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ARMINFO NEWS AGENCY 14 YEARS OLD
Set up in 1991 by a group of highly professional journalists as an alternative to official propaganda SNARK survived the blockade hardships of the early 90s - when its personnel was working without electricity and elementary working conditions - and the financial problems of the late 90s - when the agency was on the verge of bankruptcy. Reformed into ARMINFO in 2001 the agency is now a worthy participant in not only national but also CIS and foreign information markets due to its timely coverage of key political and economic events of its country. ARMINFO has very wide international ties supplying information to the biggest world news agencies and databases. ARMINFO is proud of its many year partnership with most of national newspapers and TV companies. Since 1993 the agency has been one angle of the South Caucasian information triangle - ARMINFO (Armenia)-TURAN (Azerbaijan)-BLACK SEA PRESS (Georgia). On its birthday the staff of the independent news agency ARMINFO thanks all its partners and subscribers for their confidence and fruitful cooperation. NAGORNY KARABAKH INALIENABLE PART OF AZERBAIJAN: ALEKSANDER KWASNIEVSKY YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. Poland supports the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, Polish President Aleksander Kwasnievsky said during his Wednesday joint briefing with Azeri President Ilham Aliev in Warsaw. He said that Karabakh is inalienable part of Azerbaijan and the Karabakh conflict must be settled in accordance with the international law. The conflicting parties should attain peace themselves but Poland is ready to help them. Kwasnievsky said that Poland is ready to host Armenian-Azeri presidential meetings. He said that he has instructed personal representative of OSCE chairman-in-office, Polish diplomat Andrzej Kasprzyk to maintain stability on the Armenian-Azeri contact line by holding regular monitorings. Kwasnievsky said that Poland is interested in stability in the South Caucasus. ARMENIAN KILIKIA TO ENTER IRANIAN MARKET THIS YEAR YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. The Armenian nonalcoholic beer Kilikia will enter the Iranian market this year, says the president of the Yerevan Beer company Ashot Bagdassaryan. The talks are underway. The Iranian side is very much interested. Last year Kilikia entered Lebanon while in the US, Russia and Europe it has been sold for five years already. In 2004 the beer output grew by 38% to 382,000 deciliters. The exports grew by 10%-12%. NOTHING KNOWN YET ABOUT ROMANIAN JOURNALISTS KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. Nothing is known yet about the fate of the three Romanian journalists kidnapped in Iraq Mar 28, reports Armenia's FM. To remind, one of them is 36-year-old Armenian Ovidiu Oganessyan working with the Romania Liberia newspaper. The journalists were kidnapped the day after Romanian President Traian Basescu visiting the Romanian peacekeeping forces in Iraq. Basescu says that Romania will do its best to have the journalists back. The kidnappers have not yet laid any claims. CHARLES AZNAVOUR DEMANDS THAT GERMANY AND TURKEY RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. Turkey must recognize the Armenian Genocide or it will not be able to live with this burden from generation to generation, says internationally known singer Charles Aznavour says in an interview to Die Zeit. Descendent of the Genocide survivors Aznavour says that sooner or later Ankara will be forced to recognize the fact of Armenian massacres in Ottoman Empire adding that only after that Armenia and Turkey can reconcile. Aznavour demands that the Genocide be acknowledged by Germany too as being Turkey's ally during WWI this country is also responsible for the massacres. Germany must follow the example of Switzerland and France who have officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, says Aznavour. COSSACKS OF NOVOROSSIYSK DISTRIBUTE ANTI-ARMENIAN LEAFLETS YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. Leaflets entitled "Criminal onslaught and disorder of Armenian Diaspora reaches critical point" have been spread in Novorossiysk on behalf of Cossacks since March 30. The newspaper of the Armenians of the South of Russia "Yerkramas" reports referring to Novorossiysk Human Rights Committee. The authors of the leaflets with illiterate mistakes qualify the quarrel in Novorossiysk on March 21-22 night as an attack of Armenians armed with knifes and rubber sticks on the Cossacks. They accuse the militia of tolerance and idleness. The authors of the leaflets say that they have no intention "to further endure Armenian disorder. We are able and ought to protect ourselves, our families, our land and our dignity. Our duty is to stop the Armenian- Cossack disorder." According to Novorossiysk Human Rigths Committee, representatives of the local Armenian community will demand criminal case on the fact of stirring up ethnic strife. However, the newspaper reports that the local law-enforcement bodies and the courts of Krasnodar region settle such kind of cases quietly. "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE" DOCUMENTARY FILM TO BE BROADCAST OVER ARTE EUROPEAN TV-CHANNEL APRIL 13 YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. A premiere of "Armenian Genocide" French documentary film took place the day before at "Star" movie theatre in Paris. Armenian Ambassador to France Edvard Nalbandyan participated there. As ARMINFO was informed in the press-service of Armenian Foreign Ministry, the film will be broadcast over one of leading European TV-channel ARTE April 13, some days before the 90th anniversary of Armenian Genocide. Film author Lorans Zhurdan in documentary-and-historical genre introduced undeniable facts of inhuman massacre of Armenian people in Ottoman empire in 1915. Evidences of eye-witnesses about this bloody slaughter are introduced widely, too. HEADLINES OF MARCH 31
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YEREVAN, MARCH 31. ARMINFO. One of the leaders of Armenia's
information market, the ARMINFO news agency (former SNARK), is 14
years old.