WILL POVERTY BECOME HISTORY?

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| 11:50:28 | 12-09-2005 | Social |

On September 14-16, 2005, in New York the summit of the UN Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) will take place. Thousands of people in New
York will call to the UN summit delegates to put an end to poverty
in all over the world.

At the same time millions of people in about 180 countries of the
world will demand the participant of the summit to reach the MDGs,
to provide democracy and fair conditions of international commerce,
and to allot international aid to poor countries.

On September 10-16 the participants of the movement will wear white
ribbons on their hands showing their concern in this global poverty
problem.

The British Benevolent organization Oxfam and the Armenian coalition
“World Call against Poverty” calling everyone to join the motto
“Let’s Make Poverty History”.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT ELECTION – NOT A PRIORITY
Diana Markosyan

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| 18:33:38 | 10-09-2005 | Politics |

Two wings of the parliamentary opposition will not take part in
election to the local self-government. Justice bloc will take a
passive part to suuport its candidates while the National Unity will
press for fair and transparent election.

Justice faction secretary Victor Dallakyan conditioned the passiveness
of the party by the passiveness of the nation. “The main goal of
the opposition in to establish the legal power, while the people
pay special attention to presidential or parliamentary election
only. To our remark that the occupation of the posts in the local
self-government by opposition members V. Dallakyan reminded of the law
“On the local self-government” according to which the authorities
are free to dismiss any community head. “It does not mean that the
opposition will fully refrain form participation in the election. Our
party will nominate its candidates and we will support them”, he noted.

Over the passiveness of the opposition the authorities use the local
self-government bodies as an instrument and the system is politicized
as an administrative instrument for electoral falsifications as it was
during the presidential and parliamentary election in 2003. “Democracy
is based upon two main principles: the formation of powers via fair
elections and the rule of law”, V. Dallakyan noted.

National Unity faction secretary Alexan Karapetyan informed that they
will not take part in the election/ “The incumbent leadership distorted
the notion of election thus the participation in such election can
easily cause a military collision. It is inadmissible for our party.”

HIGH-LEVEL MEETINGS

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| 11:58:04 | 12-09-2005 | Official |

Today the RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan left for New York
to participate in the UN General Assembly 60th session high-level
meetings. The RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan is also member of
the Government delegation.

The high-level meeting will start on September 14 in the UN
headquarters and will continue till September 18. During the meeting
the Prime Minister will participate in the separate high-level meeting
titled “For the Development of Financing”, in the round table, in
the high-level meeting of the Francophone Union, and in other events.

During the meeting the RA Prime Minister will make speech on September
16. Within the framework of the visit the RA PM, together with his
wife, will participate in the reception organized by the US President
George W. Bush and his wife.

The delegation will return to Yerevan on September 18.

THE LAST HOPE

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| 12:53:13 | 12-09-2005 | Social |

The students of the University after Hrachya Acharyan, except those of
the first year, are still in strike. They complain of the $200 raise
of the education fee against which a collection of signatures has
also been organized. At present 200 of the 1800 students have signed.

The vice rector of the University has received the students, but all
in vain. The students have decided to represent a pack of offers to
the vice rector according to which the raise will affect the students
of the first year only, there will be a 10% raise for the students
of the 2-3rd years, and those of the 4-5th year will pay the same
fee as last year.

By the way, if the vice rector does not agree to this offer, the
students have decided to turn to the RA Ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan.

BECAUSE OF THE MEMORIAL DAY

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| 13:48:46 | 12-09-2005 | Social |

Today the residents of the Buzand street, armed with petrol bottles,
waited for the officers of the court who were to evict them from
their houses.

Till noon not a single court officer came to the Buzand street. The
residents tried to guess the reason for their absence, and came to
the conclusion that it is because of the Memorial Day.

The situation was tenser in the Buzand 15. There are 6 families here
who do not want to leave their houses. The police are on duty here
for 24 hours a day. At night there are at least 4 policemen sitting
in cars.

By the way, according to the residents, the policemen are very warm
towards them. “But if there is an order from above, they will easily
beat us with their sticks”, said Nuneh Vardouni.

The head of the non-governmental organization “Liberty and Democracy”
lives with her 15-year-old daughter at Buzand 15. Nuneh has decided to
fight for her rights till the end, and even if she loses the battle,
she will use it too for her protection. She has decided not to take the
miserable sum offered for her house and to wait for better days. “I
do not lose hope that I will see those days, where I will be paid
more money with which I can buy a house”, she says.

KARABAKH CONFLICT TO BE DISCUSSED IN PARIS

Pan Armenian News
12.09.2005 02:52

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The special PACE ad hoc sub-committee on the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict will hold its second sitting in Paris today.
Representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan, members of the OSCE Minsk
Group and an EU representative will discuss the latest situation
in the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict. It is already
known that the discussion will not be open to the press. According
to the revised draft program, the works will start at 9.30 a.m. with
the opening speech of Lord Russell-Johnston, Chairman of the Ad-hoc
Committee. First the historical background of the conflict will be
represented by the Executive Director of the London Information
Network on Conflicts and State-Building (LINKS). Within the
framework of the discussions Armenia will be represented by Varuzhan
Nersissian, Head of Department on OSCE, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
and Azerbaijan will be represented by Araz Azimov, Deputy Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. Besides the OSCE Minsk Group
Co-Chairs, Mr. Goran Lenmarker, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Special
Representative on Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and Mr. Heikki Talvitie,
EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus will participate in
the discussion. According to the agenda, the work of the Committee
will last a day, Trend news agency reported.

KARABAKH MUST JOIN ARMENIA

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| 15:43:31 | 12-09-2005 | Social |

“What do you think the Nagorno Karabakh status should be? ” This was
the poll question of the internet site “A1+” lat week. 287 people
participated in it.

Half of them – 50.5% think that Karabakh must form part of the Republic
of Armenia, 30t% think that it must be an independent republic,
and 5.9% think that it must form a state with Azerbaijan. 4.2%
were undecided.

This week the poll question is about the upcoming elections of local
governing bodies. We expect you to take active participation in
the poll.

ARMENIAN REPRESENTATIVES TO OBSERVE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION IN NORWAY

Pan Armenian News
12.09.2005 03:29

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ September 12 representatives of Kyrgyzstan,
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Moldova
will observe the parliamentary election in Norway in 6 polling
stations. 26 observers from the CIS member-state will divide into
14 groups to observe the election in Oslo, Bergen, Drammen and some
other towns. Besides, they are expected to visit the parliament,
the town council and the headquarters of one of the leading Norwegian
parties. The idea of participation of international observers in the
parliamentary election in Norway belongs to the Norwegian Helsinki
Committee and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs,
IA Regnum reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

BOJKO IS BACK

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| 15:47:20 | 12-09-2005 | Official |

Today the newly appointed Ambassador of Ukraine to Armenia handed his
credentials to the RA President Robert Kocharyan. He congratulated the
diplomat on being appointed Ambassador to Armenia again after 4 year.

Speaking about the Armenian-Ukrainian relations, Robert Kocharyan
underlined with delight that the efforts made in order to enhance
economic connections are proving fruitful. He also mentioned that there
is still much to be done in the fields of political and humanitarian
cooperation.

SPEAKERS OF HUNGARIAN, BRAZILIAN, RUSSIAN AND SLOVAKIAN PARLIAMENTS TO VISIT ARMENIA TILL END OF 2005

12.09.2005 02:42
Pan Armenian News

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian National Assembly is celebrated
its 15-th anniversary this November. On this occasion a solemn
sitting of the parliament will be convoked. As RA NA Chairman
Artur Baghdassaryan told journalists, representatives of some
interparliamentary delegations will be invited to take part in the
sitting. At the same time the Chairman informed that Speakers of
Hungarian, Brazilian, Russian and Slovakian parliaments will visit
Armenia till the end of the current year. Artur Baghdassaryan also
noted that late this year two sittings of the CIS Interparliamentary
Assembly will be held. In November the republic of Armenia will assume
presidency over the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic
Cooperation Organization, reported by IA Regnum.