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ARMENIA'S PRESIDENT RATIFIES LAW ON LIMITATION OF SALE AND CONSUMPTION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS
Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Standing Commission for Science, Education, Culture and Youth Affairs Hranuysh Hakobyan says that the package of laws is aimed to solve 4 tasks: limitation of the places for smoking and advertisement of cigarettes, fixation of fines for violations of the law, establishment of a relevant legal field and appointment of an authorized body on control over exposure of violations and imposition of fines. The bill provides for establishment of a national program combatting smoking, which is elaborated by the government and will be submitted to the parliament every year together with the state budget. The bill prohibits sale of cigarettes to and by minors. Besides, the sale of cigarettes by the price is banned. The order of smoking danger warning on the cigarettes boxes is regulated. In case of violation of the given provision, the given lot of cigarettes is subject to destruction. The bill fixes a number of public establishments and territories wherein smoking is not allowed, including public transport and cultural facilities. The law is a compromise version of the bill that failed in the spring. Hakobyan says that it is necessary to gradually change over to the provision of Geneva Convention of WHO on struggle against smoking by 2010 which Armenia ratified in October, 2004. KULAR GARIBYAN STOPS HUNGER STRIKE YEREVAN, JANUARY 20. ARMINFO. Armenian woman from Marseilles Kular Garibyan has stopped the hunger strike she has been on since Jan 6. She demanded a meeting with French President Jacques Chirac to get uarantees that Turkey will acknowledge he Armenian Genocide. Garibyan says that she stopped her action on her family's request but will never stop her struggle. She has sent a letter to the French FM demanding that France pressures Turkey into recognizing the Armenian Genocide. ARMENIAN PYUNIK LOSES QUARTERFINAL OF 13TH CIS FOOTBALL CUP TO AZERI NEFTCHI MOSCOW, JANUARY 20. ARMINFO. Armenia's football champion Pyunik (Yerevan) has lost the quarterfinal of the 13th CIS Football Cup to Neftchi (Baku) 0:2 and has missed its chance for the cup. The match was nervous on both the field and the standium. The Azeri fans turned out to be well prepared - flags, drums, T-shirts, painted faces. The noise was deafening. The Armenian fans were seated across the stadium and were their absolute contrast. Couple of flags, one-two passive voices shouting Pyunik! and no drive at all. The police were at first a bit confused unable to tell the Armenian flags from the Azeri ones but then they got used. The politics was present even there. Usually the stadium hails both the teams - this time the Armenians hailed their team the Azeris theirs. The conflict was ripening and was about to unleash when some Armenians fans put their flag over the Azeri one on the stand displaying all the national flags of the participant teams. A group of Azeri fans rushed to restore the justice but the police were just in time to prevent impending clashes. Much to their credit the sides managed to keep their temper till the end despite the obvious itch in their hands. Seeing that their team is doomed to lose the Armenians left the stadium sad but not angry. The Armenian players were not so restrained - they even attacked the referees. The Azeri were happy as if they won the World Cup. Now Neftchi is to meet with Dinamo Kiev while Lokomotive Moscow is to face Kaunas from Vilnius. In the Soviet times Ararat Yerevan met Neftchi Baku 40 times - 15 victories, 14 draws and 11 defeats. YEREVAN, JANUARY 20. ARMINFO. The case on the murder of the dean of the Philological Department of Yerevan State University Karen Mkrtchyan has been neither dismissed nor remitted, active investigatory and operative measures are taken on the fact, Deputy Prosecutor General of Armenia Mnatsakan Sargsyan told ARMINFO, Thursday. To note, Karen Mkrtchyan was killed by an unknown person not far from his house in the summer of 2003. YEREVAN, JANUARY 20. ARMINFO. Investigation in the case of a railway accident registered on Dec 25, 2004, has entered a phase of a number of examinations, Deputy Prosecutor General of Armenia Mnatsakan Sargsyan told ARMINFO. It should be noted that on December 25, at 13:10, an electric locomotive derailed on the section Nurnus-Nor Hachn. Three people were killed, including 2 women, 2 persons were injured. The electric locomotive was going at high-speed when it crashed into electric posts. According to preliminary data, the reason of the accident was failure of breaks. A criminal case was initiated on the fact by Kotayk Prosecutor's Office with participation of General Prosecutor's Office of Armenia. Mnatsakan Sargsyan said that investigators try to find out through examinations not only the reasons which led to the catastrophe, but also how necessary it was to make that voyage, whether the victims had a right to be in the technical carriage, as well as a number of other issues. YEREVAN, JANUARY 20. ARMINFO. An attempt by the Azerbaijani MP R.Huseynov to raise the issue on "destruction of the monuments of the Azebraijani culture in Shusha" at the Cultural Committee of PACE will remain without results. A member of the Armenian delegation to PACE Shavarsh Kocharyan told ARMINFO. He said that the Azerbaijani MP tries to attract the attention of European MPs to not existing and invented issues once more, Shavarsh Kocharyan said that Huseynov had already made a inquiry for this issue to the CE Committee of Minister before. Earlier, Shavarsh Kocharyan himself made a inquiry to CECM for the issue of destruction of the Armenian cemetery in Nakhichevan. The Armenian MP said that on Dec 15, CECM considered both inquiries, expressed concern in this connection, and called the parties to refrain themselves from such acts, if they really took place. HEADLINES OF FEBRUARY 20 JANUARY
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YEREVAN, JANUARY 20. ARMINFO. Armenia's President Robert Kocharyan
ratified today the law on limitation of the sale and consumption of
tobacco products, as well as its accompanying laws.