ARMENIA RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL GRANT TO FIGHT AIDS
ArmInfo News Agency
Sept 30 2005
Yerevan, 30 September: Armenia has received a grant worth 4m dollars
to fight HIV/AIDS within the framework of the project of the Global
Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The recipient of the
grant is the World Vision office in Armenia.
The grant will be used to implement the second stage of the national
programme to combat AIDS, a source in the World Vision office in
Yerevan said. In 2003-2005, the fund allocated 3.2m dollars to
implement the first stage of the project. An official ceremony to
sign the document on the allocation of the grant is scheduled for 5
October this year.
According to the republican HIV/AIDS centre, by 1 September 356
HIV-positive cases had been registered in Armenia and 92 people had
been diagnosed as having AIDS. A total of 70 people have died since
the first HIV/AIDS infected Armenian patient was registered. However,
specialists of the centre say that official figures cannot reflect
the real situation in the country, as the actual figures are 10 times
higher. Specialists of the centre believe that over 3,000 people are
HIV-positive in Armenia.

ARMENIAN PARTY LEADER BLAMES USA FOR BACKING SECTARIANISM
ArmInfo News Agency
Oct 1 2005
Yerevan, 30 September: “We have turned [Yerevan’s] Nork subdistrict
into a base for clearing the city and republic from so-called Jehovah’s
Witnesses and other sects,” the leader of the United Nation Party
[UNP], Gor Tamazyan, said at a press conference today.
He said that the UNP’s tactic of going to the country with
anti-sectarian propaganda, including among sects, has yielded
considerable results in the 1-5th subdistricts. Attempts to continue
anti-sectarian work in the 6th and 7th subdistricts have met with
stiff resistance from “Jehovah’s Witnesses”.
“It is hard to fight sects in Armenia because they receive considerable
financial support from the USA and are puppets in the hands of the US
security services,” Tamazyan said. On this basis, the United Nation
Party, acknowledging a number of positive changes in the constitutional
reforms, is against lifting the ban on double citizenship.
Unlike the chairman of the Nationalist Union, Ruben Gevorkyants,
Tamazyan says that “however good the intentions of US citizens of
Armenian origin, the Washington administration, which is hostile to
Armenia, will use them against us,” he said.

ARMENIA CHOOSES FRANCE’S AREVA TO BUILD NEW NUCLEAR WASTE FACILITY
Turkish Press
Oct 3 2005
YEREVAN – The Armenian government has chosen a subsidiary of France’s
energy group Areva to build a new 10-million-euro (12-million-dollar)
nuclear waste facility for the country’s controversial Metsamor
reactor, the Armenian energy ministry said on Monday.
Cogema Logistics, a unit of Areva, will build a second waste disposal
facility in three phases between 2007-2018, said a spokesperson at
the ministry, Lucin Arutyunian.
The European Union has asked Armenia to close the Metsamor reactor
because of safety concerns, but the power station, built in 1977,
accounts for about 40 percent of electricity production in the country.

ARMENIAN MINISTER: ARMENIAN PEOPLE CAN NOT ACCEPT SILENCE ABOUT GENOCIDE
Cyprus News Agency, Cyprus
Oct 3 2005
Nicosia, Oct 3 (CNA) – Armenian people cannot accept silence around
the Armenian genocide by the Turks, Armenian Culture and Youth Affairs
Minister Hovik Hoveyan, noted here today, adding that Turkey has
problems with its history.
Armenian Minister, on the island for an official visit, was received
today by President of the House of Representatives Demetris Christofias
and met with Director of Cypriot President’s Press Office Marios
Karoyan, to whom he expressed his willingness to further enhance the
excellent relations between Cyprus and Armenia.

ARMENIA STOPS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT FOR PLANNED REPAIRS
By Tigran Liloyan
ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
Yerevan, October 1
The Armenian nuclear power plant was stopped on Saturday for planned
repairs and fuel reloading that will last a month and a half.
The plant, commissioned in 1979, was stopped in 1989 after a
devastating earthquake. After modernisation in 1996 with the help of
Russian specialists, its unit No. 2 resumed operation.
The plant generates about 40 percent of all electricity in Armenia.
The European Union insists that the plant, located 40 kilometres
west of Yerevan, be closed down. However Armenian authorities say
this can be possible only if there is alternative source of energy.
The plant has been under the financial management of the United Energy
System of Russia since 2003.

ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS PROPOSE TO CREMATE DEADS
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Oct 3 2005
YEREVAN, October 3. /ARKA/. The RA National Assembly adopted in
the first reading Law “On Organization of Burial and Operation of
Cemeteries and Crematorium”. The author of the bill is parliamentarian
Vladimir Badalyan. This law envisage alternative right for burial
through cremation. He said that alternative variant of burial is
necessary for Armenia due to the shortage of lands for cemeteries
available.
RA NA Vice-Speaker Vahan Hovhannisyan said that crematorium existed
in 3rd Millennium B.C. and their existence does not contradict with
Christian traditions.
RA NA Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Healthcare and Environment
gave positive resolution to this bill. A.A. -0–

DELEGATION HEADED BY GREEK DM TO ARRIVE IN ARMENIA ON OCT. 4
Noyan Tapan News Agency
Oct 3 2005
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The delegation headed by Greece’s
Defence Minister Spilios Spiliotopulos will come on a two-day official
visit to Armenia on October 4.
According to the RA Defence Minister’s spokesman Colonel Sayran
Shahsuvarian, meetings with the RA President Robert Kocharian, Prime
Minister Andranik Margarian and Defence Minister Serge Sargsian are
scheduled within the framework of the visit.
The Greek delegation will attend the Museum Institute of the Armenian
Genocide, lay a wreath at the Memorial to the 1915 Genocide Victims,
and visit the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin to meet with Catholicos
of All Armenians Karekin II.

KOCHARIAN CONGRATULATES ARMEN JIGARKHANYAN ON 79TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Oct 3 2005
YEREVAN, October 3. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharyan has addressed
a congratulatory message to Artistic Director of the Moscow Drama Armen
Jigarkhanyan on his 70th birthday anniversary. In his message the RA
President pointed out that due to his great talent and devotion Armen
Jigarkhanyan enjoys great popularity. “Your art has become a kind of
criterion of mutual enrichment of Armenian and Russian cultures,”
the message says. The RA President wished Armen Jigarkhanyan good
health and success in life and in creative activities.
Armen Jigarkhanyan is a People’s Artist of Armenia and Russia. He
played roles in over 200 films and his name in included in the Guinness
Books of Records P.T. -0–

FIFTEEN MEMBERS OF OPPOSITION BLOC ARRESTED DURING RALLY
Turan news agency, Azerbaijan
Oct 3 2005
Baku, 3 October: Fifteen activists of the Azadliq election bloc were
attested during the 1 October protests. They were sentenced to from two
to 15 day’s imprisonment as administrative punishment, the secretary
of the bloc’s election headquarters, Fahmin Haciyev, has told Turan.
Ten of them are members of the People’s Front of Azerbaijan Party
[PFAP], five from the Democratic Party and the Musavat Party. Among
them are the PFAP chairman, Ali Karimli’s, chief bodyguard, Karim
Mehdiyev, a member of the PFAP executive board, Vaqif Panahov, the
chairman of the PFAP branch in Imisli [central Azerbaijan], Suleyman
Xanmammadov, and the chairman of the branch of the Musavat Party
in Lacin [western Azerbaijan, currently under Armenian occupation],
Faiq Suleymanov.

DESCENDANTS OF OTTOMAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS TO RECEIVE COMPENSATION
By Vitaly Makarchev
ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
PARIS, October 3
France’ Axa insurance company is beginning to pay compensations
to Armenians – the descendants of victims of the Ottoman genocide
of 1915-1924.
The relevant agreement was signed by the Axa leadership and a
California-based firm representing the interests of millions of
Armenians whose relatives died during persecution by the Ottoman
empire.