Former pilots are complaining of the indifference of the authorities. September 2, 1997 by order of the administration of Armenian Airlines JCSC a benefit fluctuating between $25-105 was assigned for 169 former pilots, who left the service on their own will. However since June 8, 2003 by decree of the chief department of the civic aviation the payments have been suspended.{BR} During today's conference...

After the Georgian parliament passed the law on education in April the regional departments of education and schools are to face serious changes. {BR} In the Armenian schools the language of education is chosen by the council of the school trustees. However for the school directors as well as the employees of the departments of education the knowledge of the Georgian language is obligatory. On one...

100 extra vacancies for raising the level of the skills as well as accelerated training in the Georgian language for the state employees were provided in the school of public administration that opened not long ago in Kutaisi. {BR} According to the project director, Minister of Education Bella Tsipuria, the graduates from Javakhk will study in the school by the state order. To note, Georgia President...

During his visit to Tbilisi on May 10 US President George Bush met with the representatives of the national minorities of Georgia. Armenians, Azeris, Greeks, Ossetians, Abkhazians, Russians, Ukrainians, Jews and Yezids were present at the 40-minute meeting.{BR} The meeting participants discussed the issues referring to the involvement of the national minorities in the social and political life of...

«We will not organize a revolution, it is not our fate, we will organize change of authorities and we will follow the path chosen by our leader», said Aramayis Barseghyan, head of the Artashat department of the People's Party of Armenia during the meeting of Stepan Demirchyan with the Kentron community members of the party. And leader Stepan Demirchyan reconfirmed his path of change of authorities, «We accept the peaceful path». {BR} He also...

Today Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan received PACE Monitoring Committee speakers Jerzy Jaskiernia and George Colombier and PACE Monitoring Committee secretary Bony Teofilova. {BR} At the beginning of the meeting Mr. Jaskiernia represented the work carried out by the PACE in the RA and asked the Minister to represent his own ideas about the NKR status, Constitutional amendments, legislative changes,...

RA NA President Arthur Baghdasaryan received PACE Monitoring Committee speakers Eji Jaskernia and George Kolumbie. {BR} During the meeting issues about the course of meeting the commitments taken upon by Armenian before the PACE were discussed. By the request of Mr. Jaskernia Arthur Baghdasaryan referred to the Constitutional amendments and the referendum mentioning that the National Assembly adopted...

According to sources close to Armenia’s Foreign Ministry, Armenia will soon have another employee at the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe’s General Directorate on Culture and Education has announced a job opening for citizens of 17 member states, including Armenia. {BR} Armenia’s permanent representative to Strasbourg, Ambassador Christian Ter-Stepanian, is now actively trying to make sure that an Armenian citizen is appointed to that...

The fraction «Democratic Delegate» voted for all the three draft constitutions as according to the fraction head Karen Karapetyan none of them was the best. «If one of them was the best we would naturally vote for it. According to us, the three drafts are unacceptable, they need improvements», informed Karen Karapetyan. {BR} In that case. Why did the «Democratic Delegate» vote for? “In case of voting against we made a choice between the old...

The RA Police have decided to work transparently, and the transparency was secured by Vardan Eghiazaryan, head of the Interpol RA national center today. He announced that for them Vano Siradeghyan «continues to be a criminal. He is still wanted by the Interpol and of course there is information about him which are operative», announced Vardan Eghiazaryan. The results of the search of Vano Siradeghyan...

The non-governmental organization “Armenian National Army” is worried by the latest military announcements in the Azerbaijani press. Considering that Azerbaijan is carrying out anti-Armenian policy the non-governmental organization “Armenian National Army” announces that it is ready to stand by the RA Ministry of Defense to defend the Armenian nation from enemies. {BR} Today during the press conference Serge Ghazaryan, member of the “Armenian...

Stepan Demirchyan's today's meeting in the deaf and numbs house will not be held. This announcement was made by the workers of the police who visited the house this morning. They did it without any ground, simply because they decided so. {BR} Let us remind you that today at 6:00 p.m. Stepan Demirchyan is going to meet the party members. We learned from Rouzan Khachatryan, information responsible of...

“In our Parliament there are no serious discussions but mechanic decisions made”, said Deputy Arshak Sadoyan after his draft constitution was denounced. During the first reading 13 deputies were for it, 0 were against and 36 abstained from voting. According to him, everything became clear 2 days ago when his offer to postpone the first reading was denied. “The Venice Committee experts will come in June, and we had the possibility to reach an...

Today the project of draft Constitution proposed by the coalition was passed in the National Assembly in the first reading, obtaining 77 pros and 8 contras. {BR} Arshak Sadoyan's draft project got 13 pros; 36 deputies abstained form voting. Gurgen Arsenyan’s project got 19 pros, 29 deputies abstained from voting. “People’s deputy” parliamentary group supported all the three draft projects of the Constitution.

Today only 17 deputies were present in the sitting hall during the discussions of the constitutional amendments, which proceeded in the atmosphere of complete indifference. {BR} Constitutional right specialist, chairman of Democracy public organization Vardan Poghosyan made a detailed analysis of all the three drafts pointing out to their advantages and shortcomings and called the deputies to adopt...

Today the legal proceedings on Ramil Safarov's case continued in Budapest. To remind, the Azeri serviceman hacked to death Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan in 2004.{BR} During today's three-hour sitting the results of the second medical examination, which was initiated by Safarov's defender, were presented. It should be noted that the results were a little different from those of the first one. The...

The New Times party is losing its territories. Today the party branch has to free the office situated in the Malatia-Sebastia community. According to the agreement, the party was renting the territory belonging to Bayazeti Tun LTD. Chairman of the Malatia-Sebastia branch Arsen Amirkhanyan stated that the agreement is valid till 2006. However the administration of the Byazeti Tun LTD forced to free...

PACE co-rapporteurs on Armenia Georges Colombier (France) and Jerzy Jaskiernia (Poland) are in Armenia to take part in the discussions on the constitutional amendments May 9-13. {BR} During the visit the guests are scheduled to meet with the Ambassadors of the EU member-states in Armenia, head of the OSCE Yerevan Office, representatives of international and public organizations dealing with the human...

The reformation of the pension system that started in 1999 has entered its practical stage. The government has passed the package of new conceptual approaches to come into force in 2006, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Aghvan Vardanyan stated during a press conference today. {BR} The acting computing system based on the solidarity of generations, when the employees pay social fee to provide pension,...

Lately the Armenian church of St. Margar situated in Northern Cyprus has been used as a café. {BR} Yeniduzen Turkish newspaper writes that some Dervish Sonmezler, who is the «owner» of the cafe is going to convert it into a hotel. The Church was founded by Copts in the 4th century. Then it passed to Armenians and during centuries was one of the sacred places for Armenians. Being under the jurisdiction...

According to the survey conducted on A1+ website, the Armenian citizens want to actively participate in making decisions, which are significant for the state and society. The citizens can play a big role if the Constitution provides for the right of initiating a referendum to know the public opinion on an issue. {BR} The votes of 219 people, who answered the question «Do you support the conduction...

May 7 at 2 p.m. local time at the Karabakh and Azeri armed forces contact line the NKR State Commission on POWs and missing conveyed to the Azeri party three soldiers – Hayal Abdullayev, Hikmet Tagiyev and Ruslan Bakirov, who were captured February 15 when attempting to cross the demarcation line. {BR} Within the frames of its international commitments the Karabakh party in time informed about...

Today the NA sitting started in time; however Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan declared a 20-minute break as reporter of the constitutional amendments Armen Harutyunyan was late.{BR} On his arrival President's representative Armen Harutyunyan made a detailed analysis of the drafts presented by the coalition and the ULP but did not say a word about Arshak Sadoyan's draft. Certainly the most admissible draft...

On May 7, 14.25 p.m. of the local time, at the Aghdam direction of the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces' contact-line, the Nagorno Karabakh Republic State Commission on Prisoners of War and Missing People passed the Azerbaijani party servicemen Khayal Abdullaev, Khikmet Tagiev and Ruslan Bakirov. They were detained on February 15, 2005, to the north-east of the NKR while passing the...