Mailing List Service Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear frends! Arminfo news agency inform SWISS DOCTORS TO HOLD SEMINARS ON WELL-BALANCED DIET IN ARMENIA FEBRUARY 18. Swiss doctors are to hold seminars on well-balanced diet in Armenia Feb 18-23. According to the Medinform news agency, Swiss professor Schmioning will make a report at the seminars. According to Director of the ArBeS Medical Center, unbalanced diet causes diseases like impaired function of gastrointestinal tract, pneumonia, diabetes, autism, diathesis, viruses - especially among children. The bad habit about Armenians is that they combine high-salt diet with low-water intake. In 2001 ArBeS experts drew up a table of wholesome foodstuffs on the basis of a Swiss pyramid. The pyramid is adjusted to national, social and economic conditions in Armenia. The bottom of the pyramid is represented by liquids and the top by sweets. 8TH ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION OF OMAR PASS FEBRUARY 18. Today is the 8th anniversary of the military operation for the Omar Pass (northern Martakert district, Karabakh). Feb 18 1994 units of Karabakh's Defence Army recaptured the pass from Azeri troops. The Karabakh troops encircled a large group of Azeris. Tens of Azeri soldiers and officers were captured. According to military experts the Omar Pass operation was crucial for the outcome of the Karabakh war. To recap, three months later Azerbaijan was forced to sign a long-term truce agreement. The signing followed an almost four-year bloody war. EARTHQUAKE SHAKES ARMENIA-GEORGIA BORDER FEBRUARY 18.A 3-4 point earthquake (MSK-64 scale) took place on the Armenia-Georgia border 5:31 am Feb 18. No casualties reported. YEREVAN BRANDY COMPANY INTENDS TO SUE GREAT VALLEY FOR USING ITS TRADEMARK FEBRUARY 18. The Yerevan Brandy Company (YBC) is going to assert its right to the "Ararat" trademark in court. According to YBC President Pierre Larretche, the Great Valley company uses a "Great Ararat" trademark, having no right to do it as it is similar to the YBC's "Ararat" trademark Besides, according to Larretche the created situation impedes the establishment of an association of producers of Armenian brandy. 4 MORE CONGRESSMEN JOINED IN GROUP ARMENIA-USA FEBRUARY 18.4 more congressmen joined the group of Congress Armenia-USA. As the press office of Armenian Assembly of America today informed ARMINFO, the total number of participants of the group made 111 congressmen, reaching to the most number for the last 7 years. The congressmen James Barcia D-MI, Veron Ehlers R-MI, George Miller D-CA and Fred Upton R-MI became new members if the group. With its activity in the American Congress the group aspires to strengthen relations between Armenia and the USA, Nagorny Karabakh and the Unites States, as well as assists the recognition by the Congress the fact of Armenians' Genocide of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey. Another important sphere of the group's activity is the attempt to present the congressmen with today's reality, when Azerbaijan and Turkey are implementing the blockade of Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh. The congressmen Joe Knollenberg R-MI and Frank Pallone D-Nj are the cochairmen of the group. AVERAGE WAGES IN YBC REACHED 265,000 DRAMS FEBRUARY 18. For three years of the activity of the Yerevan brandy company the average salary in the YBC reached 265,000 drams against 74,000 in 1998, when the company Pernod Ricard bought the yerevan Brandy Company. As ARMINFO was informed in the press office of the YBC, a society of medical mutual assistance has (SMMA) been created in the factory. It allows the YBC's personnel to get use of medical service and medicaments with 70% of payment of expenses by the SMMA. The creation of the SMMA is the continuance of a number of social programs of YBC for the working staff. A program is already acting now on insurance of whole life and invalidity of employees in the result of industrial traumas, as well as providing with retirement allowances. U.K.EMBASSY IN ARMENIA RECEIVES EVIDENCE FROM ONE OF WITNESSES IN "ARAGAST" CASE FEBRUARY 18. The U.K. Embassy in Armenia has received a letter from Stephan Newton, who witnessed the murder of Poghos Poghosyan in the Aragast cafe. At a court hearing today lawyer Ruben Sahakyan said he could not ensure Newton's appearance in court. Newton left Armenia right after Sahakyan petitioned the court to summon him. Sahakyan said some human rights organization told him about Newton's letter. He petitioned the court to give him three days to make the letter available to it. The hearing was postponed for one day. It should be noted that according to the evidence Newton was in Araragst's lavatory at the moment of murder. His evidence may shed light on the circumstances of the crime. To recap, bodyguard of Armenia's president Aghamal Haroutyunyan is charged with killing Poghosyan. HEADLINES OF 18 FEBRUARY AVERAGE ANNUAL LEVEL OF INFLATION TO BE 2.7% IN 2002 UNPROFITABLE BANKING SYSTEM CAUSES DWINDLING OF ASSETS REPRESENTATIVE OF RUSSIA'S CLEARING HOUSE ARRIVE IN ARMENIA TAX POLICY REFORMS UNDER WAY IN NKR TALKS OVER CONSTRUCTION OF RAILROAD KARS-AKHALKALAKI-BAKU TO CONTINUE IN MAR ARMENIA, UAE TO SIGN MEMORANDUM ON UNDERSTANDING IN EDUCATION SPHERE FEB 18 MUST BE MARKED AS FREEDOM DAY: SDU ARMENIAN SIDE UNAWARE OF "NORTH-CABLE" OJSC's PURCHASING SHARES OF ARMENIAN CABLE-PRODUCING PLANT HEAD OF NA SUPERVISORY CHAMBER MEETS WITH CHAIRMAN OF RUSSIAN CLEARING HOUSE ARMENIA IS ONLY STRATEGIC PARTNER OF RUSSIA IN SOUTH CAUCASUS MEMBERS OF "SELF-DETERMINATION UNION" PARTY HELD ACTIONS IN TSITSERNAKABERD AND GARNI IMF, WB ADVANCE NEW INITIATIVE FOR 7 CIS COUNTRIES OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF ARMENIAN POPULATION IN GEORGIA SUPPORTS PRESIDENT'S POLICY: EDWARD SHEVARDNADZE HEAD OF NA SUPERVISORY CHAMBER MEETS WITH CHAIRMAN OF RUSSIAN CLEARING HOUSE ARMENIAN SIDE UNAWARE OF "NORTH-CABLE" OJSC's PURCHASING SHARES OF ARMENIAN CABLE-PRODUCING PLANT FEB 18 MUST BE MARKED AS FREEDOM DAY: SDU POLISH EMBASSY ISSUES VISAS TO ARMENIAN CITIZENS "DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION" ALLIANCE CALLS ARMENIAN PEOPLE TO RALLY ROUND IDEA OF ESTABLISHMENT OF MORE OPTIMAL FOR OF GOVERNMENT CARGO TRAFFIC VOLUMES GREW BY 9.8%, AND COMMODITY TURNOVER DECREASED BY 1.2% NAIRI HUNANIAN READS OUT OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT DISCUSSION OF BILL ON MASS INFORMATION TO BE HELD IN MARCH ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO APPEAL TO PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE ECONOMIC COMPETITION PROTECTION COMMISSION DEMANDS CHANGE OF BOTTLE DESIGN FROM A NUMBER OF PRODUCERS ARMENIA'S DEFENCE MINISTER AND CHAIRMAN OF RUSSIA'S CLEARING HOUSE DISCUSSED PROBLEMS OF ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN COOPERATION WARSAW IS INTERESTED IN CONSTRUCTION OF GAS PIPE-LINE IRAN-ARMENIA ARMENIA'S ECONOMIC COURT DECIDES TO CONTINUE CONSIDERATION OF CLAIM LODGED BY "HSBC BANK OF ARMENIA" No information from Site can be used without prior permission of ARMINFO http://www.arminfo.am -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=media.arminfo http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com