Around the World

Staff Report

¥     United Armenian Fund 100th Airlift Celebration
¥     House Maintains Section 907 – By a vote of 231 to 182, the House of Representatives maintained a ban on US aid to Azerbaijan
¥     Chinese mining company intends to invest $400 million in Armenia
¥     Armenia marks seventh year of independence
¥     Turkey gives permission for election of the Armenian Apostolic Patriarch of Turkey
¥     Multi-national companies not finding much oil in Azerbajian
¥     Yerevan celebrates its 2,780th Anniversary in October
¥     The Central Committee of the Tekeyan Cultural Association of Armenia awards Baroness Caroline Cox, vice speaker of the British House of Lords, the annual ÒGolden AraratÓ medal for her continued humanitarian aid to Karabagh
¥     Goris-Stepanakert Highway Inaugurated
¥     Council of Europe will send human rights team to Turkey