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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03YEREVAN1214 |
GOAM WELCOMES MOVE TO TIER II ON TIP REPORT [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE TREAT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (U) POLOFFS DELIVERED COPIES OF THE 2003 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT TO MFA HUMAN RIGHTS DESK OFFICER AND ACTING INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS HEAD (MULTILATERAL AFFAIRS DIRECTOR), KARINE SOUDJIAN, JUNE 12 PER INSTRUCTIONS IN [...] |
2003-06-13 15:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV AM KTIP |
| 03YEREVAN2803 |
GOAM OFFERS CONDOLENCES TO TURKEY AFTER ISTANBUL [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador John Ordway for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary: The GOAM responded to the November 20 terrorist attacks in Istanbul with a public statement of condemnation, followed by a telephone call by Armenian FM Oskanian to Turkish FM Gul on November 22. The att [...] |
2003-11-24 11:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AM |
| 03YEREVAN2806 |
ARMENIA: ONLY CONCERN IS GEORGIA'S STABILITY [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador John Ordway. Reasons: 1.5 (B)&(D). 2. (C) Summary. Following the resignation of Georgian President Shevardnadze, the Armenian leadership and government officials have maintained an official line that the stability of their neighbor is Armenia's paramount conce [...] |
2003-11-24 14:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM GG |
| 03YEREVAN2826 |
ARMENIA CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR U.S. CANDIDATE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Armenian MFA United Nations Division Chief Artak Apitonian confirmed on November 25 that the GOAM would support U.S. candidate Felice Gaer for the United Nations Committee Against Torture. A [...] |
2003-11-26 09:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM UNHCR |
| 03YEREVAN2828 |
ARMENIA ON MIDDLE EAST ACTIONS AT UNGA [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) In response to reftel demarche request, Armenian MFA United Nations Division Chief Artak Apitonian told us November 26 that Armenia would likely abstain from the December 2 vote on the propo [...] |
2003-11-26 11:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAL PREL IS AM UNSC UNGA |
| 03YEREVAN2853 |
COE SKEPTICAL NEW OMBUDSMAN LAW MEETS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Under substantial pressure from the Council of Europe, the Armenian National Assembly (NA) voted September 9 to create the position of Human Rights Ombudsman to oversee the human rights situat [...] |
2003-11-28 12:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM |
| 03YEREVAN2883 |
SEVENTH ANNUAL STRATEGIC DIALOGUE HELD IN YEREVAN [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador John Ordway for reasons 1.4 (b&d). 2. (C) Summary. The seventh US-Armenian Strategic Dialogue took place in Yerevan November 20. The sides discussed regional security, defense cooperation, and cooperation on counter-terrorism. The delegation heads, EUR DAS Ly [...] |
2003-12-02 05:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | AJ AM GG MARR PARM PGOV PREL PTER TU |
| 03YEREVAN2891 |
Yerevan's commemoration of World AIDS Day [...] SUMMARY: Per reftels, Yerevan participated in several activities focused on raising AIDS awareness in Armenia, including an online chat, the launching of a website and an information seminar on the facts about HIV/AIDS. END SUMMARY. 2. On December 1, Ambassador Ordway kicked off an onlin [...] |
2003-12-02 09:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV EAID KPAO SOCI TBIO KSCA AM |
| 03YEREVAN2903 |
ARMENIAN STUDENTS DISCUSS GEORGIA, POLITICS, [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) PAS invited 11 students from the political science department of Yerevan State University to the Embassy November 26 to discuss their perceptions of the 'velvet revolution' in neighboring Georgi [...] |
2003-12-02 13:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
| 03YEREVAN2948 |
UNGA VOTE ON HUMAN CLONING [...] (SBU) Per reftel, we delivered demarche to the GOAM Ministry of Foreign Affairs urging their support for Costa Rica's resolution calling for an international instrument to ban all forms of human cloning. The United Nations Desk Officer said that he could not say today how Armenia would vote, [...] |
2003-12-08 13:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AM UNGA KSCI |
| 03YEREVAN2970 |
1999 PARLIAMENTARY ATTACKERS SENTENCED [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Concluding a nearly three-year trial, a Yerevan district court handed down six life sentences and one 14-year prison term December 2 to the defendants convicted of carrying out the October 199 [...] |
2003-12-08 13:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
| 03YEREVAN2975 |
TYCOONS RELOADED: WHO CONTROLS WHAT IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) The following is our informal guide to who owns what in Armenia, with the caveat that some of the information is based on rumor and speculation. ----------- MULTI GROUP ----------- 3. (SBU) The Multi Group is h [...] |
2003-12-09 09:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
| 03YEREVAN2992 |
(IMI) ARMENIA: REPORT ON KOTAYK PROVINCE [...] On October 6-9, 2003, Embassy's BISNIS representative visited the Armenian province of Kotayk to explore investment and trade opportunities for U.S. companies and to expand U.S.-Armenian commercial ties. He met with the province's business leaders and government officials. This is another in [...] |
2003-12-12 06:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
| 03YEREVAN2995 |
NEW LAW ON DRAFT EVADERS: AMNESTY THROUGH [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly (NA) unanimously passed a bill on "Citizens Who Evaded Compulsory Military Service" in its second reading December 1. The measure allows citizens over the age [...] |
2003-12-12 11:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM |
| 03YEREVAN3029 |
ARMENIA ON UNGA CREDENTIALS RESOLUTION [...] Ambassador delivered demarche and talking points regarding the UNGA resolution on Palestinian representation to Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian December 17 per reftel instructions. Oskanian recognized the importance of the resolution to the USG and said Armenia would at a minimum abstain on [...] |
2003-12-18 04:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KPAL PREL AM UNGA |
| 03YEREVAN3032 |
GOAM SIGNALS AGREEMENT FOR DEPLOYMENT OF TRUCK [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs notified the Embassy by diplomatic note that the GOAM had agreed to the deployment of cargo-carrying trucks to stability operations in Iraq. Foreign Minister Oskanyan confirmed to the Ambassador that the Ministry of Defense was in the process of c [...] |
2003-12-18 12:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS AM |
| 03YEREVAN3034 |
OSKANYAN-GUL MEETING RAISES HOPES OF LIMITED [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Oskanyan told Ambassador that Turkish Foreign Minister Gul had indicated to him in a December 5 meeting that Turkey would open its border with Armenia to the two country's diplomatic passport holders as early as January 2004. The two foreign ministers also discu [...] |
2003-12-18 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM AJ TU |
| 03YEREVAN3070 |
NEW REGISTRATION PROCEDURE TRIMS NUMBER OF [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly - not for internet distribution. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Half the previous number of political parties will operate in Armenia following the implementation of new legislation requiring a one- time re-registration with t [...] |
2003-12-24 08:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
| 03YEREVAN3079 |
PARLIAMENT PASSES THE 2004 STATE BUDGET [...] The National Assembly passed the final 2004 State Budget during a December 25 extraordinary session. Following rigorous parliamentary lobbying that resulted in AMD 5.5 billion (USD 9.8 million) in additional spending over the initial draft, the budget passed by a vote of ninety-six to six (wi [...] |
2003-12-29 13:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON AM |
| 03YEREVAN3087 |
HOMOSEXUALS REPORT MINOR IMPROVEMENTS IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Despite new legislation that de-criminalized homosexuality in Armenia, societal discrimination remained an obstacle for homosexuals in 2003. Members of the homosexual community told Emboffs D [...] |
2003-12-30 10:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM |
| 03YEREVAN3091 |
GOAM REJECTS A1+ BROADCAST TENDER APPLICATION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Armenia's Radio and Television National Commission announced December 30 that it would reject the bid of the A1+ media group for the last available television frequency. The announcement marked the seventh time since 20 [...] |
2003-12-30 12:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1002 |
MFA PRESENTS FACT SHEET ON ARMENIA-NATO COOPERATION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Head of the NATO Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hrachia Tashchian, presented us with the Ministry's "Fact Sheet on Cooperation of Armenia with NATO and its Participation in the Partnership for Peace Progr [...] |
2004-04-29 12:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1010 |
PARLIAMENT ADOPTS LAW ON RALLIES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly passed the controversial "Law on the Procedure of Staging Meetings, Rallies, Marches and Demonstrations" (Law on Rallies) in its third and final reading April 2 [...] |
2004-04-30 10:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1066 |
IMI (ARMENIA): U.S. COMPANIES IN ARMENIA [...] No summary [...] |
2004-05-04 06:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
| 04YEREVAN1088 |
ARMENIAN OPPOSITION HALTS PROTESTS, AWAITS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Armenian opposition announced a 10-day suspension in its protests against the presidency of Robert Kocharian to give the government time to comply with PACE Resolution 1374. Opposition le [...] |
2004-05-05 13:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1089 |
NO PROGRESS IN INVESTIGATION OF HIGH-PROFILE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) At his May 4 press conference Procurator General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepian admitted that they had as yet made no significant progress in the investigation of several high-profile cases of violence against [...] |
2004-05-05 13:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1107 |
POLICE AND EDUCATORS JOIN FORCES IN ARMENIAN [...] SUMMARY. Project Harmony implemented an INL funded legal socialization project that has helped to build bridges between Armenian students, educators and law enforcement officials. The "ZANG" project brought together secondary teachers and policemen to create off- line and on-line curricula o [...] |
2004-05-07 12:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1109 |
REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: ARMENIAN MEDIA [...] SUMMARY: Armenian mass media widely covered the recent developments in Ajaria and Georgia and paid special attention to the resignation of Ajaria's leader, Aslan Abashidze. The press outlined the importance of the recent political developments for their possible impact on Armenia and on the [...] |
2004-05-07 13:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN1115 |
DEMARCHES DELIVERED: SOLICITING ASSISTANCE FOR IRAQ [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On May 7, 2004 we discussed talking points in refs A and B with America's desk officer Lilit Toutkhalian. She replied that she would look into whether Armenia had any appropriate people to send to the workshops, and indi [...] |
2004-05-10 07:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KSCA SENV TSPL IZ AM |
| 04YEREVAN1119 |
"CELEBRATION" OF WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY IN [...] SUMMARY: Competing media organizations sponsored several events on Monday, May 3, in observance of World Press Freedom Day. Generally critical of the government of Armenia, the events also revealed a certain amount of intramural hard feelings in the world of Armenian journalism. The U.S. Em [...] |
2004-05-10 09:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN1125 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ESTABLISHING US MISSION BAGHDAD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On May 8, 2004 we discussed talking points in refs A and B with America's desk officer Lilit Toutkhalian. She noted that Armenia currently had no plans to have diplomatic representation in Iraq. ORDWAY [...] |
2004-05-11 07:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AMGT MOPS IZ AM |
| 04YEREVAN1147 |
DIALOGUE CONTINUES BETWEEN OPPOSITION AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Negotiations between Armenia's governing coalition and its political opponents have brought a temporary lull to their month-long political confrontation. Talks between leaders of the three pro- Kocha [...] |
2004-05-14 12:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1148 |
TWO MEN DETAINED ON CHARGES OF ATTACKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Office of the Procurator General (PG) announced May 12 that they had identified and officially charged two men for attacking journalists during an opposition rally on April 5. An assaulted journa [...] |
2004-05-14 12:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1178 |
NOMINATION FOR HRDF: CIVIC ACCOUNTABILITY [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post nominates the program "Police and Regional Prison Monitoring" for the Human Rights and Democracy Fund, FY04. This program capitalizes on a stated GOAM willingness to allow monitoring of [...] |
2004-05-20 01:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM AM |
| 04YEREVAN1179 |
SPRING 2004 DIASPORA ROUNDTABLE FOCUSES ON [...] The May 5-7 meetings of the Ambassador's Diaspora Roundtable held in Yerevan focused on encouraging private investment in Armenia and increasing partnership between Diaspora-based groups and the USG with ongoing assistance projects. Thirty-seven prominent Armenian-Americans representing the e [...] |
2004-05-20 02:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1190 |
PREVENTIVE DETENTIONS A MAJOR SETBACK ON THE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian police rounded up and questioned more than 25 opposition activists around the country on the eve of the planned May 21 opposition rally in Yerevan. According to opposition sources and media re [...] |
2004-05-21 10:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1192 |
ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE TO U.S. [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------ DEMARCHE DELIVERED ------------------ 2. (SBU) On May 4, we presented talking points per reftel regarding the U.S. Senate approval of the US-IAEA Additional protocol. Ashot Martirosyan, Head of the Armenian [...] |
2004-05-21 10:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY KNNP AM IAEA |
| 04YEREVAN1194 |
MCA: THE VIEW FROM YEREVAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------------------------ PROGRESS IN RECENT YEARS ------------------------ 2. (SBU) Over the past 12 years since independence Armenia has moved from a state of open conflict with one of its neighbors to a stable, if occasionally [...] |
2004-05-21 12:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN1207 |
MAY 21 OPPOSITION RALLY CALM, NO NEW [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. --------------------- LARGE RALLY, BUT CALM --------------------- 2. (SBU) Despite concerns raised by the May 20 preventive detentions (reftel), the May 21 opposition rally attracted roughly 12,000-15,000 participants, proceede [...] |
2004-05-25 06:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN1208 |
REVIEW OF UNICEF IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post applauds UNICEF's efforts in partnering with many agencies in Armenia to improve the capacity of government agencies working with socially disadvantaged children, and to advocate on behal [...] |
2004-05-25 06:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON AM AID |
| 04YEREVAN1238 |
KOCHARIAN DISCUSSES REFORMS, ARMENIA'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) EUR/ACE Ambassador Carlos Pascual, accompanied by the Ambassador, met with President Robert Kocharian May 18 following the meetings of the U.S.-Armenia Task Force on Economic Cooperation (USATF). The meeting focused on the potential role for Armenia as an example of progress and freedom [...] |
2004-05-27 10:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID |
| 04YEREVAN1239 |
REVIEW OF UNDP PROGRAM IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) UNDP provides a valuable service to Armenia and supports U.S. goals. UNDP's current country program and goal statements are based on realistic assessments of Armenia's needs and reflect a kno [...] |
2004-05-27 12:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON AORC AM UNDP |
| 04YEREVAN1240 |
IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE: DEAL SIGNED ON FUTURE SWAP [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On May 19, 2004, Garnik Badalian, Head of the Iran desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, briefed us about a recent agreement on the Iran - Armenia pipeline. Badalian said that o [...] |
2004-05-27 12:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET AM |
| 04YEREVAN1254 |
RIVAL POLITICAL CAMPS UNITE OVER CHESSBOARD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The current National Assembly (NA) marked its first anniversary May 26 with a chess tournament featuring international grandmaster Smbat Lputyan who played against 14 MPs and NA staffers. Each [...] |
2004-06-01 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1255 |
DECIPHERING THE ARMENIAN-AMERICAN DIASPORA [...] (SBU) The Armenian-American Diaspora continues to wield considerable influence upon the foreign and domestic policies of the Government of Armenia. This influence ranges from the obvious connection of U.S.-born and/or trained GOAM officials, the influence of private and public U.S. assistance [...] |
2004-06-01 12:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1268 |
ARMENIA'S ALTERNATIVE MILITARY SERVICE LAW: [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The GOAM has not drafted implementating regulations for its alternative military service legislation, which went into effect June 1. The GOAM delayed creating the regulations because the law [...] |
2004-06-03 12:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1287 |
BUSINESS AS NOT-SO-USUAL IN ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly . ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) More than one year into the legislative season, a boycotting opposition, spotty attendance by pro-government deputies, continued political saber-rattling between parties and even occasional f [...] |
2004-06-04 12:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1290 |
ARMENIA WELCOMES ESTABLISHMENT OF THE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche June 2. In comments later that same day, Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gamlet Gasparyan noted: " We welcome the formation of Iraq's interim government, which will undertake its responsi [...] |
2004-06-07 09:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IZ AM |
| 04YEREVAN1293 |
KOCHARIAN ESTABLISHES MCA BOARD, DISCUSSES COMPACT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The GOAM has formed a Board of Trustees under the authority of the Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan with Chief Economic Adviser of the President of the Republic of Armenia Vahram Nercissiantz a [...] |
2004-06-07 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1298 |
AMBASSADOR INAUGURATES FIRST COMMUNITY SELF-HELP [...] (U) Ambassador Ordway, accompanied by regional GOAM representatives and local press, inaugurated the newly completed Noyemberyan Sport School facility June 2 in Armenia's northeastern Tavush region. The ceremony marked the completion of the first project sponsored by the USG's "Community Self [...] |
2004-06-08 11:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON AM |
| 04YEREVAN1336 |
FRACTURED OPPOSITION ADMITS FAILURE TO GARNER [...] (SBU) Faced with dismal rally attendance, Armenian opposition leaders made announcements June 5 acknowledging their failure to receive sufficient popular support for "decisive actions" aimed at ousting President Kocharian. Instead of launching a promised "permanent" protest action, the June 4 [...] |
2004-06-14 11:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1337 |
AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CITIZEN CONCERNS IN ARMENIA'S [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Ordway discussed USG assistance programs and current events with Armenians living in the southern province of Syunik during a town hall meeting June 8 in the provincial capital of Kapan. The meeting was part of a broader schedule of USG assistance site visits and poli [...] |
2004-06-14 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1339 |
MFA INITIAL RESPONSE TO 2004 TIP REPORT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered TIP report language and accompanying fact sheet and press release information to Special Advisor Salpi Ghazarian and Human Rights Desk Officer Karine Soudjian June 14 per reftel instructions. Both reported th [...] |
2004-06-14 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1341 |
FURTHER DELAYS FOR AMENDMENTS TO ALTERNATIVE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) This message updates reftel. A National Assembly committee expert who worked on Armenia's alternative military service law previously informed Post that amendments to the law on alternative military service would be com [...] |
2004-06-15 11:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1342 |
REPUBLICAN-BACKED PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE RUNS [...] (SBU) Vahe Hakobian, parliamentary candidate endorsed by Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan's Republican Party, ran unopposed during parliamentary by- elections in the southern province of Syunik on June 13. According to preliminary figures announced by the Territorial Election Commission, Ha [...] |
2004-06-15 11:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1343 |
ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JUNE 15, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. --------------------------------------------- ------- GOAM MCA BOARD CONVENES FIRST "CONSULTATIVE" MEETING --------------------------------------------- ------- 2. (U) Minister of Finance and Economy Vardan Khachatryan hosted th [...] |
2004-06-15 12:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1344 |
ARMENIA: 2004 - 2005 ANTI-TRAFFICKING STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. While the formation of the Government's Interagency Commission to Address Issues related to Human Trafficking was encouraging, lack of a Commission Head for several months last year significantly slowed down the Government's response to TIP. As reported reftel, the Commission [...] |
2004-06-15 12:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM ELAB KWMN SMIG PGOV PREL UZ AM |
| 04YEREVAN1345 |
Armenian-Azeri border clash [...] (C) Following receipt of reftel, DAO assistant spoke with the CHOD, Gen-Lt. Haratunyan, and Ambassador spoke to Ambassador Kasprzyk and Acting Foreign Minister Shugarian. The CHOD claimed that the Azeri side had initiated the outbreak of hostile action a week ago, and then on the night of Ju [...] |
2004-06-15 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MOPS AM AJ |
| 04YEREVAN1352 |
RELATIONS WITH TURKEY BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The last-minute decision by the Turkish delegation not to attend a conference on regional archaeological and tourism issues, a report in the Armenian press regarding visa regimes and a widely ci [...] |
2004-06-17 12:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1359 |
OPPOSITION ANNOUNCES END TO "HOT SPRING" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Leaders of the Armenian opposition Justice bloc and National Accord Party officially announced June 16 the end of the much-touted "hot spring" anti- Kocharian campaign. While some opposition [...] |
2004-06-18 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1369 |
REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered Ambassador John Ordway's press conference held on June 17. Almost all TV and newspaper reports were accurate and factual. The majority of the newspapers quoted the Ambassador without any comments. All the newspapers noted that there will be the final p [...] |
2004-06-21 08:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN1379 |
CIVAIR: ARMENIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. IN ICAO [...] Per reftel we delivered talking points to Karen Zadoyan, Director of International Relations, Civil Aviation department on June 21, 2004. Zadoyan said that he was confident that Armenia would support the United States for the ICAO Part I elections. He added that he had received requests fro [...] |
2004-06-22 06:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON AM |
| 04YEREVAN1411 |
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE PUTS GOAM ON THE HUNT FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) President Kocharian signed a decree June 1, stating the GOAM's intent to free five million dollars from the GOAM budget over the next two years for refugee housing assistance and authorizing t [...] |
2004-06-24 09:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID AM PMR |
| 04YEREVAN143 |
ARMENIA CONFIRMS STRONG SUPPORT FOR AUSTRALIA'S [...] No summary [...] |
2004-01-16 07:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1439 |
YEREVAN REACTION TO KOCHARIAN'S JUNE 24 COUNCIL OF [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Local media reaction was mostly positive in Yerevan following President Robert Kocharian's June 24 address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The address, which was c [...] |
2004-06-25 12:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1453 |
ARMENIA RELUCTANT TO DISSOLVE ARMENERGO: RIGHTFULLY [...] (SBU) An IMF conditionality and commitments to other donors, including the United States (as part of the USATF action plan), oblige the Government of Armenia to eliminate by July 31 ArmEnergo, a state-owned enterprise that is the single buyer of midstream electricity. Once ArmEnergo is elimin [...] |
2004-06-29 10:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG AM |
| 04YEREVAN1456 |
ARMENIA SEEKS TO END ARMENTEL MONOPOLY [...] (SBU) In eleventh-hour negotiations to reach an agreement in the Armentel dispute, Minister of Justice David Harutiunian agreed to put off the June 30 deadline for reaching a settlement until September 28, 2004. Despite the extension, the government's threat still stands: If the sides do not [...] |
2004-06-29 11:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS KPRV EINV EFIN BEXP AM |
| 04YEREVAN1473 |
ARMENIA: SURPRISINGLY LITTLE TRADE WITH IRAN [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Despite Armenia's geographic isolation and closed borders, trade with its southern neighbor Iran remains surprisingly small. While the April 12-13 meeting between Armenian Foreign Minister V [...] |
2004-06-30 12:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAIR ETRD AM |
| 04YEREVAN1490 |
INVITATION TO THE G8 GLOBAL PARTNERS WORKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Post delivered reftel invitation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vartan Oskanian on July 1, 2004. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will confirm attendance with Post and supply the requested passport information, and [...] |
2004-07-01 10:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL AM KACP |
| 04YEREVAN1507 |
ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JULY 2, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. -------------------------------- GOAM MCA BOARD MEETINGS CONTINUE -------------------------------- 2. (SBU) GOAM sources tell us that the GOAM MCA Board has met a total of seven times to date. This number, however, includes fi [...] |
2004-07-02 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1516 |
ARMENIAN TENTATIVE ACCEPTANCE OF INVITATION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The GOAM Foreign Ministry has tentatively accepted the invitation to the G8 Global Partners Working Group to be held in Paris on July 12 (reftel), and supplied the participant's information as requested. 3. (SBU) The [...] |
2004-07-07 12:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL AM KACP |
| 04YEREVAN1520 |
CONGRATULATORY LETTER FROM PRESIDENT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitted a letter from President Robert Kocharian to President Bush congratulating him on the occasion of the 228th anniversary of the independence of the United States. 3. (SBU) The [...] |
2004-07-07 12:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1523 |
PRESIDENT OF IRAN TO VISIT ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Armenian President Robert Kocharian announced June 24 that Iranian President (Ali) Mohammad Khatami-Ardakani would visit Armenia this September. According to the announcement, Khatami will be the first Iranian head of s [...] |
2004-07-07 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IR AM |
| 04YEREVAN1531 |
ARMENIA COMMITTED TO RATIFY ARTICLE 98 IN FALL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Oskanian July 8. Oskanian assured the Ambassador that Article 98 ratification would be on the National Assembly's agenda when it returned from recess this fall. O [...] |
2004-07-09 10:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AM KICC |
| 04YEREVAN1532 |
AMBASSADOR DELIVERS CFE POINTS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-07-09 10:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PARM KCFE PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1537 |
AMBASSADOR BRIEFS FOREIGN MINISTER ON GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] |
2004-07-09 13:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | MARR PREL KPAO AM NATO |
| 04YEREVAN1556 |
GOAM'S MCA MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTATIVE PROCESS IN [...] (U) Ministry of Finance and Economy officials tell us that the consultative process in advance of the GOAM's upcoming MCA compact proposal submission has moved to the country's regions and is on schedule. The GOAM has begun compiling a matrix of all concept papers and/or comments received fro [...] |
2004-07-13 10:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN158 |
GOAM UNVEILS ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY WITH [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Markarian unveiled the GOAM's first anti-corruption strategy Jaunary 16 during a public hearing that included an impressive array of ministers, legislators and [...] |
2004-01-16 12:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1589 |
ARMENIA: ACTION REQUEST ON CUBA TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] |
2004-07-16 10:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CU AM UNGA |
| 04YEREVAN1624 |
KOCHARIAN AND MINISTERS PLAN FIRST STATE VISIT TO [...] (SBU) MFA sources confirmed July 20 that Armenian President Robert Kocharian would travel to China September 26-30. The GOAM had not yet made this information public but will likely announce it to the press July 21 or 22. Several GOAM Foreign Ministers have traveled to China in the past as pa [...] |
2004-07-21 12:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CH AM |
| 04YEREVAN1628 |
GOAM INDICATES IT MAY VOTE NO ON CUBA RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2004-07-22 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CU AM UNGA |
| 04YEREVAN1639 |
59TH UNGA -- ARMENIA'S MOSTLY FAVORABLE RESPONSE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on USG initiatives at the 59th UNGA to MFA International Organizations Acting Division Chief Artak Apitonian July 20. Apitonian predicted that the GOAM would supp [...] |
2004-07-23 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PHUM KDEM AORC UNGA UN |
| 04YEREVAN1641 |
MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JULY 26, 2004 [...] (U) The GOAM has indicated that it may be ready to present its MCA compact proposal to the GOAM's MCA Board by September 1, and to follow this with a consultative process that we understand will include the donor community here. A recent consultative session in Armenia's Syunik region was a f [...] |
2004-07-26 09:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1648 |
PUBLIC DEBATE MARKS FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Both supporters and critics of the ruling parliamentary coalition in Armenia's National Assembly took advantage of its one-year anniversary to stage public debates on its effectiveness and pro [...] |
2004-07-26 12:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN165 |
MFA ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT ISTANBUL-YEREVAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) MFA officials told us recently that they consider the weekly Yerevan-Istanbul flights an important part of efforts to improve relations between the two countries. MFA Turkey Desk Officer Anahi [...] |
2004-01-20 12:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM TU AM |
| 04YEREVAN1651 |
CENTRAL BANK, MINISTRIES SCRAMBLE TO KEEP THE [...] (SBU) As the Central Bank of Armenia's (CBA) Chairman Tigran Sargsyan left for his summer holiday July 19, a sharp and unexpected appreciation of the Armenian Dram (AMD) against the dollar and euro caused uncertainty and suspicion in Armenia's currency markets. With rare volatility, the dram [...] |
2004-07-26 12:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AM RU |
| 04YEREVAN1662 |
ARMENIA TRIES TO SQUEEZE VALUE FROM DIAMONDS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) While constituting only 5 percent of GDP, Armenia's rapidly expanding diamond cutting industry attracts both strong domestic attention and significant foreign investment. Precious and simple to [...] |
2004-07-28 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EIND AM RU |
| 04YEREVAN1665 |
LETTER FROM THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ----------------------- TEXT OF LETTER FROM MOJ ----------------------- 2. (SBU) The Minister of Justice Davit Harytyunyan's staff transmitted the following letter to the Embassy July 28, noting that it had also been sent to th [...] |
2004-07-29 12:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN1678 |
PARTY PRIMER: TOP ARMENIAN POLITICAL [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) With 64 registered political parties (as of July 30, 2004) voters in Armenia suffer no lack of choice. The following parties are represented within the National Assembly (NA): the Republican [...] |
2004-07-30 08:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1707 |
TERRORIST FINANCE: YEREVAN: PKK/KADEK [...] No summary [...] |
2004-08-02 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC TU AM |
| 04YEREVAN171 |
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS TO ARMENIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Armenia, local NGOs and international organizations working in Armenia largely acknowledge that Armenia has a problem with trafficking in persons. To date, Armenia has been discussed primarily as a country of origin and transit for trafficking victims. A re [...] |
2004-01-21 04:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AM KCRM SNAR UZ |
| 04YEREVAN1745 |
ARMENIA'S BANKING SECTOR: IT NEEDS MORE THAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's Central Bank (CBA) has outlined a new reform program to strengthen the banking sector. But bank officials caution that legal and regulatory reforms al [...] |
2004-08-05 13:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1746 |
LOS ANGELES BANK FRAUD COMES HOME TO ARMENIA [...] (SBU) The U.S. Secret Service provided information on a large transfer of fraudulently obtained funds from a U.S. bank to bank accounts in Russia and Armenia. We sought GOAM assistance in freezing the account in Armenia and recovering the money already disbursed. Based on our intervention, A [...] |
2004-08-05 13:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS ASEC ECON EFIN AM |
| 04YEREVAN1749 |
ARMENIA SIGNS ON TO DEFENSE ASSESSMENT: [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. --------------------------------------------- -- MINISTER OF DEFENSE REQUESTS DEFENSE ASSESSMENT --------------------------------------------- -- 2. (SBU) Armenia formally requested a Defense Assessment in the following letter fr [...] |
2004-08-09 01:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PARM AM |
| 04YEREVAN1771 |
MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- AUGUST 9, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Various ministries, state agencies, NGOs, educational institutions, and individuals submitted a number of new MCA proposals as a result of the consultative process initiated by the Government [...] |
2004-08-09 12:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1773 |
TERRORIST FINANCE: YEREVAN: PKK/KADEK [...] No summary [...] |
2004-08-09 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC TU AM |
| 04YEREVAN1781 |
ARMENIAN INFLATION: CENTRAL BANK IN A CORNER [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. A rising tide of dollars in the economy is forcing Armenia's Central Bank to choose between an appreciated local currency or increased inflation. Although it is choosing to let the Dram rise, inflation neverth [...] |
2004-08-11 12:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AM |
| 04YEREVAN1789 |
CHARGE BRIEFS DFM ON GLOBAL DEFENSE POSTURE REVIEW [...] No summary [...] |
2004-08-13 10:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KPAO AM NATO |
| 04YEREVAN1792 |
CIVIL MONITORING BOARD BEGINS PRISON VISITS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In 2002, Armenia's National Assembly passed legislation creating a civilian board to monitor prison and police detention facilities and to subsequently issue a public report annually. The Civ [...] |
2004-08-13 10:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1800 |
GOAM RESPONSE ON PROPOSED GLOBAL THREAT REDUCTION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------ ARMENIANS ON BOARD ------------------ 2. (SBU) We presented ref A talking points regarding the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) to Armen Israelian, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Head of the Depar [...] |
2004-08-13 11:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY KNNP AORC AM IAEA |
| 04YEREVAN1801 |
CIVAIR: ICAO 35TH SESSION DEMARCHE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Armenia's Civil Aviation Department confirmed to us that Armenia would support the U.S. in the ICAO part I elections (refs A and B). Karen Zadoyan, Head of International Relations, GOAM Civil Aviation Department, alread [...] |
2004-08-13 11:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EAIR ECON AM ICAO |
| 04YEREVAN1813 |
ARMENIA'S TEST FOR NATO AND PFP: WILL THEY BE [...] (C) GOAM senior policy makers are looking to the upcoming Cooperation Best Effort 2004 (CBE04) Partnership for Peace (PfP) mid-September exercise in Azerbaijan as a test case for whether NATO, PfP members and the U.S. genuinely want to work with Armenia. Until the five Armenian military office [...] |
2004-08-16 11:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PM PGOV AM AJ |
| 04YEREVAN1815 |
COURT HALTS RATIFICATION OF ROME STATUTE -- [...] (C) Armenia still hopes to ratify the Article 98 Agreement when the National Assembly returns from recess in September. We pressed FM Oskanian to keep to this timetable, but he said that the Constitutional Court is now reviewing the agreement and may decide that it would be unlawful to ratif [...] |
2004-08-17 01:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1822 |
MINIKES IN YEREVAN: ENGAGE WITH THE OSCE [...] (SBU) In a series of intense meetings with nearly all of Armenia's top-level leaders, USOSCE Ambassador Stephan M. Minikes called for Armenia to engage with the OSCE to make sure the organization suits the country's needs, and not to carp from the sidelines, eroding OSCE basic principles. Mini [...] |
2004-08-18 08:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1837 |
LETTER FROM THE MFA ON ARMENIA'S CANDIDACY [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ----------------------- TEXT OF LETTER FROM MFA ----------------------- 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitted the following letter to the Embassy. The English- language text of the letter follows. Begin Text: [...] |
2004-08-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM UN |
| 04YEREVAN1838 |
ARMENIA CHILD LABOR REPORT: EXPLOITIVE CHILD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's constitution prohibits child labor, and the use of children in the workforce is very rare. The high demand for jobs, especially for unskilled workers, and the cultural premium on fa [...] |
2004-08-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI ECON ELAB AM |
| 04YEREVAN1854 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION [...] No summary [...] |
2004-08-20 12:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1862 |
AMBASSADOR EVANS PRESENTS COPIES OF HIS LETTERS OF [...] (SBU) Ambassador Evans presented copies of his letters of credence to Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian August 23. The Ambassador highlighted the strong U.S.-Armenia bilateral relationship, outlined U.S. policy objectives, and noted that new opportunities may exist in the South Caucas [...] |
2004-08-23 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN1878 |
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ----------------------------- JOURNALIST ALLEGEDLY ATTACKED ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) On August 24, two investigative journalists alleged that they had been threatened and one of them roughed up by unidentified me [...] |
2004-08-25 12:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1885 |
MODIFIED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS PACKAGE MOVES [...] (C) The three parties of the pro-government ruling coalition forwarded a package of proposed constitutional amendments to Armenia's National Assembly (NA) in mid-August for discussion and approval during the upcoming legislative session. This step was the latest in the continuing saga of Coun [...] |
2004-08-27 07:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1892 |
ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE -- AUGUST 27, 2004 [...] (SBU) GOAM Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Secretariat Coordinator Hovik Azizyan confirmed to us during SIPDIS an informal meeting August 25 that the GOAM had pushed back its planned proposal submission schedule. Azizyan said the change was necessary due to the large number of propo [...] |
2004-08-27 12:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KMCA EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN1893 |
NEW PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS SWORN IN BY NEW [...] SUMMARY: On August 23, the Ambassador swore in 51 new Peace Corps Volunteers for service in Armenia, the largest group since the program was established in 1992. Foreign Minister Oskanian, who attended the ceremony, spoke passionately about the high value of the program for Armenia and U.S [...] |
2004-08-27 12:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KPAO OPRC PREL AM KMRD |
| 04YEREVAN1899 |
ARMENIA'S OLIGARCHS: STAYING RICH ON FOOD, GAS, AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Trade in the most basic goods in the Armenian economy is controlled by a small number of oligarchs with strong ties to government. While it is considered common knowledge that oligarchs use p [...] |
2004-08-30 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EIND ETRD PGOV KCOR AM |
| 04YEREVAN1925 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR JOINS JOURNALIST TO MAKE [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOAM took the high road in response to a physical attack on an investigative journalist on August 24 (reftel). The alleged attacker was arrested while Armenia's Prosecutor General pressed charges. A senior advisor to President Kocharian joined journalists in a "protest" o [...] |
2004-08-31 12:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN1936 |
ARMENIA CONCERNED OVER US CUSTOMS ACTIONS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 8. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Six containers of clothing shipped from Armenia are being held by U.S. Customs (ref A). The containers hold clothing purportedly produced by two of Armenia's largest textile plants. U.S. Customs suspects [...] |
2004-09-01 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD AM |
| 04YEREVAN1938 |
LOCAL RESULTS NULLIFIED IN ELECTORAL DEJA VU [...] (SBU) Territorial Election Commission (TEC) officials declared the results from an August 29 parliamentary by-election invalid August 31 following widespread reports of violations and an unreliably thin margin of only 32 votes between the two candidates. Analysts viewed the election as an impo [...] |
2004-09-02 06:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN1940 |
ARMENIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED -- BATTLING GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] |
2004-09-02 10:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AM |
| 04YEREVAN1972 |
AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT [...] (C) On September 4, 2004, Ambassador Evans presented his letters of credence to President Robert Kocharian. The Ambassador conveyed warm best wishes from President Bush, and explained how U.S. goals for the South Caucasus -- enhancing security and stability, strengthening democratic institutio [...] |
2004-09-08 10:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KMCA ECON AM |
| 04YEREVAN2018 |
PRESIDENT SIGNS ON TO ARMENIAN-POLISH JOINT [...] (SBU) On September 6, Armenian President Robert Kocharian signed a security cooperation agreement with Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski which will lay the groundwork for the deployment to Iraq of 50 Armenian non-combat troops with Polish forces. George Kocharian, Head of the Military-P [...] |
2004-09-10 12:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
| 04YEREVAN2019 |
IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE: IRAN TO FINANCE PIPELINE [...] (SBU) During Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's visit to Yerevan September 8-9, the Armenian and Iranian governments signed a deal to finance the Armenia-Iran gas pipeline as far as Kajaran, 41 kilometers into Armenia. In May the governments had signed an agreement providing for the constru [...] |
2004-09-10 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET AM IR |
| 04YEREVAN2026 |
LETTER ROM THE MINISTER OF TRADE TO CUSTOMS [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitted the following letter to the Embassy September 13, 2004. The original English language text follows. BEGIN TEXT: 03/09/2004 Mr. Robert C. Bonner Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department of Homeland Security Government of [...] |
2004-09-14 09:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID ETRD AM |
| 04YEREVAN2054 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW IRAQ EXECUTIVE ORDER [...] No summary [...] |
2004-09-17 12:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | KTFN PREL PTER AM |
| 04YEREVAN2061 |
OFFICIAL VISIT OF PRESIDENT KHATAMI TO ARMENIA [...] (C) During Iranian President's Mohammad Khatami's visit to Yerevan, September 8-9, the Armenian and Iranian governments signed seven agreements including the agreements concerning the partial financing and construction of an Armenian-Iranian gas pipeline. The local press and the Armenian Minis [...] |
2004-09-17 13:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET AM IR |
| 04YEREVAN2062 |
ARMENIA: BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AND PROLIFERATION [...] (S/NF) Armenia does not have an active biological warfare program nor does it have an interest, desire or capability to start one (reftel). The Armenian government has denied ever having a biological warfare program and currently Armenian biological institutes and private companies are struggl [...] |
2004-09-17 13:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PINR ECON PTER TBIO PARM AM KPRP |
| 04YEREVAN2071 |
IMF TEAM LEAVES ARMENIA UNIMPRESSED WITH PROGRESS [...] (SBU) The IMF team conducting the Sixth review of Armenia's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program has left Armenia concerned about Armenia's progress in key areas of reform. The Resident Representative, James McHugh, told us that he anticipated problems completing the sixth rev [...] |
2004-09-20 12:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID ETRD KCOR AM |
| 04YEREVAN2092 |
ARMENIA'S MOD SUPPORTS BROADER, DEEPER DEFENSE [...] (C) In his first meeting with the Ambassador on September 20, Armenia's Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan stated that Armenia highly valued its developing defense relationship with the U.S., stood ready to cooperate on an upcoming Defense Assessment and was preparing troops for deployment to Ir [...] |
2004-09-22 12:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PARM AM |
| 04YEREVAN2093 |
LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH FROM KAREKIN II, [...] On September 11, His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of Armenia, sent a letter to President Bush to mark the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The letter was received at the Embassy on September 14. The original was forwarded by pouch to EUR/CACEN; the text of the letter is paragr [...] |
2004-09-22 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC AM |
| 04YEREVAN2113 |
FM TAPS SPECIAL ADVISOR AS NEXT AMBASSADOR TO IRAN [...] No summary [...] |
2004-09-24 10:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL PGOV IR AM |
| 04YEREVAN2114 |
PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTION: POWERPLAY TUG-OF-WAR, [...] (C) The National Assembly Speaker-backed candidate won a controversial parliamentary by-election September 19 in a Yerevan suburb after the only remaining candidate (backed by Armenia's Procurator General) withdrew from the race only a few days earlier. Analysts viewed the election, which had [...] |
2004-09-24 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN212 |
PM APPOINTS ETHNIC MINORITIES AND RELIGIOUS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Andranik Margarian appointed Hranush Kharatian as Head of the Department on Ethnic Minorities and Religious Issues within the Cabinet. Kharatian will supervise GOAM programs tar [...] |
2004-01-23 11:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM TU AM |
| 04YEREVAN2135 |
(IMI) BRIEF OVERVIEW OF ARMENIA'S FRUIT JUICE [...] This cable provides a brief overview of Armenia's juice industry for those interested in trade and investment opportunities in Armenia. It also includes a list of key contacts in this sector. For more information contact the BISNIS representative or the Economic and Commercial Officer at th [...] |
2004-09-28 10:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
| 04YEREVAN2140 |
CASE AGAINST URANIUM SMUGGLER IN DANGER OF [...] (S/NF) Garik Dadayan was detained on the Georgia - Armenia border while attempting to smuggle Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) in June 2003. Dadayan has been in pre-trial detention in Armenia, but his case is now moving to trial. Prosecutors and the judge presiding in the case are concerned tha [...] |
2004-09-29 09:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL AM GG |
| 04YEREVAN2154 |
FOLLOW UP ON G8 GLOBAL PARTNERS WORKING GROUP [...] No summary [...] |
2004-09-30 13:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL AM KACP |
| 04YEREVAN2156 |
REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered the first press conference of Ambassador John Evans held on September 15. Virtually all TV stations commented on the unique format of the press conference (the heads of all the sections of the U.S. mission in Armenia were present). All TV stations show [...] |
2004-09-30 13:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN2165 |
GOAM TAKING ACTION TO FIGHT TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Although much work remains to be done, the Armenian government has made considerable efforts over the past three years and, despite being a country of origin for trafficking, has graduated from Tier 3 to Tier 2 (Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report 2004). Government actions have had the fol [...] |
2004-10-01 06:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM AM KTIP |
| 04YEREVAN2166 |
GOAM SUPPORT FOR IRAQ MISSION UNLIKELY TO [...] (SBU) GOAM commitment to deploying troops in Iraq remains strong despite recent media statements and public opinion against the mission. Opposition groups have not strongly attacked plans for deployment, and Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials continue to make consis [...] |
2004-10-01 10:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
| 04YEREVAN2194 |
OSKANIAN CALLS FOR ARMENIAN "RE- [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------------------- OSKANIAN STUNS DIPLOMATIC CROWD ------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Taking advantage of the official reception October 2 on the occasion of the "Day of German Unity," Foreign Minister Varta [...] |
2004-10-04 12:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AJ AM |
| 04YEREVAN2210 |
IPR: PIRACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Per reftel we delivered talking points on piracy of intellectual property to Deputy Minister of Trade Tigran Davtyan, October 6. Davtyan expressed interest in the Strategy Targeting Organi [...] |
2004-10-06 11:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR KPAO AM WTRO |
| 04YEREVAN2216 |
RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER CLOSING "NOT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) As a result of the Russian-Georgian border closure roughly one thousand trucks bound for Armenia are stuck at the Verkhniy Lars border crossing point between Russia and Georgia. According t [...] |
2004-10-06 12:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN2222 |
POLICE DETAIN TWO ON SUSPICION OF TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------------------------ POLICE ARRESTING ALLEGED TRAFFICKERS ------------------------------------ 2. (SBU) Police detained Tigran Rushanyan (nickname - Tigran the Great) on suspicion of trafficking October 4, 2004 [...] |
2004-10-07 03:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
| 04YEREVAN2224 |
ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT GIVES ENERGY SECTOR A HALF-FIX [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On October 1, Armenia' Public Service Regulatory Commission (PRSC) ended ArmEnergo's reign as the state-owned single buyer of midstream electricity, responding to demands of the [...] |
2004-10-07 03:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG AM |
| 04YEREVAN2242 |
ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO CUBA'S UN RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-08 12:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD CU AM UNGA |
| 04YEREVAN2256 |
GOAM PREPARED TO SIGN REVISED "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Foreign Minister Oskanian's senior advisor told us October 12 that the GOAM is prepared to sign a revised "Article 98" agreement "within next ten days." President Kocharian is currently deciding who to authorize to sign [...] |
2004-10-12 12:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN2257 |
GOAM REGISTERS JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (SBU) The Armenian Ministry of Justice registered the Jehovah's Witnesses as a legal entity on October 8. Registration confers the right for religious groups to rent meeting space, broadcast on radio and television, publish magazines and newspapers, and it gives members of the Jehovah's Witnes [...] |
2004-10-12 12:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN226 |
REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY: President George W. Bush's State of the Union Address was widely covered in Armenian media, both print and broadcast. Coverage by broadcast media was mostly factual, using CNN, EuroNews or Russian sources. Print media used the Russian Washington File provided by the U.S. Embassy Pu [...] |
2004-01-23 12:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN2281 |
FM DISCUSSES TURKISH-EU ACCESSION: KOCHARIAN [...] (C) In her October 14 meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Deputy Assistant Secretary Laura Kennedy emphasized the positive benefits for Armenia of a Turkey anchored in the EU. She strongly urged the GOAM avoid trying to derail or complicate the process. Oskanian's recent [...] |
2004-10-14 08:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU AM |
| 04YEREVAN2319 |
(IMI) OVERVIEW OF ARMENIA'S WINE SECTOR [...] This cable provides a brief overview of Armenia's wine sector for those considering trade and investment opportunities in Armenia. It also includes a list of key contacts. For more information contact the BISNIS representative or the Economic and Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Ye [...] |
2004-10-19 10:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
| 04YEREVAN2320 |
(IMI) OVERVIEW OF ARMENIA'S DIAMOND-CUTTING [...] This cable reviews the diamond-cutting industry in Armenia as of October 2004. It includes an overview and contact information for major diamond-cutting enterprises and a discussion of the possible advantages in Armenia for foreign investment. End summary. 2. Diamond processing has been [...] |
2004-10-19 10:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
| 04YEREVAN2323 |
INVITATION TO ATTEND NOVEMBER 17 G8 GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-19 12:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL AM KACP |
| 04YEREVAN2324 |
LOCAL STATION DROPS RFE/RL NEWS SHOW [...] (SBU) An independent TV news broadcast produced by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was cancelled on October 13 after airing a single episode. The director of the station denied government pressure. We believe, however, that this incident was an act of self- censorship to avoid conflict with [...] |
2004-10-19 12:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN2325 |
COURT CONVICTS, SENTENCES JOURNALIST'S [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-19 12:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN2326 |
GENDER AND SALARY DISCRIMINATION IN YEREVAN [...] (SBU) According to a new survey, equally qualified men and women in Yerevan receive wildly disparate salaries: on average, women in Yerevan receive 40 percent less than men. While the survey was too small to be entirely reliable, the trends it demonstrated are strongly supported by anecdotal [...] |
2004-10-19 12:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN2331 |
ARMENIA: RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE CESIUM-137 DETAINED [...] (C) On 19 October, the Armenian press reported that an Armenian citizen, Gagik Tovmasyan, was arrested on Oct 19 while transporting Cesium-137. National Security Service officials confirmed this during an Oct 19 meeting. Ashot Martirosyan, Head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency, verif [...] |
2004-10-20 08:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECON PTER PARM AM KPRP |
| 04YEREVAN2337 |
DIASPORA ORGANIZATION INCREASES SUPPORT FOR N-K [...] (C) The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) is increasing its efforts to support ongoing Armenian government-sponsored repopulation programs in Nagrono-Karabakh (N-K) through its "Centennial Project." The AGBU, the Armenian Diaspora NGO with the largest membership worldwide, has reported [...] |
2004-10-20 11:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN2348 |
EUR DAS KENNEDY'S OCTOBER 14 - 17 VISIT TO ARMENIA [...] (C) Armenia plans to follow through with its commitment to deploy non-combat troops to Iraq. The issue is a political hot potato, however, and the GOAM hopes the USG will help keep the issue out of public view while it works to obtain the parliamentary approval required for deployment. This [...] |
2004-10-22 07:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR AM |
| 04YEREVAN2349 |
GOAM REFUGEE HOUSING PLAN FAILS TO ATTRACT [...] (SBU) The GOAM hopes to announce a solution to its refugee housing problem next year, but current plans depend on international donations that are unlikely to materialize. Local implementers have concluded the government plan is unlikely to be financed because it does not address the housing [...] |
2004-10-22 09:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID AM PRM |
| 04YEREVAN2367 |
RUSSIA OPENS BORDERS TO CAUCASUS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ----------------- BORDER OPEN AGAIN ----------------- 2. (SBU) On Friday October 22, the Russian government reopened the border checkpoint Verkhniy Lars that had been closed September 15, following the Beslan Sch [...] |
2004-10-25 08:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL RS AM |
| 04YEREVAN2374 |
OPPOSITION RALLY DRAWS ONLY LUKEWARM [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------------------------- SMALL RALLY, NO EXCITEMENT -------------------------- 2. (SBU) Roughly 1500 opposition supporters gathered October 26 in Opera Square for an authorized rally timed to coincide with commemorative even [...] |
2004-10-27 09:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC AM |
| 04YEREVAN2387 |
GOAM DENIES SETTLEMENTS IN THE OCCUPIED [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In a strongly-worded diplomatic note addressed to the Embassy October 28, the Government of Armenia denied any illegal activity in the occupied territories and requested that the United States [...] |
2004-10-28 12:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM UNGA |
| 04YEREVAN2388 |
ARBITRATION PRODUCES TELECOM DEAL; ARMENTEL TO [...] (C) Minister of Justice David Harutunyan told the Ambassador on October 27 that the GOAM expected to make an announcement regarding a pending agreement with Armentel to bring a second mobile operator to Armenia and liberalize internet services within the next 10 days following months of intern [...] |
2004-10-28 12:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM KTRD |
| 04YEREVAN2401 |
ENTRY INTO FORCE OF ACQUISITION AND CROSS- [...] No summary [...] |
2004-10-29 11:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR AM |
| 04YEREVAN2406 |
POWER STRUGGLE: ARMENIA SELLS GEORGIA CHEAP [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Sources in Armenia's energy sector claim that, following the October 10 sabotage of transmission lines from Russia (Ref A), the Georgian government forced Armenia to sell electricit [...] |
2004-11-01 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ETRD EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN2407 |
ARMENIA'S STEADY GROWTH, STABLE ECONOMY: [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's 2004 economic performance should lend confidence to investors and development economists alike. Armenia's oft-cited problems maintaining a transparent and fair business [...] |
2004-11-01 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN2417 |
ARMENIA: SMALL KURDISH DEMONSTRATION FOR ABDULAH [...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On 29 October, approximately 25 Armenian-Kurds staged a 30-minute demonstration outside of the Yerevan office of the European Commission. The demonstration was peaceful and covered by the local press. Knayz Hasanov, [...] |
2004-11-02 13:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN2446 |
CORRUPTION HINDERS ARMENIA'S ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia faces severe and continuing deforestation. Although the law prohibits commercial cutting, corruption and inefficacy in Hayantar, the state forestry agency, result in the continued illeg [...] |
2004-11-08 06:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD AM |
| 04YEREVAN2447 |
KOCHARIAN SACKS INTEL SERVICE CHIEF [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian fired his Minister of the National Security Service (NSS) Karlos Petrossian November 5. Although there have been frequent rumors about Petrossian's departure, the immediate cause for his fall from grace appears to be the most recent report of Petrossian's corrup [...] |
2004-11-08 07:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN2449 |
ARMENIAN FLIGHTS HAMPERED BY FUEL SHORTAGES [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) A shortage of aviation fuel is forcing Armenia's outbound flights to make intermediate landings to refuel before continuing on their scheduled itinerary. Although government and av [...] |
2004-11-08 09:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG ETRD EAID GG AJ AM |
| 04YEREVAN245 |
DEMARCHE PRESENTED ON ARMENIA'S CHR [...] No summary [...] |
2004-01-29 09:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UN |
| 04YEREVAN2450 |
ARMENIA: UPDATE ON CESIUM-137 CONFISCATED FROM [...] (C) As reported in ref A, Ashot Martirosyan, Head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ANRA), verified on October 19 that approximately two curies of radioactive cesium-137 was seized from an Armenian citizen Gagik Tovmasyan on October 15. 2. (C) On November 5, we met again with Marti [...] |
2004-11-08 09:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR KNNP MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC AM KPRP |
| 04YEREVAN2456 |
ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES ON HUMAN [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarches to Artak Apitonian, Head of the UN Division at the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ------- BELARUS ------- 2. (SBU) Regarding Belarus, Apitonian stated that Armenia is wavering between abstaining and voting against the resolution. Armenia woul [...] |
2004-11-09 02:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM AM UNGA |
| 04YEREVAN2457 |
ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-09 07:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC AM FAO |
| 04YEREVAN2458 |
ARMENIA WILL SUPPORT MERON FOR ICTY JUDGE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-09 07:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS KAWC PHUM AM UNGA |
| 04YEREVAN2461 |
NATO SECRETARY GENERAL VISITS YEREVAN [...] (SBU) Summary: During a brief visit to Yerevan on November 5, the NATO Secretary General encouraged Armenia to continue to develop its cooperation with the Alliance, introduced NATO's new special representative to the region and explained that NATO is not in competition with any other organi [...] |
2004-11-09 09:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AM NATO |
| 04YEREVAN2470 |
GOAM RESCUES N-K TELECOM OPERATOR IN BACK-ROOM DEAL TO END ARMENTEL MONOPOLY [...] (C) During the week of November 15 the GOAM is due to seal the deal it has made with Armentel, Armenia's incumbent monopoly telecommunications service provider. The Government of Armenia will end its protracted dispute with Armentel and license a second mobile telephone provider to compete wit [...] |
2004-11-12 09:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV KPRV PREL AM BEXPPLM BEXP |
| 04YEREVAN2485 |
(IMI) ARMENIA: REPORT ON TAVUSH PROVINCE [...] In October 2004, Embassy's BISNIS representative visited the Tavush province of Armenia to explore investment and trade opportunities for U.S. companies and to expand U.S. - Armenian commercial ties. He met with the province's business leaders and government officials. This is another in a [...] |
2004-11-17 09:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
| 04YEREVAN2493 |
GOAM MOVING TO RATIFY REVISED "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Foreign Minister Oskanian's senior advisor told us November 17 that the GOAM is moving to ratify the revised "Article 98" agreement. The interagency review process is complete and the signed agreement is with President [...] |
2004-11-17 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN2494 |
RECENT STATEMENTS SUGGEST COOLER LOCAL TEMPERATURE [...] (C) Recent statements by high-level policymakers and opinion pieces in the local media suggest that there may be growing opposition to the pending deployment of Armenian peacekeeping support to Iraq. Reports of a car bomb explosion November 9 near an Armenian church in Iraq re-ignited a flurr [...] |
2004-11-18 09:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
| 04YEREVAN2505 |
GOAM TELECOM DEAL SUBSIDIZES N-K PHONE NETWORK [...] (C) On November 19 the Armenian Government published the details of a second mobile license that it granted to Karabakh-Telecom during a six hour tender process during the night of November 4 (Reftel). The government granted the license rights very cheaply, with no investment commitment insi [...] |
2004-11-19 11:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV KPRV BEXP PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN2510 |
THE GOAM'S CREATIVE ACCOUNTING: CREATING AN [...] (C) During the summer and fall of 2004 the GOAM transferred two valuable state assets into the control of the Ministry of Defense or organizations it controls, keeping the revenues and their subsequent expenditure off the books. In June the GOAM transferred 25 aircraft from the defunct Armeni [...] |
2004-11-22 07:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ECON EFIN AM |
| 04YEREVAN2517 |
ARMENIAN DEFMIN SOLID ON IRAQ CONTINGENT [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-22 13:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | AM IZ MARR MOPS PREL |
| 04YEREVAN2525 |
Armenian Iraq Contingent: Speaker of [...] (C ) Over lunch November 23, Armenian National Assembly speaker Artur Baghdasarian shared with Ambassador the likely time-line for parliamentary consideration of the deployment of Armenia's non- combatant contingent to the Iraq Coalition and asked our assistance in mustering arguments to be de [...] |
2004-11-23 13:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS AM IZ |
| 04YEREVAN2526 |
UPDATE ON CESIUM-137 CONFISCATED FROM ARMENIAN [...] (C) We met November 18 with Ashot Martirosyan, head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ANRA) and underscored the USG's continued interest in this cesium-137 seizure case (refs A and B). Martirosyan stated that he had still not received any substantive information from the Armenian Nat [...] |
2004-11-24 08:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR KNNP MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC AM KPRP |
| 04YEREVAN2533 |
OSKANIAN SAYS "AZERBAIJAN IS MAKING A [...] During a joint press conference with visiting Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Margherita Boniver November 23, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian commented that "Azerbaijan is making a mistake by initiating the discussion of the situation in the occupied territories issue at the UN, and after a [...] |
2004-11-24 13:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AJ AM UNGA |
| 04YEREVAN2537 |
OPPOSITION EDITOR'S CAR TORCHED, BLAMES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) November 22 at 20:40 (local time) the car of Nikol Pashinyan, Editor-in-Chief of the opposition newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak, burst into flame in front of his office. Pashinyan is convinced th [...] |
2004-11-24 14:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN2540 |
EX-VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING ARRESTED FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- Â [...] |
2004-11-26 03:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
| 04YEREVAN2542 |
AMBASSADOR SCORES ARMENIANS FOR NO-SHOW AT NATO [...] (C) The decision not to send a delegation to NATO's Rose-Roth seminar in Baku was "difficult to understand" and "a mistake" for Armenia." That was the message the Ambassador delivered to Tigran Torosian, Deputy Speaker of Armenia's National Assembly (NA) during a November 26 office call. To [...] |
2004-11-26 12:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AM NATO AZ |
| 04YEREVAN2545 |
ARMENIA COMPLETES LAW ON ALTERNATIVES TO [...] (SBU) On November 23, Armenia's National Assembly amended legislation that provides draftees with a mechanism to apply for an alternative to military service. These amendments clear the way for full implementation of the alternative military service law that was passed in November 2003 as par [...] |
2004-11-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN2546 |
ARMENIAN HIGH COURT APPROVES OPTIONAL [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KOCI AM |
| 04YEREVAN2550 |
ARMENIA: COPERATING ON LAW ENFORCEMENT, ONE CASE [...] (SBU) Despite the absence of formal legal instruments regulating law enforcement cooperation between the U.S. and Armenia, cooperation with the GOAM on specific cases has produced positive results. From working on child pornography cases to tracking down, arresting and transferring fugitive m [...] |
2004-11-29 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KJUS KCRM AM |
| 04YEREVAN2565 |
CIVAV: ARMENIA REGISTERS AIRLINES OPERATING [...] (C) The November 26, 2004 sentencing of six Armenians (a pilot and crew) in Equatorial Guinea for aiding the overthrow of President Obiang's government (reftel) is a reminder about the business-end of Armenia's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on airline registration. Armenia's Directorate of C [...] |
2004-11-30 10:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON PREL AM EK |
| 04YEREVAN2579 |
IFI'S CONCERNED ABOUT TRANSPARENCY [...] (C) Lack of transparency in recent GOAM financial actions is an increasing concern for the representatives of the IMF and World Bank in Yerevan. Because Armenia continues to record steady economic growth and will likely continue to meet criteria set by both the Fund and the Bank, these conce [...] |
2004-12-01 07:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN AM |
| 04YEREVAN2588 |
ARMENIA, TRANSPARENCY OF BUDGETS/MILITARY SPENDING [...] (U) Following is Yerevan's response to ref A request for information. Section A: Overview of Military Expenditure Audits --------------------------------------------- ------ 2. (U) The primary responsibility for auditing the GOAM's military spending lies with the Ministry of Defense's [...] |
2004-12-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID AM |
| 04YEREVAN2591 |
(IMI) LIST OF GOVERNMENT CONTACTS AND [...] This cable provides list of Armenia's government contacts and business associations ----------------------- PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE ----------------------- 1st Government Building Republic Square Yerevan 375010 Mr. Arthur Manaseryan, External Relations Department Chief Tel: (374-1) 5 [...] |
2004-12-02 13:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
| 04YEREVAN2597 |
ARMENIA'S CHOD TALKS ABOUT IRAQ, AZERBAIJAN AND [...] (C) In his first meeting with the Ambassador, General-Colonel Mikhael Harutiunyan expressed Armenia's readiness to send its military contingent to Iraq once the government had completed the necessary review and approval. He commented on the budgetary challenges facing the MOD and the attempt [...] |
2004-12-03 11:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR MOPS AM |
| 04YEREVAN260 |
ARMENIAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: NO WAY TO GO [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The public transportation system in Armenia has gradually deteriorated during the last few years due to both a lack of funds for the operation and maintenance of the fleet and the [...] |
2004-01-30 11:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ATRN AM |
| 04YEREVAN2604 |
NEW ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW MOVING FORWARD [...] (SBU) On November 24, 2004 the Armenian parliament adopted the first reading of the Law Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Finance, which is intended to implement recommendations that MoneyVal (the Council of Europe's committee on anti-money laundering) made during its review of Armenia e [...] |
2004-12-06 02:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM KSEP PTER SNAR AM |
| 04YEREVAN2609 |
FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT DEVELOPMENT [...] On November 24 the National Assembly of Armenia adopted the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Bill in the first reading (ref). The adoption of the bill sanctions the Central Bank of Armenia to proceed with the establishment of the Financial Intelligence Unit as proposed in the law [...] |
2004-12-06 08:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR EAID EFIN AM |
| 04YEREVAN2635 |
GOAM GETS QUOTAS FROM QATAR FOR LABOR [...] The Department on Migration and Refugees (DMR) has finished work with the Government of Qatar to create a legal framework for Armenians working in Qatar. In the agreement (scheduled to be signed in the near future) the Government of Qatar has provided quotas for the workers in the following [...] |
2004-12-09 06:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ELAB QA AM KTIP |
| 04YEREVAN2647 |
JANUARY-NOVEMBER 2004 DATA ON TIP PROSECUTION [...] (SBU) According to data on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for the period between January 1, 2004 and November 1, 2004, there have been 15 cases of trafficking in Armenia involving 26 defendants. While most of those people were sentenced to priso [...] |
2004-12-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM AM KTIP |
| 04YEREVAN2648 |
IRAQ DEPLOYMENT GETS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OK [...] (SBU) Armenia's Constitutional Court ruled December 8 that the agreement signed between Poland and Armenia regarding the dispatch of Armenian non-combat troops to Iraq does not run counter to the Armenian Constitution. The court's decision paves the way for a parliamentary hearing and vote on [...] |
2004-12-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PARM PGOV IZ AM |
| 04YEREVAN2656 |
RAIL BLOCKADE: TIGHTENING THE NOOSE AROUND ARMENIA [...] (C) For more than twelve years, the blockade of Armenia by Turkey and Azerbaijan has disrupted regional transit corridors. All political considerations aside, regional economic development has been stymied. Recent steps by Azerbaijan to improve the effectiveness of its blockade have tighten [...] |
2004-12-10 11:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD AM AZ |
| 04YEREVAN2662 |
ARMENIAN IRAQ DEPLOYMENT ON TRACK [...] (C) Minister of Defense Serzh Sargsian requested a one-on-one meeting with Ambassador Evans in order to discuss the next steps as the GOAM prepares to deploy a non-combat unit to Iraq. After the Ambassador emphasized the importance of approving the deployment without delay, the Minister assur [...] |
2004-12-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM MARR IZ AM |
| 04YEREVAN2663 |
IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED IN ARMENIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) A recent report sponsored by the UN Development Program confirms that Armenia's Human Rights Ombudsman's office suffers from internal disorganization and an externally perceived lack of independence. During its first year of operation, the ombudsman's office has sent mixed messages and [...] |
2004-12-10 13:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN2685 |
(IMI) ARMENIA: THE IMPORTED BUILDING [...] This cable reviews the market for imported building materials in Armenia as of December 2004. The report describes the market size and U.S. market share in Armenia, and lists major market suppliers and best sales prospects for U.S. companies. It also includes a list of major importers and ke [...] |
2004-12-14 06:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
| 04YEREVAN2686 |
RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS: TIME TO SOLVE N-K [...] (C) NEITHER OF THE TWO FINE MOSCOW CABLES UNDER REFERENCE MENTIONS NAGORNO-KARABAKH AS AN ISSUE IN THE CIS THAT MOSCOW AND WASHINGTON (AND PARIS) MIGHT RECOMMIT THEMSELVES TO SOLVING IN THE DISTURBING WAKE OF THE CRISIS IN RELATIONS OVER UKRAINE. IN A CHAT EARLIER TODAY, THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADO [...] |
2004-12-14 12:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM IZ RS |
| 04YEREVAN2693 |
UN HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-14 14:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN2769 |
RUSSIAN POWER GIANT MOVES TO CONSOLIDATE CONTROL [...] (C) Russian energy giant RAO-UES is moving to take over Armenia's sole electricity distributor, Electricity Networks of Armenia (ElNetArm), which would consolidate its hold on Armenia's energy infrastructure. The director of ElNetArm and officials in the Government of Armenia have acknowledged [...] |
2004-12-22 10:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG AM RS |
| 04YEREVAN2776 |
GOAM MOVING FORWARD ON REMAINING CT CONVENTIONS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Armenia's Constitutional Court has ruled that the remaining three Counterterrorism Conventions to which Armenia has not yet acceded are constitutional, and the National Assembly is due to ratify them in Spring 2005, acco [...] |
2004-12-23 11:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN2786 |
BOYCOTT OVER? OPPOSITION PARTICIPATES IN [...] (SBU) Armenian parliamentary opposition members participated in the December 24 National Assembly debates over the dispatch of non-combat troops to Iraq, ending their months-long boycott of the sessions of the parliament. Opposition parties, however, were divided on the decision: while the J [...] |
2004-12-27 13:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN2787 |
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES GOAM NON-COMBAT [...] (SBU) On December 24, the Armenian National Assembly voted to authorize sending a non-combat contingent to Iraq. This clears the way for deployment of the approximately 50-man GOAM contingent of drivers, sappers, and medics to Iraq in early to mid-January. The resolution ratifies an agreement [...] |
2004-12-27 13:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
| 04YEREVAN2792 |
GOAM STILL LOOKING TO EXCHANGE SOLDIERS [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-28 11:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR PBTS AJ AM OSCE |
| 04YEREVAN2793 |
NEW DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER THE FIRST IN A [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian President Robert Kocharian named Armen Bayburdian Deputy Foreign Minister (DFM) December 24. Bayburdian joins current Deputy Foreign Ministers Tatul Margarian (expected to be named Am [...] |
2004-12-28 11:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN2796 |
GOAM MOVING TO RATIFY REVISED "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) National Assembly senior staff told us that the GOAM is pushing to ratify the revised "Article 98" agreement, but that it will not come up for a vote before the Spring session (i.e., at the earliest in late February). Wi [...] |
2004-12-28 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN2798 |
NA ADOPTS NEW ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW [...] No summary [...] |
2004-12-28 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AM EFIN KCRM KSEP PTER SNAR |
| 04YEREVAN2802 |
(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for December 2004. Major headlines include: -- Armenia sells Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Plant for USD 132 million; -- EBRD buys shares in Armenian commercial bank; -- IMF approves USD 13.7 million for Armenia; [...] |
2004-12-29 10:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM |
| 04YEREVAN2804 |
ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SIGNS ALTERNATIVE MILITARY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) President Robert Kocharian signed legislation December 28 that establishes a system of alternatives to military service in Armenia. The National Assembly began work on this legislation at the end of 2003 at the urging o [...] |
2004-12-29 13:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN282 |
ARMENIAN POLITICIANS POSTURE AFTER "WIDER [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Recent statements by EU officials in Tblisi suggesting a more concrete role for the South Caucasus countries in the "Wider Europe" initiative incited an unusual surge of Euro-friendly political [...] |
2004-02-03 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ZJ TU AM EUN |
| 04YEREVAN284 |
CTAG MEETING HELD IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post convened a coordination meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) in Armenia February 2 in advance of the capital-level CTAG meeting to be held February 20 per reftel. Represen [...] |
2004-02-03 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PREL PTER |
| 04YEREVAN313 |
ARMENIA'S NEW HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN: [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Larisa Alaverdian, Human Rights Ombudsman- designee, told us that she plans to create a lasting and strong institution that will have a respected place within the Armenian state structure. A [...] |
2004-02-06 12:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN314 |
MEETING WITH ARMENIAN DEPUTY FONMIN ON TIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. DCM met with Deputy Foreign Minister Tatoul Margarian, who oversees the GOAM Interagency Commission to Address Issues Related to Human Trafficking (TIP Commission), to discuss concerns that the GOAM has been slow to take visible, concrete steps to combat trafficking in persons [...] |
2004-02-06 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM ELAB KWMN SMIG PGOV PREL UZ AM |
| 04YEREVAN315 |
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS DEMARCHE [...] (U) We delivered demarche on WHO International Health Regulations to MFA Americas Desk Officer Lilit Toutkhalian and MFA International Organizations Desk Officer Artak Apitonian February 5 per reftel instructions. Toutkhalian expressed confidence that this issue would receive "more serious a [...] |
2004-02-06 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL WHO |
| 04YEREVAN33 |
GOAM PROPOSED TEXT FOR AN "ARTICLE 98" AGREEMENT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) The GOAM presented us with a diplomatic note January 8 containing their proposed text for an "Article 98" agreement. We have faxed the full text (including a line by line GOAM explanation of the proposed changes) to t [...] |
2004-01-08 13:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN347 |
TOUGH DASHNAK TALK ON N-K, TURKEY AT PARTY [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Dashnak Party Chairman Hrand Margarayan's February 6 comments on relations with Turkey, N-K, and Georgia's Armenian population sparked renewed controversy among Armenia's political elite. Marga [...] |
2004-02-12 10:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM TU AJ AM |
| 04YEREVAN349 |
ARMENIA: DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH [...] Armenia's 2003 economic performance exceeded all predictions; despite the rounds of elections and political tremors during the year, the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 13.9 percent, a record high since 1991 independence. Construction (mostly donor financed) and industry contribute [...] |
2004-02-12 13:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EFIN EAID EAIR AM RU |
| 04YEREVAN350 |
ARMENIA: INCREASING (BUT STILL MODEST) TRADE [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) The Armenian press noted that trade turnover for the first nine months of 2003 between Armenia and Russia increased 84 percent over 2002 levels of the same period and was distributed almost e [...] |
2004-02-12 13:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAIR ETRD AM |
| 04YEREVAN353 |
KOCHARIAN'S INNER CIRCLE: ACCESS BUT LIMITED [...] (c) President Kocharian has a small inner circle with direct access to him and the potential to influence his thinking on foreign policy matters. Within this inner circle are Foreign Minister Oskanian, Minister of Defense Sargsian, Head of State TV Harutyunian, Presidential Chief of Staff Tum [...] |
2004-02-12 14:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN366 |
CRACKS IN THE COALITION: DASHNAKS ATTACK THE [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Protect Accordingly. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's governing coalition, an alliance of the Republican Party, Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF, or Dashnaks), and Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law), that holds the majority of seats in th [...] |
2004-02-13 08:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON AM |
| 04YEREVAN382 |
ARMENIA WON'T COMMIT TO SHUTDOWN DATE FOR NUCLEAR [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. -------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) During the February 10 EU-Armenia working group on Armenia Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP), Armenia would not commit to a new closure date for the ANPP and the EU side refu [...] |
2004-02-17 11:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG AM |
| 04YEREVAN391 |
BUREAUCRATS DISAPPOINTED WITH WORKING-LEVEL [...] (C) MFA Turkey Desk Officer Anahit Harutunyan told us February 13 that the MFA returned from the latest GOAM-GOT technical meeting having accomplished less than it had hoped for, specifically regarding a potential border opening or scheduling regular encounters between FMs Oskanian and Gul. Ha [...] |
2004-02-18 08:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU AM |
| 04YEREVAN398 |
SEEING EYE TO EYE WITH THE GOAM ON UNCHR, UNGA [...] (C) We discussed UNCHR issues and ways to more effectively pursue continuing USG policy priorities at the UN with MFA UN Division Chief Artak Apitonian February 11 (reftel). Apitonian credited the apparent decline in USG-GOAM voting coincidence during the 58th UNGA as a reaction to "more aggre [...] |
2004-02-18 13:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM UNGA |
| 04YEREVAN399 |
CORRUPTION LEVIES HEAVY TOLL ON ARMENIAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Widespread corruption in the Armenian university system has severely tarnished the reputation of once prestigious institutions and degraded the quality of education provided to Armenian studen [...] |
2004-02-18 13:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN444 |
"A POLITICAL MURDER": ARMENIAN MEDIA REACTION [...] SUMMARY: Armenian mass media widely covered the murder of Lieutenant Gurgen Markarian who was attending a NATO training course in Hungary. Echoing the official press statements made by the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs, almost all local media outlets connected this crime to the g [...] |
2004-02-23 12:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN449 |
RARE PRESIDENTIAL INTERVIEW SPARKS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) President Robert Kocharian's February 18 extended press conference sparked speculation about his political posturing vis-a-vis an increasingly vocal opposition. During the rare two-hour TV int [...] |
2004-02-24 03:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TU AJ AM |
| 04YEREVAN456 |
ARMENIAN NUCLEAR REGULATION IN FLUX [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On February 18, 2004, we met with Ashot Martirosyan, the head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ANRA) to encourage Armenia to commit to the IAEA Code o [...] |
2004-02-24 11:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP ECON AM |
| 04YEREVAN457 |
PIPE DREAMS: IRAN-ARMENIA GAS PIPELINE DOESN'T [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian officials have again proposed a gas pipeline from Iran to Armenia as a way to alleviate Armenia's concerns about the future diversity of energy sources. According to the [...] |
2004-02-24 11:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET AM |
| 04YEREVAN462 |
"POLITICAL MURDER" ROCKS THE ARMENIAN BODY POLITIC [...] (SBU) The GOAM, parliamentarians, and NGOs agree across the board in calling the February 19 murder of Armenian Lieutenant Gurgen Margarian by an Azerbaijani officer at NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) English training program in Budapest a "political murder," and have been widely quoted in th [...] |
2004-02-25 03:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ AM |
| 04YEREVAN469 |
GOAM CONSIDERS PRESIDENT'S SPEECH ON WMD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) We presented talking points and fact sheet per reftels to Arman Israelyan, Head of the Global Security Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Israelyan promised to share the fact sheet with his colleagues in other g [...] |
2004-02-25 11:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM AM OPREC |
| 04YEREVAN470 |
ARMENIA SPECIAL 301 COMMENTS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post recommends that Armenia remain off the Special 301 Watch List for 2004. Music and video piracy does exist in Armenia, but industry losses in the Armenian market are probably small and th [...] |
2004-02-25 11:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR AM |
| 04YEREVAN489 |
STUDENT PROTEST OVER NEW DRAFT LAW ENTERS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Nearly one thousand university students in Yerevan continued to boycott their classes in protest of the proposed "Law on Military Service" currently before the National Assembly. The controve [...] |
2004-02-26 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OEXC AM |
| 04YEREVAN505 |
GOAM CALLS ON USG TO RECONSIDER FY 2005 FMF [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Deputy Foreign Minister Ruben Shugarian demarched DCM February 26 regarding expected differences in FY 2005 military assistance levels for Azerbaijan and Armenia. Shugarian delivered an eleven- point non-paper that called on t [...] |
2004-02-27 12:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR PARM AJ AM |
| 04YEREVAN507 |
GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS CONTROVERSIAL LAW; [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Andranik Margarian announced February 26 that the government would formally withdraw from parliament the controversial "Law on Military Service." Margarian blamed other ministe [...] |
2004-02-27 13:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OEXC AM |
| 04YEREVAN516 |
REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered Ambassador John Ordway's press conference held on February 27. TV reports were mainly accurate and factual. The printed press, however, carried some comments on the Ambassador's answers regarding the murder of the Armenian officer in Budapest and the Ka [...] |
2004-03-02 03:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN522 |
GOAM ON PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered demarche and talking points regarding President Bush's Emegency Plan for AIDS Relief to MFA America's Department Chief Lilit Toutkhalian February 23 per reftel instructions. Toutkhalian said the GOAM was in ov [...] |
2004-03-02 10:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV PREL SOCI EAID ECON AM |
| 04YEREVAN532 |
EMOTIONS STILL STRONG IN ARMENIA OVER OFFICER'S [...] (C) The axe-murder of Lieutenant Gurgen Markarian two weeks ago in Budapest continues to elicit strong emotions from Armenians. The government held a state funeral for Margarian February 28, coinciding with the anniversary of the 1988 Sumgait killings in Azerbaijan. A Sumgait remembrance ce [...] |
2004-03-04 09:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV AM AJ |
| 04YEREVAN543 |
ARMENIA RATIFIES THREE ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...] |
2004-03-04 13:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER AM |
| 04YEREVAN550 |
ANOTHER LOOK AT HIV/AIDS IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Summary: Armenia's proximity to countries hit hard by the HIV/AIDS epidemic (Russia, Georgia and Ukraine) raises concerns about its vulnerability and the actions the GOAM is taking to address t [...] |
2004-03-05 13:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV SOCI EAID ECON AM |
| 04YEREVAN562 |
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN ARMENIA: THE VIEW FROM [...] (C) Through an Advisor to the Minister of Justice, we have obtained a copy of a report on trafficking in perons (TIP) in Armenia prepared by the Office of the Procurator General. The detail and scope of the report's findings, along with recent Embassy demarches on Armenia's shaky Tier II sta [...] |
2004-03-09 09:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AM KCRM PHUM PINR SMIG SNAR |
| 04YEREVAN586 |
ARMENIA TO CONSIDER REQUEST FOR ISAF CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2004-03-11 03:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AM NATO |
| 04YEREVAN587 |
KURDISH ACTIVITIES IN ARMENIA [...] (S) There is an Armenian-Kurdish friendship society in downtown Yerevan with a sign posted on the door identifying it as such. The "Friendship Society's" main goals in Armenia appear to be to promote Kurdish culture, organize holidays, demonstrations, and campaigns for better treatment of and/ [...] |
2004-03-11 03:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV PINR AM TU |
| 04YEREVAN592 |
USATF MID-TERM REVIEW FOCUSES ON CUSTOMS, [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) The March 1 meeting of the U.S.-Armenia Task Force on Economic Cooperation (USATF) mid-term review focused on issues related to corruption, U.S. technical assistance in the private sector, improving customs procedures, tra [...] |
2004-03-11 09:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN615 |
ARMENIAN DEP DEFENSE MINISTER OFFERS COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) Summary. Armenian Deputy Defense Minister Artur Aghabekian informed DAO March 11 that Armenia is planning to send three officers to Baku in September 2004 to participate in NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) exercise Cooperative Best Effort 04 (CBE 04). Aghabekian ruled out the possibility [...] |
2004-03-12 14:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PARM AM AJ NATO |
| 04YEREVAN62 |
ARMENIA CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR US CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...] |
2004-01-12 09:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AM UNUS |
| 04YEREVAN632 |
ARMENIA: POST GIVES DOING BUSINESS IN IRAQ [...] In response to numerous inquiries about Iraqi contracts and business opportunities Post invited construction companies and the Union of Manufacturers and Entrepreneurs to a presentation of opportunities in Iraq on March 16. Drawing on Department of Commerce and Coalition Provision Authority w [...] |
2004-03-17 06:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ECON AM |
| 04YEREVAN633 |
DELEGATIONS ENCOURAGE INCREASED ARMENIAN [...] (C) An interagency delegation met with the Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense March 11 to outline a United States proposal to shift the focus of NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) activities to the Caucasus and Central Asia. The delegation also discussed the necessity to reach a co [...] |
2004-03-17 09:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AM AJ NATO |
| 04YEREVAN641 |
SAAKASHVILI MAKES FIRST STATE VISIT TO [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili paid his first state visit to Armenia March 11-12, praising the country and its president as an "ideal partner." Saakashvili and Armenian President Rober [...] |
2004-03-17 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM GG |
| 04YEREVAN656 |
PRESIDENT SACKS PROCURATOR GENERAL; APPOINTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) On March 17 Kocharian unexpectedly sacked Procurator General Tamazian, replacing him with his most influential deputy, Aghvan Hovsepian. A strong supporter of Kocharian, Hovsepian already held this pos [...] |
2004-03-18 14:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN657 |
ARMENIA PUSHING HARD ON JACKSON-VANIK [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Deputy Minister of Trade Tigran Davtyan called for a meeting with us March 17, 2004 to protest the failure of the United States to graduate Armenia from the restrictions of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. Davt [...] |
2004-03-18 14:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON AM |
| 04YEREVAN659 |
ARMENIA: SEIZURES AND INVESTIGATIONS OF RADIOLOGICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOAM has, for the first time, shared information with EXBS Advisor about ongoing export violation investigations and radiological seizures. This is the result of ongoing efforts to obtain statistical data from Armenian National Security Service to measure the effectiveness [...] |
2004-03-18 14:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSTC ETTC MNUC PARM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN660 |
ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO USG PRIORITIES FOR UNCHR-60 [...] (C) Ambassador raised USG priorities for UNCHR-60 with FM Oskanian March 15 per instructions in reftel A. Oskanian was generally non-committal, but promised to review the USG proposals on China and Cuba with Armenia's missions in Geneva, New York and Washington. Oskanian hinted that Armenia' [...] |
2004-03-18 14:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC PHUM AM UN |
| 04YEREVAN68 |
ARMENIAN PARTICIPATION IN NATO INITIAL [...] (SBU) After a week of to-and-fro discussions over Armenian participation in the Initial Planning Conference for NATO Partnership for Peace exercise Cooperative Best Effort 2004 in Baku, Azerbaijan agreed to grant plane-side visas to two Armenian military officers to allow participation in th [...] |
2004-01-12 13:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM AJ |
| 04YEREVAN680 |
REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY: Armenian media widely covered the terrorist bombing in Madrid. The reports on TV and in the press were mainly factual. The only article with commentaries was published in "Hayots Ashkhar" newspaper. The following is the summary of the article. END SUMMARY WHO DOES AZNAR SUPPORT [...] |
2004-03-22 10:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN684 |
MOD BACKTRACKS ON PROPOSED CBE COMPROMISE [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of Defense (MOD) informed DAO March 22 that Armenia intends to send 12 participants to the NATO PfP exercise Cooperative Best Effort 04 (CBE 04) in Baku. The decision comes after a previous MOD pledge to send only 3 officers to the exercise in a compromise to the CBE [...] |
2004-03-23 03:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PGOV PREL AM AJ |
| 04YEREVAN687 |
REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: TRAIN BOMBINGS [...] SUMMARY: Armenian media widely covered the terrorist bombing in Madrid. The reports on TV and in the press were mainly factual. The only article with commentaries was published in "Hayots Ashkhar" newspaper. The following is the summary of the article. END SUMMARY WHO DOES AZNAR SUPPORT [...] |
2004-03-23 10:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN698 |
PROPOSED IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE: STILL NO MONEY [...] (SBU) Despite recent media reports about an Iran- Armenia gas pipeline deal, our meeting March 22, 2004 with Deputy Minister of Energy Areg Galstyan confirms that any such deal is still more a vague, albeit strong, desire than a real plan. Both the Deputy Minister and resident European Delega [...] |
2004-03-24 12:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET AM |
| 04YEREVAN699 |
GOAM ON CHR 60 CUBA AND CHINA RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) We delivered demarche and talking points to the MFA Chief of International Organizations Department Valery Mkrtumian March 22 and Head of Americas Department Lilit Toutkhalian March 23 per instructions in reftel A. Both Mkrtumian and Toutkhalian reiterated comments made by FM Oskanian dur [...] |
2004-03-25 03:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CH CU AM UNHCR |
| 04YEREVAN72 |
ARMENIA REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR COMMISSION [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent us a diplomatic note dated January 8 requesting U.S. support for Armenia's candidacy for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. 3. (SBU) Begin text of MFA diplomatic note: The [...] |
2004-01-13 08:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AM UNUS |
| 04YEREVAN722 |
REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: SHEIKH AHMED [...] SUMMARY: The assassination of the founder and spiritual leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was reported on all Armenian TV channels, the reports being mainly factual. However, some local papers published commentaries. The following is the summary of the articles. [...] |
2004-03-26 02:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN739 |
REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered the March 26 press conference held by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage at the Presidential Palace in Yerevan after his meeting with President Kocharian. Among forty invited representatives of mass media, ten represented foreign media outlets. [...] |
2004-03-29 01:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN757 |
SUNDAY SCUFFLE AT OPPOSITION RALLY: EARLY [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Heckling, a fistfight and the subsequent arrest of four opposition supporters overshadowed the start of a Justice Bloc-sponsored political rally in the northern city of Gyumri on March 28 (ref). [...] |
2004-03-29 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHIV PREL SOCI EAID ECON AM |
| 04YEREVAN765 |
MARCH 30 BEATING OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) Well-known human rights activist Mikael Danielyan contacted the Embassy March 30 after reportedly being beaten by four unidentified men near the entrance of his home in central Yerevan. Danielyan said the men attacked him [...] |
2004-03-30 12:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN769 |
GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE PUTS KOCHARIAN LOYALISTS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The government shuffled a number of key high- and mid-level executive and judicial appointments in late March, placing Kocharian loyalists in the majority of the spots. Some of the most impor [...] |
2004-03-31 11:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN771 |
MAINTAINING DEMINING OPERATIONS IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Post is concerned about the future of USG- supported demining operations in Armenia. Funding is running out, and we run the risk of losing this high value, high impact program. We ask for the Department's cooperation in finding a way to maintain the demining program in Armenia. 2. (S [...] |
2004-03-31 12:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHDP PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN772 |
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RATIFIES NATO PFP SOFA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly ratified the NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) March 31. The GOAM signed the agreement on October 28, 2003. Under Armenian law, the agreement goes into ef [...] |
2004-03-31 12:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN774 |
REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: AFTER THE [...] SUMMARY: After the visit of Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to Armenia all mass media widely covered his meetings and press conference held in Yerevan. Following his visit to Azerbaijan, some Armenian newspapers published editorials discussing the Armitage visit to the region and [...] |
2004-04-01 02:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN777 |
HUMMERS, NUMBERS, AND OLIGARCHS: WHO'S WHO ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) SOMETIMES FOR PURE VANITY, SOMETIMES AS A CHARM AGAINST TRAFFIC POLICE, ARMENIA'S RESIDENTS ARE PICKING THEIR OWN LICENSE PLATE NUMBERS AND PAYING HANDSOMELY FOR THEM. FLASHY NU [...] |
2004-04-01 06:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN784 |
"To enter the 21st century or not?" - PAS [...] SUMMARY: On March 21, the PAS Yerevan organized a highly successful forum in honor of International Women's Month, featuring prominent women working in the fields of international affairs, politics, business, media and law. The event drew capacity crowds and was covered by three television s [...] |
2004-04-01 11:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KWMN PREL OEXC SCUL AM |
| 04YEREVAN786 |
REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: Major General Jeffery Kohler, the Director of Plans and Policy for the U.S. European Command, paid a two-day visit to Armenia on March 30-31. Immediately before departure he gave a press conference, with more than twenty media outlets participating. The TV reports were mainly factu [...] |
2004-04-02 01:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM |
| 04YEREVAN790 |
COUNTERTERRORISM ACTION GROUP (CTAG): IN-COUNTRY [...] (SBU) Per Ref A, and in the effort to promote counterterrorism cooperation (Ref B), Post hosted a follow-up meeting of the in-country Counterterrorism Action Group, April 1, 2004, comprising representatives from the French, German, Italian, British and Russian Embassies. Post invited Deputy M [...] |
2004-04-02 11:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC EFIN PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN794 |
ARMENIAN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY [...] (S) Emboff visited the Armenian Institute of Applied Chemistry (ARIAC) for an update on its activities. The chemical institute is going strong, boasting about USD 270,000 in export sales and USD 50,000 in domestic sales of chemical compounds in 2003. ARIAC's client base includes companies fr [...] |
2004-04-02 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN809 |
DESPITE "HOT SPRING IN ARMENIA," REVOLUTION [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Plans by opposition leaders for a "hot political spring" appeared to gain momentum in late March as politicians from both sides raised the level of rhetoric and hundreds of supporters gathered f [...] |
2004-04-05 09:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GG AM |
| 04YEREVAN811 |
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: ARMENIAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) With few new ideas to present, Armenian government and opposition figures stuck to their standard positions during a recent series of meetings with EUR/CACEN Office Director John Fox. Our inter [...] |
2004-04-05 10:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN812 |
ARMENIA'S MAIN AIR CARRIER SCOTCHES PLANS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Completely reversing its previous investment policy, Armenia's main flag carrier, Armavia Airlines, is halting its plans to expand towards Europe and move to European standards a [...] |
2004-04-05 10:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON RS AM |
| 04YEREVAN813 |
INL PROGRAM SUCCESSES [...] Several recently implemented INL-funded programs are already reaping benefits. This cable details highlights of program progress. ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROGRAMS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++ OSCE Anti-TIP Legislative Strengthening Program +++++++++++++++++++++++ [...] |
2004-04-05 12:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KSEP KCRM PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN816 |
FORTHCOMING AGREEMENT ON ARMENIA-IRAN PIPELINE [...] (SBU) Post skepticism about the viability of the Iran-Armenia pipeline project notwithstanding, two points should be clear. One, the pipeline is the number one priority for the Ministry of Energy. Two, the Iranian Minister will come to Armenia in April and will sign something: most probably [...] |
2004-04-06 06:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PREL RS AM |
| 04YEREVAN830 |
REAFFIRMING TIES WITH ARMENIA: DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage's visit to Armenia galvanized U.S.-Armenia relations as he met with Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian and President Kocharian in back-to-back meetings March 26. The meeting with Oskanian clearly set the agenda for the subsequent discussion with [...] |
2004-04-07 09:36:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM TU AJ AM OVIP RICHARD ARMITAGE |
| 04YEREVAN842 |
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST LEAVES HOSPITAL; ALLEGES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Prominent human rights activist Mikhail Danielyan discharged himself from the hospital April 4, and remains at home recovering from the March 30 beating by unknown assailants. Danielyan offer [...] |
2004-04-08 12:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN844 |
A NOT-SO-HOT SPRING? WHAT IF WE'RE WRONG... [...] (SBU) We continue to believe that the current round of opposition protests across Armenia is unlikely to develop into a revolution, rose, velvet or otherwise (reftel). The Ambassador has urged restraint in the strongest possible terms during meetings this week with both senior government offi [...] |
2004-04-08 12:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN847 |
ARMENIA TO PROVIDE ANSWER ON PSI SOP "SOON" [...] (C) We presented reftel talking points April 9 to Lilit Tutkhalian, Head of the America's Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She told us that she would immediately raise the PSI Statement of Interdiction Principles (SOP) with Deputy Minister Tatul Margarian. Tutkhalian said that [...] |
2004-04-09 09:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN848 |
NAGORNO-KARABAKH: AMBASSADOR DELIVERS READOUT OF [...] No summary [...] |
2004-04-09 10:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV AJ AM |
| 04YEREVAN860 |
APRIL 9 DEMONSTRATIONS PEACEFUL, EVEN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Roughly ten thousand opposition demonstrators rallied peacefully April 9 in Yerevan on Opera Square. In a meeting plagued by technical difficulties they called for Kocharian's resignation, and [...] |
2004-04-10 08:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN867 |
LOA AMENDMENT NO.2 AUTHORIZATION REQUEST [...] This is an Action Request for INL/AAE. 2. Post presents the final version of Amendment No. 2 to the Letter of Agreement on Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement Assistance between the Government of the United States and the Government of the Republic of Armenia in para 3 and requests the [...] |
2004-04-12 13:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN KJUS KCRM AM |
| 04YEREVAN869 |
APRIL 12 DEMONSTRATIONS, MARCH TO THE [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Between five and ten thousand opposition demonstrators rallied peacefully April 12 in Yerevan on Opera Square before moving roughly half a mile down a major street toward the Presidential Palace [...] |
2004-04-12 16:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN879 |
KOCHARIAN LOOKING FOR A WAY FORWARD, OPPOSITION [...] (C) Following the forceful break-up of the opposition demonstration at roughly 2:00 a.m. April 13 (septel) and the subsequent detentions, Kocharian convoked the Ambassador, saying, "I invited you in order to consult with you on the internal political situation." Although Kocharian did not app [...] |
2004-04-13 14:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN880 |
RIOT POLICE BREAK UP DEMONSTRATION IN EARLY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) At approximately 2:00 a.m. April 13, Armenian riot police dispersed a crowd of about one thousand opposition supporters that had remained in front of the National Assembly since 6:00 p.m. the [...] |
2004-04-13 14:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN884 |
UNCHR 60: ARMENIA TO ABSTAIN ON CHINA, VOTE 'YES' [...] (C) Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told the Ambassador April 14 that Armenia would abstain on both the vote to take 'no action' on the China resolution and on the resolution itself. He said that Armenia would vote to approve the Cuba resolution, as requested by the United States. Oskanian [...] |
2004-04-14 13:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL AM |
| 04YEREVAN885 |
DEFENSE MINISTER ON DOMESTIC SITUATION [...] (C) Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian joined the Ambassador in opening a EUCOM-funded hospital renovation on April 14. During the course of the event, the Ambassador had a 30-minute one-on-one conversation with him. On the issue of the dispersal of the anti-Kocharian demonstration on April 1 [...] |
2004-04-14 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN890 |
DEMARCHE PRESENTED ON ARMENIA AND ILSA [...] No summary [...] |
2004-04-15 10:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC ENRG EPET EINV PREL AM IR |
| 04YEREVAN891 |
AMBASSADOR RAISES CFE COMPLIANCE CONCERNS [...] (S) Ambassador presented points per reftel to Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan April 12. Sargsyan first responded by agreeing that "it was strange" that Armenia had not declared the MT-LBs, and it was an incident that would not be repeated. (Note: The Armenian side freely acknowledge that [...] |
2004-04-15 11:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PARM PREL KCFE AM |
| 04YEREVAN893 |
PARLIAMENTARIANS, MANY OTHER DETAINEES [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian opposition leaders Stepan Demirchian and Artashes Geghamian brushed off calls for dialogue with the government, instead calling for a new rally against President Kocharian in central [...] |
2004-04-15 13:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN901 |
APP SPOKESWOMAN DESCRIBES RAID ON PARTY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) We met with Ruzanna Khachatryan, Spokeswoman for the opposition Armenian People's Party (APP) to discuss the April 13 police raid on APP Headquarters and her 36-hour police detention. Khachat [...] |
2004-04-16 12:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN917 |
ARMENIA WITH U.S. ON GUANTANAMO CHR RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2004-04-20 06:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CU AM |
| 04YEREVAN934 |
FM OSKANIAN DISCUSSES VISIT TO IRAN; GOI POSITIONS [...] (C) Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian discussed his April 11-12 visit to Iran with Ambassador April 13, providing details on his meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Kharrazi. According to Oskanian, Kharrazi said that Iran is not supporting Shia insurgents in Iraq and feels the current situa [...] |
2004-04-21 08:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM IR |
| 04YEREVAN94 |
GOAM REVISED PROPOSED TEXT FOR AN "ARTICLE 98" [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) The GOAM presented us with a diplomatic note January 13 containing their new proposed text for an "Article 98" agreement. We have faxed the full text to the Department for consideration. 3. (SBU) Begin text of the [...] |
2004-01-14 09:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN945 |
NO LEGAL GROUNDS FOR OPPOSITION REFERENDUM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Opposition leaders have made a national referendum of confidence on President Kocharian one of their key demands during their anti-government demonstrations of the past month. The Constitutio [...] |
2004-04-22 10:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
| 04YEREVAN947 |
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THE ARMENIAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Now that the dust has settled, the government has released most opposition activists, and subsequent rallies have proceeded without incident, the lack of genuine opposition unity or a realistic [...] |
2004-04-22 11:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AM |
| 04YEREVAN960 |
WESTERN OBSERVER CONFIRMS GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT OF [...] (SBU) Vram Galstyan, serving a life sentence for his role in the October 1999 National Assembly killings, committed suicide in a Yerevan prison April 16. The Justice Ministry announced that Galstyan ha | ||||