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TWO YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE REELECTION OF ARMENIAN PRESIDENT
According to the ruling parties in Armenia, during the last two years, Robert Kocharyan successfully fulfilled his pre-election promises. Armenian Prime Minister, RPA Leader Andranik Margaryan, in particular, says that during the last two years Robert Kocharyan fulfilled the greatest part of his pre-election promises, and preconditions for fulfillment of the remaining promises are created. Among the achievements of Robert Kocharyan, representatives of the ruling coalition called stable the domestic political situation, pointing out two-digit economic growth and a growth of GDP. At the same time, representatives of the ruling coalition say that there are many problems in the country to be solved in future, including the high level of corruption, and plutocracy reigning in the country. Unlike the ruling forces, the Armenian oppositionists lever harsh criticism at the activity of Robert Kocharyan demanding his resingation. MORE THAN 150 PEOPLE TAKE PART IN QUARREL AT YEREVAN HPP YEREVAN, MARCH 5. ARMINFO. More than 150 people took part in a criminal quarrel at the Yerevan Heat Power PLant (HPP), Chief of Armenian Police Ararat Makhtesyan said at today's press-conference. To remind, the quarrel happened at the HPP on February 4 at about 22:00 p.m. As a result, one person were killed, several were wounded, 9 were arrested, and 3 are wanted by the police. 7 units of weapons and ammunitions were confiscated. To note, 5 workers were dismissed from the Police bodies and an investigation is being under conduction in respect to the other one. Makhtesyan sees the crime reason in the tendency of youth generation to the reappraisal of values, in the lack of public assistance and, certainly, in availability of weapons at people. He said that as many weapons were withdrawn from people during the last years that one may equip the whole division. He said that the situation in the country in favorable differ from situation in the neighboring countries and "somewhat is normal for them, comes as an extraordinary for Yerevan". In his turn, Chief of Yerevan Police Department Nerses Nazaryan noted, that the names of both the crime's organizers and the participants are already known and added that the occurrence is not related to the category of very complicated. THE BLIND IN ARMENIA GET A CHANCE TO "SEE" BOOKS DUE TO COMPUTER PROGRAM YEREVAN, MARCH 5. ARMINFO. A computer center has opened at the Society of the Blind in Armenia created with support of a charitable union "Apaven." Armenian Parliamentary Speaker Artur Baghdasaryan attended the opening ceremony. Thirty-nine people received education at the center, one of the author- developers of the computer program for the blind "Arev," Director of Yerevan Scientific and Research Institution of Mathematical Sciences, Academician Arman Kuchukyan informs journalists. The program allows the blind to study the alphabet on the keyboard independently, to read Armenians books and other printed materials and to use Internet through sounds. The program also allows calculations and use of the help service of the computer. The program "Arev" costs some $800. Speaking at the ceremony, Artur Baghdasaryan promised assistance to the blind as regards employment, increase in wages and allowances. He said that in 2006 a republican educational center for the blind would open in Yerevan. He promised assistance to 20 blind students of Yerevan State University in purchase of personal computers. The speaker advised the members of the union to apply to the court demanding return of the building in Isahakayan Street 18. It should be noted that the Municipality sold the territory in 2002. The speaker assured those present that this territory was sold illegally and there were all the chances to win the case. ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT DOES NOT PAY SUFFICIENT ATTENTION TO AUTOMATIZATION OF STATE AGENCIES YEREVAN, MARCH 5. ARMINFO. The Armenian authorities do not give sufficient attention and financing to the maintenance of the e-government systems of state agencies, says the director of the Center for Information Technologies Gagik Karapetyan. Big money is allocated for government automatization projects but the projects stop as soon as the money ends. "One cannot drive a car without repairing it - the same is for Armenia's e-systems," says Karapetyan. "For example after the completion of the project to automatize the state register of Armenia we learned that our phone lines were cut - here in Armenia one can lose an effective system because of 2,000-3,000 AMD," says Karapetyan noting that he is going to raise this problem at the next meeting of the council for supporting IT development in Armenia so as it is budgeted later. HOCALI ISSUE PLAYED UP BY AZERBAIJAN FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES: KARABAKH HISTORIAN STEPANAKERT, MARCH 5. ARMINFO. The Azeri authorities keep discussing the Hocali subject with an obvious view to mislead public opinion both inside and outside Azerbaijan - with the quantity of Hocali victims growing every hour from speech to speech from interview to interview, says Karabakh historian Hrachik Haroutyunyan. Particularly during a recent radio bridge Vagif Nagi, a native Azeri journalist from Tabriz, said that 613 people were killed in Hocali including children and women, 151 were missed, 1,300 captured. Another journalist claimed that there were 1,200 people killed. Meanwhile official statistics says that there were only 1,600 people living in Hocali before the events in question. Besides it is known that before starting the military operation to destroy the enemy's weapon emplacements (Feb 26 1992) the Karabakh authorities had opened a humanitarian corridor for civilians which had been reported by Azeri media a few days before the operation. It is also well known that only military units remained in Hocali by the time the operation was launched. Azerbaijan claims that all Hocali civilians were killed while each second speaker today says he is former resident of that village and that he escaped therefrom with his family, sons and daughters, says Haroutyunyan. He says that before the emergence of Azeri Hocali there was Kaladarasian Hocali, home to Armenians fleeing the 1918 Ottoman invasion of Shushi. Later they were forced to leave that place too. The 1926 census mentions Hocali as Armenian village of 900 people while in the early 60s there already was a neighboring Azeri Hocali. In 1977 there is no longer Armenian Hocali and finally in 1989 Hocali is a fully Azeri village of 1,600 people. Harotuyunyan says that Azerbaijan is speculating on the subject with a view to blacken Karabakh and to get internal and external political dividends. HEADLINES OF MARCH 5
SEVAK HAKOPIAN APPOINTED PROSECUTOR OF STEPANAKERT
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YEREVAN, MARCH 5. ARMINFO. Today, on March 5, is two years since the
reelection of Robert Kocharyan to the post of the Armenian President.