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ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SIGNED NEW CRIMINAL CODE REPEALING DEATH PENALTY

May 1, 2003 - 00:11 AMT  01:58 GMT
Besides, Kocharian has signed the law "On giving effect to the new Criminal Code" passed by the parliament, according to which the repeal of death penalty does not apply to people, who had committed a number of heinous crimes before the adoption of the new Code.

ARMENIAN JEWS REVERED MEMORY OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS

April 30, 2003 - 23:49 AMT  01:58 GMT
Head of the Jewish community of Armenia Rimma Varzhapetian emphasized there were no explicit manifestations of anti-Semitism in Armenia, "although it is already the second year that April 23 - on the eve of the commemoration day of the victims of the Armenian Genocide - young representatives of "Dashnaktsutyun" party burn the Turkish flag, on which the Star of David - the symbol of the Jewish people - appears for some reason."

ARMENIA TO PARTICIPATE IN "MILEX-2003" INTERNATIONAL MILITARY ENGINEERING EXPOSITION

April 30, 2003 - 23:39 AMT  01:58 GMT
May 13-16 Armenian companies will participate in the 2-nd international exposition of arms and military equipment "MILEX-2003" in Minsk, which is held under the aegis of the main defense exporter of Russia - "RosOboronExport."

ADMINISTRATION OF AZERI PRESIDENT DENIED REPORTS THAT ALIYEV REFUSED PARTICIPATION IN COMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

April 30, 2003 - 23:35 AMT  01:58 GMT
"Heydar Aliyev continues taking cure at home. Nevertheless, the state of health of the president is stable and he is engaged in state affairs," Ali Hasanov, representative of the administration of Azeri president stated.

IN NETHERLANDS TURKISH DELEGATION BENT HEAD TO MEMORY OF VICTIMS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

April 30, 2003 - 22:54 AMT  01:58 GMT
"I bend my head to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey in 1915," - a representative of the Turkish delegation and German union of opponents of genocide Ali Ertem stated the other day at a measure organized by the Federation of Armenian Organizations of the Netherlands, devoted to the 88-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

17 STATES ALREADY DECLARED THEY WOULD PARTICIPATE IN COMING NATO MANEUVERS IN ARMENIA

April 30, 2003 - 22:16 AMT  01:58 GMT
First deputy defense minister of Armenia, chief of the Headquarters of the Armenian Armed Forces Mikayel Harutyunian noted the status of Turkey's participation in the maneuvers was still being discussed: three representatives of the country may arrive in Armenia as observers.

AZERBAIJAN TO GIVE UP MILITARY SOLUTION OF KARABAKH CONFLICT FOR ACCESSION TO EU, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER SAID

April 30, 2003 - 22:15 AMT  01:58 GMT
In the words of Demetrio Volchich, "if someone says he cannot solve a conflict via peaceful means, he is not a bearer of the logic and does not share the philosophy of the EU. This refers to the Nagorno Karabakh problem, too."

"CAUCASIAN FOUR" PARLIAMENT HEADS GATHERED IN TBILISI

April 30, 2003 - 20:16 AMT  01:58 GMT
The participants of the close meeting will consider the ways of settlement of the Georgian-Abkhazian, Georgian-Osetian and the Nagorno Karabakh conflicts, as well as the opportunity to restore rail communication via Abkhazia.

ARMENIA READY TO PARTICIPATE IN INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

April 30, 2003 - 19:38 AMT  01:58 GMT
During his current stay in Yerevan NATO deputy supreme allied commander Europe, admiral Rainer Feist discussed the issue of participation of the Armenian military in international peacekeeping operations in the Balkans at meetings with the Armenian president, defense minister and chief of the Headquarters of the Armenian Armed Forces.

SAN-PAULO BRAZILIAN STATE RECOGNIZED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN OTTOMAN TURKEY IN 1915

April 30, 2003 - 19:37 AMT  01:58 GMT
The Legislative Assembly of the largest Brazilian state - San-Paulo - has unanimously passed a law recognizing April 24 "a Commemoration Day of the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide in 1915."
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