”A1+” will not release the premises on Grigor Lusavorich 15 unless the RA State Property Department offers an adequate version for the release, and not only one room instead of 11 as it has already done,” claims the director of “A1+” Mesrop Movsesian

“My ambition is to make the military budget of Azerbaijan equal to the state budget of Armenia. Armenia can never compete with us. The sooner Armenia realises this fact, the better for the country,” the president of Azerbaijan Ilhalm Aliev declared today during the Second World Session of the Azeris. According to the data of “Trend” Agency the military budget of Azerbaijan is about 600 million dollars.

On March 17 at 12:00 p.m the RA Compulsory Execution Services will exile “A1+” from their premises on Grigor Lusavorich 15.. The editorial staff learned about it today, on March 16, at 5:15 p.m. after the visit of the Court officers to the editorial building.

Today in the USA Embassy in Armenia the journalists tried to find out whether the rumors about George Avans’ already handing the documents of his return to Robert Kocharyan correspond to the reality. Does it mean that the USA president George Bush’s policy contradicts to the use of the word “genocide?”

“It is difficult to say that there was no progress in Ramboulle. We try to find out our further steps concerning this problem. We saw in Yerevan and in Baku that the sides are ready to go ahead,” the Vice Secretary of the USA State department Daniel Fried and the Co-president of the OSCE in the Minsk group Steven Mann informed the journalists today after the meeting with Robert Kocharyan,...

The Sanitary Department of Akhalkalak was dismissed according to the order of the Health Ministry of Georgia. 15 people became unemployed as a result of this and the hygienic situation of the region came out of control, as the above-mentioned Department is the only service dealing with hygienic problems.

After fully eliminating the remnants of the more than ten thousand khachqars and removing them from the ancient Armenian cemetery, according to the eyewitnesses, in early March of the current year the Azeri soldiers turned the area into a military shooting-range.

Head of the Public TV-Radio Company Alexan Haroutyunyan represented his report in the Parliament during which a reference was made to the broadcasting of the activity of the NA on TV.

“Azerbaijan must understand that while the negotiations for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict are prolonging, the de facto independent status of Karabakh is gradually being recognized by the international community”, the head of the RA NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Armen Roustamyan told “A1+”.

On March 15 in 1921 opposite the house N14 in Hardenberg street in Berlin the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Turkish Government and one of the main organizers of the Armenian Genocide Taleat Pasha was killed with a gun.

In the 8th round of the chess international contest in Reykjavik Armenian chess player Gabriel Sargsyan played with Shakiryan Mamedyarov who has the highest reputation in this tournament. Sargsyan was playing with black draughts.

«There is no agreement connected with the settlement of the Karabakh conflict,» declared the president of the party «National Renaissance» Albert Bazeyan today in the club «Mirror».

Today during a meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee in Paris PACE rapporteur on human rights of members of the armed forces, Alexander Arabadjiev (Bulgaria, SOC) presented adoption of his report. Here is the part concerning Armenia.

“All the false news from the Azerbaijan side was ignored in the last court hearings on the case of Gurgen Margaryan’s murder,” the representative of the Home Affairs Hayk Dekoyan who participates in the trial declared during today’s meeting with the journalists.

Ramil Safarov, the “hero” of the Hungarian courts during the past 2 years has made interesting discoveries about his country.

Yerevan—Raffi K. Hovannisian, chairman of the Heritage Party, today sent a communiqué to Armenia’s Attorney General Aghvan Hovsepian and Police Chief Haik Harutiunian in regard to the unlawful operation carried out against its main office on March 4.

The “National Renaissance” party founded a regional organization of Ani in the region of Shirak. 157 people have already applied to become member of the organization. The organization includes Maralik and the nearby villages. The 13-member council of the organization was formed during the founding conference.

“It is meaningless to seek ways of compromise with negotiations with a country without punishing them internationally for the cultural genocide”. The reason for this announcement of the Aldermen of the Armenian Intellectuals Forum is the destruction of the Julfa khachqars.

Tomorrow the PACE Political Issues Committee session will take place in Paris where the Karabakh issue will be discussed too. Lord Russell Johnston will make a statement about the Karabakh issue and about what is going on within the framework of the OSCE Minsk group.

The Azeris have launched a «cultural war» against the organizers of the singing festival «Eurovision» and Greece where the festival is to be organized this year.

The Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) has today published its evaluation report on Armenia, with the agreement of the Armenian authorities.The report concludes that in Armenia corruption is considered a major problem.

On March 14 the session of the PACE Political Issues Committee will take place in Paris where the Karabakh issue will be discussed too. Lord Russell Johnson will make a statement about the settlement of the Karabakh conflict dealt with by the OSCE Minsk group.

The trade union of the UN officials gave a vote of no-confidence to the US Secretary General Kofi Anan with an overwhelming majority of votes. The decision was made in answer to Anan’s initiative to reform the UN.

The Helsinki Citizens Assembly Vanadzor office made an announcement today declaring the restoration of democratic principles during the realization of the “Millennium Challenges” program and the providing of human rights defense by the Armenian authorities extremely important.