ARMENIA HAS PROBLEMS WITH INTERNET ACCESS
Arka News Agency, Armenia
Aug. 7, 2006
YEREVAN, August 7. /ARKA/. Armenia still has problems with Internet
access, beginning from Friday the connection is unstable.
At present access to Internet is almost impossible, connection to
foreign Websites is extremely difficult.
During recent three days two big damages have happened on fiber-optic
cable passing through the territory of Georgia.
Arminco Global Telecommunications, largest local provider company
informed ARKA News Agency that according to the information centre of
“ArmenTel”, on the territory of Georgia on August 5 at 02:00 o’clock
(local time) fiber-optic cable on the Sochi-Poti section was damaged.
As a result, OTEGLOBE VOIP E3 and UKRTEL E3 have technical problems.
Reconstruction work is being done, Arminco reports.
A day earlier, on August 4 at 11:55 o’clock the cable was caused
rather big damaged on Kutaisi- Zestafon section, which caused cut of
the Internet connection in Armenia.
ArmenTel supplies Armenia with internet only through Georgia by means
of the only cable passing through the bottom of Black Sea.
Armenia Telephone Company enjoys the sole right to supply internet
access to Armenian internet providers. Since 1997, 90% of ArmenTel’s
shares belong to Greek OTE Company while the remaining 10% belong to
the Armenian government. S.P.-0–

ARMENIA TO HAVE FULL INTERNET COMMUNICATION IN 10-15 DAYS
YEREVAN, AUGUST 7, NOYAN TAPAN. Since August 6, Armenia has been
almost deprived of Internet communication for two days because of
the damage of the cable on the Black Sea bed. NT correspondent was
informed by Hasmik Chutilian, head of ArmenTel’s PR Department, that
the Internet communication has been partly restored by other means
of communication, in particular, by satellite communication. “The
cable was damaged on the sea bed, which makes the restoration work
difficult and may take 10-15 days,” H. Chutilian noted.

ARMENIA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH AMOUNT TO 11.9%, AVERAGE INDEX IN CIS
COUNTRIES BEING 6.5% IN JAN-JUN 2005
Arka News Agency, Armenia
Aug. 7, 2006
YEREVAN, August 7. /ARKA/. In January-June 2006, compared with
January-June 2005, the GDP growth amounted to 11.9%, which is the
second index among CIS countries, included in the report of the CIS
Statistical Committee (SC) in the period under report.
High indexes of economic growth are again recorded in Azerbaijan –
36.3%, and comparatively low growth rates were in Kyrgyzstan and
Ukraine – 3.1% and 5%. On average, according to the SC, economic
growth amounted to 6.5% in CIS countries.
Belarus comes after Azerbaijan and Armenia, whose GDP growth
is 10.1%. The GDP in Tajikistan increased by 7.1% according to
the results of January-June 2006, and in Russia – by 6% (in basic
economic sectors).
The information regarding the rest CIS countries is provided for the
1st quarter of 2006. In particular, the GDP in Georgia increased by
8.4%, in Kazakhstan – by 7.7%, in Moldova – by 6.2%, in Uzbekistan –
3.6%. No information is provided on Turkmenistan. R.O. –0–

ARMENIAN CHILDREN RESPOND WARS PROCEEDING IN WORLD BY PAINTINGS
YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, NOYAN TAPAN. An exhibition of children’s paintings
“Stop the War” opened in the Children’s Creative Museum of Armenia
on August 4.
Paintings of 7-15 years old children concerning wars proceeding
in different countries of the world were presented at the
exhibition. Diplomates representing different countries were present
at the opening ceremony. Ambassador of Lebanon Gabriel Geara thanked
children for touching upon the war of Lebanon as well and said:
“We are not people of war and pray the God that there is peace in
Lebanon.” Henrik Igitian, the Director of the Children’s Creative
Museum of Armenia informed that the exhibition is the idea of pupils
of the National Center of Aesthetic Education. “Nobody led them, and
this is their attitude against war,” he said. “Our children give a
drop of sense to grown-ups. This is their contribution in the affair
of stopping the war,” H.Igitian said. Mr.
Igitian also informed that it is possible that the exhibition will
soon be presented in other countries as well. Paintings of Lebanese
Armenian children moved to Armenia because of the war are also
presented at the exhibition.

ARMENIAN POLICE SEARCHES FOR PERSON WHO COMMITTED ASSAULT IN ARARAT REGION
Arka News Agency, Armenia
Aug. 7, 2006
YEREVAN, August 7. /ARKA/. The Armenian police searches for the
person who committed an assault in the village of Armash, Ararat
region.
The General Prosecutor’s Office reported that a villager was
assaulted and held up on August 4, 2006 at 1:30am.
The police found out that a strange young man took the advantage and
broke in the villager’s house through an open door. He beaten the man
and stole jewelry for AMD 800,000 (about $1960), and took to flight.
The police’s investigation detected that the violator was certain
Zakaryan. As a result, the police initiated a criminal case. The
investigation is under way. R.O. –0–
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER GOES ON TWO-WEEKS’ LEAVE
YEREVAN, AUGUST 7, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian Prime Minister Andranik
Margarian went on a two weeks’ leave from August 7 to August
21. According to the RA Government Information and PR Department,
A. Margarian will spend his holiday outside Armenia. The RA Minister of
Territorial Administration Hovik Abrahamian will temporarily perform
the duties of the prime minister.

ARMENIA’S INTERNET LINK BREAKS . . . AGAIN
TeleGeography, D.C.
Aug. 7, 2006
Armenia has been cut off from the internet for the second time,
after cable failures interrupted connections. The breaks, on 4 and 5
August, were caused by cable breakdowns in the Kutaisi region and a
break on the Black Sea seabed link. No information on when the damage
will be fixed is available, but the outages are an embarrassment
to the government which sees information technologies as key to the
development of the national economy.

ARTAK GRIGORIAN BELIEVES THAT ARMENIA MAY TOTALLY GIVE
UP COMPLEMENTARY FOREIGN POLICY
AZG Armenian Daily #147, 05/08/2006
Foreign policy
“If OSCE MG doesn’t change its approaches to the settlement of Nagorno
Karabakh problem, I think, Armenia may give up complementary foreign
policy,” Artak Grigorian, member of the Republican Party Board, stated
at today’s press conference. At the same time, he emphasized that till
now the complementary foreign policy of Armenia justified itself,
as the country managed to avert political stresses, to fix stable
economic growth. Grigorian familiarized the journalists with the
content of the federal seminar recently held by the Moscow School of
Political Sciences in Moscow. Sonya Likht, representative of Serbia,
expert of the Council of Europe, stated that by February 2007 one
may expect the recognition of Kosovo’s independence, as there are
no mechanisms that will make Kosovo return under the jurisdiction of
Beograd. The approach of the Serbian expert was supported by almost all
of the Western political experts. In reply to Grigorian’s remark that
the model of Kosovo conflict is similar to that of Nagorno Karabakh,
Chales Grant, representative of the British Council, stated that he has
no idea of the history of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. His colleagues
began telling Grigorian about the repression that Slabodan Milosevic
carried out against the Albanians from Kosovo and the liberation
struggle of the Albanian people. The Western experts tried to prove
to Grigorian that the conflict in Kosovo is a special one and can’t
be compared with that of Nagorno Karabakh.
“I am sure that they are well aware of the history of the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict, but the policy of double standards is being
displayed in more obvious forms,” he stated. He stated that one
could observe double standards also in the approaches to the Iranian
dossier. Thus, the former Israeli Idsurty Minister Natan Scharanskiy
stated that the attack of Iran by USA is unacceptable, as it threatens
the safety of Israel. In response to the remark of a Latvian expert
that the international legal norms do not allow consider the potential
threat as a ground for unfolding a war, Scharanskiy stated: “No! It
isn’t so.
As we deal with the security of Israel!” in response to Grigorian’s
question whether they took into account the probable consequences of
the was also for the South Caucasus states, Scharanskiy said: “I am
not interested in that at all.” The European political figures and
experts didn’t support the military settlement of the Iranian problem.

AT MOSTLY MOZART, A TOUSLE-HAIRED NEWCOMER JOINS A RETURNING HERO
By STEVE SMITH
Published: August 7, 2006
The notion of viewing Mozart from the vantage point of what followed
him – both in close proximity and at a farther remove – is a central
principle of this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center.
The program presented by the guest conductor Osmo Vanska and the
festival orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall on Friday evening neatly
illustrated the concept, with a major work by Mozart preceded by
a modern homage and followed by a masterpiece by Beethoven, whose
revolutionary gestures were built on Mozart’s foundation.
Mr. Vanska, whose debut in the festival last year was a star-making
event, was greeted as a returning hero. An exacting musician, he
quickly revealed a care for textural balance and a predilection for
extremes of dynamics in the Swiss composer Frank Martin’s “Overture
in Homage to Mozart,” a tart but genial Neo-Classical curtain-raiser
commissioned in 1956 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s
birth.
Taking advantage of the improved acoustics of the reconfigured Avery
Fisher Hall, Mr. Vanska established a subdued base-line dynamic.
Hushed pianissimos compelled listeners to lean in close, and accented
notes and louder passages leapt out in striking contrast.
Wielding his baton with an urgent sweep, Mr. Vanska propelled Mozart’s
Symphony No. 35, the “Haffner,” at a tempo that initially seemed too
driven to sustain. Fine details of articulation were occasionally lost
in the headlong surge of the Allegro con spirito; that the ensemble
never lost cohesion was a testimony to its marked improvement over
the last few seasons.
Violins that were divided left and right on the stage yielded
heightened clarity in the clockwork Andante. Mr. Vanska led a courtly
Menuetto free of expressive quirks, and spurred a breathless Presto
finale.
The Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan, a 21-year-old past champion
of the Jean Sibelius and Queen Elisabeth competitions, made his
New York debut in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, a work that expanded
Mozart’s model of a virtuoso showcase into a forum for philosophical
rumination. Lanky and tousle-haired, Mr. Khachatryan projected intense
concentration in the first movement, his sweet tone and strikingly
introverted phrasing suggesting vulnerability and internal debate. He
shaped his lines fastidiously and executed them cleanly. Mr. Vanska,
departing from his previous metronomic precision, provided ideally
flexible accompaniment.
Clocking in at 26 minutes, the opening movement felt slightly prolonged
and episodic. Still, Mr. Khachatryan’s rapt account of Fritz Kreisler’s
cadenza was quietly dazzling, and his gentle sound against the muted
strings of the Larghetto was bewitching. The orchestra seemed to
breathe a collective sigh of relief when unleashed at last in a
buoyant Rondo, which elicited Mr. Khachatryan’s most effusive playing.
The audience responded with a tumultuous ovation, and Mr. Khachatryan
rewarded those who lingered with the Largo from Bach’s Unaccompanied
Sonata No. 3, broadly spun and richly expressive.

SAFAR ABIYEV: AZERBAIJAN IS PREPARED TO LIBERATE ITS TERRITORIES THROUGH WAR IF PEACE TALKS FAIL
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
Aug. 7, 2006
Azerbaijan’s Defense Minister, General Colonel Safar Abiyev today
received French ambassador to Azerbaijan Bernard Amaudric Du Chaffaut
and military attache, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Babu, whose mission
has ended.
The Ministry press service told the APA the military attache reported
about the measures he implemented during this period. Minister Abiyev
said as the co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, France is important for
Azerbaijan. He expressed confidence that France will donate its gift
to fair solution of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. Mr.Abiyev also
said if the peace talks with Armenia fail to achieve any result,
Azerbaijan is prepared to liberate its territories from occupation
through war./APA/