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ARKA News Agency
Sept 8 2004
Visit of Iranian President in Armenia will be fruitful in the view of
development of bilateral relations – RA NA Speaker
Mankind must give adequate evaluation to all manifestations of
terrorism, Robert Kocharian
Joining of international efforts necessary for fight against
terrorism – Iranian President
Armenian and Iranian President favor peaceful settlement of Karabakh
conflict
Presentation of Armenian culture portal www.arvest.am takes place in
Yerevan
Robert Kocharian: sure that realization of Armenian-Iranian energy
projects to obtain regions importance
Dutch Hummel Company to become a sponsor of Armenian national
football teams
Armenian PM receives Head of Mission of IMF in Armenia
Today Armenian and Iranian Presidents sign agreement on fundamentals
and principles of cooperation
RA Prime Minister and President of Iran to discuss issues of economic
and political cooperation
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VISIT OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT IN ARMENIA WILL BE FRUITFUL IN THE VIEW OF
DEVELOPMENT OF BILATERAL RELATIONS – RA NA SPEAKER
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Visit of Iranian President Mohammad
Hatami in Armenia will be fruitful in the view of development of
bilateral relations, RA NA Speaker Arthur Baghdasarian stated today
after the speech of Iranian President in Armenian Parliament.
According to the visit of Hatami will give new stimulus to bilateral
relations. L.D. --0—
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MANKIND MUST GIVE ADEQUATE EVALUATION TO ALL MANIFESTATIONS OF
TERRORISM, ROBERT KOCHARIAN
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. The mankind must give adequate
evaluation to all manifestations of terrorism, as the Armenian
President Robert Kocharian stated on briefing held today in Yerevan.
The Head of the Armenian State also mentioned that "terrorism becomes
harsher and more brutal". In his words, for the first time their
attacks were targeted at children that just became an instrument in
the hands of the terrorists. "One should not bear such crimes, it is
understandable that there are people that are ready to sacrifice
themselves for some purposes. But it is interesting whether they will
be ready to sacrifice their families and kids for the same purposes.
"I do not think, that they will be ready and if they are, it means
they are no more human beings.", Kocharian stated. T.M. –0--
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JOINING OF INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS NECESSARY FOR FIGHT AGAINST
TERRORISM – IRANIAN PRESIDENT
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Joining of international efforts
necessary for fight against terrorism, the President of Iran Mohammad
Hatami stated today at the briefing in Yerevan, commenting terrorist
act in Beslan. According to him, "many terrorists try to commit a
terror act under cover of religion, which creates dangerous situation
and discredits the religion that promotes peace". He said that it is
necessary to find and extirpate the very roots of terrorism. L.D.
--0--
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ARMENIAN AND IRANIAN PRESIDENT FAVOR PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH
CONFLICT
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Armenia President Robert Kocharian and
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami favor peaceful settlement of the
Karabakh conflict. As the Armenian President Press Service told ARKA
today, this was mentioned in joint statement of the heads of two
states. The sides highly appreciating direct negotiations of Armenian
and Azerbaijani Presidents at the same time expressed a hope that
they will promote prompt and final settlement of the issue that would
consider the current realties and to provide long-term and honorable
peace in the region. The Presidents mentioned that through deepening
and approaching of region's countries' interests it would be possible
to create favorable atmosphere for solution of existing conflicts on
Caucasus.
The sides also stressed the importance of continuation of contacts
among state servicemen of two countries around international and
regional issues. They also stressed the importance of UN and other
international structures in strengthening peace and security. T.M.
–0--
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PRESENTATION OF ARMENIAN CULTURE PORTAL WWW.ARVEST.AM TAKES PLACE IN
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Presentation of Armenian culture portal
www.arvest.am took place in Yerevan. According to the Chairman of
Association of Film Journalists and Critics Susanna Harutyunian, the
site is created on the base of Internet page of Arvest magazine.
"During two years of life of this page, we understood that Internet
has a lot of opportunities", she said. According to Harutyunian today
the site contains news of culture, articles, schedules of seminars
and exhibitions, data base of culture organizations of Armenia, legal
articles and Government's decisions in given field and forum. "We
hope that soon the number of visitors of our site will grow", she
said.
The site www.arvest.am was created on the initiative of the
Association in assistance with Open Society Institute Armenian
branch. L.D. --0—
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ROBERT KOCHARIAN: SURE THAT REALIZATION OF ARMENIAN-IRANIAN ENERGY
PROJECTS TO OBTAIN REGIONS IMPORTANCE
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharian is
confident that realization of Armenian-Iranian energy projects will
obtain regions importance, he stated this at the briefing in Yerevan.
According to him, energy is one of the most important spheres of
bilateral cooperation of Armenia with Iran. "In given sphere we
already accumulated certain experience on the base of which we can
develop steps on cooperation of infrastructures in the sphere",
Kocharian said.
Today the Presidents of Iran and Armenia Mohammad Hatami and Robert
Kocharian signed the agreement on basis and principles of
cooperation.
Iranian delegation headed with the President arrived today in
Yerevan. It is the first visit of Iranian President in Armenia. L.D.
--0—
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DUTCH HUMMEL COMPANY TO BECOME A SPONSOR OF ARMENIAN NATIONAL
FOOTBALL TEAMS
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Dutch Hummel Company will become a
sponsor of Armenian national football teams. According to the
President of Armenian Football Federation Ruben Airapetian, the
four-year agreement is signed with the company. He said that Hummel
will sponsor following Armenian football teams – women's under 17
years, under 19 years, under 21 years and national team. He added
that the agreement was achieved "after long-lasting negotiations with
largest world companies" and the choice was determined with high
quality of company's products and rich history of the company.
Airapetian called the agreement with Hummel "very successful" and
noted that AFF will do everything for creation of representation of
Hummel in Armenia. Besides, AFF will deal with advertising of the
company. Besides Hummel the sponsors of Armenian National Football
team are Zvartnots Airport, Tramondi Company, SIL-group. At this
Airapetian did not tell concrete sums of sponsor agreements.
The President of Hummel Soren Schriver in his turn added that the
company was founded in 1923 and is the oldest firm to issue sports
wear in the world. He said that sport is actively developing in
Armenia. He said that Hummel cooperates with such teams as Roma,
Benthic, Aston Villa and was a sponsor of Dutch National football
team for 25 years, as well as sponsored Dutch Olympic team. L.D. --0—
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ARMENIAN PM RECEIVES HEAD OF MISSION OF IMF IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. The Armenian PM Andranik Margarian
received today the Head of Mission of IMF Enrique Gelbart and the
Permanent Representative of IMF in Armenia James McHugh. As the
Armenian Government Public and Press Relations Department told ARKA,
the Head of IMF assessed almost 10-year old cooperation of the
foundation with Armenian Government as quite productive, mentioning
that the purpose of the regular visit is continuation of the dialogue
and discussion a number of financial-economic issues of interest with
the executive power. The representatives of the IMF mentioned the
necessity of promotion of entrepreneurship, particularly small and
medium-sized business, relations between relevant state structures
and increasing of exchanged information. At that the PM presented his
approaches and relevant steps undertaken in this direction as well as
the existing problems. He also expressed a hope that "due to
discussions and active cooperation it would be possible to find
efficient solutions of these and other problems". T.M. –0--
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TODAY ARMENIAN AND IRANIAN PRESIDENTS SIGN AGREEMENT ON FUNDAMENTALS
AND PRINCIPLES OF COOPERATION
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Today Armenian President Robert
Kocharian and Iranian President Mohammad Khatami signed agreement on
fundamentals and principles of cooperation. Also, delegations of two
countries signed memorandum on mutual understanding around the 5th
joint sitting of interstate commissions on Armenian-Iranian
relations, agreement on cultural cooperation between two countries
for the years 2004-2007. Also the sides signed memorandum between
Customs Committee at the Armenian Government and Customs Service of
Iran on administrative cooperation in issues related to customs
activity.
Iranian delegation headed by President Mohammad Khatami arrived today
in Yerevan. This is the first visit of the Iranian President to
Armenia.
Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Iran were established on Feb
9 1992. The Iranian Embassy in Armenia was officially inaugurated on
28 April 1992 and on 22 December 1992 Armenia opened its Embassy in
Iran. President of Armenia Robert Kocharian visited Iran with
official visit in December 2001. Economic relations play considerable
role in bilateral relations and energy sector and transport are
considered priorities here. The Armenian community of Iran is among
the largest national minorities in the country. The history of the
Armenian community of Iran traces back 400 years and the number of
Armenians is more than 200 thou. Islamic Republic of Iran allocated
two seats in Iranian Parliament.
As per statistics of provide by the Armenian National Statistical
Service the foreign turnover of Armenia and ran in Jan-Jul 2004 made
USD 52713.2 thou. (export USD 18030.8 thou., import – USD 3468.4
thou. versus USD 45746.8 thou. in the same period of 2003 (export USD
10418.3 thou., import – USD 35328.5 thou.). (I USD – AMD 515.85).
T.M. –0--
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RA PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT OF IRAN TO DISCUSS ISSUES OF ECONOMIC
AND POLITICAL COOPERATION
YEREVAN, September, 8. /ARKA/. The RA Prime Minister Andranik
Margaryan and the President of Iran Seyed Mohammad Khatami will
discuss issues of bilateral economic and political cooperation today.
According to the Press Service and Public Relations Department of RA
Government, the sides will also discuss certain projects recently
implemented thanks to joint efforts of the two sides. Besides, the
Head of RA Government and the Iranian President will consider the
expansion of trade and economic relations and implementation of
regional projects.
Seyed Mohammad Khatami, the President of Iran arrived today in
Armenia for a two-day visit. L.V.—0--
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Sept 8 2004
Visit of Iranian President in Armenia will be fruitful in the view of
development of bilateral relations – RA NA Speaker
Mankind must give adequate evaluation to all manifestations of
terrorism, Robert Kocharian
Joining of international efforts necessary for fight against
terrorism – Iranian President
Armenian and Iranian President favor peaceful settlement of Karabakh
conflict
Presentation of Armenian culture portal www.arvest.am takes place in
Yerevan
Robert Kocharian: sure that realization of Armenian-Iranian energy
projects to obtain regions importance
Dutch Hummel Company to become a sponsor of Armenian national
football teams
Armenian PM receives Head of Mission of IMF in Armenia
Today Armenian and Iranian Presidents sign agreement on fundamentals
and principles of cooperation
RA Prime Minister and President of Iran to discuss issues of economic
and political cooperation
************************************************** *******************
VISIT OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT IN ARMENIA WILL BE FRUITFUL IN THE VIEW OF
DEVELOPMENT OF BILATERAL RELATIONS – RA NA SPEAKER
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Visit of Iranian President Mohammad
Hatami in Armenia will be fruitful in the view of development of
bilateral relations, RA NA Speaker Arthur Baghdasarian stated today
after the speech of Iranian President in Armenian Parliament.
According to the visit of Hatami will give new stimulus to bilateral
relations. L.D. --0—
************************************************** *******************
MANKIND MUST GIVE ADEQUATE EVALUATION TO ALL MANIFESTATIONS OF
TERRORISM, ROBERT KOCHARIAN
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. The mankind must give adequate
evaluation to all manifestations of terrorism, as the Armenian
President Robert Kocharian stated on briefing held today in Yerevan.
The Head of the Armenian State also mentioned that "terrorism becomes
harsher and more brutal". In his words, for the first time their
attacks were targeted at children that just became an instrument in
the hands of the terrorists. "One should not bear such crimes, it is
understandable that there are people that are ready to sacrifice
themselves for some purposes. But it is interesting whether they will
be ready to sacrifice their families and kids for the same purposes.
"I do not think, that they will be ready and if they are, it means
they are no more human beings.", Kocharian stated. T.M. –0--
************************************************** *******************
JOINING OF INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS NECESSARY FOR FIGHT AGAINST
TERRORISM – IRANIAN PRESIDENT
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Joining of international efforts
necessary for fight against terrorism, the President of Iran Mohammad
Hatami stated today at the briefing in Yerevan, commenting terrorist
act in Beslan. According to him, "many terrorists try to commit a
terror act under cover of religion, which creates dangerous situation
and discredits the religion that promotes peace". He said that it is
necessary to find and extirpate the very roots of terrorism. L.D.
--0--
************************************************** *******************
ARMENIAN AND IRANIAN PRESIDENT FAVOR PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH
CONFLICT
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Armenia President Robert Kocharian and
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami favor peaceful settlement of the
Karabakh conflict. As the Armenian President Press Service told ARKA
today, this was mentioned in joint statement of the heads of two
states. The sides highly appreciating direct negotiations of Armenian
and Azerbaijani Presidents at the same time expressed a hope that
they will promote prompt and final settlement of the issue that would
consider the current realties and to provide long-term and honorable
peace in the region. The Presidents mentioned that through deepening
and approaching of region's countries' interests it would be possible
to create favorable atmosphere for solution of existing conflicts on
Caucasus.
The sides also stressed the importance of continuation of contacts
among state servicemen of two countries around international and
regional issues. They also stressed the importance of UN and other
international structures in strengthening peace and security. T.M.
–0--
************************************************** *******************
PRESENTATION OF ARMENIAN CULTURE PORTAL WWW.ARVEST.AM TAKES PLACE IN
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Presentation of Armenian culture portal
www.arvest.am took place in Yerevan. According to the Chairman of
Association of Film Journalists and Critics Susanna Harutyunian, the
site is created on the base of Internet page of Arvest magazine.
"During two years of life of this page, we understood that Internet
has a lot of opportunities", she said. According to Harutyunian today
the site contains news of culture, articles, schedules of seminars
and exhibitions, data base of culture organizations of Armenia, legal
articles and Government's decisions in given field and forum. "We
hope that soon the number of visitors of our site will grow", she
said.
The site www.arvest.am was created on the initiative of the
Association in assistance with Open Society Institute Armenian
branch. L.D. --0—
************************************************** *******************
ROBERT KOCHARIAN: SURE THAT REALIZATION OF ARMENIAN-IRANIAN ENERGY
PROJECTS TO OBTAIN REGIONS IMPORTANCE
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharian is
confident that realization of Armenian-Iranian energy projects will
obtain regions importance, he stated this at the briefing in Yerevan.
According to him, energy is one of the most important spheres of
bilateral cooperation of Armenia with Iran. "In given sphere we
already accumulated certain experience on the base of which we can
develop steps on cooperation of infrastructures in the sphere",
Kocharian said.
Today the Presidents of Iran and Armenia Mohammad Hatami and Robert
Kocharian signed the agreement on basis and principles of
cooperation.
Iranian delegation headed with the President arrived today in
Yerevan. It is the first visit of Iranian President in Armenia. L.D.
--0—
************************************************** *******************
DUTCH HUMMEL COMPANY TO BECOME A SPONSOR OF ARMENIAN NATIONAL
FOOTBALL TEAMS
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Dutch Hummel Company will become a
sponsor of Armenian national football teams. According to the
President of Armenian Football Federation Ruben Airapetian, the
four-year agreement is signed with the company. He said that Hummel
will sponsor following Armenian football teams – women's under 17
years, under 19 years, under 21 years and national team. He added
that the agreement was achieved "after long-lasting negotiations with
largest world companies" and the choice was determined with high
quality of company's products and rich history of the company.
Airapetian called the agreement with Hummel "very successful" and
noted that AFF will do everything for creation of representation of
Hummel in Armenia. Besides, AFF will deal with advertising of the
company. Besides Hummel the sponsors of Armenian National Football
team are Zvartnots Airport, Tramondi Company, SIL-group. At this
Airapetian did not tell concrete sums of sponsor agreements.
The President of Hummel Soren Schriver in his turn added that the
company was founded in 1923 and is the oldest firm to issue sports
wear in the world. He said that sport is actively developing in
Armenia. He said that Hummel cooperates with such teams as Roma,
Benthic, Aston Villa and was a sponsor of Dutch National football
team for 25 years, as well as sponsored Dutch Olympic team. L.D. --0—
************************************************** *******************
ARMENIAN PM RECEIVES HEAD OF MISSION OF IMF IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. The Armenian PM Andranik Margarian
received today the Head of Mission of IMF Enrique Gelbart and the
Permanent Representative of IMF in Armenia James McHugh. As the
Armenian Government Public and Press Relations Department told ARKA,
the Head of IMF assessed almost 10-year old cooperation of the
foundation with Armenian Government as quite productive, mentioning
that the purpose of the regular visit is continuation of the dialogue
and discussion a number of financial-economic issues of interest with
the executive power. The representatives of the IMF mentioned the
necessity of promotion of entrepreneurship, particularly small and
medium-sized business, relations between relevant state structures
and increasing of exchanged information. At that the PM presented his
approaches and relevant steps undertaken in this direction as well as
the existing problems. He also expressed a hope that "due to
discussions and active cooperation it would be possible to find
efficient solutions of these and other problems". T.M. –0--
************************************************** *******************
TODAY ARMENIAN AND IRANIAN PRESIDENTS SIGN AGREEMENT ON FUNDAMENTALS
AND PRINCIPLES OF COOPERATION
YEREVAN, September 8. /ARKA/. Today Armenian President Robert
Kocharian and Iranian President Mohammad Khatami signed agreement on
fundamentals and principles of cooperation. Also, delegations of two
countries signed memorandum on mutual understanding around the 5th
joint sitting of interstate commissions on Armenian-Iranian
relations, agreement on cultural cooperation between two countries
for the years 2004-2007. Also the sides signed memorandum between
Customs Committee at the Armenian Government and Customs Service of
Iran on administrative cooperation in issues related to customs
activity.
Iranian delegation headed by President Mohammad Khatami arrived today
in Yerevan. This is the first visit of the Iranian President to
Armenia.
Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Iran were established on Feb
9 1992. The Iranian Embassy in Armenia was officially inaugurated on
28 April 1992 and on 22 December 1992 Armenia opened its Embassy in
Iran. President of Armenia Robert Kocharian visited Iran with
official visit in December 2001. Economic relations play considerable
role in bilateral relations and energy sector and transport are
considered priorities here. The Armenian community of Iran is among
the largest national minorities in the country. The history of the
Armenian community of Iran traces back 400 years and the number of
Armenians is more than 200 thou. Islamic Republic of Iran allocated
two seats in Iranian Parliament.
As per statistics of provide by the Armenian National Statistical
Service the foreign turnover of Armenia and ran in Jan-Jul 2004 made
USD 52713.2 thou. (export USD 18030.8 thou., import – USD 3468.4
thou. versus USD 45746.8 thou. in the same period of 2003 (export USD
10418.3 thou., import – USD 35328.5 thou.). (I USD – AMD 515.85).
T.M. –0--
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RA PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT OF IRAN TO DISCUSS ISSUES OF ECONOMIC
AND POLITICAL COOPERATION
YEREVAN, September, 8. /ARKA/. The RA Prime Minister Andranik
Margaryan and the President of Iran Seyed Mohammad Khatami will
discuss issues of bilateral economic and political cooperation today.
According to the Press Service and Public Relations Department of RA
Government, the sides will also discuss certain projects recently
implemented thanks to joint efforts of the two sides. Besides, the
Head of RA Government and the Iranian President will consider the
expansion of trade and economic relations and implementation of
regional projects.
Seyed Mohammad Khatami, the President of Iran arrived today in
Armenia for a two-day visit. L.V.—0--
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