, justice, internal affairs, housing, construction,
local administration, social affairs, labor and sport.
The Committee was chaired by Syrian Minister of Economy and Trade
Dr. Amer Housni Lutfi and Armenian Minister of Agriculture Gerasim
Alaverdyan.
On the sideline of the meetings, Minister Lutfi met with Armenian Prime
Minister Tigran Sargsyan, in addition to Ministry of Economy Nerses
Yeritsyan and the Director of the Armenian Development Agency. He also
met representatives of economic activities at the Armenian Chamber
of Industry and Trade.
Population deposit insurance amount to be doubled in Armenia
YEREVAN, September 4. /ARKA/. Armenian Government approved amendments
to the country’s laws about deposit insurance, the Central Bank of
Armenia and Armenian budgetary system.
Under the amendments, deposit insurance amount is doubled for
population’s dram and exchange deposits in insolvent banks, Chairman of
the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) Artur Javadyan said.
From now on the deposit insurance amount is 2 million drams for
deposits in foreign exchange and 4 million drams for dram deposits.
Apart from this, it is proposed to review the deposit insurance amount
once every five years, the CBA Chairman reported. The size of insurance
is to be reviewed also under force majeure circumstances if the
country’s financial system is threatened: under these circumstances the
government can provide a budget guarantee to the deposit insurance fund
and extend a loan to the fund through the Central Bank, Javadyan said.
Armenian Deputy Minister of Finance Pavel Safaryan said the ministry
opposed budget guarantees.
According to the country’s Premier Tigran Sargsyan, the fund is a body
set up by the government through the Central Bank and it insures
deposits of the Republic of Armenia. Hence, the proposals are quire
proper, Sargsyan said.
`We cannot assign the entire load to the Central Bank, it’s not the
function of the Central Bank,
but of the state,’ the Premier said. He
also reported a suggestion to bring the deposit insurance fund out of
the Central Bank system and make it an independent organization with
its own resources like it is in the United States. ($1=376.06drams).
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Institute for War and Peace Reporting IWPR, UK
Sept 3 2009
THAW PRAISED IN ENCLAVE
Armenians in Karabakh welcome move on Turkey-Armenia ties.
By Karine Ohanian in Stepanakert
Politicians in Nagorny-Karabakh have given a cautious welcome to the
thaw in Armenian-Turkish relations, especially since the status of
their own self-declared state was not included in the published
`protocols’.
Ankara and Yerevan announced on the last day of August that, with two
protocols, they had agreed the terms under which diplomatic relations
between them could be restored, and the border opened, although the
precise details of the agreement have not been released.
`We are closely following Armenian-Turkish relations, or more
accurately, the true desire of Armenia to create these relations,’
said Bako Sahakian, president of Nagorny-Karabakh.
Turkish politicians had previously linked a restoration of ties to a
resolution of the status of Nagorny-Karabakh, which has declared
independence but is internationally considered a part of Azerbaijan, a
close ally of Turkey. Karabakh’s Armenian inhabitants have governed
themselves independently since Baku’s troops were driven out in the
early 1990s, and Sahakian said he was still concerned by Turkey’s
position.
`This cannot inspire much hope for the creation of honest and true
relations,’ he said.
Other figures believed the thaw could mean Ankara had abandoned its
insistence on Karabakh being handed back to Baku’s control.
`An important positive element of the protocol is the lack of a direct
connection between the normalisation of Armenian-Turkish relations and
the regulation of the Nagorny-Karabakh conflict, and the clear
separation of these two conflicts,’ Masis Mailian, a former candidate
for the presidency and the current chairman of the Civic Council for
Foreign Policy and Security, told IWPR.
`Azerbaijan, as a result of the Armenian-Turkish process, will become
more compliant in the Karabakh talks process, which will allow a peace
deal to be reached more quickly.’
Karabakh’s leaders will be closely watching the next six weeks, when
the protocols will be discussed in the two countries, then submitted
to the parliaments for approval. The removal of Karabakh from the
discussions, as well as the lack of a mention of the Armenian genocide
question has made the documents more likely to be accepted. At least
half a million Armenians died when they were driven out of their homes
in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 but Turkey denies it was genocide.
`It is currently too early to say what this possible Armenia-Turkey
agreement could give to the Karabakh regulation process; it all
depends on geopolitical developments. I welcome this thaw, but stress
that attempts to connect Armenian-Turkish relations with regulating
Karabakh-Azerbaijan are unacceptable. This cannot be done at the cost
of Karabakh or the genocide,’ said David Babaian, head of the
president’s information service.
Karine Ohanian is a freelance journalist and a member of IWPR’s
EU-funded Cross Caucasus Journalism Network.
The terminology used in this report was chosen by the editors.
TURKISH PARTY LEADER: WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO PROTEST AGAINST PROTOCOLS AGREED WITH ARMENIA
Today.Az
s/55272.html
Sept 4 2009
Azerbaijan
Leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahceli
has issued statement on the protocols agreed between the Turkish and
Armenian governments.
MHP leader said the government of Justice and Development Party (AKP)
started procedure of establishing diplomatic relations with Armenia
and re-opening the borders which was new appearance of unprincipled
foreign policy,according to the party’s Web site.
He said two protocols agreed upon with Armenia showed that the
government bowed to the unlawful demands of Armenians.
Bahceli reminded that 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s lands are still
under Armenian occupation.
"Seven regions surrounding Nagorno Karabakh are also under the
occupation and one million Azeris became displaced persons in their
homeland. Turkey-Armenia land borders were closed in 1993 in a protest
against the Armenian occupation. Prime Minister Erdogan promised on May
13 not to open the borders until occupation of Nagorno Karabakh ends,
but now he presents protocols which includes re-opening of borders
and specified date for that".
MHP leader said the process AKP government conducted with Armenia
contradicts national interests of Turkey and it had no legal-political
legitimacy.
Bahceli said six-week domestic consultations would mislead the public
community.
"Turkish parliament has no authority to change the protocols, which
will be accepted in unchanged form or will be rejected. Members of
the parliament from AKP will approve the document. The Nationalist
Movement Party will do its best to protest against the protocols at
the parliament and reveal the guilt and responsibility of the prime
minister and his team before the history and nation", Bahceli said.
RUSSIA DOESN’T PLAN TO HOST ARMENIAN MILITARY BASES – CSTO
Interfax
Sept 2 2009
Russia
Moscow and Yerevan are not conducting talks on the deployment of
Armenian military bases in Russian territory under the agreement
to form the Collective Operational Reaction Force (CORF), Vitaly
Strugovets, spokesman for the secretariat of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization, has said.
"No proposals of this kind have arrived from Russia or Armenia, and
no talks on this issue are underway now," Strugovets told Interfax-AVN
on Tuesday.
Strugovets was commenting on media reports claiming that Armenia could
deploy military bases in the Krasnodar Territory or in Dagestan,
to be manned by units attached to the CSTO’s CORF, to ensure the
security of the transport and communication infrastructure, used to
channel supplies to Armenia.
"The CORF is not intended to protect transport and communication
infrastructure, so speculation on its possible use for this purpose
is baseless," Strugovets said.
ICON RELAUNCHES "RECOMMEND YOUR FRIEND" ACTION
PanARMENIAN.Net
03.09.2009 19:47 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian Internet provider iCON company relaunches
"Recommend Your Friend" action on September 1-30.
Upon recommending iCON services to their friends and making them
company clients, subscribers will get a bonus in the amount of AMD
2500. The new subscriber will get AMD 2500 discount for activating the
service (thus paying AMD 7500 instead of AMD 10.000). Recommenders’
bonus will be calculated beginning the coming month.
As before, subscribers are allowed to recommend iCON services to
unlimited number of subscribers, and get AMD 2500 credit for each
invited person, iCON Communications Web site reports.
ARMENIA CLAIMS READY FOR AN OFFENSIVE
AzerNews Weekly
Sept 1 2009
Azerbaijan
Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian has warned that his country`s
armed forces are unperturbed by what he called Azerbaijan`s militarist
statements and are ready to withstand any onslaught.
Novosti Armenii news agency quoted Ohanian as saying in an interview
with the public TV channel that the Armenian military is ready to
not only defend itself, but to also carry out preventive measures,
if necessary.
Asked about the possibility of Armenia`s launching an offensive,
Ohanian maintained: "Why not? An attack, a counter-offensive. We are
ready even for an attack to protect civilians from the horrors of war."
Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with the signing
of a cease-fire in 1994, but Armenia continues to occupy part of
Azerbaijani territory, including the Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh region,
in defiance of international law. The OSCE-brokered peace talks have
been fruitless so far.
Meanwhile, Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian alleged his country
relies on its military in the ongoing talks on Garabagh conflict
settlement. In a recent meeting with top Defense Ministry officials,
he said that the armed forces play a special role in peace talks and
inspire Yerevan`s confidence in the negotiating process. Sarkisian
issued orders to increase the combat readiness of the Armenian
military, saying the country`s defense capabilities should comply
with present-day requirements and be continuously modernized.
These statements came as Armenian armed forces staged military
exercises in the occupied Azerbaijani territories. The drills,
conducted in the occupied areas of the Aghdam district last Wednesday
night, involved only infantry units, according to the Baku-based
Lider TV channel.
The Armenian military began using powerful fireworks in the area after
sunset, eyewitnesses said. Following the entire area being lit up,
troops began the non-stop firing of small-caliber weapons. The bright
light from the fireworks enveloped even the frontline villages of
Aghdam that are not occupied by Armenia.
Armenia conducted the exercises in response to the flight of Azeri
fighter jets over frontline regions earlier in the day, commentators
say. Five fighter aircraft from the Azerbaijan Air Force carried out
maneuvers on the contact line with Armenian troops. The fighter jets
flew over the Fizuli, Beylagan, Khojavand, Aghdam and Terter districts.
Defense Ministry spokesman Eldar Sabiroghlu described the maneuvers
as regular exercise flights.