Mailing List Service Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear frends! Arminfo news agency inform CHAIRMAN OF RUSSIAN CLEARING HOUSE SERGEY STEPASHIN TO ARRIVE IN ARMENIA FEB 18 FEBRUARY 12. Chairman of the Clearing House of Russian Federation Sergey Stepashin will arrive in Yerevan Feb 18. In the course of his visit, Stepashin will meet Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, Chairman of the Control Chamber of Armenia Ashot Tavadyan and other officials, the Russian Embassy in Armenia told ARMINFO. The sides intend to discuss prospects of bilateral cooperation of relevant departments, as well as economic issues. HIS HOLINESS KAREKIN II RECEIVES MR. JEAN-NOEL GUERINI, PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF BOUCHES DU RHENE FEBRUARY 12.His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, received Feb 12 Mr. Jean-Noel Guerini of France, Senator, and President of the General Council of Bouches du Rhene region, and the delegation accompanying him. His Grace Bishop Daron Jerejian, Vicar to the Pontifical Legate of Eastern Europe, was among the French delegation. His Holiness and Mr. Jean-Noel Guerini cordially recalled their first meeting in Marseilles last year, which according to Mr. GuErini, served as the primary incentive for the French delegation's visit to Armenia and the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. Addressing His Holiness, Mr. GuErini said, "We remember discussing the Genocide of the Armenians together in Marseilles. I resolved to come to Armenia and visit you as a result of that meeting". In the course of the meeting, Mr. Guerini, stated his willingness to support Armenia, as well as the Armenian Church. He noted that he would personally make every effort to contribute to the reconstruction of the Armenian Church of Marseilles. His Holiness Karekin II expressed his fatherly love and gratitude towards the French people and nation for their kindness towards the Armenians residing in France. His Holiness expressed his deep appreciation, on behalf of the Armenian people, to Mr. Guerini as a representative of his nation, for France's formal recognition of the Armenian Genocide. His Holiness stated, "During this period of Great Lent, we are all called to examine our lives and alter them for the better. Your visit here to the Mother See of the Armenian Nation gives us the opportunity to once again state our appreciation and commendation to a country which supports the remembrance of the Armenian Genocide, and in so doing, we pray for an increase in introspection and care in the realm of world affairs." At the conclusion of the meeting, Mr. Guerini thanked His Holiness for the audience. He promised to return to Armenia and again visit the Mother See. TRAGEDY IN "ARAGAST" CAFE SHOWED HOW ARMENIAN SOCIETY IS DEFENSELESS TODAY BEFORE ARBITRARY RULE OF AUTHORITIES FEBRUARY 12.The tragedy in Yerevan's Aragast cafe once more demonstrated how Armenian society is unprotected before the arbitrary rule of powers. The head of the Committee on defence of principal rights and freedoms of citizens, the ex minister of education and science of Armenia Ashot Bleyan today stated during the meeting with the journalists. We shall remind that a tiff took place at the night of Sept 24 between the Georgian citizen Poghos Poghosian and the bodyguards of Armenia's President Robert Kocharian. A bit later Poghosian was found dead in the lavatory of the cafe, and the judicial-medical expertise established that he died in the result of craniocerebral trauma. The judicial procedure against one of the bodyguards of the president Aghamal Haroutunian is going on now, by the way the later categorically denies his guilt. According to Bleyan, this criminal case presented no difficulties for law-enforcement bodies and it could be revealed two-three days later. Nevertheless, the investigation was carried out two months, an accusation was instituted only against one persons - the criminal procedure initially does not set itself the task of revealing the truth, but solves quite different problems. Besides, no service investigation was held in the system of the president's guarding and no one of its employees bore responsibility for it, Bleyan mentioned. The ex minister and the ex political prisoner also touched those who were in the cafe that ill-fated night as visitors and now refuse to give testimonies in the court. "I don't understand, how, refusing to tell the obvious, the rector of Yerevan's Conservatory Armen Smbatian enters the Conservatory after that the heads them", Bleyan stated. He thinks that just the authorities commit a terror through judicial and law-enforcement bodies as regards the whole society on the whole and each citizen taken separately. The only way out of the situation - the immediate resignation of the head of the state and all the branches of authorities, to carry out legal elections and then the legal authority will ensure genuine independence of legal bodies of the country, Bleyan stated. AGREEMENT OF YEREVAN AND TBILISI ON JOINT PARTICIPATION IN REGIONAL PROJECTS WILL NOT ALLOW OFFICIAL BAKU TO HINDER ARMENIA'S PARTICIPATION IN PROJECTS OF SOUTH CAUCASIAN REGION FEBRUARY 12. The agreement on joint participation in regional projects, concluded in the course of the official visit of Armenia's foreign minister Vardan Oskanian to Tbilisi, will not allow the official Baku to hinder the participation of the Armenian side in the projects, implemented in the South Caucasian region. The foreign minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanian today stated. According to him, in the problem of Armenia's participation in regional projects there are both serious prospects and obvious problems wholly connected with Azerbaijan's negative position, which sharply comes out against Armenia's participation in any projects in South Caucasus. The minister thinks, the agreement concluded between Yerevan and Tbilisi may become a serious stimulus for official Baku's changing its position. DEPOSITORS DEMAND TO RETURN THEIR MONEY FEBRUARY 12.Several dozens of bank depositors held an unsanctioned rally near the presidential palace today demanding to return their money. After months of knocking in vain at the doors of various departments, the depositors of the Credit-Yerevan, Credit-Service and United banks decided to hold a rally with no real hope for receiving an answer about the future of their deposits. However, they also said hope is the last to die. It should be noted that just as Credit-Yerevan, Credit-Service is governed by an interim administration, but it has fewer depositors, some 140 people. The CB proposes that the fate of their deposits be decided in near future. However, the depositors are aware of the current state of the bank. It should be noted that the depositors relied heavily on court to settle this positively. That's why they have filed several actions to courts. Their case is to be heard at the trial court of Yerevan's Center-Nork Marash community Feb 18. As for the United Bank, its depositors have been waiting for any response to come from the bank's interim administration for already two years and now are inspired for a new hope by the recent appointment of a new administration. True, it is not know yet when this administration is going to make any decision on the matter. The ralliers said they are going to look for justice at all levels, from the president up to the Council of Europe. Today they were promised to be shortly received by one of the executives of the presidential staff. 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