“Later, Artshininvest refused to loan us the money at $15. The bank said they wanted to loan us $2.8 million at 17%. I had to accept in order to pull the company out of bankruptcy,” says Karapetyan.
An interview with Marcelo Wende, Managing Director of “Armenia” International Airports” CJSC
After the interview, Olivier Michel says he "was called out by the Armenian translator and one of the ministers [accompanying the president] threatened me with the finger.”
Resulting from Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s official visit to Lebanon, the two countries agreed today to abolish visas between the two countries and to mutually recognize college diplomas.
The company “Tierras de Armenia” was founded by Argentinean-Armenian Eduardo Eurnekian.
Sahakyan can always be spotted in front of the press cameras, espousing the government’s position on this or that issue. Lately, he’s been busy defending the government’s proposal to raise the minimum wage by 2,500 AMD per month.
Disgruntled workers of Yerevan’s Nayirit Rubber Factory converged on the presidential palace demanding that the now idle plant be restarted and that their back wages be paid.
Raffi K. Hovannisian, chairman of the Heritage Party and Armenia’s first minister of foreign affairs, has returned from Baku, Azerbaijan, where he took part in the 7th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) between November 21 and 24. The meeting brought together 250 delegates representing 60 political parties from 25 Asian nations, together with a host of Azerbaijani functionaries.
OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today in Baku.
According to the Azerbaijani press, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu reports that he will meet with his Azerbaijani and Iranian counterparts in Erzeroum before leaving for the U.S. on November 28.
Cemil Cicek, Chairman of Turkey’s Grand National Assembly, travels to Baku today to attend a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation group.
Simple proof of this is the decreasing enrollment of area schools. Families just don’t see a future for themselves in the province. Local school principals have voiced their concerns that if the trends continue this section of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan will be empty of Armenians altogether.