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The Armenian government receives foreign aid from the government of the United States through the United States Agency for International Development and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
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This led the government to propose reconstruction of the Armenian Atomic Power Station at Metsamor, which was closed after the 1988 earthquake because of its location in an earthquake-prone area and which had the same safety problems as reactors listed as dangerous in Bulgaria, Russia, and Slovakia.
Ter-Petrosyan had been elected head of government in 1990, when the National Democratic Union party defeated the Armenian Communist Party.
Following the assassination in Parliament of Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan and six other officials, on 27 October 1999, a period of political instability ensued during which an opposition headed by elements of the former Armenian National Movement government attempted unsuccessfully to force Kocharyan to resign.
A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.
All churches apart from the Armenian Apostolic Church must register with the government, and proselytizing was forbidden by law, though since 1997 the government has pursued more moderate policies.
New sectors, such as precious stone processing and jewelry making and communication technologyArmentel ( left fromt the USSR era ), which is not even owned by the government or Armenian investors.
This was owing to bad weather, a lack of a government stimulus package, and the continuing effects of decreased agricultural subsidies by the Armenian government ( per WTO requirements ).
With the Armenian government needing more anti-crisis loans from the World Bank and other foreign donors, the debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to exceed 40 percent in 2010.
The official warned that the debt servicing payments of the Armenian government will surge by 2013 and absorb " quite significant part of tax revenues.
As of October 2008, the Armenian government is considering implementing an ambitious project to build a railway to Iran.
The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).
In August 2002, the Armenian government sold an 80 percent stake in the Armenian Electricity Network ( AEN ) to Midland Resources, a British offshore-registered firm which is said to have close Russian connections.
In September 2002, the Armenian government handed over Armenia ’ s largest cement factory to the Russian ITERA gas exporter in payment for its $ 10 million debt for past gas deliveries.
In January 2003, the Armenian government and United Company RUSAL signed an investment cooperation agreement, under which United Company RUSAL ( which already owned a 76 % stake ) acquired the Armenian government's remaining 26 % share of RUSAL ARMENAL aluminum foil mill, giving RUSAL 100 % ownership of RUSAL ARMENAL.
On November 1, 2006, the Armenian government handed de facto control of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Russian company Gazprom and increased Gazprom's stake in the Russian-Armenian company ArmRosGazprom from 45 % to 58 % by approving an additional issue of shares worth $ 119 million.
This left the Armenian government with a 32 % stake in ArmRosGazprom.
Critics of the Kocharian government say that the Armenian administration never considered alternative ways of settling the Russian debts.
Political observers say that Armenia's economic cooperation with Russia has been one of the least transparent areas of the Armenian government ’ s work.
The Armenian government ’ s stated efforts to strengthen and reform the military are called into question by continuing non-combat deaths and other violent incidents in the army ranks, which have come under greater public scrutiny in 2010.
Armenian and foreign
Despite marked progress, Armenia still suffers from a large trade imballance and is still largely dependent upon foreign aid and remittances from Armenian nationals working abroad, and members of the diaspora donating aid through non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) such as churchES.
As of late November 2009, the Armenian government's foreign debt was around $ 3 billion USD, having doubled in size over the course of the previous year.
According to the head of the Armenian Central Bank ’ s ( CBA ) department for financial system policies and analyses ( Vahe Vardanyan ) Armenian banks have no large asset concentrations in foreign markets, particularly in capital markets.
The main factors defining Armenian foreign policy consist from geopolitical location, decreasing population, economic crisis, and ties with Armenian diaspora throughout the world.
# A joint commission would be formed so Armenian lands could be evacuated of foreign troops.
: Der Völkermord an den Armeniern 1915 / 15: Dokumente aus dem Politischen Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts ( The Armenian genocide of 1915: Documents from the political archives of the foreign office ), preface by Vahakn N. Dadrian, in German with English abstracts of documents ; ISBN 3-934920-59-4, published by zu Klampen Verlag, Spring 2005
Azerbaijanis erased Armenian inscriptions on the church ’ s walls, which led to by an official complaint by Norwegian foreign ministry.
Calmy-Rey speaks to United States President Barack Obama, along with Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers.
This event ushered the Golden Age of Armenia, during which many foreign books and manuscripts were translated to Armenian by Mesrop's pupils.
* April 16-Prague Process between Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministries is started.
Educated by the brothers Garsevanishvili and a Roman Catholic mission, he was fluent in six foreign languages, particularly in Greek, Latin, French, Turkish, Russian and Armenian.
However, Armenian colophons from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries and foreign travelers of the time indicate that Armenians were indeed not spared from the devşirme.
For the basis of the work, he took chants sung by the eldest priests and upgraded it with typical (" cleaned " of foreign influences ) Armenian music elements from his collected material.
Azerbaijan has charged this as a contradictory foreign policy of the United States in supporting the NKR government and Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan.
This channel, known as CyBC Radio Two, transmits programmes in various languages on a 24-hour basis: in Turkish for the Turkish Cypriots ( 06. 00-17. 00 ), in Armenian for the Armenians ( 17. 00-18. 00 ) and English for foreign visitors and permanent non-Greek-speaking residents ( 18. 00-06. 00 ).
It also served as a focus for Armenian nationalism and culture, since Armenia proper was under foreign occupation at the time.
The language preserves forms found only in Classical and Middle Armenian, and at the same time preserves foreign ( especially Arab and Turkish ) grammatical and lexical components that were stripped from modern Armenian during the twentieth century.
Although the vast majority of the Armenian nobility was of Armenian origin, the historical sources still mention quite significant foreign influxes into the aristocratic class.
Many Armenian aristocratic families perished during wars with foreign invaders, notably Arabs and Turks.
Armenian and aid
The notoriously corrupt Armenian State Revenue Committee ( housing both the Armenian Customs Service and the Armenian Tax Service ) helps maintain import monopolies as well as aid tax evasion.
Barton herself traveled along with five other Red Cross expeditions to the Armenian provinces in the spring of 1896, providing relief and humanitarian aid.
In A. D. 286, however, the celebrated Diocletian resumed hostilities with Persia, and marched into Persian territory in aid of the Armenian prince Tiridates who was in rebellion against Persia.
However, during their absence Sempad usurped the Armenian throne with the aid of Constantine III of Armenia.
In 1163 Constance asked the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia for aid in order to maintain her rule ; the citizens of Antioch then rioted and exiled her.
In 1163 Constance asked the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia for aid in order to maintain her rule ; the citizens of Antioch then rioted and exiled her.
Following on through the Armenian highlands he clashed with the Ayyubids, capturing the town Ahlat along the western shores of the Lake Van, who sought the aid of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm.
Most Western languages ( certainly those based on the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian alphabets, and Coptic alphabets ) use multiple letter-cases in their written form as an aid to clarity.
In chapter 299, the Armenian prince, Vasil, who was in the Roman Army, sent a platoon of Padzinags ( they had settled in the city of Misis, around modern Adana, which is far away from the lands where Pechenegs were then mainly living ) to the aid of the Christians.
With the aid of Hellenic settlements in Syria and support of about 6, 000 cavalry from Artavasdes, the Armenian king, Crassus marched on Parthia.
Later, speaking to reporters, Werfel elaborated: " The struggle of 5, 000 people on Musa Dagh had so fascinated me that I wished to aid the Armenian people by writing about it and bringing it to the world.
" As the massacres continued unabated, Morgenthau and several other Americans decided to form a public fund raising committee that would assist the Armenians, the Committee on Armenian Atrocities ( later renamed the Near East Relief ), raising over $ 100 million in aid, the equivalent of $ 1 billion today.
In 1130 Bohemond II of Antioch was killed in a battle with Gazi Gümüshtigin, after coming to the aid of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, which Gümüshtigin had invaded.
It was with the aid of the Armenian diaspora that the building was purchased.
In 1507 Matthew ( or Matheus ) an Armenian, had been sent as Ethiopian envoy to Portugal to ask aid against Adal.
The crusaders, for their part, duly appreciated the aid of their Armenian allies: Constantin was honored with the titles of Comes and Baron.
Rome decided not to aid their Armenian allies, only nominally demanding that Pharasmanes withdraw from Armenia.
According to Strabo and Plutarch, Artashes also founded the Armenian capital Artashat ( Artaxata ) with the aid of the Carthaginian general Hannibal who was being sheltered from the Romans within Artashesians ' court.
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