The official opening of the Made in Armenia Expo 2002 took place in the Glendale Civic Auditorium September 27 to 29. Armenian Trade and Economic Development Minister Karen Chshmaritian inaugurated the annual exhibit–organized jointly by the Armenian American Chamber of Commerce–and the Armenian Development Agency.
Over 1,600 people from the greater LA Armenian community visited the [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–President Robert Kocharian denied on Monday his Azerbaijani counterpart Heydar Aliev’s claims that the two leaders discussed the possibility of lifting Azerbaijan’s blockade of Armenia in exchange for a partial return of occupied Azerbaijani territories.
Kocharian’s press secretary–Vahe Gabrielian–said Aliev only "slightly hinted" at the idea–opposed by the Armenian side–during their face-to-face meeting at the [...]

BAKU (Reuters)–Azeri President Haydar Aliyev said on Saturday Armenia had rejected his proposal to end the lengthy dispute over the Nagorno-Karabagh enclave by restoring a blocked rail link in exchange for lost Azeri territory.
Aliyev told a group mediating in the dispute between the two former Soviet states–he had made the proposal at a meeting last [...]

Last Friday an unprecedented fundraising took place for the construction of the Pasadena Armenian community church. The crowd raised $650,000–of which $200,000 was donated by Sarkis Kitsinian–in the memory of his parents Arshavir and Araxi.
Guests included Bishop Moushegh Mardirossian–Prelacy Executive Council members–Board of Trustees and members of the Pasadena Church as well as the other [...]

BAKU (Armenpress)–Some 100 activists of an organization called Liberation of Karabakh picketed the Baku offices of the OSCE last Friday. Local Turan news agency reported that the demonstrators accused the Minsk group co-chairmen of holding a pro-Armenian bias. Chanting ‘Karabakh or death,’ they lowered the OSCE flag outside the offices and set it to fire [...]

UAF’s Maral Chalian and Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry’s Dr. Frieda Jordan are honored by State Senator Jack Scott at 2002 Women in Business Luncheon and Awards Ceremony BURBANK–CA–On September 20–2002 at the Annual Women in Business Luncheon and Awards Ceremony held at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center–over twenty-five exceptional women were honored for [...]

STRASBOURG (Armenpress)–During yesterday’s plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE)–the reports of the PACE monitoring group discussed Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s fulfillment of commitmen’s before the Council of Europe.
According to Hovhannes Hovhannissian–the leader of the Armenian delegation in PACE–all suggestions of the Armenian side were included in the report and approved during [...]

Since September 11th–the Turkish Government has linked its cooperation in the US-led war on terrorism to major political and economic concessions from the United States. Turkey’s latest tactic is to extract trade benefits valued at hundreds of millions of dollars–at the expense of American workers–farmers–and taxpayers.
As early as next week–the US Senate Finance Committee and [...]

STEPANAKERT (Armenpress)–After yesterday’s meeting with OSCE Minsk group co-chairmen–the president of Nagorno Karabagh Arkady Ghoukassian said that the negotiation process is unfortunately not developing actively. At the same time he stressed preparedness for the day when negotiations do resume.
Ghoukassian said that Stepanakert has approaches to the present phase of the settlement process–the details of which [...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress)–Armenian President Robert Kocharian met on Friday with a delegation led by the governor of Russia’s Saratov province–Dmitry Ayatskov.
The President’s press office reported that Kocharian generally welcomed establishing economic ties with separate provinces of Russia–and was confident that the meeting would be productive.
In his words: "the visit will present the opportunity to determine the [...]

The financial committee of the ARF-CC Western Region organized a gathering over dinner–during which a fundraising took place. In support of the CC’s undertakings–$85,000 was raised. The event took place at ‘Alcazar’ restaurant in the Valley.
The chairman of the CC–Hovig Saliba greeted more than a hundred invited guests–members and supporters of the ARF–and thanked them [...]