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SWISSAIR GROUP SWISS COMPANY CANCELED FLIGHTS TO YEREVAN

OCTOBER 3. Swissair Group Swiss Company canceled today the flights to Yerevan, the Armenian representation of the company told ARMINFO. It should be noted that the Swiss company canceled flights of its airplanes all over the world, motivating this fact by lack for funds for fuel and payment of airport services. Swissair agreed to sell aviation business to UBS AG and Credit Suisse group firms on October 1. According to Swissair's information, two airplanes of the company were detained in London with demand of debt payment on Tuesday.

ACTION OF PROTEST AGAINST INTRODUCTION OF PER-MINUTE PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR LOCAL CALLS IN ARMENIA TO BE HELD OCTOBER 6 IN YEREVAN

OCTOBER 3. An action of protest against introduction of the per-minute payment system for local calls in Armenia is to be held at the Yerevan Freedom square on October 6. Armenian Parliamentary deputy Arshak Sadoyan made this statement today at the Armenian National Assembly (NA). He said that many political forces in Armenia will support this initiative. Sadoyan believes that the statements made by the government, the president's administration and by several NA deputies about the agreement with the ArmenTel company on rejecting the introduction of the above system are not true. The most effective method against the per-minute payment system is its interdiction by a new law. Sadoyan called mass media representatives to publish telephone numbers of parliamentarians in order to allow citizens to rang up and express their opinion referring the above system. This will force the parliamentarians to adopt a relevant law, Sadoyan said. Sadoyan also said that recently he attended the session of the ArmenTel's Council of Directors as an observer. The opinion of Armenian government holding 10% shares in ArmenTel, practically, was not taken into account. The deputy said that the question of the per-minute payment system and other questions referring to ArmenTel's actvities are settled at more high level. For instance, the problem was disccused in details during Armenian President Robert Kocharyan's recent meeting with the ArmenTel's Executive Director Nicos Georgoulas. As regards the session of the Council of Directors, it was fictitious, as ArmenTel's unchangeable position was decided beforehand. Sadoyan stated that the Armenian authorities intend to conclude a deal, as a result of which separate high ranking officials will receive $1-1.5 mln income. Sadoyan refused to mention concrete names and reveal details of the deal. However, the deputy promissed to tell everything, in the case if the authorities do not keep their word and do not reach the cancelation of ArmenTel's decision.-M-

"VAN" RADIO STATION TO TAKE PART IN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUDIO-REELS "GREEN APPLE" TO TAKE PLACE IN MOSCOW IN NOV

OCTOBER 3.The "Van" radio station will take part in the international festival of audio-reels "Green Apple" to take place in Moscow in Nov. It qualified for the festival after it occupied the third place at the All-Russian festival of audio-reels "Siberian Decibel" held in Tomsk (Russia). As manager and author of the diploma-winning reel Gor Grikoryan said at a press-conference today, the radio company will also represent Armenia at the competition of commercials in May 2002. 49 organizations from over 30 towns of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan presented 620 works during the festival. The festival was organized by the Siberia radio company with the assistance of the Tomsk mayoralty, the Tomsk cellular networks and some of its media. Van general manager Shoushanik Arevshatyan told the journalists about the company's problems. Particularly, the current law adopted in 1996 does not reflect today's realities, while the laws on language and on television and radio prevents the publicity business from developing.

AZERBAIJAN SEEKS PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH CONFLICT, BUT ARMENIA'S IGNORING PEACE PROCESS MAY RESULT IN DIFFERENT CONSEQUENCES, AZERI FM SAYS

OCTOBER 3. Azerbaijan is seeking a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but Armennia's ignoring the peace process and the international community's opinion may result in different consequences, Azerbaijanian Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev said, commenting on the Armenian president's statement that "the unleasher of war in Nagorny Karabakh will lose it." The Baku-based "Trend" agency quoted the minister as saying that such statements are not anything new for Azerbaijan, and there is nothing surprising or serious therein. If one day Azerbaijan has to reject the negotiations, it will start liberating its lands from "terrorists" by force, nobody will be able to call it aggression, and Azerbaijan will be absolutely right, Guliyev said. "It will not be a military aggression against any state, but a return of occupied territories," Guliyev stressed. He said that due to the efforts of the Azerbaijanian deputy group the Council of Europe is informed of the "illegal operations conducted in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan." According to Guliyev, these activities may not be evident, but they yield serious political dividends to Azerbaijan in the settlement of the Karabakh problem.

CLAIMS ON TERRORIST BASES IN ARMENIA AND NKR GROUNDLESS SLANDER

OCTOBER 3.The claims of the Azeri side on the presence of terrorist bases in Armenia and Nagory Karabakh are groundless. It is an overt slander, Spokesman of the Ministry of National Security of Armenia Armenak Manugian told ARMINFO. At the same time, the Ministry of National Security of Armenia has at its disposal reliable information on terrorist bases in the territory of Azerbaijan. In his turn, Chairman of the Standing Foreign Relations Committee of the NKR National Assembly Vahram Atanessian has reliable information on terrorist-training bases in the Shahumian region of the NKR, which is occupied by Azerbaijan. Moreover, he stated that Russian special services have sufficient facts on the transportation of military personnel and equipment from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Chechnya via Azerbaijan.

NAIRI HUNANIAN TO HAVE NEW LAWYER

OCTOBER 3.ARMINFO. Nairi Hunanian, the principal defendant in the October 27 case, will have a new lawyer. Under the state order his interests at the trial will be represented by the member of the Union of Lawyers of Armenia Hakob Tevossian, who has been introduced to Hunanian. As was earlier reported, the lawyer Artavazd Karapetian, who had represented the principal defendant's rights since April, suddenly died on September 29. The participants in today's sitting kept a moment of silence in his memory. The court gave the new lawyer a week for examining the materials of the case. The next sitting is to be held on October 10.