IRONY OF FATE: “A1+” IS OFFERED AN AREA IN THE BUZAND STREET
A1+
03:32 pm 17 March, 2006
The State Property Administration had offered “A1+” an area in
the Buzand Street, and today the director of the company must get
acquainted with the offered area. It is located in the same building
with the Administration of Architecture and Urban Development, and
the Yerevan urban development Programs realization office.
Today an area of only 100 square meters is offered as compensation
for that of 240. Asked the question if the fact that the area is in
Buzand street is symbolic, director of “A1+” Mesrop Movsesyan said,
“Whatever is connected with “A1+” is symbolic” .
By the way, “A1+” has already freed 220 square meters on the third
and forth floors. According to Movsesyan, “A1+” is ready to free the
rest if a proper compensation is offered.
The necessity of financial compensation is condition by the investments
“A1+” has done for years. The fixed sum is 34 thousand USD. “Up to
now I have made all the payments for the electricity and for the
workers. And all the payments done for years must be calculated”,
Mesrop Movsesyan said.
But up to now no court officers have come to “A1+”.
“There are people who will be clever about the issue”, the director of
“A1+” thinks. “The Prime Minster tries to solve the problems, and he
will keep his promise.
An offer was made today that the eviction will not be carried out
until the problem of a new area is solved”.

LATVIA IS INTERESTED IN THE ISSUES OF NKR AND THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
A1+
06:16 pm 17 March, 2006
Today meetings with the Latvian Ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to Armenia Ayvars Vovers took place in the NA.
During the meeting with the NA Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan it was
mentioned that within the framework of the EU “New Neighborhood
Program” Latvia supports the member countries, and Armenia too will
be included in the program. By the way, a number of deputies of
the Latvian Parliament have taken the initiative to organize the
Armenian Genocide.
The Ambassador of Latvia also met the head of the NA Standing Committee
on Foreign Relations Armen Rustamyan.
Referring to the regional problems and in particular tot he process of
settlement of the Karabakh conflict Mr. Rustamyan mentioned that the
settlement of the conflict is the issue N1 of the political agenda of
Armenia. He expressed opinion that the negotiation process cannot be
successful without the participation of Nagorno Karabakh as a side,
as the agreements signed in 1992 and in 1994 which have been working
successfully for all those years are signed by Karabakh. And if there
is a third agreement, it must be signed by Karabakh too.

FOREIGN MINISTRY ANSWERS TO AZERI LIES
A1+
07:15 pm 17 March, 2006
The Azeri Mass Media have spread false information recently about
Armenian officers. According to them, an officer of the RA Police named
Gevorg Voskanyan participating in courses about Security issues in the
Center after George Marshal in the German town Garmisch-Partenkirchner
made an attempt to rape Natalya Kostroma from Ukraine and was expelled
from the courses.
In another piece of information representative of the RA Defense
Ministry mayor Artem Hakobyan is compromised. The Azeris claim that
he has received a warning from the heads of the Center because of
insults towards Georgia.
Asked a question by “Armenpress” agency how they will comment on the
information and if they correspond to reality or not the RA Foreign
Ministry press speaker Hamlet Gasparyan answered, “Of all the things
mentioned the only thing corresponding to reality was the names of the
Armenian officers. The rest is pure lie. Gevorg Voskanyan and Artem
Hakobyan participated in the courses since September 23, 2005. At
the beginning of the courses mayor Voskanyan had health problems and
was forced to return to Armenia on October 4 with the agreement of
the Center to get medical treatment. In answer to the lies from the
Azeri side the Center too claims in a written form that “All the
accusations of the Armenian mayor Gevorg Voskanyan are groundless
and do not correspond to reality, as he was never involved in any
unpleasant incident”.
In the same written answer it is mentioned that mayor Artem Hakobyan
successfully finished the courses on December 16 of the previous year
and returned to Armenia. “The authorities of the Security issues Center
after George Marshal have not given any warnings to any representative
of the RA Defense Ministry”, the announcement says .
The fact that the Azeri side is trying again to compensate the Armenian
officers participating in international courses proves once again
that the anti-Armenian policy of Azerbaijan is pursued on the state
level. And in these conditions the brutal murder of the Armenian
officer by the Azeri “national hero” in Budapest is not by chance”.

INDIAN BUSINESSMEN VISIT ARMENIA
Panorama.am
19:39 17/03/06
>>From March 18-21 the delegation of Indian businessmen led by
Honored Consul of RA in Mumbai (India) Harshad Mehta will arrive in
Armenia. As it has been informed in FM Press Department, leaders and
representatives of enterprises in the fields of jewelry, information
technologies, cinema production, metallurgy, pharmacy, tourism,
food industry are included into the delegation.
On March 20 a round table on the theme “Armenia-India: business
opportunities” will be held in Armenian Development Agency with
the participation of the Indian delegation and representatives of
different Armenian departments and enterprises. The meeting of the
delegation with RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan is expected to
take place on March 20. On March 21 the delegation is expected to
meet RA Minister of Trade and Economic Development as well as the
Minister of Culture. /Panorama.am/

ELEMENT BAND PRESENTS ARMENIAN CD YEV O PHE
Panorama.am
18:16 17/03/06
Band incorporates sounds of Europe and the Mediterranean, while
maintaining purity of original compositions
Titled Yev O Phe, Element Band´s first Armenian CD brings a refreshing
and long-awaited sound to Armenian music by partnering distinct vocals
with colorful, warm and exotic arrangements.
While the sounds of Europe and the Mediterranean come to life through
the use of classical guitar, violin, bass, accordion, bouzouki,
mandolin, and keyboard, Yev O Phe remains free to be distinctively
Armenian.
The band takes great pains to keep the Armenian songs pure, but uses
bold arrangements and genuine sounds of instruments to introduce
exciting twists and compositions of traditional songs.
Element Band first captured the attention of audiences with their
performance at the John Anson Ford Theatre in May 2005, as the opening
act for the French gypsy band Bratsch. They later opened for the
legendary Demis Roussos at the Kodak Theater in November 2005.
Element Band members include Ara Dabandjian (arrangements, keyboards,
classical guitar, accordion, string instruments), Saro Koujakian
(songwriter, vocals and guitar), Gars Sherbetdjian (vocals), Shant
Mahserejian (violin), Jeremy Millado (bass). Yev O Phe
During the Middle Ages, as a result of greater and more enduring
contact between Armenia and the West, the 36-letter Armenian alphabet
incorporated two additional letters, o and phe, to better reproduce
the sounds of European tongues–all the while, needless to say,
remaining utterly Armenian. As a result, the modern Armenian alphabet
can almost perfectly replicate the pronunciations of various languages.
So it is with Element´s Armenian compositions that incorporate the
sounds of Europe and the Mediterranean, while remaining untethered,
simply free… to be Armenian–uniquely.
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14-15 DRAMS FOR NATURAL GAS DAILY
Panorama.am
15:56 17/03/06
“In the conditions of Armenia a consumer needs 14-15 drams hourly to
heat 1 cubic meter of dwelling space,” informed the head of Armenian
Fund of Restoring Energy and Energy Productiveness Tamara Babayan at
the press conference today. As she said, according to calculations
of World Bank experts even if the tariff rises for 30-50% natural
gas will become competitive power-bearing substance from the point
of view of heating.
Nevertheless, taking into consideration the social-economic situation
in the country, how much time is necessary to carry out the heating
program? In reply to this question T. Babayan said: “In case of
necessary financial support the time is not essential. Theoretically,
we can achieve that in 5-6 years.” Yet, the financial assistance
is not the only problem, as T. Babayan mentioned. The awareness and
self-discipline of the society is not less important. /Panorama.am/

MODEL EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELD OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
Panorama.am
15:45 17/03/06
“The experience of inclusive education is very much developed in our
country. No CIS country has such an experience, announced manager of
“Huysi Kamurj” public organization Susanna Tadevosyan at the conference
today. To note, this type of education has been used in our country
since 2003 in 5 schools in different communities. According to the
information provided by the representative of Ministry of Education
and Science Anahit Muradyan 157 children with special needs study
in 5 schools providing general education in the scopes of the
program. Principal of school N 27 Anahit Bakhshyan mentioned that
36 children with special needs study at their school for what they
received money from the State last year. As she said this year the
financial assistance has not yet been received.
Today the most difficult problem for invalid children is the fact that
schools providing general education are unavailable for them. Unlike
our schools the schools in Russia are more available to these children
as a result of which a greater number of children manage to receive
general education. “We think every child has to study in a school
providing general education irrespective of his/her nationality
and other circumstances as it is only there that they can receive
high-quality and full education,” mentioned the representative of
“Perspoektiva” public organization Tamara Lobovskaya, who has arrived
in Armenia together with her colleagues to get acquainted with our
experience in the field of inclusive education and later contribute
it in School N 1961 in Moscow.
“We can contribute this system of education in all the schools
beginning from 2006 but it will not be productive. Firs we have to
carry out preliminary works at schools,” said A. Muradyan. She also
mentioned that soon this system will be put in 8 more schools with
159 children with special needs studying there. /Panorama.am/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

“NEVER INVITE ME TO SUCH PLACES AGAIN”
Panorama.am
15:40 17/03/06
These are the words of President of Christian-Democratic party Khosrov
Haroutyunyan after the debates with President of Armenian Marxian
party David Hakobyan in “Hayeli” club. By the way, Mr.
Hakobyan predicted this disappointment: “Unfortunately, everyone
rejected our invitation. And I welcome our ex Prime Minister who
accepted the invitation to debates.” And the topic of the debates
was Karabakh issue. For the leader of Christian Democratic Party the
result of the negotiations in Rambouillet was unpredictable. “All in
all Rambouillet proved that one of the sides was not ready to serious
talks,” he added. And that side was Azerbaijan that tries to influence
on the international community by its bellicose announcements. The
Republic’s chief Marxist brought down “merely cardio physiological
ideas” to political stage, i.e. either everything or nothing. Thus
he concluded: “Rambouillet once again proved that fact.”
Later he introduced their variant of Karabakh issue regulation
suggested in 2001. The leader of the Christian Democrats doesn’t
agree with the statement that the strategy of Armenian diplomats
was defeatist.
The latter insists that 2006 is a favorable period to solve Karabakh
issue because as he says: “The choice between the bad and the worst
can be made in this very period.” Thus, unlike leader of Christian
Democrats the chief Marxist thinks that the antagonism will be
regulated only in the times of the 3rd public and under the 3rd
president elected by the people and from the people. “I’m saying
all this for historical generations. The territorial compromise
is impossible.”
The two ideological opponents left the club offended and without the
traditional handshake. /Panorama.am/

Panorama.am
12:27 17/03/06
OPEN LETTER FROM
TO: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
ROBERT KOCHARYAN
DEAR MISTER PRESIDENT
The circumstance of non-responding to the applications
in advance addressed to you gave grounds to suppose
that they didn´t reach the addressee, consequently
choosing the way of turning publicly to you by the
open letter, we hoped to express our anxiety
concerning illegal actions, had committed towards the
company “Royal Armenia” and its heads. As a result of
machination of a group of managing officials at the
customs state committee of the Republic of Armenia
/hereinafter CSC/ on 10.03.2005 criminal legal
proceedings were instituted towards the company “Royal
Armenia”; and during the seventh month of the criminal
case investigation, joint owner of the company
Hakobyan Gagik and vice director Ghazaryan Aram were
arrested on 11.10.2005 and had been under arrest for
about 5 months. Analyses of one-year criminal case and
five months arrest of the latter revealed that not an
objective investigation complying with criminal
proceedings law of RA was held but a criminal terror,
which was carried out by the investigator Marukyan
Mnatsakan in favor of carelessness towards all the
arguments and written evidences of the company and
arrested officials, declaring them false without
analyzing to the extent of attempts to qualify the
whole economic activity of LLC “criminal” within the
period of the last six months. While all the
incriminating proclamations, made by Bedrossian Vache,
USA citizen, declared as “victim”, by the
investigator´s own free will had been accepted as a
gospel truth and he had kept the people arrested on
the grounds of it. The investigator who was the first
responsible for ungrounded arrest, made all the
efforts for justifying his illegal actions and
fabricated accusations concerning the arrested. We
understand that some customers stand under his back,
however we find that law must operate in Armenia,
consequently availability of the customers doesn´t
release the investigator from an obligation to act
objectively, lack of which is unspeakably tremendous.
Actually the company “Royal Armenia” as well as
Hakobyan Gagik and Ghazaryan Aram were punished for
non-implementation of illegal requirement made by
corrupted managing officials at CSC, however the funny
side of a situation is that the latter were accused
because formerly Hakobyan Gagik, refusing the
high-ranking customs officials, denied to execute.
According to the hypothesis of preliminary
investigation, Hakobyan Gagik had been accused in
fraud as well, which became apparent in debts to
Bedrossian Vache, USA citizen, and refusal from
returning the debts, however in reality Bedrossian
Vache, USA citizen owed money to Hakobyan Gagik and at
these circumstances the label fraudster suited
Bedrossian Vache, USA citizen. The applications sent
to you, containing details of the above-mentioned and
written evidences were handed over the President´s
Staff of RA in time, consequently we ask to become
familiar with them in order to make sure in the
pointed out.
Taking an opportunity we want to recall to the address
of CSC, during the meeting at the beginning of year
you expressed your negative treatment: for clearance
of various customs values of imported identical goods
with similar provisions, as during the last 2.5 years
the company “Royal Armenia” had been considered as one
of the victims of such illegal actions made by the
customs officials. For the first time the company
“Royal Armenia” stated about it at press conference,
held on 26.07.2004, revealing corruption disclosure
available at the base of customs values “games”,
established for imported coffee by CSC. As a result
the corrupted high-ranking customs officials has been
unpunished up to day and continue to hold profitable
offices, and the fathers of corruption together
instituted criminal legal proceedings towards an
innocent person, revealed “imprudence” while
expressing his loudly addressed opinion concerning the
corruption. We also remember that the instruction
given by you to the head of CSC during the meeting at
the beginning of year, to punish all the officials,
which bear responsibility for establishing wrong
customs values in 2005. Let us point out that over two
months passed after meeting, but nothing was said
about execution of your instruction by the head of
CSC.
Proceeding from the above-mentioned we ask your
cooperation for termination of illegal actions,
carried out towards the company “Royal Armenia” and
its heads as well as for releasing innocent people in
criminal-legal sense.
Thanks beforehand
“Royal Armenia” JV LLC
Director /signature/ Toni El Labaki
Lawyer /signature/ Minasyan Gevorg
March 14, 2006
/Seal of “Royal Armenia” JV LLC/
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PEARLS OF ARMENIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC” CONCERT IN GLENDALE
Panorama.am
12:20 17/03/06
On March 11 a symphonic concert “Pearls of Armenian Classical
Music” was held in Glendale, California, USA, dedicated to the 50th
anniversary of Los Angeles Union of Iranian Armenians. The concert was
organized by Los Angeles Union of Iranian Armenian and Glendale Musical
School with the assistance of RA Chief Consulate in Los Angeles.
During the concert the works by A. Khachatryan, A. Babajanyan,
G. Yeghiazaryan, R. Altunyan, E. Hovhannisyan and Sayat-Nova were
sounded. The chorus of Iranian Armenian union and piano player Vache
Mangaryan took part in the concert conducted by conductor Michael
Avetisyan. /Panorama.am/