Author: Yeghisabet Arthur

NEW MEETING TO BE HELD AT LIBERTY SQUARE OF YEREVAN ON 16 NOVEMBER WITH PARTICIPATION OF THE FIRST ARMENIAN PRESIDENT LEVON TER-PETROSYAN

arminfo
2007-11-05 19:20:00

ArmInfo. ‘A new meeting with participation of the first Armenian
president Levon Ter-Petrosyan will be held on 16 November>, – executive
secretary of Armenian Pan-National Movement Board Vahagn Hayotsyan
told ArmInfo correspondent.

He also added that Ter-Petrosyan will probably come forward with
another speech at the meeting.

In the People’s Party of Armenia they told ArmInfo correspondent
that they are going to take part in the meeting scheduled on 16
November. Other political parties which support Ter-Petrosyan will
also take part in the meeting – Republic party, Social-Democratic
Party Hchakyan as well as public and political movement "Alternative".

TIGRAN KARAPETIAN IS SURE THAT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD IN
TWO STAGES

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 2, NOYAN TAPAN. In the conviction of Tigran
Karapetian, the Chairman of the People’s Party, the 2008 presidential
elections will be held in two stages and he will be one of the
candidates having passed to the second stage. The Chairman of the
People’s Party foresaw at the November 2 press conference that the
presidential elections will be held with less violations, than the
parliamentary ones held on May 12.

According to Tigran Karapetian, 8 to 10 candidates will take part in
the elections, most of whom from the opposition field since the
opposition figures will not manage to find a common candidate. In the
words of Tigran Karapetian, Levon Ter-Petrosian, the first President of
the Republic of Armenia, as well cannot be that common candidate.

The Chairman of the People’s Party qualified the speech of Levon
Ter-Petrosian made in the October 26 rally as a mark for the policy of
the current authorities, which was very soon opposed by the latters.
"In fact, a struggle of charges and compromats will proceed between the
teams of Levon Ter-Petrosian and the current authorities," Tigran
Karapetian concluded.

WORK ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES’ USE BY STATE TO BE COORDINATED BY
SECTOR DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT CURRENTLY WORKED OUT

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The policy of using IT by the state
is not regulated now, the director of "Nork" Information and Analytical
Center CJSC Hayk Chobanian said at the November 2 press conference.
According to him, over the past one-two years, the state has begun to
show some eagerness to make the use of IT more coordinated. H.
Chobanian noted that the solution of the problem will be reflected in
the concept of developing the Armenian IT sector, which is now being
worked out by the working group formed at instruction of the Armenian
president.

In the words of H. Chobanian, until now "Armenian departments have
tried to solve problems on some function’s automation and IT use within
the framework of their interests, preferences and possibilities". It
was mentioned that their solution in the state governance system is
related to creation of databases, channels and the technologival base
of equipment. In his opinion, "these processes were implemented
independently of each other, by using not definite approaches". After
approval of the concept by the RA government, the RA ministry of trade
and economic development will have clear mechanisms for regulation of
IT use problems by the state.

He also attached importance to copyright protection in using software
and technological soluation by the state system, which will promote
supply of respective products by local companies.

"ARF DASHNAKTSUTIUN WILL NOT ALLOW ECONOMIC ENTITIES HAVING MONOPOLY ENTER POLITICAL FIELD," VAHAN HOVHANNISIAN PROMISES

Noyan Tapan
Oct 31, 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenia needs such a president,
who will be responsible not in front of some "squabble", but for the
people, who have elected him: the ARF Dashnaktsutiun candidate can
be that president. This statement was made by Vahan Hovhannisian,
a member of the ARF Supreme Body, one of the potential candidates
for presidency by the ARF Dashnaktsutiun, during the meeting held on
October 30 with the supporters of Arabkir and Zeytun.

Vahan Hovhannisian grounded the necessity for the ARF Dashnaktsutiun’s
participation in the 2008 presidential elections with its own candidate
with a number of other reasons. In his words, the first reason is
that "the forces, which have provided the development of the country
since 1999, have already exhausted themselves." In the past eight
years, according to Vahan Hovhannisian, the development of Armenia is
obvious, the country has made no essential mistakes in the Karabakh
negotiations, as well as has achieved considerable success with regard
to the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. However,
as V. Hovhannisian stressed, the absence of conditions for economic
competition is a troubling fact. However, in his words, "the main
obstacle for the economic development of Armenia is the monopoly"
and for that very reason in case the ARF Dashnaktsutiun achieves
positive results in the presidential elections, it will never allow
economic entities having monopoly to enter the political field.

The next potential candidate of the party Armen Rustamian, a
representative of the ARF Supreme Body, mentioned in his turn that
the ARF Dashnaktsutiun is seriously concerned with preserving balance
between the branches of the authority in the country. According to
him, the political processes will stagnate in the country, if the
whole authority is concentrated in the hands of one branch, that is,
in the hands of the President of the Republic of Armenia, the National
Assembly or the government.

NO GROUNDS

Hayots Ashkharh Daily
Oct 30 2007
Armenia

On October 27, Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan had a meeting with
the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs who arrived in Yerevan from Baku.

As reported by the MFA Spokesman Vardan Oskanyan, there are
particularly no grounds to speak about recording a progress. This was
a regular meeting, and the Co-Chairs are trying their best to bring
the parties’ attitudes closer with regard to the issues that have not
been agreed upon so far. According to V. Karapetyan, the process is
under way, and the Co-Chairs will again pay a visit to the region in
the near future.

As regards the statement which the American Co-Chair Matthew Bryza
allegedly made in Baku, saying that, "The Armenian and Azerbaijani
leaders will probably sign a framework agreement till next spring,"
V. Karapetyan mentioned that the Co-Chair himself has refuted the
information disseminated by the Azerbaijani media, considering it
the result of a wrong translation.

SEARCH IN PENITENTIARY

A1+
[04:23 pm] 31 October, 2007

October 29a painstaking search was conducted in the Vardashen
Penitentiary, the committee supporting Zhirair Sefilian and Vardan
Malkhassian reports.

The Security Department of the Justice Ministry at the head of
Lieutenant-Colonel Varuzhan Eghiazarian searched the prison cells
and the colony adjacent to the penitentiary.

Seven officers, three colonels, eight employees of unknown services,
as well as fifteen masked servicemen of special groups participated
in the search.

The penitentiary hasn’t been subjected to such a large-scale search,
the witnesses state.

The ward of Zhirair Sefilian and Vardan Malkhassian was thoroughly
searched but nothing was found there.

We assume that the search was unwarranted and was a well-planned
"masquerade" aimed at imposing a penalty on Zhirair Sefilian and
Vardan Malkhassian. They simply didn’t want the case to be submitted
to the "independent commission" which was to consider the detainees’
conditional release.

It is still unknown whether their plans worked or not.

The initiators also wanted to spoil Sefilian and Malkhassian’s
relations with other detainees.

THE PRIME MINISTER HAS ACCEPTED THE FILM WORKERS

Azat Artsakh Tert, Nagorno Karabakh Republic
Oct 30 2007

Today the NKR Prime Minister Ara Haroutyunian has accepted the
participants of international festival of youthful films carrying
out in Armenia and Artsakh. A stage of that film festival organized
the third time by the fund of Rolan Beekov, it is the second year,
that takes place also in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. During the meeting
taken place in artless and cordial atmosphere, the guests have passed
on their impressions, estimating highly the contacts with children
of Artsakh and a great attention showed towards the cinematographic
art in NKR. The Prime Minister expressed his appreciation to the
armenian and foreigner film workers for their important mission,
pointed out great significance of such festival and necessity of
making them periodical.(Administration of relations with the NKR
Government’s information and community).

ARMENIAN TEAMS OF MEN AND WOMEN TO TAKE PART IN EUROPEAN CHESS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Noyan Tapan
Oct 26, 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. The 16th team championship of men and
the 7th team championship of women will start in the city of Heraklion
on October 27. The Armenian team of men has left for the competition
ground with the olympic staff, except Artashes Minasian. Levon Aronian,
Vladimir Hakobian, Gabriel Sargsian, Smbat Lputian, and Karen Asrian
are included in the team. Elina Danielian, Lilit Mkrtchian, Nelli
Aghinian, Siranush Andriasian, and Liana Aghabekian are included in
the Armenian representative team of women.

Representative teams of 40 countries will take part in the tournament
of men and 29 teams in that of women. Each of the teams will hold 9
competitions. 4 chess players will take part in each competition. 2
points will be given in case of victory and one in case the game ends
in a draw.

ARMENIA-IRAN COOPERATION DEVELOPING

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.10.2007 14:54 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "The visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
to Armenia was fruitful and his early departure did not spoil the
results," Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told a news
conference in Yerevan.

"Media extremely politicizes the early departure of the Iranian
President and seeks for sensation where it can’t be. Such cases occur
in international practice and should not be paid extra attention. The
Armenia-Iran cooperation is developing. Projects under implementation
are significant not only for the two states but also for the whole
region," the Minister underscored.

As to signature of an agreement on creation of free trade zone between
Armenia Iran, Minister Oskanian said the paper has not been developed
yet. "We have to clarify a number of Armenia’s terms and commitments
to international organizations. I think the agreement will be concluded
and will not be influenced by UN embargo on trade relations with Iran,"
he said.

NOTHING CAN HINDER THE CONTEST FOR GRANTS

KarabakhOpen
25-10-2007 09:35:39

The contest for government grants will be held in late November
or early December, said the head of the social department
of the NKR government Mikhail Gasparyan in an interview with
Karabakh-Open.com. The contest will be held notwithstanding the change
of the president and the government.

The announcement was placed in August, and so far 32 organizations have
applied. The budget of the proposals totals 108.5 million drams. Last
year 37 applied with budgets of 87 million drams, projects of 43
million drams were financed. According to Mikhail Gasparyan, it is
not known how much money the government will allocate for financing
public projects.

According to the commission, no projects were submitted in two
nominations: ecology and local governments.

"Special groups were set up to monitor the implementation of the
projects, who think the process is normal. Although shortcomings were
observed in some organizations, instructions were given for getting
them over," Mikhail Gasparyan said.

He thinks the most successful project is the HiEr Youth Organization’s
project in Kashatagh aimed to help young people living in the region.

"The Pedagogue and Grace were also successful. The latter proposed
a project on sex education among adolescents and schoolchildren,"
Mikhail Gasparyan added.