DEVELOPMENT OF ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN PROJECT ON CHARENTSAVAN RECONSTRUCTION UNDER DISCUSSION
Noyan Tapan
Jun 06 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Ministry of Urban Development
and the Building Guild of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI)
of Moscow are discussing the issue of developing a project on complex
reconstruction of the city of Charentsavan (Armenia). Alexander
Zhuravlev, Chairman of the Building Guild, Deputy Director General
of the Avtobaninvestcenter interregional administrative company
(chairman Arsen Aghajanian) stated this. Reconstruction will be
carried out by a project envisaged for a city with a population
of 40-70 thousand. The current population of Charentsavan is 25
thousand. In response to a question of NT correspondent, A. Zhuravlev
noted that cooperation between Russia and Armenia in the speres of
urban development, production of building materials and exchange of
technologies is developing dynamically. In his words, the interest
that Russian construction businessmen take in Armenian productive
forces is constantly increasing. Chairman of the Building Guild
expressed an opinion that the most promising sphere of cooperation
is the production and export of dry construction mixtures for various
Armenian building stones. The export of mixtures will allow to reduce
transport charges compared with cost of transportation of worked
building stones. According to him, these mixtures can be used in
production of stone and concrete building materials and structures
with various properties.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

MONUMENT TO HOVHANNES TUMANIAN UNVEILED AT PARK OF STONE-MONUMENTS OF ARAGATSOTN REGION
Noyan Tapan
Jun 06 2006
ASHTARAK, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. Unveiling of the “Tumanian and
His Heroes” monument took place in the territory of Park of
Stone-Monuments of Aragatsotn region on June 3. The unveiling was
initiated by the Hanun Gugarats Ashkarhi (For the Sake of Gugarats
Land) charity organization in the person of RA MP Vahram Baghdasarian,
organization’s Chairman. It is the second one in the park, the first,
monument to Anania Shirakatsi, was erected by the administration
of Shirak region. Delegates of Spitak, Tashir, Stepanavan, Alaverdi,
different NGOs of Lori region, students collectives, representatives of
intelligentsia and art figures took part in the unveiling of monument
to great Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanian. As RA Prosecutor General
Aghvan Hovsepian, Nig Aparan compatriot NGO Chairman, mentioned in
his greeting speech, the dream of creating a park of stone-monuments
begins to fulfil, and the monuments will reach the foot of Aragats
mountain. The honor of unveiling the monument to Hovhannes Tumanian was
given to Vahram Baghdasarian, Chairman of the Hanun Gugarats Ashkharhi
charity NGO, and poet Hrachya Sarukhan, Chairman of the Lori branch of
Writers’ Union. The ceremony of anointment was conducted by Ter Artak
Archimandrite Tigranian, deputy leader of Gugark Diocese. The author of
the sculpture is Varpet Sevo (Sargis Gharibian). Song “Anmah Loretsi”
(“Immortal Lori Inhabitant”), fragments from “Anoush” opera were
sung, Vanadzor “Horovel” state ensemble of song and dance performed
during the event. Verzhine Vardanian, Director of Yerevan Museum of
Hovhannes Tumanian, Roza Ghazumian, Director of Dsegh House-Museum,
and others spoke. Again sounds of the round dance invited everybody
to dance at the end of the event.

500 HECTARES OF SOWING AREA NOT USED BECAUSE OF LACK OF IRRIGATION IN ARAGATSOTN REGION
Noyan Tapan
Jun 06 2006
ASHTARAK, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. 500 hectares of sowing area of two
communities of Aragatsotn region are not irrigated. As Noyan Tapan
correspondent was informed by Gurgen Zakarian, Head of the community
of Suser, Aragatsotn region, the reason of this is lack of funds for
launching the pumping-station ready for exploitation. The community
has repeatedly applied to the Union of Water Users of Talin, to the
union’s higher organization for giving a solution to the problem, but
has not received any answer by now. As a result, it is two years 500
hectares of sowing area of the village of Suser and its neighboring
village of Nor Artik have not been used.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ISSUE OF COOPERATION BETWEEN CE AND ARMENIAN JUDICIAL SYSTEMS DISCUSSED
Noyan Tapan
Jun 06 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. RA Cassation Court Chairman Hovhannes
Manukian and representatives of the Council of Europe Management
on Judicial Issues Alessandro Manchini, Jose Maria and Special
Representative of CE Secretary General Boyana Urumova discussed
the issue of cooperation between the Council of Europe and Armenian
judicial systems in separate directions at the June 6 meeting. They
considered works on creation of a judicial school, retraining of
judges among the prior ones for cooperation. In particular, it was
mentioned that the Council of Europe has already worked out a program
for assisting creation of a judicial school. It is planned to start
the program from September. Besides Armenia, Russia, Georgia, Moldova
and the Ukraine are also involved in the program. 3 representatives of
each country will take part in the program. They will get acquainted
with the works of the Spanish judicial school.
CE representatives greeted the works aimed at creating an efficient
judicial system. H.Manukian on his part expressed readiness to
cooperate in all spheres that will be considered priority by the
Council of Europe.

ABOUT 100 HIGH GRADE PUPILS PARTICIPATE IN COMPETITION OF COMPOSITIONS “PEACE AND TOLERANCE”
Noyan Tapan
Jun 06 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. About 100 pupils of 8-10th grades
of secondary schools of Armenia participated in the competition of
compositions on the theme of peace that was announced by the “Education
for Stable Development” fund on the initiative of the Birtish
Council in Armenia. As the Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed
by the British Council in Armenia, Armenian pupils participated in
the competition expressed in compositions their attitude towards
peace and tolerance, wrote their opinions and viewpoints. According
to organizers, children’s all ideas about peace and tolerance were
natural and direct what should become a reason for grown-ups to ponder
over it. Authors of 10 best works recognized winners got dictionaries
and libraries of those schools where the children study were given
books envisaged for reading.

12-YEAR EDUCATION SYSTEM TO BE PUT IN COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS OF ARMENIA FROM 2006-2007 ACADEMIC YEAR
Noyan Tapan
Jun 06 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. One education program will be implemented
in comprehensive schools of the RA during the 2006-2007 academic year,
but it will be implemented in different ways: 10-year and 11-year
education. 12-year education system will be put in this year for
the first time, and according to it, two types of first grades will
be formed from September 1: ones of 6 and 6.5 years old pupils who
will leave the school correspondingly in 12 and 11 years. Children
born from January 1 to June 30 of 2000 will attend senior first
grade, and ones born from July 1 to December 31 will attend junior
first grade. First grades of 6 years old children will attend 2nd
form in the next academic year, and 6.5 years old will attend 3rd
form. Arising of it, pupils of 3rd-6th grades will be a grade upper by
a flight order. As Onik Vatian, the head of the Yerevan Mayor’s Office
Education Department informed at the June 5 press-conference, senior
and junior first grade pupils will study with different education
programs and different text-books. According to him, after putting in
the 12-years education system, first school leavers will be in 2018,
and there will be no school-leaver in Armenia in 2011 what is porvided
by passing from 10 to 11 years education in 2001.

ARAGATSOTN BRANCH OF NIG APARAN COMPATRIOTS’ UNION FUNCTIONS ACTIVELY
Noyan Tapan
Jun 06 2006
APARAN, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The left branch of the former
cooperative building of Aparan was restored by financial resources
of the Nig Aparan Compatriots’ Union and was gratuitously given to
the Aragatsotn Branch of the “National Center of Development of
Small and Meddium-Sized Entrepreneurial Activity” fund the place
for activity of which was chosen in the city of Aparant still since
2004. As Robert Makarian, the Director of the fund marz branch informed
the Noyan Tapan correspondent, as a result of implementation of the
program of assisting progress in the market of business-consulting,
business-educational, information, products and services, about 276
small and meddium-sized enreprenuer subjects got assistance from the
Aragatsotn branch in 2005. And already 116 small and meddium-sized
enterprises got assistance during the first quarter of 2006.

DIRTY WATER SUPPLIED IN CITY OF ARMAVIR, RESIDENTS WORRIED ABOUT SPREAD OF INTESTINAL DISEASE
Noyan Tapan
Jun 06 2006
ARMAVIR, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. “We are being expoloited”, the residents,
who were standing in a queue to get drinking water from a source in
the center of Armavir, compalined on June 2. NT correspondent was
infomed in Armavir that the population of Armavir has been deprived of
drinking water for a week. On that day the patience of many residents
came to a point of exhaustion. The reason was that a few days ago
water, mainly dirty one, was supplied only to the center of the
city for an hour. Some Armavir residents told NT correspondent that
an intestinal disease has spread in the city as a result of it. In
response to an inquiry of Armavir citizens, the new director of the
Armavir antiepidemic center Kamsar Vatinian explained that he had
been recently appointed to this position and will speak about the
quality of water supplied later, after examining the issue. Technical
Director of Nor Akunk CJSC Andranik Engoyan gives the same answer
in case of any problem: “The company is doing construction work,
and the user must be patient.”

ARMENIA AGAINST BSECO POLITICIZATION
PanARMENIAN.Net
06.06.2006 19:27 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia is against politicization of the Black Sea
Economic Cooperation Organization, RA Deputy Foreign Minister Arman
Kirakossian stated at a press conference in Yerevan. In his words,
some states try to use the tribune of the organization for the solution
of their own narrow political tasks. “However with joint effort we
succeeded in avoiding politicization,” he said.
At that he noted the importance of the BSECO mission in the light of
relations with the European Union.
“This cooperation accords with the EU Neighborhood Policy and will
develop close ties between the partner states,” he remarked, reported
Novosti-Armenia.

FFA CHAIRMAN TO PARTICIPATE IN FIFA CONGRESS
Noyan Tapan
Jun 06 2006
YEREVAN, JUNE 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The 56th congress of the FIFA will take
place in the Munich congresses’ international center on June 7-8,
before the solemn start of the FIFA World Cup of 2006. FFA Chairman
Ruben Hairapetian and FFA Executive Director Armen Minasian got
invitation to participate in the congress from Armenia. As Noyan
Tapan was informed by the RA Football Federation, heads of national
federations participating in the congress will be present on June 9
at the solemn opening of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.