YEREVAN (Azg daily), 01/29/99 –A session of once governing Armenian National Movement party board was held in Yerevan yesterday. “A course of political persecutions and discreditation of ANM, which started in 1998, is taken by the authorities”, decided the board.
YEREVAN (Hayastani Hanrapetutyun daily), 01/29/99 — The Azeri armed forces shelled, with interruptions, the Armenian defense positions at the Zuygtsar settlement in the Tavoush district of Armenia from 7:10pm till 12:30am on January 28. No casualties were reported. The Armenian border troops returned the fire, forcing the enemy to stop shelling.
STEPANAKERT (Azg daily), 01/29/99 — A Government session in Mountainous Gharabagh discussed the draft project of Law about Minimal Wages and accepted Prime Minister Jirayr Poghosian’s proposal to increase minimal wages from 5,000 drams monthly to 10,000 drams (about $18).
YEREVAN (Respublica Armenia daily), 01/28/99 — USA does not plan placing a military base in Azerbaijan, said spokesperson of State Department for Newly Independent States Ann Johnson.
YEREVAN (Yerkir daily), 01/28/99 — “This body was created illegitimately and naturally, its self-protection instinct would work”, said Deputy Chairman of Constitutional Right Union Hayk Babukhanian, commenting on Parliament’s refusal to allow the arrest of Chairman of ANM board and former Interior Minister Vano Siradeghian.
YEREVAN (Azg daily), 01/28/99 — “Considering, that the policy of former authorities, which is against basic interests of the population, is now continued by the illegitimately elected in 1995 parliament, and which supports persons who committed crimes during the past regime”, the Armenia Supreme Body of Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun yesterday made a statement, demanding [...]
YEREVAN (Hayastani Hanrapetutyun daily), 01/28/99 — An official delegation of Armenia, headed by President Robert Kocharian, has left for Davos, Switzerland, on January 27, to participate in a World Economic Forum there. The delegation includes Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian, Presidential Economic Advisor Vahram Nersisiants, and other officials.
YEREVAN (Azg daily), 01/28/99 — Article 24 of the Law about Telecommunications contradicts to the articles 5 and 8 of the Constitution of Armenia, Chairman of the Constitutional Court Gagik Haroutiunian announced yesterday. The Constitutional Court worked from early morning to 5pm., and announced the verdict at 5:23pm.
YEREVAN (Hayastani Hanrapetutyun daily), 01/28/99 — The Azeri armed forces shelled the Armenian defense positions at the north-eastern section of the Armenian-Azeri border. The enemy shelled the Armenian positions at Noyemberian from 11:15 to 11:50pm on January 26, press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry reported.
YEREVAN (Hayastani Hanrapetutyun daily), 01/27/99 — Low precipitations resulted in decrease of surface water sources in Dilijan by 2/3, aggravating water supply in the city. The hours of water supply are limited to its availability.