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THREE QUAKES SHAKE IRAN, GREECE AND TURKEY IN ONE DAY YEREVAN, JANUARY 11. ARMINFO. Three earthquakes have taken place in Iran and on the Turkish-Greek border in the last 24 hours. The National Service of Seismic Protection of Armenia's Emergency Department reports that a 5.4 point earthquake took place 25 km north of the Iranian town of Gorgan Jan 10 10:47 pm. In the epicenter the magnitude was 7 points on the MSK-64 scale. The local phone network has been damaged, the population is in panic. No casualties reported yet. Two 5.1 point quakes shook the areas 60 km and 55 km of Mugla, the Turkish-Greek border, today 3:48 am and 3:50 am respectively. In the epicenter the magnitude was 6 points. Again no reports of casualties have been received to date.
STEPANAKERT, JANUARY 11. ARMINFO. Azerbaijan has proclaimed 2004 "the year of Karabakh" and has reiterated through its president Ilham Aliev its readiness if need be to settle the Karabakh problem by force, says Karabakh analyst David Babayan. They in Azerbaijan have been actively alleging lately that Armenia has agreed to the phased settlement scenario. Nagorny Karabakh could not help reacting. The settlement process has been standing still for over 10 years already mostly because the parties to it differ drastically in their approaches to the settlement. Nagorny Karabakh advocates package scenario - at once and on all the issues - while Azerbaijan insists on phased one - return of the territories controlled by Nagorny Karabakh and constituting security belt for it. Only then will Baku agree to negotiate on Nagorny Karabakh's status. In any case only complex approach should be applied here - package scenario implemented in phases. This implies comprehensive settlement with all the aspects agreed on these including the status, the territories, refugees, security... to be implemented stage by stage on mutually acceptable terms. This is the only way of conflict settlement. That's exactly how the Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia were reached or the UN project on Cyprus was drafted. Meanwhile Baku keeps insisting exclusively on the return of territories and refugees implying only Azeri territories and refugees forgetting that the area of the Nagorny Karabakh territories controlled by Azerbaijan and the number of Armenian refugees having left their homes are much bigger than the Azeri territories constituting the security belt of Nagorny Karabakh. Baku's position is in fact an attempt to eliminate negative consequences without eliminating their causes. This is impossible especially as this approach is changing the whole military-political situation in the conflict zone which is tempting Azerbaijan to settle the problem by force. This rather than the settlement scenarios controversy is the key reason for Azerbaijan's non constructive position on the Karabakh conflict settlement, says Babayan. ARMENIA TO PROVIDE SRI LANKA WITH HUMANITARIAN AID YEREVAN, JANUARY 11. ARMINFO. In the coming days Armenia will sent an over $50,000 worth humanitarian cargo to Sri Lanka, the country who suffered the most from the Dec 26 calamitous tsunami, says the spokesman of the emergency department of Armenia Nikolay Grigoryan. The cargo consists of medicines, blankets, warm cloths and electricity generating devices. Grigoryan says that a department representative is now in Indonesia to see which areas are most in need of aid. The spokesman of the foreign ministry of Armenia Hamlet Gasparyan says that the FM have proposed to send a rescue group to Indonesia but have received no response from their counterparts yet. There are no reports of Armenian citizens suffering from the tsunami. YERWATERCANAL INTENDS TO REDOUBLE DRINKING WATER TARIFF YEREVAN, JANUARY 11. ARMINFO. The Yerevan WaterCanal company has applied to the State Commission on Public Service Regulation for raising the drinking water tariff. The application has been rejected because of improper filing procedure. The spokesman of the company Murad Sargsyan says that the company is proposing that the tariff be raised Apr 1 2005 from 90.2 AMD to 187.4 AMD for one cubic meter of drinking water with the wholesale tariff making up 18.8 AMD per 1 c m. To remind, the contract of the A-Utility company (Italy) for managing the drinking water network of Yerevan expires in May 2005. The interim parliamentary commission inquiring into the effective use of the credits in the sphere has found out that A-Utility has failed to meet the contract requirements: the initial schedule has been shifted, the financial flows redistributed, the losses have amounted to 80%. 7 foreign companies had applied to the State Water Economy Committee for implementing the new contract as of Dec 2004. AIRPORT OF ROSTOV-ON-DON REFUSES TO RECEIVE PLANE FROM YEREVAN YEREVAN, JANUARY 11. ARMINFO. The airplane of the air company "Armavia" Yerevan-Rostov-on-Don-Yerevan had to return to Yerevan. Such a decision was made after that the airport of Rostov-on-Don refused to receive the plane because of the damage of the runway. ARMINFO was informed in the company Armavia, the runway was damaged by the plane which flight from the airport of the town of Rostov-on-Don before the landing of the plane of the air company Armavia. HEADLINES OF FEBRUARY 11 JANUARY
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