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PROTEST ACTION AGAINST DEMOLITION OF HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL MONUMENT
The building was built in 1910-1914 and involved in the State list of historical and cultural monuments. As far as journalists know, it was bought by our compatriot from Diaspora Nazaret Berberyan. The action participants covered the building with posters "My elitist Erebuni" and "It is demolished by the state" and continued the picket in front of the Armenian government's building. YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 24. ARMINFO. The Armenian Parliamentary Supervisory Chamber exposed the most large-scale financial misappropriation in 2004 in the sphere of the use of foreign credits. Chairman of the Supervisory Chamber Gagik Voskanyan informs journalists today summing up the results of the chamber's activity in 2004. In particular, Voskanyan says that the most observed is the practice of unreturned credits of enterpreneurs issued under various programs from the funds of foreign capital, as well as the companies which make more attractive proposals at tenders. The SC exposed a number of violations in the sphere of privatization as well. Thus, in conformity with a governmental decision dated 2002 all the unfinished constructions in the country were to be inventoried and transferred to the Department for Management of State Property. Voskanyan also called inadmissible the practice of privatization of facilities of strategic importance through their bankruptcy and liquidation. Besides, the privatized enterprises do not fulfill their obligations. For example, he says, 4 privatized enterprises have not fulfilled their investment commitments for some $10.7 mln. He also says that in the park nearing the Institution of Mathematical Machines after Mergelyan. 1,900 sq/m were transferred to the company "Artsakh-91" subject to preservation of the green zone. The company has not fulfilled this condition. Besides, the SC exposed violations in the sphere of public health, he expresses bewilderment that "healthy people undergo treatment on the state order." Voskanyan expresses doubts that a patient suffered from a heart attack could recover on the 60,000 drams provided by the state. Voskanyan also touches upon the inspections in the sphere of state subsidizing of communities. Thus, in 2004 11.463 bln drams were allocated to community budgets from the state budget, 11 bln were provided to communities to equalize their budgets, 66 bln drams dotations for preferential property tax, 19 bln drams other dotations and 123 mln drams target allocations. Voskanyan says that mechanism and principles of these allocations are not regulated. On the basis of the materials of inspections of the Supervisory Commission to the Prosecutor General's Office, in 2004 7 officials were brought administratively responsible and 4 criminal cases were initiated, with 19 mln drams being returned to the state budget. YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 24. ARMINFO. Every year 500 Armenian and foreign students of Armenia purchase International Student Identity Cards (ISIC). Talking to ARMINFO, Head of the Association of Cultural and Educational, Labor International Programs Ara Galstyan says that ISICs allow free visits to museums, cinemas and exhibitions, discounts hotels, for international telephone calls, at clubs, restaurants and at shops. He says that the cards were put into circulation in Armenia in 1997. It should be noted that 1,700 youth organizations in 95 countries use the cards issued and distributed by the International Student Tourist Confederation. Galstyan says that students receive discounts at 45 commercial, hotel, transport and museum organizations. Discounts in every country are special. ISICs are issued for 18 months, and then students can prolong the cards' validity for another year. A student pays only for membership at the system ISIC - 2.5 thousand drams (some 4 EUR), and prolongation of the card requires no additional payment, Galstyan says. The organization itself pays 3 EUR for each card. NATO SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE SATISFIED WITH NEGOTIATIONS IN YEREVAN YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 24. ARMINFO. Robert Simmons, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, is satisfied with the negotiations in Yerevan. He declared during the news conference in Yerevan, Thursday. According to him, during the present visit to Yerevan he has met with representatives of the leadership of the Republic of Armenia. During these meetings the special representative has informed about the results of NATO summit in Brussels and discussion of the theme of Iran, meeting with the President of the Ukraine Victor Yushchenko, the relations Russia-NATO and other partners of the organization. Robert SImmons also introduced with the NATO Officer of Relations Romualds Razuks. Mentioning Armenia's cooperation with NATO within framework of different events, the special representative especially stressed Armenia's participation in peacekeeping missions to Kosovo and Iraq. Answering a question of journalists, Robert Simmons said that the theme of Armenian-Turkish relations were not discussed during the meetings. "Here I represent NATO as a whole, not going to the hearth of the relations of Armenia with separate members of the organization", he mentioned. Returning Brussels he intends to report on the good negotiations with the leadership of Armenia, said Robert Simmons. "ARMENTEL" PLANS TO CHECK COMPETENCY OF ITS EMPLOYEES YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 24. ARMINFO. The professional conformity of all the managers without exception beginning from general director to heads of departments of the company ArmenTel will be estimated in March, 2004. It is said in the letter, spread by the management of the company to the staff. A resource in the company ArmenTel informed ARMINFO, the famous international company on monitoring over personnel resources in telecommunications organizations will carry out the estimation. In particular, the resource informed that the changes in the autumn of last year threatens to turn into full reformation of the company. FIrst of all, it is connected with the forthcoming entry of the new and still only competitor, the company K-Telecom into the market of cellular communication of Armenia. But the Greek OTE, which owns 90% of the shares of the company ArmenTel, does not intend to come to nothing more than solving the local problem - provide effective competition in the sphere of cellular service. OTE has decided to restructure the management system of ArmenTel right up to its full transformation into a new company. Besides, it is not excepted that the image of the company will be changed, the interlocutor mentioned. The interlocutor explained the chronical deficit in the market of cellular service with that originally the marketing of Easy-card was based only on the purchase capability of the population, and the mentality, particularly of the market, as well as the improvement of the social-economic situation were not take into account. Now the company is considering the possibility of increase of the types of cards for cellular service and creation of a relevant structure for development of products, services and tariff policy, the resource said. At the same time, recently ArmenTel has already initiated new wave of expansion of services for Easy-card. In particular, since Feb 16 it introduced such services as waiting regimes and call fixation, trilateral connection and re-direction of incoming calls, as well as since Feb 21 ArmenTel "threw" into the market a new lot of packages of Easy-card. To note, the company's acting General Executive Director Georgius Vasilakis resigned from his post on June 30, 2004 and Vasilius Fetsis was appointed the General Executive Director. All the "command" personnel of "Armentel" was changed, too. To remind, "K-Telecom" won the competition for the second operator of Armenia's mobile communication and, according to Armenia's Transport and Communication Minister Andranik Manukyan, it plans to provide services since May, 2005. HEADLINES OF FEBRUARY 24
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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 24. ARMINFO. "The Civil initiative of Kond safety"
public organization organized today a protest action against the
demolition of a building in the center of Yerevan.