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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 PARTIES [...] (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 EUROPE" PRONOUNCEMENTS IN TBLISI, EU VISIT [...] (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 hanged himself shortly after prison guards granted his request to be transferred to solitary c [...]	2004-04-23 07:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN966	IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE: WHAT IF THEY HAVE THE MONEY? [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post has consistently discredited recent media reports about the ten-year-old proposal to build a pipeline from Iran to Armenia on the grounds that there has been no indication of a [...]	2004-04-26 01:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EPET AM
04YEREVAN970	REACTION FROM YEREVAN, ARMENIA: PRESS [...] SUMMARY: All mass media widely covered Ambassador John Ordway's press conference held on April 22. TV reports were mainly accurate and factual. The press carried fewer commentaries this time than it has in the past. The majority of the newspapers quoted the Ambassador without any comments. [...]	2004-04-26 10:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC PGOV PREL KPAO AM
04YEREVAN973	GOAM WARNING THE OPPOSITION: OSKANIAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On April 26, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian convoked the diplomatic corps ahead of planned opposition rallies for April 27. Reading from a non paper (text below) Oskanian indicated that if t [...]	2004-04-26 11:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN975	OPPOSITION OPENS A SMALL WINDOW FOR [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Against the backdrop of the opposition call for "the last stand" on April 27, National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasaryan has called a meeting with the opposition to discuss the current politic [...]	2004-04-26 13:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
04YEREVAN984	UNGA: ARMENIANS "NOT READY TO COMMIT" ON [...] No summary [...]	2004-04-28 05:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL IS AM UNGA
04YEREVAN997	LACKLUSTER OPPOSITION RALLY AND A [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Following two days of meetings between the opposition and the governing coalition, the opposition's April 27 rally of about 5000 participants went off without incident but with 15 people taken [...]	2004-04-28 12:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN1007	ARMENIA'S STEADY GROWTH, STABLE ECONOMY CONTINUES [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's steady economic performance continues during 2005. First quarter data supports the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) forecast of 8 percent GDP growth in 2005, and th [...]	2005-06-08 10:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID AM
05YEREVAN1018	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MDA AND CONFERENCE ON THIRD [...] (C) Post delivered demarche talking points regarding the Israeli National Society (MDA) and International Committee of the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement to MFA International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan June 9 per reftel instructions. Mrkrtumyan said the GOAM did not have [...]	2005-06-10 02:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PHUM PREL IS SZ AM ICRC
05YEREVAN1020	SENATOR HAGEL'S VISIT TO YEREVAN [...] (SBU) In a brief stop as part of a larger trip to the region, Senator Chuck Hagel, along with EUCOM Deputy Commander Charles Wald and other DOD personnel, visited Yerevan June 2-3. During his visit the Senator discussed regional stability, military cooperation as well as progress on economic [...]	2005-06-10 03:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM AM AJ GG RU
05YEREVAN1028	VENICE COMMISSION'S HARSH WORDS ON CONSTITUTION [...] (C) Venice Commission Secretary Gianni Buquicchio ended his early June visit to Armenia with the strongest calls to date for deeper reforms in the constitutional amendments package currently being discussed by the National Assembly. Buquicchio reiterated a May 27 release from the Council of Eu [...]	2005-06-13 13:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1036	ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN UNDER FIRE [...] (C) On May 26, Armenian National Security Service (NSS) investigators arrested Serob Antinyan, an assistant to the Armenian Ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan. Antinyan later confessed to accepting a bribe. Alaverdyan privately acknowledges Antinyan's guilt but claims the heavy-handed investigatio [...]	2005-06-15 08:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1039	ARMENIA'S ENERGY FUTURE: STAYING NUCLEAR? [...] (C) In preparation for a June 22, 2005 donor conference on the Armenia Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP) decommissioning and replacement alternatives, Ministry of Energy officials outlined for us Armenia's long-term energy strategy. They made three main points: -- There is no economic alternative [...]	2005-06-15 13:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EAID AM IR RU
05YEREVAN1044	REMITTANCES DRIVE UP ARMENIAN CURRENCY, HAMPER [...] (SBU) A recent upward trend in remittances and capital inflows into Armenia has led to significant real appreciation of the national currency, the Armenian dram, since July 2003. These cash inflows enable Armenians to finance higher consumption and investment, but the nominal appreciation of [...]	2005-06-16 08:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID AM
05YEREVAN1053	NAGORNO KARABAKH'S UPCOMING "PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) On June 19 Nagorno Karabakh (N-K) will hold its fourth "parliamentary elections." Eight parties (two of which united in a bloc) and independent candidates will contest the 22 majoritarian and 11 party list seats of the "parliament." The parties with the most active election campaigns a [...]	2005-06-16 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1054	DASHNAKS MANEUVERING FOR POSITION [...] (C) The Armenian Revolutionary Faction (ARF) Dashnak party, as one of the central members of Armenia's governing coalition and allied with Minister of Defense Sargsian and President Kocharian, has been flexing its not inconsiderable muscle on the political landscape and pushing its message and [...]	2005-06-16 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1055	IRANIAN-ARMENIAN CROSS BORDER TRADE AND ECONOMIC [...] (C) In a lead up to the Iranian presidential elections, the government of Iran (GOI) has made some efforts to increase trade with Armenia. This included hosting 60 owners of small- to medium-sized Armenian businesses for a conference in Tabriz, agreeing to open an Armenian consulate in Tabriz [...]	2005-06-16 12:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EPET AM IR RU
05YEREVAN1058	RUSSIAN ARMS TRANSFER FROM GEORGIA TO ARMENIA [...] (C) Armenian officials have confirmed news reports that the transfer of materiel from Russian military bases in Georgia to a Russian military base in Armenia is already underway. According to Russian DCM Igor Gromyko, the transfer will not violate the conditions of the Conventional Forces in [...]	2005-06-17 02:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV PREL PBTS AM GG RU
05YEREVAN1066	CIVIC ACTION MAY RE-ROUTE CONTROVERSIAL TRANS- [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Treat Accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Transport and Communication announced plans earlier this spring to construct a highway that some NGOs claim would destroy one of the last remaining forest reserves in Armenia. An organ [...]	2005-06-17 13:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SENV AM
05YEREVAN1067	ARMENIA WILL CONVEY MESSAGE ON BIOETHICS [...] (SBU) We delivered demarche and talking points to MFA Chief of International Organizations Department Valery Mkrtumyan and MFA Americas Department Chief Lilit Toutkhalian June 15 per reftel instructions. While our MFA contacts were generally receptive to USG positions and promised to raise our [...]	2005-06-17 13:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AM UNESCO KSCI
05YEREVAN1074	U.S. INVESTORS WIN IMPORTANT VICTORY AGAINST GOAM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On June 16, Armenia's court of appeals ruled in favor of a group of American investors who have been trying, for over two years, to collect USD 2 million in taxes that they had overpaid to the [...]	2005-06-20 12:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID ETRD AM
05YEREVAN108	SIX CASES OF TRAFFICKING PROSECUTED AS [...] (SBU) The Prosecutor General's (PG) Office provided detailed information on six criminal cases prosecuted in 2004 under Article 262 of the Armenian Criminal Code on the Organization of Prostitution (i.e., pimping). The defendants of all the cases were either recruiters, mediators, or pimps who [...]	2005-01-21 12:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP
05YEREVAN1083	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-21 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1084	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: REFORMING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Post delivered reftel talking points to MFA International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan on June 21. Mkrtumyan said that the GOAM supports the idea of a standing, solutions-oriented council. He warned, however, that most of our points would require additional "deliberati [...]	2005-06-21 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KUNR AM
05YEREVAN109	RUMORS TOUT ABRAHAMIAN TO LEAD NEW "SUPER- [...] (SBU) Galust Sahakian, Head of the National Assembly Republican Faction and close ally of Minister of Territorial Administration Hovik Abrahamian, revealed January 19 that Abrahamian will likely take over a new "super-ministry" taking shape within the GOAM. This new appointment would make Abr [...]	2005-01-21 12:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1091	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO DVC WITH AMBASSADOR [...] SUMMARY: On June 17, 2005 U.S. Embassy Yerevan held a digital video conference (DVC) on the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report with Ambassador John Miller, director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Media coverage of the conference was widespr [...]	2005-06-23 02:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC KPAO AM KTIP
05YEREVAN1095	ARMENIA CHOOSING BETWEEN IRANIAN AND RUSSIAN ROLE [...] (C) As work begins on the first 42 km segment of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline, Armenia is engaged in shuttle negotiations with both the Russian and Iranian governments about financing and, ultimately, control of the onward portions of the gas pipeline through Armenian territory. Deputy Minist [...]	2005-06-23 12:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET AM IR RU
05YEREVAN1096	GOAM WON'T COMMIT TO SHUTDOWN DATE FOR NUCLEAR [...] (C) During a June 22 conference on Armenia Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP) Decommissioning, delegates from the European Commission reiterated their call for Armenia to close its nuclear power plant "reasonably early" due to safety concerns, and renewed an offer of 100 million euro in assistance to [...]	2005-06-23 12:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EAID AM
05YEREVAN1097	YEREVAN DASHNAKS DOWNPLAY DISAPPOINTMENT IN N-K [...] (C) Local representatives of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF - "Dashnaksutyun") have been downplaying the results of the June 19 balloting in Nagorno-Karabakh in which their ARF/Movement 88 alliance (who many predicted would fare best in the election - reftel) won only three seats in [...]	2005-06-23 12:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN110	J-1 SUMMER WORK AND TRAVEL CALLBACK [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Action request. Please see paragraph 10. ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (SBU) Post's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) performed a callback survey of all summer 2004 J-1 work and travel program participan [...]	2005-01-21 12:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CMGT CVIS AM
05YEREVAN1105	ENGAGING ARMENIA IN ADVANCE OF THE IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-24 12:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV IZ AM
05YEREVAN111	NEW REGIONAL ANTI-TIP NGO NETWORK [...] The United Nations Development Program (UNDP),which implements a project on combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in partnership with the GOAM, has launched a local and regional (Caucasus) NGO network on fighting organized crime, particularly TIP and illegal migration. Members of the netwo [...]	2005-01-21 13:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KWMN SMIG KCRM AM KTIP
05YEREVAN1142	GOAM ENDORSEMENT OF COE RECOMMENDATIONS MAY TEMPT [...] (C) Armenia's delegation to the Council of Europe (CoE) announced June 24 that it would accept almost all CoE Venice Commission recommendations as part of the country's constitutional reform process. High-level endorsement of the move is the most encouraging sign to date that the GOAM is taki [...]	2005-06-29 12:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1169	ARMENIAN IMPORTER SPELLS OUT THE CASE AGAINST [...] (SBU) In a rare kiss-and-tell affront to Armenia's powerful Customs Service, a major Armenian coffee importer has gone to press and publicly described corruption in the service, alleging that Customs is trying to push them out of business because they refuse to continue paying bribes to govern [...]	2005-07-01 11:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EAID AM
05YEREVAN1180	GOAM CONFIRMS NEW ROUTE FOR IRAN-ARMENIA ROAD [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Treat Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Following the public outcry by local and international organizations (reftel),the GOAM confirmed June 30 that President Robert Kocharian has approved the alternative route for a new road which will connect Armenia's southernmost [...]	2005-07-06 08:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SENV AM
05YEREVAN1203	UN REFORM: PROMOTING OUR PRIORITIES - [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Treat Accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered demarche and talking points regarding USG reform priorities at the United Nations on June 21 to MFA International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan per reftel instructions. We followed up with Mkrtumyan [...]	2005-07-07 05:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KUNR PREL PGOV AORC AM UNSC
05YEREVAN1229	COMPETITION COMES TO ARMENIA'S TELECOM SECTOR [...] (SBU) In the culmination of Armenia's years-long struggle to end Armentel's monopoly on telecommunications in Armenia, a second mobile telephone operator entered the market on July 1. Backed by Karabakh Telecom, the monopoly operator in Nagorno-Karabakh, VivaCell immediately undercut Armentel's [...]	2005-07-12 02:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	BTIO ECON EINV AM
05YEREVAN1234	RUSSIAN ENERGY GIANT RAO-UES BUYS ARMENIAN [...] (C) Russian energy giant RAO-UES has reportedly taken over Armenia's electricity distribution company, Electricity Networks of Armenia (ElNetArm),without formally seeking approval, as required by law, from Armenia's Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) or Ministry of Energy. Despite [...]	2005-07-12 11:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON AM GG RU
05YEREVAN1254	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-14 12:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER AM UNGA
05YEREVAN1261	MONITORING BOARD CALLS ARMENIAN PRISON CONDITIONS [...] (SBU) Conditions in Armenian prisons remain "unsatisfactory" despite some improvements, according to a report by Armenia's Civil Society Monitoring Board (CSMB). On June 30, CSMB members hosted a roundtable discussion where they announced the results of inspections they conducted from June thr [...]	2005-07-15 06:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1263	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOAM FAVORS UNSC EXPANSION [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche points regarding UNSC expansion to GOAM Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian on July 13. Oskanian confirmed initial reports that the GOAM has already committed to support the G-4 resolution but would also support efforts to delay an early vote. Accordin [...]	2005-07-15 09:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AM UNSC
05YEREVAN1264	ARMENIAN OMBUDSMAN REPORTS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS [...] (SBU) On July 7, Armenian Ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan unveiled the GOAM's first Human Rights website and released a statistical report on human rights complaints against the GOAM. The event coincided with fresh allegations that the Armenian National Security Service (NSS) continues to harass [...]	2005-07-15 09:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN127	(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for January 2005. Major headlines include: -- EBRD invests in private Armenian construction company; -- French company takes over Armenia's water supply system under the World Bank credit program; -- Kazakh b [...]	2005-01-26 09:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN1277	ARMENIA FIRMLY SUPPORTS G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION [...] (C) CDA delivered ref a points on July 18 to Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Baiburtian. Baiburtian acknowledged the strength of the arguments presented, but said that Armenia's position to support the G-4 proposal (as reported in ref b) was firm. Armenia shared the U.S. view that reform shoul [...]	2005-07-18 11:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AM UNGA
05YEREVAN1282	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NAJARIAN INVESTMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per reftel we delivered points to Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan, who is responsible for monitoring Armenia's international obligations under Bilateral Investment Treaties. Davtyan told [...]	2005-07-18 12:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV KIDE AM
05YEREVAN1290	ARMENIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS: ON THE RIGHT [...] (C) On July 7, the GOAM submitted a revised package of constitutional amendments to the Council of Europe (CoE) Venice Commission. Though the proposed GOAM revisions appear to track Venice Commission recommendations, they are unlikely to build public consensus. Opposition groups, still trying [...]	2005-07-19 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1298	ARMENIA DRAGS ITS FEET ON PROLIFERATION SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-20 10:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP AM
05YEREVAN1307	GOAM VETS NEW COPYRIGHT LAW [...] (SBU) The Head of Armenia's Intellectual Property Agency, Armen Azizyan, has presented a proposed new copyright law to give the public and the international community a chance to comment before he submits the law to the National Assembly during the 2005 fall session. Azizyan noted (correctl [...]	2005-07-21 11:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR AM
05YEREVAN131	CESIUM 137 CONFISCATED ON THE TURKISH BORDER [...] (C) At a January 23 meeting, Ashot Martirosyan, head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ANRA) told us that on 16 December, a source of Cesium 137 was seized by Turkish Authorities at the Turkish-Georgian border. Martirosyan stated that he received a fax from the Turkish Atomic Energy [...]	2005-01-26 11:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC AM KPRP
05YEREVAN1320	COURT SUSPENDS SENTENCE, TRAFFICKER WALKS [...] (SBU) A court in Yerevan sentenced Lusine Hakobyan, the Armenian organizer of a Yerevan-Dubai prostitution/trafficking network, to two years imprisonment. The judge, however, suspended the sentence and Hakobyan will instead serve one year of supervised probation. Armenian Association of Inves [...]	2005-07-22 06:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV PREL AM KTIP
05YEREVAN1322	LETTER OF REQUEST (LOR) FOR PEACEKEEPING UNIT [...] On July 18, the Armenian MoD delivered a letter of request for equipment to be funded by FMF. This request, which is for deployable medical support equipment, has the support of the country team. It is part of Armenia's overall effort to establish a deployable peacekeeping brigade, in suppo [...]	2005-07-22 12:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP AM
05YEREVAN133	LEADER OF ARYAN UNION PARTY ARRESTED FOR [...] (SBU) On January 24 Armenian authorities arrested Armen Avetisyan on charges of "inciting national, racial or religious hatred publicly and through mass media means" in what authorities called a "preemptive" measure. Avetisyan is the leader of the small, marginal extremist Armenian Aryan Unio [...]	2005-01-26 13:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM AM
05YEREVAN1342	(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for July 2005. Major headlines include: -- World Bank to provide USD 20 million agricultural loan to the Armenian government; -- World Bank supports an Urban Heating Project for Armenia; -- The Lincy Foundati [...]	2005-07-26 12:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN1352	ARMENIA: A STEP FORWARD ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: [...] (C) On July 21, the Council of Europe's Venice Commission issued a generally positive assessment of the GOAM's revised draft constitutional amendments. While this brings Armenia an important step closer to a November referendum, much remains to be done. The Venice Commission hailed proposals [...]	2005-07-28 13:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1353	TIME FOR PRAGMATISM: ARMENIA PLANS TO KEEP [...] (C) Despite U.S. and European pressure on Armenia to close the Armenia Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP),the Government of Armenia does not believe it has an alternative to continuing the plant's operation until 2016 and beyond (reftels). Armenia also believes that, thanks to the assistance of forei [...]	2005-07-29 02:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EAID AM
05YEREVAN136	NEW "PRO-WESTERN" OPPOSITION BLOC A POTENTIAL [...] (SBU) Armenian political elites continue to speculate on the implications of the recently announced union of opposition figures Aram Sargsyan, Raffi Hovannisian, and Hovhannes Hovhannisian. The new alliance, painting itself as "the most western-leaning" in Armenia, has stated that its princip [...]	2005-01-26 13:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1387	ARMENIA: ANTI-TIP ACTION PLAN PRESENTED [...] (SBU) On August 1, CDA delivered reftel points to Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian, underscoring the USG's judgment that Armenia has not shown increasing efforts to combat trafficking. We presented the proposed action plan, urging concrete steps forward, noting that the Department of [...]	2005-08-03 06:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL AM KTIP
05YEREVAN139	ARMENIA'S 2005 BUDGET: MORE BUTTER, STILL PLENTY [...] (C) The GOAM has billed the 2005 budget as having a social focus. Both tax receipts and social spending are set to rise ambitiously in line with the GOAM's Poverty Reduction Strategy. After much debate, official defense spending is set to rise too, although spending on education will exceed [...]	2005-01-27 11:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EFIN AM
05YEREVAN1394	PUSHING THE WRONG BUTTONS, OR HOW NOT TO [...] (SBU) Opposition leader Aram Sargsian and his Republic Party have been among the most vocal opponents of the current government in Armenia and have recently announced an August revolution in the press, along with claims that the USG will support Sargsian's presidential and revolutionary ambiti [...]	2005-08-03 12:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1407	ARMENIA: GOOD PROGRESS ON DEFENSE ASSESSMENT [...] (C) Although it took nearly two years to get Armenia to agree to a defense assessment, now that it has begun, good progress is being made. The second visit of U.S. experts took place July 26-28. After consultations with Armenia's general staff, the current draft accurately describes Armenia' [...]	2005-08-04 13:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV PREL MARR AM
05YEREVAN142	MCA COMPACT PROPOSAL NEARS COMPLETION - [...] (SBU) During a January 25 meeting with Embassy and USAID representatives, GOAM Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy Tigran Khachatryan said that the GOAM's consultants were nearing completion on the MCA compact proposal and expected to present a copy to the GOAM MCA Board by February 10. Af [...]	2005-01-27 13:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KMCA PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1420	"CENSORSHIP" AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER [...] (SBU) In a short editorial comment on August 3 titled "Either Together, or Not on the Air," opposition newspaper Aravot alleged that the Kocharian Administration "ordered" Armenian television companies to provide air time to Ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan only if she appeared in programs with "Au [...]	2005-08-05 12:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1452	IPR POLICE UNIT (FINALLY) PUT IN ACTION [...] (SBU) In its first major action since its creation in January 2005, Armenia's IPR police unit July 20 cracked down on three companies which together control roughly 70 percent of the pirated CDs, DVDs and tapes market. The police confiscated more than 50,000 illegal CDs, tapes and videotape [...]	2005-08-12 10:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN KIPR AM
05YEREVAN1453	ARMENIA TAX REVENUES CONTINUE TO RISE [...] (SBU) One of the GOAM's main stated goals remains to increase tax revenues in order to support social spending while making the business environment fairer and more inviting. During the first half of 2005, tax revenues grew by 21.1 percent compared to the same period of previous year and comp [...]	2005-08-12 10:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID AM
05YEREVAN1479	TURKISH SCHOLAR: GUILTY BUT FREE TO GO [...] (C) On August 16, a local-level Yerevan court convicted Yektan Turkyilmaz, a Turkish citizen and Duke University doctoral candidate arrested June 17 at Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport, for attempting to smuggle eighty-eight "historically and culturally important" books and manuscripts out of Armen [...]	2005-08-16 13:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV AM TU
05YEREVAN149	PUBLIC BANTER ON KARS AGREEMENT PUTS OSKANIAN ON [...] (C) An exchange in the press between Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has captured what we believe is the most public acknowledgment by the GOAM's MFA (under the administration of President Robert Kocharian) of the validity Soviet-era border agreements. Res [...]	2005-01-31 11:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
05YEREVAN1492	LINES OF CONTACT--NEW GOAM TEAM TACKLING TURKEY [...] (C) Beyond the attention-grabbing meetings between GOAM Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian and Turkish MFA Deputy Undersecretary Ahmet Uzumcu (septel),the Armenians point to a series of government-to-government channels that provide opportunities for exchange with their estranged neigh [...]	2005-08-17 12:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
05YEREVAN1494	LATEST MEETING WITH TURKISH COUNTERPART [...] (C) On August 16, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian told the Ambassador that his recent meeting in Vienna with Turkish Deputy Undersecretary Ahmet Uzumcu was less productive than the GOAM had hoped. According to Kirakossian, the two sides still cannot agree on the structure or scope o [...]	2005-08-18 12:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
05YEREVAN1529	ARMENIAN MFA PROPOSES A2 VISA FOR NKR REP [...] SUMMARY: The issue of travel documents and visas for representatives of the "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" (NKR) to travel to the United States remains controversial. While it has been USG policy that it is useful for the NKR to have a voice in Washington, any recognition of the independence of [...]	2005-08-24 09:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS PREL AM
05YEREVAN1531	RAILROAD ISOLATION AN URGENT GOAM CONCERN [...] (C) Top Armenian government officials continue to voice their deep concern about plans to build a railroad which would further isolate Armenia and exclude it from the process of regional economic integration. This concern has been echoed by the Armenian-American community and has found reson [...]	2005-08-24 12:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD TU GA AM AJ
05YEREVAN154	UPDATE ON CESIUM 137 CONFISCATED ON THE TURKISH [...] (C) On January 31, we met with Armen Israelian, head of the MFA's Department for Arms Control and International Security to follow up on the reported (ref) seizure on the Georgia-Turkey border of cesium-137 reportedly originating in Armenia. Israelian said that the Armenian National Security [...]	2005-01-31 13:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC TU AM
05YEREVAN1550	ARMENIA: EXPLOITIVE CHILD LABOR REMAINS RARE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In March 2005, the Armenian National Assembly adopted and President Robert Kocharian signed legislation that established the State Labor Inspectorate, a new government agency responsible for [...]	2005-08-25 12:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AM USAID GTIP ILO
05YEREVAN1562	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOAM ADDRESSING THE THREAT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On August 23, Ambassador delivered reftel points to Haik Melik Darbinyan, First Deputy Minister of Health, Prof. Vladimir Davidiants, Chief of Public Health and Sanitation, and Liana Torosyan, Ministry of Health Coordinat [...]	2005-08-26 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ECON PREL SOCI GA AM KSTH WHO RU AZ
05YEREVAN1566	ARMENIA: PARLIAMENTARY SESSION ON CONSTITUTION [...] (C) On August 29, the Armenian National Assembly opened a highly-anticipated extraordinary session to debate the GOAM's proposed package of constitutional amendments (reftels). The debate lacked the substantive discussion we (and European observers) hoped would prevail. At times, the discussi [...]	2005-08-29 13:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1573	ARMENIAN SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT VISITING WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) Artur Baghdasarian, the young, energetic and charismatic Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly, is flying to Washington today for a ten-day visit including a seven-day Voluntary Visitor program that has been a joint effort by the Office of International Visitors, Embassy Yerevan, the [...]	2005-08-30 11:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AM
05YEREVAN1576	KOCHARIAN-SAAKASHVILI "UNOFFICIAL MEETINGS" [...] (SBU) On August 21, Armenian President Robert Kocharian hosted Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili at his summer residence on Lake Sevan for what Armenian press characterized as an "informal" visit. Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian and his Georgian counterpart Irakly Okruashvili a [...]	2005-08-30 12:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON GG AM RU
05YEREVAN1589	ARMENIA WILL NOT PARTICIPATE TO THE CODEX AD [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-01 08:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO EAGR AM
05YEREVAN1593	ARMENIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) The Armenian National Assembly passed the proposed package of constitutional amendments on September 1, triggering a series of procedural steps that include a final, pro forma vote tentatively scheduled for mid- to late-September, and a referendum in November. Opposition leaders suspended [...]	2005-09-01 12:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1596	TFUS01: ARMENIAN OFFER OF ASSISTANCE [...] (U) The Republic of Armenia has offered to send as many as thirty trained rescue workers to the U.S. at its own expense to assist in search and rescue operations in New Orleans. End Summary. 2. (SBU) President Kocharian's Chief of Staff called Ambassador the afternoon of September 2 to make [...]	2005-09-02 12:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON AEMR ASEC AMGT AM
05YEREVAN1604	TFUS01: ARMENIAN OFFER OF MONETARY AND OTHER [...] (SBU) In a telephone conversation with Ambassador Evans this morning, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian, on behalf of the Armenian Government, offered USD 100,000 in cash to support Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts. This follows the September 2 offer of as many as thirty trai [...]	2005-09-06 12:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR AMGT ASEC ECON PREL AM
05YEREVAN1625	HOLD THE PRESSES: TURKISH SCHOLAR RETURNS TO U.S. [...] (C) Yektan Turkyilmaz, the Turkish citizen and Duke University doctoral student arrested for attempting to smuggle controlled books and manuscripts out of Armenia (reftel),departed Yerevan for his home in Durham, North Carolina on September 2. Despite claims in court to the contrary, Turkyil [...]	2005-09-08 10:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TU GG AM
05YEREVAN1627	CENTRAL BANK CLARIFIES NEW CURRENCY LAW, INVESTORS [...] (SBU) On July 26, the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) published clarifications of the new currency law (reftel). The clarifications state that the law is not retroactive and detail certain exceptions to the law's requirement that prices be quoted in Armenian drams. Edith Khachatourian, local at [...]	2005-09-08 11:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN EAID KTDB AM
05YEREVAN1628	FORMER NKR REP NOW APPLYING FOR A2 VISA AS [...] Post has received two diplomatic notes from the Government of Armenia in as many days requesting that two-year validity A2 visas be issued to former "Nagorno Karabakh Republic"(NKR) Representative Vardan Barseghyan and his wife. In the second note Barseghyan is described as an Armenian MFA em [...]	2005-09-08 11:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS PREL AM
05YEREVAN1641	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIA LIKELY TO JOIN THE [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-09 11:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EAID KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO AM UNGA
05YEREVAN1644	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN SUMMIT OUTCOME DOCUMENT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-09 13:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM UNGA
05YEREVAN1657	SEVEN OPPOSITION MPS END THEIR BOYCOTT OF [...] (C) The seven MPs of the opposition National Unity Party officially ended their 19-month boycott of parliament on September 12. Their return comes as the National Assembly continues discussion of a draft constitutional amendments package (ref) and local media and observers devote more attenti [...]	2005-09-12 12:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1665	A2 VISA REQUEST AND ACCOMPANYING DIP NOTE [...] (SBU) The Government of the Republic of Armenia is withdrawing any and all requests for an A2 visa for Vardan Barseghyan, representative of the "Nagorno Karabakh Republic." Instead Barseghyan and his wife will apply in person for B1/B2 visas on Monday September 19. 2. (SBU) In withdrawing [...]	2005-09-13 10:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS PREL AM
05YEREVAN1678	ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTERY STATEMENT SUPPORTS IRAQI [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-15 04:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IZ AM
05YEREVAN168	YEREVAN UNABLE TO RECOMMEND AN OSCE EXTRA- [...] (SBU) The OSCE's program of criminal justice reform in Armenia has had several positive effects, including support and training for a fledgling prison monitoring board and minor improvement of living conditions at several prisons. Post cannot recommend additional funding for the project at th [...]	2005-02-01 10:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ABUD AFIN KCRM KJUS PHUM AM OSCE
05YEREVAN1686	AMBASSADOR PRESSES KOCHARIAN TO SUPPORT USG [...] (S) On 15 September, the Ambassador met with President Kocharian for just over an hour, at our request, primarily to discuss the USG's upcoming push for free and fair elections in Armenia in 2007 (parliamentary) and 2008 (presidential). The Ambassador opened the meeting by thanking Kocharian f [...]	2005-09-16 09:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PREL EAID PHUM AM
05YEREVAN1690	RADICAL OPPOSITION PARTY SPLITS OVER [...] (SBU) On August 30 Armenia's radical opposition Republic party split, ending a year of increasingly vocal disagreements between pro-Western party leader Aram Z. Sargsian and pro-Russian Albert Bazeyan (former party chairman and former Yerevan mayor). Despite the split (both Sargsian and Bazey [...]	2005-09-19 11:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1692	MORE THAN 750,000 VOTES NEEDED TO PASS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------------------------------------- NOVEMBER 20 LIKELY DATE FOR REFERENDUM -------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) President Robert Kocharian and the members of the ruling Coalition parties have preliminarily set No [...]	2005-09-19 11:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1703	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOAM SUPPORTS UNESCO CULTURAL [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-20 08:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	SCUL ETRD AM UNESCO
05YEREVAN1705	MACROECONOMIC NEWS: ARMENIA'S DOUBLE-DIGIT GROWTH [...] (SBU) Based on raw data provided by the National Statistical Service, Armenia's economy grew by 10.2 percent in the first six months of 2005 (compared to the same period in 2004). The inflation rate during the same period was 2.3 percent. Budget revenues and expenditures increased by 25.4 an [...]	2005-09-20 09:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID AM

05YEREVAN1707	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER TUMANYAN TO FORM A [...] (SBU) As local politicians begin to gear up for the 2007-2008 elections in Armenia, the rumor that President Robert Kocharian's Chief of Staff, Artashes Tumanyan, may enter national politics with his own party, is still big news. Tumanyan has been in politics since 1990 and has been promoted [...]	2005-09-20 13:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1711	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONDING TO ENERGY SUPPLY [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-22 12:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG AM
05YEREVAN1717	DETAILS OF SHOOTING INCIDENT ON LINE OF CONTACT [...] (C) The September 20 shooting incident on the line of contact seemed clearly directed to disrupt N-K negotiations and will certainly be raised at the OSCE Permanent Council. While there is no way to determine which side fired, the round -- which impacted about 20 meters from an international [...]	2005-09-23 11:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MASS AJ AM OSCE
05YEREVAN1722	ARMENIA: NOT MUCH EXTREMISM HERE [...] (S) With 98 percent of the population ethnically Armenian and at least nominally Christian, extremism, and particularly Islamic extremism, is not perceived to be a serious problem in Armenia. The vast majority of Armenians belong to the Apostolic Church, an Eastern Christian denomination which [...]	2005-09-26 12:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI AM
05YEREVAN1725	GOAM FORMALLY ACCEPTS SALE OF NATIONAL ELECTRICAL [...] (C) On September 23, Armenian Minister of Energy Armen Movsisian announced that the GOAM has consented to the formal sale of the national power grid Electricity Networks of Armenia (ENA) to Interenergo B.V., a subsidiary of Russian energy giant RAO-UES. According to news reports, the GOAM con [...]	2005-09-26 12:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON GG AM RU
05YEREVAN1729	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 11TH ANNUAL CENTRAL AND [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-27 11:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP BMGT EAIR AM
05YEREVAN173	ARMENIA CONFIRMS RELEASE OF POWS BY AZERBAIJAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-01 12:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS AM AJ OSCE
05YEREVAN1730	ARMENIA JOINS INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON AVIAN [...] (U) On September 27, CDA Godfrey met with Armenian Minister of Health Norayr Davidian to discuss the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, invite Armenia to participate in the Senior Officials Meeting and pass reftel A points. Prof. Vladimir Davidyants, the GOAM point of [...]	2005-09-27 12:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA EAGR ECON PREL SOCI AM WHO
05YEREVAN1731	ARMENIA: LOCAL ELECTIONS SERIOUSLY FLAWED [...] (C) Local election monitors, news media, and our own employees are among the growing chorus of critics of "widespread violations" in local Armenian elections, currently being held across the country on a rolling schedule from September 18 through October 23. Local elections have spurred accus [...]	2005-09-27 13:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
05YEREVAN1747	STRONG INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION AT ARMENIAN [...] (U) More than 180 businesses participated in the 5th annual Armenian Expo in Yerevan on September 14-17. The conference organizer, LOGOS EXPO, designed the event to identify new markets for Armenian products, encourage foreign investment in Armenia, demonstrate the strength of the Armenian ec [...]	2005-09-29 11:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN KTDB BBSR BEXP AM
05YEREVAN1748	TIP: UZBEK TRAFFICKING CONVICTION LEAVES CONCERNS [...] (C) On September 22, a local-level court in Yerevan sentenced Uzbek citizen Natella Saghatelyan to five years imprisonment for trafficking and forgery. The Armenian National Security Service (NSS) arrested Saghatelyan in March 2005 for trafficking Uzbek women, and a minor girl, through Armeni [...]	2005-09-29 12:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV AM KTIP
05YEREVAN1749	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS [...] (C) On September 28, the Armenian National Assembly passed in third and final reading a package of revised constitutional reforms that will be put to national referendum in November (reftels). Despite the legal requirement that only technical changes are permitted between the second and third [...]	2005-09-29 12:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1758	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNFC RESOLUTION ON COMPLIANCE [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-30 11:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL AM CDG UNGA
05YEREVAN1759	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ICJ ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-30 11:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	AM UNSC UNGA
05YEREVAN1764	PRESIDENT KOCHARYAN TAKES OWNERSHIP OF NEW [...] On September 30, at a conference to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Armenian Constitution and the Formation of the Constitutional Court, President Kocharian emphasized the importance of upcoming Constitutional Reforms to the establishment of rule of law in Armenia. In his re [...]	2005-09-30 12:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN1790	CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM SET FOR NOVEMBER 27 [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-04 12:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1795	ARMENIA: PARLIAMENT RATIFIES INTERNATIONAL LABOR [...] Per reftels, Post provides the following update regarding exploitive child labor: -- On October 3, the Armenian National Assembly ratified International Labor Organization (ILO) Minimum Age Convention 138. Armenpress News Agency quoted Labor and Social Affairs Minister Aghvan Vardanyan, w [...]	2005-10-05 08:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AM USAID GTIP ILO
05YEREVAN1797	KERKORIAN'S LINCY FOUNDATION ROLLS OUT LATEST (60 [...] (C) Representatives of Amcit philanthropist and corporate mogul Kirk Kerkorian's Lincy Foundation told us September 25 that their latest set of programs in Armenia would begin no later than mid-October. The USD 60 million, two-year package of projects will include renovation of a major highway [...]	2005-10-05 09:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1806	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: WTO/DOHA TALKING POINTS [...] (SBU) On October 4 we delivered reftel points to Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan. Davtyan said free trade is a GOAM priority and that the average tariff rate in Armenia is three percent. This average reflects the total amount collected under a streamlined tari [...]	2005-10-06 15:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV PREL AM WTRO
05YEREVAN1807	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: WOOD PACKAGING MATERIAL [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-07 02:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD AM
05YEREVAN1811	ARMENIA: MORE PROGRESS ON DEFENSE COOPERATION [...] (C) During September 28-29 Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC) in Yerevan, the Armenian military's senior leadership indicated an encouraging commitment to openness and transparency, engaging in straightforward discussions centered on Armenia's current threat environment. According to Minis [...]	2005-10-07 10:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PGOV PREL MARR AM
05YEREVAN1818	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-11 05:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD OPDC PREL SCUL UNESCO BHUM
05YEREVAN1829	ARMENIA'S JUDGES STEP FORWARD [...] (U) SUMMARY: At their autumn general meeting, Armenia's judges collectively stole a march on the country's ruling political parties and came out strongly and forthrightly in favor of the Council-of-Europe-approved Constitutional amendments, while also approving a Code of Ethics that USAID-sup [...]	2005-10-13 06:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR AM
05YEREVAN1835	HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE: ARMENIANS LINK [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-14 04:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS AM UNGA
05YEREVAN1842	MURDER SUSPECT RE-ELECTED AS TOWN MAYOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. --------------------------------------- MURDER CHARGES DON'T DISSUADE VOTERS... --------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) The campaign for mayor of the town of Nor Hajn (about 20 minutes outside of Yerevan in the Kotayk [...]	2005-10-14 11:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1844	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SECRETARY GUTIERREZ LETTER AND [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-14 11:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL SCUL AM UNESCO
05YEREVAN1845	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-14 12:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS AM UNGA
05YEREVAN1856	UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF MASS BIRD DEATHS IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) In a recent news article, Ornithologist Martin Adamyan reported that mass bird deaths had been observed in the Lake Sevan and Arpi regions of Armenia. He speculated that bird migration patterns made it particularly likely that avian flu will be found in Armenia in the near future. Deput [...]	2005-10-18 09:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSCA ECON PREL SOCI AM WHO EAGR
05YEREVAN1881	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY VOTE [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-20 12:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETRD SCUL AM UNESCO
05YEREVAN1885	ARMENIA: NONCOMMITTAL ON SUPPORT FOR NATO [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-21 12:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC EAID MASS PGOV PREF PREL PK AM NATO
05YEREVAN1886	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO A/S FRIED'S VISIT [...] SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried, accompanied by U.S. Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Eurasian Conflicts Steven Mann, visited Armenia on October 18. The visit, which included a short press availability, highlighted A/S Fried's st [...]	2005-10-24 03:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC KPAO AM
05YEREVAN189	IMI (ARMENIA): HOW TO ESTABLISH AN OFFICE IN [...] This cable explains the process of opening a business in Armenia. It describes the varieties of corporate structures under Armenian law, the process of establishing and registering companies with foreign participation, and the practical aspects of renting office space, hiring personnel, and [...]	2005-02-02 12:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN1890	GOAM TO SUPPORT BUERGENTHAL FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-24 12:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	AM UNSC UNGA
05YEREVAN1892	ARMENIA'S SUPPORT FOR UNESCO CONVENTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-25 10:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM SCUL AM ETD UNESCO
05YEREVAN1899	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTING THE WORLD CUSTOMS [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-25 12:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON ETRD AM
05YEREVAN19	ARMENIA: INCONSISTENT CLAIMS OF RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) On January 6, Forum 18, a Norwegian NGO, reported that Armen Grigoryan, an Armenian citizen eligible for mandatory military service, had been refused status as a conscientious objector, hazed and forced to serve in Nagorno- Karabakh against his will. Post is investigating the claims mad [...]	2005-01-07 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1900	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUMMARY REPORT OF THE FIRST [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-25 12:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSCA SENV ECON PREL AM WHO FAO EAGR
05YEREVAN1905	MASS BIRD DEATHS REPORTED IN NORTHERN IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-26 11:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSCA ECON PREL SOCI IR AM WHO EAGR
05YEREVAN1906	LATEST OPPOSITION PARTY RALLY -- SAME RHETORIC, [...] (U) Aram Sargsyan's opposition Republic Party held a party meeting and rally October 25 in Yerevan's Matenadaran (Manuscript Museum) Square. The rally was peaceful and a modest police force of four officers was stationed at the sidelines of the meeting to assist with traffic flow and help ped [...]	2005-10-26 12:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC AM
05YEREVAN1907	GOAM REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE TO IDENTIFY ABANDONED [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) This is an action request. In a dipnote dated October 21 and received October 26, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian officially requested USG assistance -- both financial and technical [...]	2005-10-26 12:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP PGOV PHUM PREL AM
05YEREVAN1911	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIAN SUPPORT FOR PAK [...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding Pakistan's MI-17 helicopter operations to Deputy Minister of Defense General-Lieutenant Artur Aghabekyan. Aghabekyan contacted Chief Military Inspector General-Lieutenant Alik Mirzabekyan, who said that Armenia does not/not have MI-17 helicopters in it [...]	2005-10-27 12:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC EAID IN PGOV PK PREF MASS AM NATO
05YEREVAN1920	GOAM TO SUPPORT BUERGENTHAL FOR ICJ [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-31 07:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	AM UNGA UNSC
05YEREVAN1921	NO GOAM POSITION YET: WORLD SUMMIT ON THE [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-31 09:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC AM
05YEREVAN1927	LOCAL ELECTIONS END WITH ALLEGATIONS OF CONTINUED [...] (C) Armenian local elections -- held September 18 through October 23 -- met international standards, Central Electoral Commission Head Garegin Azaryan told reporters during an October 28 press conference. Local election monitors, however, disputed Azaryan's claim and alleged "widespread viola [...]	2005-11-01 11:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN1930	GOAM AGREES: IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S RHETORIC [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-01 13:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM IR AM
05YEREVAN1931	IN LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE, PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Armenian President Kocharian summoned the Ambassador to complain, as he has done before, about activities of the National Democratic Institute, in particular those of its current director, who is scheduled to depart next week. This time he put his complaint into a letter to Secr [...]	2005-11-01 13:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PHUM EAID PINR AM
05YEREVAN1932	ADOLESCENT GROWING PAINS: ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Armenia's National Assembly marked its fifteenth anniversary November 1 with an international symposium that included legislators from around the globe and familiar political posturing by political figures from around the country. National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasaryan used the conf [...]	2005-11-01 13:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1934	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH NA SPEAKER BAGHDASARIAN [...] (C) During his October 18 meeting with National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian, Assistant Secretary Fried discussed democratic reform in the South Causasus, Armenia's relationship with Russia and regional security. A/S Fried urged Armenia to accelerate democratic reforms and closer relat [...]	2005-11-02 11:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1935	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIA TO SUPPORT UNSCR ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-02 11:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL IZ AM UNSC
05YEREVAN1938	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: EUR A/S FRIED'S [...] (C) Summary: During an October 18 lunch meeting with Armenian government officials, opposition parliamentarians, and academics, A/S Fried heard competing arguments about the package of constitutional amendments (reftels) slated for referendum on November 27. Supporters maintained the amendme [...]	2005-11-02 13:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OTRA AM
05YEREVAN1939	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO PRESS CONFERENCE ON [...] SUMMARY: On October 27, Ambassador Evans and USAID Mission Director Robin Phillips held a press conference on U.S. democracy assistance programs. The press conference focused on planned U.S. assistance to help Armenia hold free and fair parliamentary elections in 2007 and presidential electio [...]	2005-11-02 13:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC KPAO AM
05YEREVAN1940	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER SARGSIAN [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Fried described for Defense Minister Sargsian a sense in Washington that history in Armenia's neighborhood is accelerating, for better or worse. U.S.-Armenian relations, he said, have "unrealized potential." The United States wants to work with all its friends in the r [...]	2005-11-02 13:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN1956	ARMENIA: PRESIDENT APPROVES AMENDMENTS TO LAW ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On October 31, President Robert Kocharian approved legislation amending the Armenian Law on Conducting Meetings, Assemblies, Rallies and Demonstrations. The amendments include "most recommend [...]	2005-11-04 11:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1958	CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTIONS: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (C) On November 4, a local-level court in Sevan convicted (and sentenced to three years imprisonment) four Jehovah's Witnesses (Armenian citizens) on charges of "absence without leave from a military unit or place of service." The court initially charged the Jehovah's Witnesses with "desertion [...]	2005-11-04 12:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1960	REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES UP IN DRAFT 2006 BUDGET [...] (SBU) The GOAM draft budget for 2006, currently under debate in the National Assembly, envisages significant increases in health and social security expenditures paid for by increased tax revenue and deficit spending. The budget is based on an exchange rate of AMD 420 to the dollar, a dram ap [...]	2005-11-04 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID AM
05YEREVAN1961	GOAM HAS NO MANDATE TO RESOLVE N-K, ARMENIAN CIVIL [...] (C) During an October 18 breakfast with EUR A/S Fried and Ambassadors Mann and Evans, representatives of Armenian civil society were extremely skeptical about the implementation of a Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K) peace agreement. While there was some divergence of opinion, the majority of the repres [...]	2005-11-04 13:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ AM RU
05YEREVAN1968	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for October 2005. Major headlines include: -- Synopsys Inc. signs agreement to acquire HPL Technologies Inc.; -- Vanadzor Chemical Factory reopens; -- Armenia becomes 64th member of the Asian Development Bank; [...]	2005-11-07 13:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN1969	FOREIGN MINISTER'S PUBLIC STATEMENT ON IRANIAN [...] (U) On November 5, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told students and reporters at Yerevan State University that Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad's recent statement regarding Israel "will have no impact on Armenian-Iranian relations." Oskanian told the audience that "Israeli issues hav [...]	2005-11-07 13:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM IR AM
05YEREVAN1986	MONOPOLY CONTROL OF JET FUEL IMPORTS UNDERMINING [...] (SBU) Armenia is currently suffering from a severe jet fuel shortage which is undermining the profitability of the aviation sector and may have a long-term negative impact on Armenia's competitiveness. According to Executive Director of Armenia International Airports (AIA) Juan Pablo Gechijyan [...]	2005-11-09 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON ETRD AM
05YEREVAN1991	ARMENIA STILL UNDECIDED ON THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-10 13:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PINR AM UNHRC
05YEREVAN1992	ARMENIANS WILL NOT JEOPARDIZE ECONOMIC TIES FOR [...] (C) In a November 8 conversation with the Ambassador, Presidential chief of staff and co-chair of the Armenia-Iran Joint Economic Commission (JEC) Artashes Tumanian said he would have no choice but to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad in Tehran on November 11 (reftels),but that [...]	2005-11-10 13:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM IR AM
05YEREVAN1993	PUBLICITY AND CASH PUSH FOR A "YES" VOTE IN [...] (C) While politicians on both sides of the issue are busy trading political capital over the issue of proposed constitutional amendments, pro-government forces are spending hefty amounts of hard cash in a nationwide publicity campaign aimed to get out the "yes" vote. Post views the "Yes" media [...]	2005-11-10 13:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN1994	CONGRESSMAN HASTINGS URGES ARMENIA TO INVITE OSCE [...] (SBU) During a November 7-9 visit to Armenia, Rep. Alcee Hastings, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, made a strong case to top Armenian officials to reconsider their decision not to invite OSCE observers to monitor the constitutional referendum scheduled for November 27. In a seri [...]	2005-11-11 05:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
05YEREVAN2001	EUR/TIP: INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Since January 2005, the GOAM has made progress on fighting trafficking in persons, especially in promoting the National Action Plan and increasing prosecutions under the anti-trafficking statute, but still has a significant way to go on some crucial areas. The following responses are g [...]	2005-11-15 05:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AM
05YEREVAN2006	ARMENIA UNLIKELY TO CHANGE ITS POSITION ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-15 13:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PINR AM IR UNHRC
05YEREVAN2007	AND THEN THERE WERE TWO...DWINDLING NUMBER OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------------------------------------- DEPMIN'S DISMISSAL: FROM BAD TO WORSE -------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) On November 8 the GOAM announced the removal of Lilit Asatryan as Deputy Minister of Culture and You [...]	2005-11-15 13:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN2008	CONGRESSMAN HASTINGS'S VISIT TO ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Congressman Alcee Hastings (President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly) visited Armenia November 7-9 as the country was preparing for a constitutional referendum on November 27 and already looking ahead to parliamentary elections in 2007 and presidential elections in 2008. During meeti [...]	2005-11-16 05:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM AJ AM
05YEREVAN2009	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIAN SUPPORT FOR OAS [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-16 07:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PTER CO AM OAS
05YEREVAN2018	2006 BUDGET INCREASES SOCIAL SPENDING [...] (U) On November 11, the National Assembly approved the 2006 budget which includes a 22 percent increase in public spending funded by continued economic growth, improved tax collection and international donor support. The 2006 budget calls for AMD 482.2 billion (USD 1.15 billion at the project [...]	2005-11-17 11:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID PGOV AM
05YEREVAN2022	ARMENIA: LACK OF SUPPORT FOR PAKISTAN RELIEF [...] (C) On multiple occasions since October 21, Armenian Defense and Foreign Affairs officials have not responded to our calls for military and other assistance -- which we think they are capable of rendering -- to the Pakistan relief effort. Early promises to answer requests for assistance (reft [...]	2005-11-17 13:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AEMR ASEC EAID PGOV PREF MASS AM IN PK NATO
05YEREVAN2023	FM BRAINSTORMS WITH DONORS, DIASPORA ON HIS NEW [...] (C) Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian has hosted discussions with international donors over the past two weeks to brainstorm on a new Ministry of Foreign Affairs initiative aimed at galvinizing diaspora resources to alleviate poverty in rural Armenia. Oskanian's initial plans suggest the plan [...]	2005-11-18 04:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN2028	RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT: ARMENIA "LIKELY TO [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-18 10:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL AORC IS SZ AM ICRC
05YEREVAN2030	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION: ARMENIA MISSES [...] (C) Following what appeared to be good progress toward implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC),Armenian MFA Global Security and Non-Conventional Issues Acting Division Head Karen Matirossian told us during a recent meeting that, as he had predicted in March (ref B),the GOAM w [...]	2005-11-18 11:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ABUD AM AROC CWC CBW OPCW
05YEREVAN2031	ARMENIA'S REFERENDUM NOT QUITE ON THE RIGHT TRACK? [...] (C) While Armenia's leaders state they are committed to running a clean referendum on November 27, some recent actions call this into question. The GOAM has decided to permit no international observers except those from the Council of Europe and it is pulling out all the stops to promote a "y [...]	2005-11-18 12:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN2033	LETTER FROM PRIME MINISTER ANDRANIK [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia transmitted, via diplomatic note No. 8/13455 dated November 17, 2005, a letter from Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan to John Hewko, Vice President of the Country Programs of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),expressing [...]	2005-11-18 13:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN2039	ARMENIA WILL SUPPORT US ON UZBEKISTAN RESOLUTION [...] (C) We delivered demarche and talking points regarding UN Third Committee country resolutions to MFA International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan November 21 per reftel instructions. Mkrtumyan said Armenia would not support a no-action motion on Turkmenistan and pledged Armen [...]	2005-11-21 12:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL AM
05YEREVAN2045	ARMENIA: TRANSFER OF CUSTODY OF L.A. MURDER [...] (SBU) On November 21, Armenian authorities transferred fugitive suspect Akop Akopyan to U.S. custody. Akopyan, a U.S. Permanent Resident but still an Armenian citizen, was the prime suspect in a September 2000 gangland murder in Los Angeles. The location, apprehension and eventual transfer of [...]	2005-11-22 10:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM ASEC CFED CPAS SOCI GG AM FBI
05YEREVAN2051	ARMENIA AS A DESTINATION COUNTRY--GOAM [...] (SBU) Tracking an alarm received from the "Hope and Help" NGO, the National Security Service (NSS),on November 16, discovered four trafficking victims from Ukraine in one of Yerevan's night-clubs. This is the first clear case of trafficking in which Armenia was the destination country and th [...]	2005-11-22 12:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM AM KTIP UA
05YEREVAN2053	ARMENIA: RESPONSE TO AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) Armenia is ill-prepared to respond to an avian influenza (AI) outbreak in either the animal or the human population. There is no active surveillance system in place and the GOAM currently lacks basic diagnostic capacity to evaluate any potential AI outbreak. There is, however, some sci [...]	2005-11-23 07:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL AMED AM WHO
05YEREVAN2061	RALLIES AND RHETORIC AS ARMENIA RAMPS-UP FOR THE [...] (C) The November 27 referendum on proposed constitutional amendments continues to dominate local news as political forces make their last-ditch efforts to garner popular support. Opposition leaders have announced a series of rallies on November 24-27 to protest what they are already calling [...]	2005-11-23 13:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN2062	ARMENIA: DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGY, 2005-2008 [...] (SBU) Armenia is at a crossroads in its democratic development. While the political landscape has remained relatively consistent since the last elections, the next two years will test the government's commitment to its reform agenda. As Assistant Secretary Fried said during his October visit [...]	2005-11-23 13:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KDEM PHUM PREL AM
05YEREVAN2065	COE DELEGATION TO OBSERVE IN LESS THAN 5 PERCENT [...] (C) Supporters and opponents of Armenia's November 27 referendum have shifted their focus to the capital in the final days before the ballot. Competing rallies have drawn lower-than-expected attendance and there have been few reports of confrontation. While most political observers expect i [...]	2005-11-25 14:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN2074	ARMENIA'S REFERENDUM: INFLATED TURNOUT, OBSERVERS [...] (C) Official results for voter turnout contrast sharply with those reported by opposition and some independent local observers for Armenia's November 27 referendum on constitutional amendments. The 14-member group of observers from the Council of Europe -- the only international observers ac [...]	2005-11-28 14:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN2075	OPPOSITION RALLY DRAWS LACKLUSTER RESPONSE [...] (C) Opposition leaders came together November 28 in a larger group than they have in the past, but still only managed to draw about 2500 people to an afternoon rally on a perfect fall day in Yerevan. One day after the constitutional referendum that Council of Europe (CoE) observers characteri [...]	2005-11-28 14:50:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC AM
05YEREVAN2079	DEMARCHE DELIVERED--PLANNED U.S.-RUSSION [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-29 11:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM RS
05YEREVAN2081	LOCAL OBSERVERS CITE MAJOR INFRACTIONS, STOP SHORT [...] (C) It's Your Choice (IYC),Armenia's largest election observation NGO (funded in part by the USG),announced during a November 29 press conference that there were major infractions during the recent referendum on constitutional amendments that had "serious impacts on the results." They stopp [...]	2005-11-30 06:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
05YEREVAN2082	ARMENIA'S LIMITED CAPACITY REGARDING FINCEN 314 [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-30 10:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN PTER LE SY AM
05YEREVAN2083	USG NEXT STEPS FOLLOWING A "MARRED" CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Despite what Council of Europe (CoE) observers are calling a "marred" referendum and considerable NGO and opposition concern about alleged voting irregularities (ref A),we expect that the CoE will simply move forward and quietly embrace the new constitution that it helped draft. World Ban [...]	2005-11-30 11:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN2094	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO U.S. RESPONSE TO [...] U.S. Embassy Yerevan posted a response to Armenia's November 27 constitutional referendum on its website based upon cleared press guidance from the Department. The response received extensive coverage in the Armenian press. Reports varied, with some outlets presenting the response as question [...]	2005-12-01 09:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC KPAO AM
05YEREVAN2095	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for November 2005. Major headlines include: -- Alcatel agrees to support the Armenian Enterprise Incubator Foundation; -- EBRD to expand financing program for Armenian banks; -- IMF approves USD 4.7 mln disbur [...]	2005-12-01 10:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN2104	ARMENIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT UNGA/60TH RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-05 11:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL MNUC AM UNGA
05YEREVAN2105	GOAM DETAINING, HARASSING OPPOSITION IN [...] (SBU) In the wake of a marred constitutional referendum and modest opposition rallies protesting the electoral fraud (reftels),over the past week the GOAM has opted to detain at least 50 opposition supporters for several hours at a time, with a number of the detainees credibly alleging that th [...]	2005-12-05 13:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM AM
05YEREVAN2109	RFE/RL BROADCASTS DISRUPTED IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcasts were periodically inaudible for three days in Armenia beginning on November 27, the day of the country's constitutional referendum. Armenia's state-run Public Radio claimed in a statement that the disruptions were due to technical prob [...]	2005-12-06 04:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PGOV AM
05YEREVAN2113	ARMENIAN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS: [...] "It is better for a child to die in Armenia than to be adopted abroad." While international adoptions are legal in Armenia, this pervasive negative attitude makes legislators and government officials nervous, giving rise to a lack of transparency in the process which in turn creates an enviro [...]	2005-12-06 09:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KOCI OIIP SCUL KPAO AM PHUM
05YEREVAN2118	IRANIAN ENERGY MINISTER'S VISIT TO ARMENIA - [...] (C) Iranian Energy Minister Parviz Pattah is currently visiting Armenia to inaugurate the country's first wind power plant and to tour the Fifth Unit of the Hrazdan Thermal Power Station. In September, the Iranian Government (GOI) agreed to provide USD 150 million to complete construction of t [...]	2005-12-07 14:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG ETRD IR AM
05YEREVAN2121	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY EXTENDS GOAM NON-COMBAT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-08 11:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM
05YEREVAN2125	AMMENDMENTS TO ARMENIAN CONSTITUTION CAME [...] (SBU) Armenia formally adopted its amended constitution December 8, following the closure of the seven-day window for filing legal challenges to the November 27 constitutional referendum. According to Armenian law, only the President or one-third of the Parliament have standing to challenge t [...]	2005-12-08 13:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN2129	ARMENIA HOPES FOR A DEAL ON GAZPROM'S THREATENED [...] (C) Despite Gazprom's recent announcement that, as of January 1, 2006, it plans to double the price of natural gas exports to Armenia, the GOAM appears to be holding out hope that it will be able to negotiate a deal to minimize the impact of and/or delay the price increase. According to press [...]	2005-12-08 15:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG AM RU
05YEREVAN2157	SQUEEZING THE ARMENIANS ON DEMOCRACY ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post has been talking to various Armenians in and out of government in an effort to advance our democracy agenda despite the tactical set-back represented by the flawed November 27 referendum on the constitutional amendments. While it is too early to say whether the Armenians "ge [...]	2005-12-13 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AM PGOV PHUM AID
05YEREVAN2158	RUSSIA CONTINUES TO PLAY A WINNING HAND [...] (SBU) Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov visited Yerevan December 2-3 to commemorate the end of the Year of Russia in Armenia announced by President Putin during his visit in March 2005 (ref A). While the Year of Russia in Armenia was mostly show, marked by a steady stream of high-level v [...]	2005-12-13 13:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL ETRD RS AM

05YEREVAN216	ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES [...] On February 2, the embassy received text of a congratulatory letter for Secretary Rice from Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian. The original was forwarded via pouch to EUR/CACEN. 2. Begin text: January 31, 2005 Dear Dr. Rice, Allow me to extend my warmest congratulations on your a [...]	2005-02-07 12:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC AM
05YEREVAN2166	ARMENIA'S NEXT HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER? [...] (SBU) The term of office for Armenian Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Larisa Alaverdyan will expire on January 5, paving the way for Parliament (under provisions of the country's recently amended constitution) to appoint a successor or re-appoint Alaverdyan. Alaverdyan has frequently downpl [...]	2005-12-14 12:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
05YEREVAN2174	ARMENIAN OPPOSITION: RUNNING IN DIFFERENT [...] (SBU) Disagreements among Armenia's three main opposition parties have become more evident in the aftermath of the November 27 constitutional referendum and subsequent opposition rallies. Radical Republic Party Chairman Aram Sargsian insists that opposition leaders band together to establish [...]	2005-12-15 13:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN2182	CURIOUS TIMING OF GOAM PRESS RELEASE ON [...] (C) The GOAM distributed a press release on December 15 denouncing what it called "barbarous" vandalism of Armenian cultural monuments by Azeri soldiers in the Nakhichevan region along the Azerbaijan-Armenia border. The statement, citing reports by Armenian priests, claimed that 100 Azerbaija [...]	2005-12-16 12:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AM AJ
05YEREVAN2183	ARMENIAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SUCCESSFUL IRAQI [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Armenian MFA Americas' Desk Head Lilit Toutkhalian who told us she was not aware of GOAM plans to issue a statement commending Iraqi success on the December 15 Council of Representatives elections. Toutkhalian speculated that, because Foreign Minister Vartan O [...]	2005-12-16 13:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ AM
05YEREVAN2192	ARMENIAN MFA: IRAQ ENTERS NEW PHASE FOLLOWING [...] (SBU) Despite early indications that the GOAM may avoid public statements congratulating Iraqi authorities on successful Council of Representatives elections (ref B),MFA Spokesman Hamlet Gasparyan released a December 17 press statement commending the elections as "an important step in buildin [...]	2005-12-20 13:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ AM
05YEREVAN2193	FM OSKANIAN DISCUSSES A "CONSTRUCTIVE" RESPONSE TO [...] (C) During a December 20 meeting with Charge d'Affaires Godfrey, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said he had discussed the recent Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) announcement and accompanying letter with President Robert Kocharian and said that the GOAM was not rushing to respond, but [...]	2005-12-20 13:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN2197	AVIAN INFLUENZA: EMBASSY YEREVAN TRIPWIRES [...] (SBU) Post's Avian Influenza (AI) Taskforce meets on a regular basis and met on December 8 to discuss tripwires and response actions. Post has completed all but three of the preparedness steps outlined in ref A and is in the process of completing the outstanding tasks. Information about reso [...]	2005-12-21 12:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMED AMGT ASEC CASC CMGT AM
05YEREVAN2200	GOVERNING COALITION BEGINS DISCUSSING [...] (SBU) Following their stoic congratulatory remarks immediately after the vote, pro-government officials are starting to talk publicly about fraud during the November 27 constitutional referendum. National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian launched a wave of discussion with allegations of fr [...]	2005-12-21 13:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN2201	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO MCC ANNOUNCEMENT [...] On December 19, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Board announced that it had approved a five-year, USD 235.65 million compact with Armenia. Media coverage of the announcement was extensive, with all major television stations and newspapers reporting on it. Some outlets focused on t [...]	2005-12-21 14:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC KPAO AM
05YEREVAN2207	ARMENIA NOT POSITIONED TO INFLUENCE RUSSIA ON NGO [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-22 12:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM RS AM PGOV
05YEREVAN2209	TOUCHING BASE ON A TOUGH 2005 FOR ARMENIA-TURKEY [...] (C) MFA Middle East Department Chief Artem Aznaurian and MFA Turkey Desk Officer Sahak Sargsyan told us December 22 that 2005 had not produced much progress in the Armenia-Turkey rapprochement process, but said the GOAM would continue to engage in working-level meetings with Turkish diplomats [...]	2005-12-22 12:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU RS AM
05YEREVAN2214	IRAQ FORCE ADJUSTMENT DOESN'T CHANGE ARMENIAN [...] (S) The Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel points regarding U.S. force level reductions in Iraq during December 22 meetings with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Arman Kirakossian and Deputy Minister of Defense General-Lieutenant Artur Aghabekyan. Aghabekyan and Kirakossian both noted the A [...]	2005-12-22 13:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PINS PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM
05YEREVAN2215	ARMENIA TO CRIMINALIZE EVASION OF ALTERNATIVE [...] (U) During an extraordinary session on December 16, the Armenian National Assembly unanimously adopted amendments to the Criminal Code that, for the first time in Armenian law, would criminalize evasion of alternative service. President Robert Kocharian has until January 6, 2006 to sign the a [...]	2005-12-23 02:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KCRM AM
05YEREVAN2217	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for December 2005. Major headlines include: -- Japanese Bank for International Cooperation approves extension of loan for electrical transmission station upgrade; -- Russian Prime Minister Fradkov inaugurates th [...]	2005-12-23 08:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN2225	IRAQ FORCE ADJUSTMENT: ARMENIA COMMITTED TO [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-27 13:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM
05YEREVAN2226	NEW AMBASSADORIAL APPOINTMENTS FOR THE NEW [...] (SBU) President Kocharian recently announced two new ambassadorial appointments, naming Ashot Hovakimian Ambassador to Austria (replacing Jivan Tabibian) and Ashot Galoyan as Ambassador to Poland (replacing Ashot Hovakimian). (Note: While the presidential proclamation does not explicitly ide [...]	2005-12-28 04:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR AM
05YEREVAN2232	TRAFFICKING: DOING BETTER ON PROSECUTION AND [...] (SBU) A strictly pro-governmental newspaper reflected a positive shift in the approach towards the issue of trafficking that has occurred in the Prosecutor's office in recent months. In November the Prosecutor's office registered the first case of domestic trafficking in Armenia. Also in Nov [...]	2005-12-28 12:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP
05YEREVAN2238	2005: ACTION HOT ON LINE OF CONTACT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-29 13:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL PGOV AJ AM
05YEREVAN2240	GOAM AGAIN DENIES CASES OF AVIAN FLU IN RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-30 10:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN235	ARMENIA'S INFLATIONARY START TO 2005 [...] Armenia's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 5.4 percent in the month of January, exceeding in one month the government's target for the entire year. Press reports cite a senior National Statistics Service official who claims that the rise in the CPI is due to an 8.4 percent rise in the prices [...]	2005-02-09 13:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN AM
05YEREVAN242	CHINA'S EXPANDING POLITICAL RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA [...] (C) Government of China (GOC) representatives in Yerevan and Armenian government officials recently reported their view that relations between the GOC and the Government of Armenia (GOAM) are expanding. They qualified these statements, however, with a more realistic picture of potential econo [...]	2005-02-10 10:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET CH AM
05YEREVAN244	ARMENIA: PARLIAMENTARY ABSENTEEISM STALLS ARTICLE [...] Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Treat Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Despite GOAM assurances that ratification by the National Assembly was "locked in," the Armenian parliament failed on February 9 to ratify its bilateral Article 98 agreement with the USG. Member absenteeism and the oppositio [...]	2005-02-10 12:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM AM
05YEREVAN257	TIP: CONCERNS ABOUT PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT [...] (SBU) Balancing Armenia's considerable progress over the past year in successfully prosecuting trafficking in persons (TIP) cases are serious, persistent allegations that senior members of the Prosecutor General's office are susceptible to outside influence. We have raised our concerns about [...]	2005-02-14 11:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP
05YEREVAN258	DAMAGE TO HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL: CAUSE UNKNOWN [...] (SBU) The local chairman of the Jewish Community of Armenia, Rimma Varzhapetyan, told us that community members found a stone memorial to the Holocaust lying flat in a park in Central Yerevan on February 11. The rectangular slab showed no signs of being struck, and the official police report [...]	2005-02-14 13:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM AM
05YEREVAN267	ARMENIA: KURDS DEMONSTRATE FOR OCALAN [...] (SBU) Marking the sixth anniversary of the capture of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, about 250 ethnic Kurds came to Yerevan in buses February 15 to stage a peaceful march across downtown Yerevan and demonstrate in front of Armenian Government buildings and the United Nations Development Progr [...]	2005-02-15 14:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER ASEC PHUM AM
05YEREVAN270	A1-PLUS LOSES BID FOR RADIO LICENSE [...] (SBU) Mesrop Movsesian, the owner of the now-defunct A1-Plus television station, told Post that he lost a recent bid for a radio frequency license to two other competitors, and he alleged that his loss was politically motivated. On February 14, the Armenian National Commission on Television [...]	2005-02-16 09:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN279	ARMENIA FRETS IN PRESS OVER POSSIBLE U.S. [...] Armed conflict between Iran and the U.S. is seen as a very real possibility in Armenia, Iran's northern neighbor. While GOAM officials cite Secretary Rice's statements and are not claiming that a military strike is imminent, they have been publicly voicing concern about what would happen if [...]	2005-02-17 12:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO IR AM
05YEREVAN281	ARMENIA: URANIUM SMUGGLER CONVICTED, THEN RELEASED [...] (S/NF) On 15 December 2004, Garik Dadayan, an Armenian citizen, was convicted of attempting to smuggle radioactive material across state borders. Samvel Mnatsakanian, the lead prosecutor in the case, said that because of the weakness of evidence and poor cooperation between law enforcement a [...]	2005-02-17 12:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET//NOFORN	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL AM GG
05YEREVAN287	RUSSIAN FM LAVROV: ARMENIA'S PLACE IS BY RUSSIA'S [...] (C) Armenia and Russia are "old friends, reliable allies and strategic partners" declared Russian FM Sergey Lavrov on February 17. The GOAM and Russia broke no new ground during the FM's high-profile visit to Yerevan February 16-17, but used the occasion to cement their existing strong relati [...]	2005-02-18 10:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG AJ AM RU
05YEREVAN300	ARMENIANS AUTHORIZE USGS MOU EXTENSION [...] The GOAM has authorized the extension of the USGS MOU for five years from November 2, 2003. The text of the authorizing diplomatic note number 16/01878, dated February 21, 2005, follows. 2. Begin text: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia presents its compliments [...]	2005-02-22 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL TPHY TSPL AM
05YEREVAN301	ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO CSW WOMEN'S ECONOMIC [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-22 13:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN EAID AM UN CSW
05YEREVAN309	MALFEASANCE IN THE GOAM AUDIT OFFICE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Armenian authorities arrested Levon Shahinian, the head of the Financial Control Department of the Ministry of Finance and Economy (the department charged with auditing GOAM budget expenditures) February 23. He had alrea [...]	2005-02-23 13:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN AM
05YEREVAN312	LITTLE PROGRESS ON INVESTIGATING SEIZURE OF [...] (C) Armenia asserts that it has still not received formal notification that from either the IAEA or from the Turkish authorities that Cesium-137 seized on the Georgia-Turkey border in December 2004 originated in Armenia. Armenian MFA experts tell us they will insist on a formal investigation [...]	2005-02-24 09:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC AM TU KPRP
05YEREVAN329	(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for February 2005. Major headlines include: -- Austrian bank to finance Armenian metals company; -- Armenia to start negotiations on new IMF program; -- Central Bank of Armenia licenses new foreign bank; -- [...]	2005-02-25 13:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN337	ARMENIA RATIFIES ARTICLE 98 [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-28 11:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM AM
05YEREVAN34	EMBASSY YEREVAN SUPPORTS U.S. JOINING BLACK SEA [...] (C) Summary. Post strongly supports the United State's joining the Black Sea Economic Council (BSEC) as an observer, per ref A. There could be multiple benefits for the U.S.: we focus here on those that intersect with our regional goals in the South Caucasus. Due to Armenia's political isola [...]	2005-01-11 13:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ETTC KFPC PARM AM
05YEREVAN348	ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: VISIT OF RUSSIAN [...] Although Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's 22-hour visit to Yerevan February 16-17 was standard fare, it generated intense press interest. Oppositionist media used the FM's presence to decry Armenia's dependence on Russia, while official and pro-government press praised Armenia's close ties w [...]	2005-03-01 09:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AM KMDR OPRC PREL RU
05YEREVAN35	ARMENIA: UPDATE ON CLAIMS OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION [...] (C) We reported reftel our initial investigation of an allegation of religious persecution in Armenia's armed forces. On January 11, we spoke with Levon Margaryan, Deputy Board Member of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Armenia, about the recent media claims that Armen Grigoryan was abused while se [...]	2005-01-11 13:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN358	TWO SEPARATE GROUPS PROTEST AT EMBASSY [...] (SBU) Two small groups, for a total of fewer than 100 people, protested in front of the U. S. Embassy on Monday, February 28. The groups sought to commemorate attacks on ethnic Armenians in Sumgait in 1988. Both protests seem to have been intended to counterbalance reports of efforts to com [...]	2005-03-01 13:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC AM
05YEREVAN361	RESULTS OF CONVERSATIONS WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Ambassador Evans began his recent tour of Armenian- American diaspora centers on February 11, only three days prior to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri, which so drastically changed the political landscape in Lebanon. Conversations with Lebanese- origin Armeni [...]	2005-03-02 07:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL LE AM
05YEREVAN367	CORRECTION TO PREVIOUS OMBUDSMAN CABLE [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-03 02:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN370	ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO CLONING DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-03 10:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AM UNGA KSCI
05YEREVAN371	ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO CWC ARTICLE VII DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-03 10:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM ABUD AM AROC CWC CBW OPCW
05YEREVAN391	ARMENIA LOOKING TO IRAN TO REDUCE DEPENDENCE ON [...] (C) In a February 25 meeting, Armenia's Minister of Energy, Armen Movsesian, told us that Armenia's energy market was too dependent on Russia, especially for the supply of gas, and that Gazprom has proved an unreliable source in the past. Armenia's number one energy priority is to complete [...]	2005-03-04 04:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET AM IR RU
05YEREVAN409	COMPACT PROPOSAL MOVES ALONG -- FROM LOCAL [...] (SBU) The GOAM has informed Post that AVAG Solutions, the local consulting firm hired to compile Armenia's MCA compact proposal, completed its work and presented a draft version of the proposal to the GOAM MCA Board of Trustees on March 2. The Board reportedly discussed and approved the docu [...]	2005-03-07 13:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID KMCA AM
05YEREVAN420	ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: RELEASE OF HUMAN [...] Public reaction to the release of the 2004 Human Rights Report was muted. According to most Armenian press, the report was "as expected," which explains the limited editorial response. Oppositionist press anticipated a Human Rights Report that would let the GOAM off easy, and characterized t [...]	2005-03-09 11:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AM KMDR OPRC PREL
05YEREVAN434	ARMENIA'S PLANS FOR APRIL 24 COMMEMORATION, STATUS [...] (SBU) Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian convoked chiefs of mission resident in Yerevan March 10 to preview events planned in April to mark "Genocide Memorial Day." The two main events will be an academic conference, April 21-22, featuring several American scholars, and the April 24 formal co [...]	2005-03-11 07:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS AM TU UNHRC
05YEREVAN435	ARMENIA'S TENTATIVE STEPS TOWARDS NATO [...] (C) Armenia is making steady progress in preparing its NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) and plans to have a document ready for presentation to the Alliance on April 7. Armenia's plans for its developing relationship with NATO do not include membership, but it is exploring ways [...]	2005-03-11 07:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM NATO
05YEREVAN439	ARMENIA REFUSES TO SEND "GENOCIDE" BACK TO THE [...] (C) In a March 10 interview, Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian said that the question of the 1915 "genocide" is no longer an issue for historians and now must be decided in the political sphere. This statement was in response to Turkish PM Erdogan's proposal for a new joint historical study of the [...]	2005-03-11 13:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM TU
05YEREVAN44	ARMENIA SEEKS USG PERMISSION TO SELL WEAPONS TO [...] (U) This telegram contains an action request. Please see para 7. Summary ------- 2. (S/NF) On January 11, Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian asked the Ambassador what the U.S. view would be on a potential weapons sale to Iran. Sargsian said that the GOAM is under increasing pr [...]	2005-01-12 12:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL AM IR
05YEREVAN449	CHR-61: ARMENIANS WITH US ON CUBA, SHAKY ON [...] (C) We delivered demarche and talking points regarding the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) upcoming annual session to MFA International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan March 11 per reftel instructions. Mkrtumyan predicted that the GOAM would vote with the USG on the expected [...]	2005-03-14 09:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CU AM CHR
05YEREVAN45	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS WARNING ON ARMS CONTROL [...] (S/NF) In deploying troops to the coalition in Iraq and agreeing to a defense assessment, Armenia has taken important steps in building a broader, deeper defense relationship; lack of full compliance with conventional arms control regimes would negate that progress. That was the message the A [...]	2005-01-12 12:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL MARR KCFE AM OSCE
05YEREVAN451	SPIKE IN N-K CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS "SEASONAL" [...] (C) The number of cease-fire violations along the line of contact between ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijan forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh region has increased dramatically since the beginning of March. Although accusations of responsibility and casualty figures vary according to the source of th [...]	2005-03-14 11:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PBTS PREL AJ AM
05YEREVAN469	CHILD MARRIAGE - ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) There are no reported incidents of child marriage in Armenia, except in small Yezidi and Kurdish national minority groups where experts believe the issue is a problem. No data exist, however, [...]	2005-03-16 11:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN AM
05YEREVAN476	DESPITE IRAN PIPELINE HEADLINES, ARMENIA-GEORGIA [...] (C) Despite headlines suggesting that the March 11-12 visit of Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli focused on energy issues including the announced Iran-Armenia gas pipeline project, sources tell us that this was only casually mentioned during one of the sessions and that the quick series [...]	2005-03-16 13:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG IR AM
05YEREVAN477	JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES WANT TO DO "MAN'S WORK" [...] (SBU) In January, Armenia completed implementation of its Law on Alternatives to Military Service, and 22 members of the Jehovah's Witnesses began work in various civilian institutions around the country. Two of the organization's leaders told us, however, that many of their members are unhap [...]	2005-03-17 09:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN483	(IMI) BRIEF OVERVIEW OF ARMENIA'S ENERGY [...] This cable gives an overview of Armenia's energy sector. It describes recent industry developments as well as provides key contacts. End Summary. 2. Armenia has no natural fossil fuel energy resources, although some small foreign firms have exploration licenses. Nevertheless, Armenia h [...]	2005-03-17 12:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN500	PUTIN'S UPCOMING VISIT TO ARMENIA: CEMENTING TIES [...] (C) Russian president Vladimir Putin will visit Yerevan March 24 to 25 on what the Russian Embassy describes as a "working visit." He will make only a few stops during his roughly 24-hour visit, and Russian diplomats told us to expect "no surprises." While the visit may be routine from Mosco [...]	2005-03-21 13:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG AM RU
05YEREVAN506	ARMENIA PROSECUTES A CASE OF HATE SPEECH [...] (SBU) On January 24 authorities arrested the leader of the Armenian Aryan Union, Armen Avetisian, for "inciting national hatred," and after a two-day trial he received a suspended sentence on March 18. Avetisian told a newspaper in January that "the future of any nation that has a Jewish commu [...]	2005-03-22 12:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN517	ARMENIAN DEFMIN ON POW'S, CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS [...] (C) Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian told the Ambassador that Azerbaijan was to blame for the recent increase in cease-fire violations on the line of contact with Azerbaijan. If the International Community was now concerned about the effect of violations on the negotiation process, t [...]	2005-03-23 12:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR AM AJ
05YEREVAN52	PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN: 2005 TO BE THE YEAR OF TAX AND [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's President Robert Kocharian has publicly said that 2005 will be a year of reform for the customs and tax services in Armenia. Besides increasing tax revenu [...]	2005-01-13 12:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP ECON AM
05YEREVAN520	(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for March 2005. Major headlines include: -- Germany's Commerzbank to support SME lending program in Armenia; -- Armentel reports earnings up 70 percent in 2004; -- German development bank KFW continues financi [...]	2005-03-24 08:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN521	CHR-61: FM OSKANIAN SUGGESTS "LIMITED OPTIONS" ON [...] (C) Per instructions in ref A, Ambassador Evans met with FM Vartan Oskanian March 24 to ask the GOAM to rethink its position on a no-action motion on Belarus at the UN Commission on Human Rights. Oskanian said the GOAM would give "serious consideration" to our request given the emphasis the U [...]	2005-03-24 11:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CU AM CHR
05YEREVAN524	EXPLOSIVE DEVICE DESTROYS VEHICLE OF TOP GOAM [...] (U) Local press reported March 24 that an explosive device went off in front of the Armenian State Customs committee building at 10:00 a.m. local time, damaging the official vehicle of the Committee Chairman Armen Avetisyan. Avetisyan had already left the car and had entered the building by th [...]	2005-03-24 13:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC AM
05YEREVAN53	KOCHARIAN SENDS CONGRATULATIONS TO NEW UKRAINIAN [...] (U) The GOAM announced January 11 that President Robert Kocharian sent a congratulatory message to Ukrainian President-elect Viktor Yushchenko. The news sparked a flurry of media reports about Armenia-Ukraine-Russia relations and re-ignited discussion on the applicability of recent events in [...]	2005-01-13 12:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN532	GOAM DEFERS TO PUTIN COMMENTS ON KYRGYZSTAN [...] (C) The GOAM offered limited public reaction to the unrest in Kyrgyzstan, due to the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin which has dominated both headlines and GOAM attention. During a March 25 press conference, President Robert Kocharian deferred outright to Putin on the Kyrgyzstan issue [...]	2005-03-25 12:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OPDC KG AM RU
05YEREVAN546	PRESIDENT'S PROPOSAL TO REVISE OMBUDSMAN LAW [...] (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly has effectively refused two Presidential requests to revise the law on the Human Rights Defender, according to the Ombudsman, Larissa Alaverdian. The separate proposals would have limited the Ombudsman's power to obtain court documents and would have incor [...]	2005-03-29 07:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN553	LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE FROM ARMENIAN FM OSKANIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the margins of hearings today in the Armenian National Assembly on Nagorno-Karabagh (SEPTEL),Foreign Minister Oskanian passed the following letter to embassy representatives of Minsk Group co-Chairs, addressed to Ministers. The letter raises concerns about the possibility o [...]	2005-03-29 12:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	AJ AM PARM PBTS PREL
05YEREVAN554	CONGRESSIONAL REQUEST FOR "HARM REDUCTION" [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post has conducted a comprehensive search of documents related to "harm reduction," drug legalization and programs co-funded with the Soros Foundation and affiliated organizations. 2. (SBU) The Embassy's search has not uncovered a single document that fits the [...]	2005-03-29 12:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID KPAO
05YEREVAN555	IMI (ARMENIA): U.S. COMPANIES IN ARMENIA [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-29 12:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN575	PUTIN VISIT DEMONSTRATES KOCHARIAN'S TIGHT HOLD ON [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian's spin doctors continue to portray the March 24-25 visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin as the most important official visit for the GOAM in recent memory. One week after Putin's whirlwind stop, however, GOAM contacts outside Kocharian's inner circle are ha [...]	2005-04-01 11:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG AM RU
05YEREVAN583	HEARINGS ON N-K OPEN NEW SPACE FOR PUBLIC DEBATE [...] (C) Public hearings on Nagorno-Karabakh hosted by Armenia's National Assembly March 29-30 continue to dominate local political discussions and appear to have opened a new space for public debate on the issue. Reports by Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian and pro [...]	2005-04-04 10:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS AJ TU AM
05YEREVAN584	OSKANIAN: ARMENIA'S NATO COMMITMENT [...] (SBU) In a March 31 speech to NATO's Atlantic Policy Advisory Group meeting in Yerevan, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said that Armenia's "commitment to NATO is...irreversible and desirable." Oskanian stated that security is Armenia's number one priority and argued that cooperation [...]	2005-04-04 12:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AM NATO
05YEREVAN585	ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: KYRGYZSTAN [...] Colored by Russian President Putin's concurrent visit (March 24-25),public comments in Armenia about the situation in Kyrgyzstan reject speculation that a similar situation exists in Armenia. Some politicians chalked up the change in Bishkek to "Western interference." Even the opposition, [...]	2005-04-04 12:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OPRC PREL KG AM RU
05YEREVAN593	GENERAL WALD'S MARCH 30-31 VISIT TO ARMENIA [...] (C) In meetings with President Kocharian, MOD Sargsian and CHOD Harutiunyan, EUCOM's General Charles Wald acknowledged steps Armenia had taken in the past year to open the way for a closer defense relationship with the U.S. General Wald assured President Kocharian that peace and stability in [...]	2005-04-05 11:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PARM MARR AM
05YEREVAN6	ARMENIA STRENGTHENS ADVOCATES AND PUBLIC [...] (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly adopted legislation December 14 that creates a potentially powerful Chamber of Advocates for criminal defense lawyers and seeks to improve the state-funded public defender's program. Local legal assistance groups believe the changes may help level the play [...]	2005-01-04 13:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN611	CHR-61: US-EU DEMARCHE ON BELARUS, BUT ARMENIA [...] (C) On April 6, together with the EU Presidency rep, we urged Armenia to vote against a no-action motion on the Belarus resolution at the UNCHR. MFA reps said they appreciated the joint approach and also the substance of the demarche, but said that no decision had yet been taken on how Armen [...]	2005-04-07 05:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL AM BO CHR
05YEREVAN612	GWOT ASSESSMENT: ARMENIA [...] (S) While Armenia consistently declares its eagerness to contribute to the Global War on Terror, most government officials and institutions do not believe that there is an imminent threat from within Armenia. While Armenia may be less vulnerable to terrorist attack than some of its neighbors, [...]	2005-04-07 11:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PTER PREL AM
05YEREVAN615	OSCE SPECIAL REP ON N-K POW ISSUE, CEASE-FIRE [...] (C) OSCE Special Rep Andrzej Kasprzyk told the Ambassador on April 7 that although OSCE CiO Rupel had secured agreement during his March 31 visit from "N-K" authorities for three Azerbaijani POWs to be returned, this action was complicated by the April 1 capture of an Armenian soldier by Azerba [...]	2005-04-07 13:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM AM AJ
05YEREVAN626	ARMENIA FINALLY TAXING THE RICH? [...] (SBU) Four months after President Kocharian called for reform of the state tax and customs services, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have applauded improvements in Armenia's tax collection. The government has increased overall tax collections by 19.3 percent over last [...]	2005-04-08 12:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN AM
05YEREVAN634	UPDATE ON CESIUM 137 CONFISCATED ON THE TURKISH [...] (C) We recently met with Ashot Martirosyan, head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ANRA) to follow-up on any details concerning the December 2004 Cesium-137 seizure at the Georgian/Turkish border per ref A. Martirosyan stated that ANRA had still not received any official notification [...]	2005-04-12 02:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC TU AM
05YEREVAN637	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR SPEAKS ON RUSSIAN INVESTMENT IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) During his last press conference before the end of his posting, April 8, Russian Ambassador to Armenia Anatoliy Dryukov cited the large influx of Russian capital [...]	2005-04-12 04:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL AM RU
05YEREVAN649	NO POMEGRANATE REVOLUTION IN SIGHT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) One year after an opposition rally was forcibly broken up Armenia is decidedly not on the verge of a "Pomegranate Revolution." With a fractured opposition, lack of a clear opposition leader, [...]	2005-04-13 12:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN666	CHR-61: ARMENIA WON'T SUPPORT US ON BELARUS [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Baibourtian told us April 15 that the GOAM would vote in favor of the no-action motion on the Belarus resolution at the UNCHR. Baiburtian acknowledged the high-level demarches by the Ambassador and an April 6 approach with the local EU Presidency rep (ref a),[...]	2005-04-15 12:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BO AM CHR
05YEREVAN67	ARMENIA DRAFT LOA AMENDMENT NO.3 [...] This is an Action Request for INL/AAE. 2. Post presents our draft of Amendment No. 3 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 that the Bur [...]	2005-01-14 13:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR AFIN KJUS KCRM AM
05YEREVAN675	CHR 61: ARMENIAN SUPPORT FOR USG "LIKELY" ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-18 12:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM AM UNHRC
05YEREVAN680	ARMENIA CREATES IPR ENFORCEMENT UNIT [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The GOAM has established an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement unit under the police department, filling a structural gap in their IPR protection regime. In an April [...]	2005-04-18 12:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR AM
05YEREVAN692	ARMENIA RATIFIES INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON [...] Armenia has ratified three international instruments on the protection and promotion of children's rights this year. On February 28 the National Assembly ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child on Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Pornography. On M [...]	2005-04-19 12:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB SOCI PREL PGOV AM KTIP
05YEREVAN703	MCHR 61: MFA CONFIRMS ARMENIANS WILL VOTE WITH US [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-20 12:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM AM UNHRC
05YEREVAN707	KOCHARIAN RESPONSE TO ERDOGAN LETTER [...] (C) On April 20, FM Oskanian told us that President Kocharian had drafted a response to PM Erdogan's letter and the letter would be transmitted on April 21. Oskanian described the letter as agreeing to some of the substance in PM Erdogan's letter, but proposed -- instead of creating a joint [...]	2005-04-21 07:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS TU AM
05YEREVAN714	SARGSIAN: KING-MAKER OR WOULD-BE KING? [...] (C) Minister of Defense Serzh Sargsian, frequently cited as a potential presidential candidate in 2008, has been increasing his public visibility in recent months. President Kocharian has refrained from annointing any particular ally as his chosen successor, but his close relationship with Sa [...]	2005-04-22 09:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR AM
05YEREVAN725	VIOLENCE DURING RALLY PROMPTS BROAD [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Treat Accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) An April 20 rally organized by The New Times Party in the city of Sevan (35 miles northeast of Yerevan) was disrupted when a scuffle between pro- government and anti-government supporters ended in a no [...]	2005-04-22 12:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN728	(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable outlines press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for April 2005. Major headlines include: -- EBRD to double its project-financing program in Armenia during 2005; -- Japan finances modernization of the Yerevan Thermal Power Plant; -- Germany to lend 7.5 millio [...]	2005-04-22 12:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN761	ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT [...] As they did last year, the Armenian media expressed disappointment that President Bush did not use the term "genocide" in his April 24 "Armenian Remembrance Day" statement. Several newspapers focused on the President's "failure, once again" to honor an alleged promise made while campaigning [...]	2005-04-27 13:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OPRC PREL TU AM
05YEREVAN762	ARMENIA WILL CONVEY MESSAGE ON WHO HEALTH [...] (SBU) We delivered demarche and talking points to MFA Chief of International Organizations Department Valery Mkrtumyan, MFA Americas Department Chief Lilit Touthalian and Ministry of Health International Affairs Section Chief Haik Grigoryan April 25 per reftel instructions. Post also delivere [...]	2005-04-28 02:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PREL PTER AM WHO
05YEREVAN769	GOAM RELEASES TEXT OF KOCHARIAN-ERDOGAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) While the final text of the letter from President Kocharian to his Turkish counterpart Prime Minister Erdogan stuck broadly to the outline that Foreign Minister Oskanian gave us April 21 (refte [...]	2005-04-28 09:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM TU
05YEREVAN785	AMNESTY FOR DRAFT EVADERS ANNOUNCED IN ARMENIA [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-04 08:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN83	MORE WORDS OF WARNING FOR OLIGARCHS -- OR FODDER [...] (C) A strongly-worded January 15 speech by Chief Presidential Advisor for Economic Issues Vahram Nercessiantz raised eyebrows during the recent Armenia International Policy and Research Group (AIPRG) Conference in Washington but did little to convince skeptics that real efforts by the GOAM to [...]	2005-01-19 12:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AM
05YEREVAN84	ARMENIANS UNITED IN PROTESTING USG STATEMENT THAT [...] (C) The Armenian body politic has come together to protest Assistant Secretary Elizabeth Jones' comments on Nagorno-Karabakh as reported in the January 14 edition of the Moscow Times. The story dominated media coverage on a day when the other big news in the bilateral relationship was the sen [...]	2005-01-19 12:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM

05YEREVAN846	RUSSIAN OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON ARMENIAN BORDER [...] (C) A Russian Border Guard (RBG) official posted in Armenia contends that the border with Turkey is porous and that locals easily cross at will. On the margins of a routine meeting to discuss consular fraud prevention, he told us he was concerned about the possibility of corruption at the air [...]	2005-05-13 12:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	KFRD PGOV ASEC TU AM RU
05YEREVAN847	MARKARYAN'S STATEMENT ON ARMENIA-TURKEY BORDER [...] (C) A loosely translated May 12 statement by Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan regarding the possible opening of the Armenia-Turkey border by the end of the year sparked speculation in Yerevan about potential developments in the bilateral relationship. The statement, which appears to [...]	2005-05-13 12:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
05YEREVAN85	ARMENIAN MOD TAKES "NO" FOR AN ANSWER [...] (S) Summary: Armenia will comply with a USG request (ref) and will refrain from proceeding with a transfer to Iran of an anti-air missile system. End Summary. 2. (S) Ambassador met privately with Armenian Minister of Defense Serzh Sargsian January 19 and conveyed points contained reftel. [...]	2005-01-19 12:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PARM PREL AM IR
05YEREVAN856	ARMENIA: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS MOVING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In a May 11 extraordinary session, Armenia's parliament passed -- in the first reading -- the ruling coalition's draft amendments to the constitution. Armenia has been under pressure from th [...]	2005-05-16 05:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN857	ARMENIA'S SOUTHERN PROVINCE: DEAD END? [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's Southern region of Syunik is a narrow swath of remote mountainous land, bound by the closed historical borders with Azerbaijan to the East and West, and stretching South [...]	2005-05-16 05:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KHDP PHUM PGOV PREF ETRD AM IR
05YEREVAN859	(IMI) REPORT ON VAYOTS DZOR PROVINCE [...] On April 14-15, 2005, Embassy's BISNIS representative visited the Vayots Dzor region 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 the lat [...]	2005-05-16 05:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN86	ARMENIAN CONTINGENT DEPARTS FOR IRAQ [...] On January 18, a 46-man contingent departed Armenia to serve with coalition forces in Iraq. The Armenian troops, consisting mostly of truck drivers, will work with Polish forces currently stationed in Iraq. The Armenian media covered the departure in a mostly positive light (septel),and th [...]	2005-01-19 13:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM
05YEREVAN865	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: REQUESTING ARMENIA'S [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-16 11:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP AM
05YEREVAN880	(IMI) ARMENIA EXPO 2005 TRADE SHOW IN YEREVAN [...] This cable reports about the upcoming Armenia Expo 2005 trade show in September 2005. End Summary. 2. Logos Expo Center, one of the largest exhibition companies in Armenia, announced the fourth annual regional trade forum, Armenia Expo 2005, to be held in Yerevan September 14-17, 2005. [...]	2005-05-18 03:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN884	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONVENTION ON CULTURAL [...] (SBU) Post delivered demarche talking points to relevant GOAM offices May 17 per reftel instructions. Initial reaction from the GOAM indicated that the Cultural Diversity Convention had not yet appeared on the radar screens of the offices in question. As a relatively new member of the WTO, t [...]	2005-05-18 12:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD SCUL AM UNESCO
05YEREVAN887	HAVING OUR SAY ON THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------ SUPPORTING THE COE ------------------ 2. (SBU) The National Assembly passed the governing coalition's draft amendments in the first reading May 11 (reftel). The Council of Europe's (CoE) Venice Commission [...]	2005-05-19 03:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
05YEREVAN901	ARMENIA ENACTS ELECTORAL REFORMS, BUT DOES NOT [...] (C) In an extraordinary session May 19, the Armenian Parliament voted to increase the number of its seats apportioned on the party list basis, to nominally curtail President Robert Kocharian's authority to directly appoint members of electoral commissions, and to reform the way the government [...]	2005-05-20 13:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN93	(IMI) ARMENIA: MINING SECTOR [...] This cable reviews the current condition of Armenia's growing mining and minerals sector. It describes recent sector developments and provides key contacts. End Summary. 2. Armenia has significant deposits of copper, molybdenum and gold as well as smaller deposits of zinc, lead and sil [...]	2005-01-20 09:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN973	(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for May 2005. Major headlines include: -- Germany to finance mortgage loan development program in Armenia; -- "Dun and Bradstreet" takes share of Armenian credit bureau; -- OPEC fund to invest in Armenia's pri [...]	2005-06-03 13:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN986	DEMARCHE DELIVERED, ARMENIA ON TIP TIER 2 [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On June 3, CDA delivered talking points per reftel to Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Baibourtian and Valery Mkrtumyan, head of Armenia's interagency Anti-TIP Commission. CDA informed Baibourtian [...]	2005-06-06 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG AM
05YEREVAN989	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO CODEL HAGEL [...] SUMMARY: On June 3, Senator Hagel led a delegation to Armenia which met with President Robert Kocharian and Minister of Defense Serzh Sargsyan, and which reviewed Armenia's peacekeeping battalion. Following these meetings, Senator Hagel held a press conference with more than 20 media outlets. [...]	2005-06-07 08:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KCFE OPRC PREL KPAO ZJ AM RU
05YEREVAN997	FM OSKANIAN ON ARMENIA'S CURRENT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) On June 2, FM Oskanian briefed Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions resident in Yerevan. He characterized the May 17 Warsaw meeting of Presidents Kocharian and Aliyev as "positive," with a critical step forward, but rejected Azerbaijan's assertion that Armenia had agreed to return all "occupied [...]	2005-06-07 11:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV PHUM
06YEREVAN1000	ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER VOICES SUPPORT FOR OSCE [...] (SBU) Addressing the extraordinary congress of Republican Party of Armenia (reftel),the chairman of the party, Prime Minister Andranik Markarian, spoke about the resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh (NK) conflict, reiterating that the most recent proposals put forth by the OSCE Minsk group (name [...]	2006-07-25 13:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN1010	YOUR VISIT TO ARMENIA [...] (C) We look forward to welcoming you on your first trip to the region wearing both your co-chair and DAS hats. The situation on the ground here in Yerevan has changed somewhat since your last visit in March. While your visit will be brief, your meetings with key leaders will offer us an opp [...]	2006-07-27 10:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN1019	A PROSTITUTE'S STORY: SEX AND TRAFFICKING IN [...] (C) Poverty and desperation are the largest factors contributing to trafficking in persons in Armenia, according to prostitutes, police and NGOs in Vanadzor, Armenia's third-largest city. We met them during a July 14 trip to the city, where prostitutes gather after dusk in the traffic circle outsid [...]	2006-07-28 12:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	HSTC KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN1020	MERMOUD VISIT HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED FOR REGIONAL [...] (C) During his recent visit to Yerevan, State Department Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud targeted Armenia's perennial problems of customs and tax administration and corruption as critical areas in need of reform. In addition to his meetings with the Pr [...]	2006-07-28 12:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EINV AM
06YEREVAN1026	ARMENIA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UN HIGH-LEVEL [...] We delivered reftel points to Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan July 31. He said that the GOAM had not yet determined its position, but that if most countries wanted a forum to discuss migration, Armenia would participate. He s [...]	2006-07-31 10:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF SMIG UNGA AM
06YEREVAN103	MOSCOW-YEREVAN FLIGHT LANDS IN BAKU WITHOUT [...] (SBU) On January 24 the Siberia Airlines plane making Moscow-Yerevan flight 906 diverted to land in Baku due to poor weather conditions in Yerevan. The passengers did not leave the craft and were served hot food. After spending two hours in Baku, the plane flew to Tbilisi and continued to la [...]	2006-01-24 12:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL AJ AM
06YEREVAN104	COALITION NOMINATES KOCHARIAN ADVISOR FOR OMBUDSMAN [...] (SBU) Armenia's governing coalition announced January 20 that it would nominate long-time Kocharian confidant Armen Harutyunyan as the country's next Ombudsman. Local NGOs were divided in their reactions to the announcement, but most told us that the nomination would have significant politica [...]	2006-01-24 13:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1046	HUNGER-STRIKING CONVICTS ATTEMPT SUICIDE AFTER [...] (U) Four men serving life sentences at Yerevan's Nubarashen detention facility tried to slit their wrists after a failed escape attempt. The escape attempt followed a hunger strike undertaken by the prisoners in protest of the prison conditions. A task force from the human rights ombudsman's [...]	2006-08-02 12:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1056	CIVAIR: GOAM CONSIDERING SECURITY [...] (SBU) On August 4, we delivered reftel points and draft agreement to Director General of Civil Aviation Artyom Movsesyan. We also sent a copy of the draft agreement with an accompanying diplomatic note to the MFA. Movsesyan told us that he felt such an agreement would be positive but that ot [...]	2006-08-04 10:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR KTIA AM
06YEREVAN1062	BASE METALS LLC TO INVEST USD 20 MILLION IN NAGORNO [...] (U) Base Metals LLC., an Armenian-registered and Lichtenstein-based private company, announced plans to invest an additional USD 20 million in its copper and gold mining operations in the village of Drmbon in Nagorno Karabakh (NK). According to press reports, the company employs a majority of [...]	2006-08-04 12:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EMIN EINV AM
06YEREVAN1072	OPPOSITION PARTY ACCUSES GOAM OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Armenia's Heritage Party, an opposition party with a popular, outspoken leader but no seats in parliament, was evicted from its downtown offices in March 2006. Party officials told us they believed the government was behind the eviction, as well as other interference with their operations [...]	2006-08-08 03:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1075	PRESIDENT'S OFFICE INSTITUTES CONTROL OVER [...] (C) A number of media analysts and press representatives have reported that the GOAM is exerting increasing control over the broadcast media, and that this pressure is being exercised directly by the Armenian President's office. These controls appear to include requirements that television st [...]	2006-08-08 07:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1082	OPPOSITION DEFECTOR MAKES IT OFFICIAL [...] (SBU) Justice Bloc secretary Viktor Dallakian submitted his long-anticipated resignation from the bloc August 5. Dallakian told us earlier this year that he planned to accept business tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan's offer to lead Tsarukyan's Prosperous Armenia party (reftel). Dallakian has not yet [...]	2006-08-09 03:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN1091	AMBASSADOR PUSHES PROSECUTOR GENERAL ON TRAFFICKING CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) Ambassador, DCM and Poloff met with Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan August 8 about allegations of investigative misconduct and abuse in connection with a human trafficking case. The underlying case involves three prostitutes who allege they were trafficked from Armenia to Turk [...]	2006-08-09 13:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP KWMN KCRM PREL PGOV PHUM HSTC AM TU
06YEREVAN1096	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUPPORTING U.S. HRC CANDIDATE RUTH WEDGWOOD [...] Per ref B, we thanked MFA United Nations Desk Head Varsik Baghdasaryan August 10 for the GOAM's commitment to vote for Professor Wedgwood (ref A),and reminded her that elections for the UN Human Rights Council would be held in the General Assembly September 7. EVANS [...]	2006-08-10 12:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	AM PHUM UNHRC US
06YEREVAN1097	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROPOSED UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] We delivered reftel points to MFA United Nations Desk Head Varsik Baghdasaryan August 10. Baghdasaryan said the ministry did not have a response yet. We will follow up next week. EVANS [...]	2006-08-10 12:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	IS LE MOPS PHUM PREL PTER AM
06YEREVAN110	WITH GAS USAGE ACCELERATING, GOAM PREPARING FOR WORST [...] (C) ArmRosGazprom (ARG) has drawn roughly half of Armenia's useful reserves -- much quicker than initially expected -- since the January 22 cut off of natural gas supplies from Russia (reftel). Consumption accelerated after the GOAM temporarily reopened a 200-megawatt hydroelectric unit in Hraz [...]	2006-01-26 04:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS GG IR AM ENGR AZ
06YEREVAN1101	APPARENT REPRISAL: TAX POLICE INSPECT ANTI-TIP NGO [...] (C) An anti-trafficking NGO reported a surprise visit from tax inspectors August 10, two days after the Ambassador pushed the Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan to investigate allegations of investigative corruption the "Hope and Help" NGO had raised with the Embassy (reftel). A [...]	2006-08-11 11:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM KTIP HSTC AM
06YEREVAN1105	REMITTANCES: ARMENIA'S SECOND-HAND DUTCH DISEASE? [...] (U) Local media are abuzz with conspiracy theories regarding the sharp appreciation of Armenia's currency, the Dram. The Dram exchange rate is up nearly 30 percent against the dollar since 2003, 7 percent in the first six months of 2006 alone. We believe the Armenian Central Bank (CBA)--as d [...]	2006-08-11 12:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID AM
06YEREVAN1123	AMBASSADOR SUPPORTS RESOLUTION 1701 IN ARMENIAN MEDIA [...] On August 14, the Ambassador gave an interview to Armenian Public TV to explain UN Security Council Resolution 1701 on Lebanon. The interview was aired without commentary on Public TV's evening news, the most-watched news programs in the country. During the interview, Ambassador Evans emphas [...]	2006-08-17 05:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL UN KPAO LE AM
06YEREVAN113	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] On January 25, a U.S. government inter-agency team visited Armenia as part of a multi-country trip to learn about the region's preparations to address avian influenza. During its visit to Armenia, part of the team held a press conference at the U.S. Embassy. Media coverage of the event was ex [...]	2006-01-26 13:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO KFLU
06YEREVAN1142	RISKING A WTO COMPLAINT TO CURRY FAVOR WITH [...] (C) The GOAM has announced that farmers with an annual turnover of less than AMD 8 million (USD 20,000) will remain exempt from value-added tax (VAT). This agreement appears to run counter to Armenia's WTO obligations and 2002 legislation requiring that farmers begin paying VAT as of January 1 [...]	2006-08-23 03:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD AM
06YEREVAN1148	JOURNALIST RETRACTS SOME ABUSE CHARGES...THE RIGHT ONES [...] (U) SUMMARY: A local journalist, Gagik Shamshian, beaten up in July (reftel) has retracted allegations that a local official's brother was involved. The retraction seems to have come under duress from local authorities, who have filed unrelated criminal charges against the journalist. END SUM [...]	2006-08-23 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1160	MURDER CASE POINTS OUT CONTINUING HOMOPHOBIA IN [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-25 08:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1161	PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S NEW ANTI-TIP NGO COMMITTEE [...] (C) On August 21, the Prosecutor General (PG) announced the formation of an NGO committee to assist it in its anti- TIP efforts. Anti-TIP NGO leaders generally feel the creation of such a team is a good idea, as long as it is allowed to function fully and does not become a tool for the PG to [...]	2006-08-25 12:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM
06YEREVAN1172	MURDER CASE POINTS UP CONTINUING HOMOPHOBIA IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 9 murder of an openly gay businessman has sparked fears in the Armenian gay community of a new round of police harassment. While some believe the societal attitudes have improved since the 2003 decriminalization of homosexual activity, credible reports persist that pol [...]	2006-08-29 12:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1179	PASSING THE BAR: ARMENIA'S LAWYERS SWEAT THROUGH A RITE OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: Last weekend, in a hot, somewhat dilapidated university gym, 309 aspiring Armenian attorneys sat for a legal rite of passage, the bar exam. Armenia has not offered a licensing exam for advocates in over five years and has one of the lowest percentages of lawyers per capita in the [...]	2006-08-30 12:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AM
06YEREVAN118	OPPOSITION BOYCOTT BREAKING DOWN, NOT OFFICIALLY [...] (C) Members of the opposition Justice Bloc in the National Assembly are poised "to take a more active role in the parliament" but remain unwilling to officially end their boycott. Justice Bloc leader Stepan Demirchian told us he intended to use the spring sessions of the National Assembly (s [...]	2006-01-27 12:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN119	RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER IN ARMENIA, NATURAL GAS [...] (C) Russian Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov arrived in Armenia January 26 for meetings with Armenian President Robert Kocharian, Defense Minister Serzh Sargsyan, and Chief of General Staff General Mikhael Harutiunyan. Speaking at Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport (extreme weather conditions postpone [...]	2006-01-27 13:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN1204	SETTING THE STAGE FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Election experts offer mixed views of ongoing efforts to improve key democratic institutions prior to the May 2007 parliamentary election. The challenges -- technical, bureaucratic and political -- are daunting. However there is room for cautious optimism that the GOAM is at lea [...]	2006-09-05 10:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KMCA KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1230	OPPOSITION "IRAVUNK" NEWSPAPER EDITOR ASSAULTED [...] (U) The editor-in-chief, Hovanes Galajyan, of the opposition-linked newspaper Iravunk (Law) was attacked by two "skinheads" outside his apartment the morning of September 6. He was knocked to the ground and beaten by the assailants, but not seriously injured. There were no weapons involved. [...]	2006-09-08 03:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1237	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PARLIAMENT SPEAKER [...] (C) Parliament Speaker Torosian told the Ambassador at a September 6 meeting that Armenia was committed to holding democratic elections in 2007 and 2008 and that work on revisions to the electoral code had nearly reached consensus, both among drafters and with international community advisers [...]	2006-09-08 10:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR AM
06YEREVAN1248	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PM MARGARIAN [...] (C) WARM WISHES: The Ambassador's September 5 farewell call on Prime Minister Andranik Margarian was brief and businesslike. Margarian praised the bilateral cooperation and achievements of the last two years, notably the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Compact and the ongoing U.S.-Armenia [...]	2006-09-11 09:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN1249	DEFMIN SARGSIAN REVEIWS N-K, IRAN, AND ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sargsian lauded the growing bilateral defense relationship, before complaining about Azerbaijan's approach to the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations. He said that Azerbaijan constantly revises its demands, and called for the Minsk Group Co-Chairs to demand greater consistency from the [...]	2006-09-11 09:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR AM IR
06YEREVAN1254	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD'S SEPTEMBER 19-20 [...] (S) SUMMARY: We look forward to welcoming you to Armenia. Armenia and the United States have lately enjoyed increasing trust and military cooperation. While Armenia initially lagged behind its fellow South Caucasus republics in developing relationships with Western nations and Euro-Atlantic i [...]	2006-09-11 12:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN1263	DEMARCHE ON SYRIA DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-13 05:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER USUN LE SY EU AM
06YEREVAN1264	THE POLITICAL BUZZ: A SNAPSHOT OF LOCAL ANALYST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Garik Tsarukyan's new "Prosperous Armenia" faction is the hottest political topic, with divided views over the extent to which this pro-government faction is independent of the ruling Republican Party. Local analysts are generally pessimistic about chances for fair parliamentar [...]	2006-09-13 06:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1265	FM OSKANIAN'S FAREWELL SENDOFF TOUCHES ALL THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian's farewell lunch for the Ambassador offered a review of current issues. Oskanian expressed relief and exasperation about the ability to reach consensus on how the NK/Occupied Territories fires issue would be managed at the UNGA. He worried over the Iranian nuclear [...]	2006-09-13 07:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV ETTC EAID SCUL OVIP KNNP UNGA AM IR
06YEREVAN1268	GEORGIA ARRESTS ARMENIANS FOR CROSSING SEPARATIST [...] (C) Since early August, numerous Armenian citizens have been arrested in Georgia for transiting the breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia without Georgian permission, which is illegal under Georgian law. Armenian media claim that 100 have been arrested. Armenian diplomats have co [...]	2006-09-13 12:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM GG RU
06YEREVAN127	RUSSIAN GAS HASN'T REACHED ARMENIA YET [...] (C) On January 29, Armenia cut gas to its thermal power plant in Hrazdan (which converts gas to electricity),reducing the country's average daily consumption to about 3.5 (down from 6.7) million cubic meters (mcm),enough to conserve about one more day of useful gas reserves. Banking on repo [...]	2006-01-30 14:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL RS GG AJ IR AM
06YEREVAN1271	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DARFUR AT THE NAM SUMMIT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-13 14:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV SU AM
06YEREVAN1272	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM FOR [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-13 14:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	IR PHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC
06YEREVAN1278	IRANIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER LURES HIS ARMENIAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-14 07:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AM IR
06YEREVAN1280	VIKTOR DALLAKIAN OUTLINES POLITICAL PREDICTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-14 12:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1286	IRANIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER LURES HIS ARMENIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Speaking alongside the visiting Iranian Mejlis Speaker, Armenian Parliament Speaker Torosian made remarks suggesting troubling new dimensions to the Armenian-Iran relationship, and implicitly supporting Iran's position in the current debate over Iran's nuclear program. We think T [...]	2006-09-14 12:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AM IR
06YEREVAN129	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIA TRYING TO ENGAGE ON [...] (C) On January 26, Post delivered reftel points regarding issues of concern during the final negotiations on Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) at the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM). Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations [...]	2006-01-31 07:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ETRD ECON PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN130	ENERGY: ARMENIA GEARING UP FOR EXPORTS TO GEORGIA [...] (C) Natural gas from Russia reached Armenia on January 30, just as Armenia depleted its useful reserves. At full capacity (delivering 375 thousand cubic meters per hour) by early morning January 31, the pipeline has now pressurized sufficiently to restart thermal units in Hrazdan, a process A [...]	2006-01-31 12:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL RS GG AJ IR AM
06YEREVAN1300	USG INTERNET FREEDOM INITIATIVES IN ARMENIA [...] Per reftel request, Embassy Yerevan presents its comprehensive review of usaid internet freedom programs in Armenia: ------------------------ Economic Growth Programs ------------------------ A. Project Name: Competitive Armenia Private Sector (CAPS) Program Recipient: IT companies, I [...]	2006-09-18 12:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECPS EINT PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1320	NGO SCORES VICTORY WITH VOLUNTEERISM LAW [...] In an encouraging victory for self-governance, on September 14, the GOAM approved a draft law pushed by a civil society NGO. The law would recognize the concept of a volunteer employee, and put a stop to tax inspectors' insistence that cash-strapped NGOs pay social security and income taxes f [...]	2006-09-22 12:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN1327	TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING [...] Per reftel, Post's designated point of contact for trade agreement compliance and monitoring is Economic Affairs Officer Elizabeth Pelletreau. Pelletreau can be reached via e-mail at PelletreauEX@state.gov or via telephone at (+374 10) 49-44-02. In addition to working with Washington, Post co [...]	2006-09-25 02:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD AM
06YEREVAN1328	GENERAL WARD TALKS FMF AND N-K WITH DEFMIN [...] (C) EUCOM Deputy Commander General William Ward visited the GOAM's 12th Peacekeeping Battalion and the Ministry of Defense during his visit to Yerevan this week. He thanked Armenia for its contributions to KFOR and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and pushed both the commander of the peacekeeping bat [...]	2006-09-25 06:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM AM
06YEREVAN1330	ARMENIA'S SOVIET-STYLE INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE A [...] (SBU) Armenia celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of its independence on September 21 with an over-the-top Soviet-style display of military power in a long parade on Yerevan's Republic Square and a host of other events celebrating Armenia's development. Literally thousands of soldiers and c [...]	2006-09-25 09:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PGOV AM
06YEREVAN1335	ARMENIAN BRANDY: CHURCHILL'S FAVORITE FACES NEW THREATS [...] (U) Standing on one end of Yerevan's "drunken" bridge, the Yerevan Brandy Company (YBC) is Armenia's leading exporter of brandy/cognac; a signature Armenian product, famous throughout the former-Soviet world. The company exports approximately 90 percent of its product, 75 percent to Russia. W [...]	2006-09-26 02:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ETRD EAGR PREL GG RS AM
06YEREVAN1342	BANK CONTENDING FOR MCC BUSINESS SUBJECT OF [...] (C) Armenian regulators and the IMF have both flagged concerns about possible wrongdoing and suspicious transactions at Converse Bank, a major local bank, which we understand is a short-listed candidate to handle MCC transactions. The Central Bank of Armenia's (CBA) financial intelligence chi [...]	2006-09-27 12:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD EINV KTFN MCC AM
06YEREVAN1347	UNSC RACE: ARMENIA TO SUPPORT GUATEMALA [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-28 11:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC GT VE AM
06YEREVAN1364	MEN PARTICIPATE IN NDI WOMEN'S FORUM FOR THE FIRST [...] (C) The National Democratic Institute (NDI)'s fifth Women's Forum featured male speakers for the first time. The male politicians -- one pro-government, one opposition -- had mastered some progressive sound bites, but were far from fully egalitarian. Nonetheless, there has been some progress [...]	2006-10-02 10:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN AM
06YEREVAN1365	LOCAL ACTIVISTS SKEPTICAL FOREIGN ASSISTANCE WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 26, donor organizations presented election assistance plans to a group of local NGO partners. The NGOs were pessimistic that technical assistance and training would make much difference to the conduct of the 2007 elections, believing the GOAM would pre-determine the [...]	2006-10-02 12:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PHUM KDEM KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1368	ARMENIAN SURPRISE: PARLIAMENT BALKS AT [...] (SBU) Parliamentarians refused to rush a controversial government-proposed bill on media during an extraordinary session September 26 and 27. MPs were irritated both at the government's tactical high-handedness and at the draft's proposal to curtail broadcasts of parliament's activity. Media [...]	2006-10-03 04:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1371	DFM KIRAKOSSIAN UNDERWHELMED BY TURKISH JOINT [...] (S) SUMMARY: DFM Kirakossian was unimpressed by Turkey's recent non-paper on joint commissions, viewing it as "a step backward" for Armenia's priorities. He resents Turkey's determination (as he sees it) to postpone any discussion on the broader issues of the current relationship until after [...]	2006-10-03 10:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV AM TU
06YEREVAN1374	IRANIAN PROFESSOR DISCUSSES NUKES, UNIVERSITY [...] (C) A Tehran professor who participated in a local thinktank's seminar this week in Yerevan said sanctions and incompetent Iranian foreign policy were to blame for Iran's lack of involvement in the South Caucasus. He also complained that Iran was being punished for its intentions to build a n [...]	2006-10-04 06:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SCUL MARR IR AM
06YEREVAN1388	GUAM ALLIES GANG UP ON RUSSIA DURING THINKTANK [...] (U) A Russian analyst who spouted anti-Western rhetoric at a local thinktank seminar this week in Yerevan found himself outnumbered when panelists from Georgia (including a former foreign minister),Ukraine and Azerbaijan ganged up on him during their speeches and particularly during the quest [...]	2006-10-05 12:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UK GG RU AZ AM
06YEREVAN139	ARMENIA CONVICTS MORE TRAFFICKERS [...] (SBU) On January 12 the first instance court of Kotayk Region sentenced Gayane Mirzoyan and Avetis Kiziriyan to four and a half years of prison under charges of Trafficking in Persons (TIP). The defendants worked for a notorious pimp in Dubai, Anahit Malkhasyan, who died in a car accident on [...]	2006-01-31 12:50:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC
06YEREVAN1390	ARMENIA SUPPORTS INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-05 12:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP KN AM
06YEREVAN1393	GOVERNMENT TAKES BACK MEDIA BILL [...] (U) The government withdrew a controversial bill on media with a promise to revise it after parliamentarians walked out on a floor vote. A quorum of parliamentarians were present at the start of the October 3 session, but when it came time to vote on the bill, many of them, including at least [...]	2006-10-06 04:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1396	ARMENIANS WORRIED ABOUT EFFECTS OF GEORGIA-RUSSIA [...] (C) Public statements from Armenian officials are generally calm and balanced, but acknowledge the effects on Armenia of the Russian blockade of Georgia. Privately, officials are more concerned, and more of them blame Georgia than Russia. PM Markarian told visiting DAS Matt Bryza on October [...]	2006-10-06 10:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU AM
06YEREVAN1403	CHIRAC AVOIDS DEMOCRACY TALK, FOCUSES ON 1915 [...] (SBU) French President Jacques Chirac avoided tough democracy talk during his first visit to Armenia September 29 through October 1, preferring instead to focus on crowd-pleasers like "genocide" recognition. Chirac also told reporters that Nagorno Karabakh settlement talks should remain the p [...]	2006-10-06 13:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL FR AM
06YEREVAN1410	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO OSCE MINSK GROUP VISIT [...] (SBU) The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs visited Armenia October 3-4 as part of a regional trip aimed at renewing contact between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. On October 3, the co-chairs, together with Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman in Off [...]	2006-10-10 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN1419	ARMENIA NARROWLY AVOIDS A MAJOR MISSTEP IN PROPOSED LEGAL [...] (SBU) A recent attempt by the Armenian Ministry of Justice to propose judicial reforms in the chaotic area of expert witnesses came perilously close to making a bad situation worse in criminal, civil, and administrative legal proceedings. During the week of September 11-15, 2006, representativ [...]	2006-10-11 09:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS AM
06YEREVAN1422	TV STATION DROPS INTERVIEW WITH OPPOSITION [...] (C) A regional television station run by members of a pro-governmental parliamentary group decided not to air an interview with the head of the opposition Orinats Yerkir party and former parliamentary speaker Artur Baghdasarian. The move demonstrates the low level of professionalism of the Arm [...]	2006-10-11 12:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1424	PUSHING ARMENIA TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST KONGRA GEL [...] (S) The Government of Armenia has taken little action to respond to USG requests to address concerns about the possible presence and activity of Kongra Gel in Armenia. A recent high-level push by visiting DAS Matt Bryza got a more positive response, but it is too soon to tell if the GOAM will [...]	2006-10-11 12:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PREL ASEC PTER AM
06YEREVAN1425	ARMENIA RECEPTIVE TO DPRK NUCLEAR TEST DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-11 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KN AM
06YEREVAN1429	ROMANIAN PRESIDENT PUSHES EURO INTEGRATION DURING [...] (C) Romanian President Traian Basescu played the role of European statesman during his visit to Yerevan last week, using his meetings to push issues high on the agenda of most Western diplomatic missions in Armenia. Basescu's nuanced approach was a marked contrast to that of French President [...]	2006-10-12 10:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PGOV PREL RO AM
06YEREVAN1440	ARMENIA'S SCORECARD DELIVERED WITH A WARNING ON [...] (SBU) On October 6, 2006, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) and MCC Resident Country Director Alex Russin presented the MCC Indicator Scorecard on Armenia to Armenia's full MCA Governing Council, chaired by the Prime Minister. While we told the Council that Armenia had technically passed the criteria, [...]	2006-10-13 10:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV PHUM KMCA AM
06YEREVAN1445	ARMENIAN REGIONAL NGOS MEETING WITH SOME SUCCESS [...] PAO and PAS Grants Manager recently visited several NGOs outside of Yerevan that had received support from the Democracy Commission, whose work encompassed anti-corruption (in public education),journalism, and human rights. Not only did we find dedicated people, young and old, staffing the o [...]	2006-10-13 11:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO KDEM AM
06YEREVAN145	ARMENIA STILL NOT WILLING TO JEOPARDIZE RELATIONS [...] (C) We delivered ref A points and P5 plus 2 statement on Iran to Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Head Valery Mkrtumyan. "We understand Russia's position and we understand your position," Mkrtumyan said, "but Iran is our neighbor and a close trading partner." [...]	2006-02-01 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP PREL IR EU AORC AM
06YEREVAN1450	ARMENIA PUBLICY EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT DPRK [...] (SBU) In an October 12 meeting with acting MFA press spokesman Vladimir Karapetian, PAO and IO renewed our request (reftel demarche) that the Armenian MFA release an appropriate statement condemning North Korea's nuclear test. The following day, the MFA released a statement to local media, whic [...]	2006-10-16 12:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM KNNP KPAO KN AM
06YEREVAN1456	ARMENIA RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT NDI ACTIVITIES, [...] (C) On October 17, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian delivered a non-paper to CDA objecting to some activities in Armenia of the National Democratic Institute. While the paper (full text below) purports to support NDI's democratization goals, it objects to alleged NDI actions to develo [...]	2006-10-17 13:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID AM
06YEREVAN1457	SETTLING SCORES ON THE STREET IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Oligarchs and thugs have taken to settling scores on the street in greater numbers in the last few months, and high-profile assassinations and murder attempts are on the rise in Armenia. Though the crimes do not appear to be related, and in most cases the motives are unclear, the increase i [...]	2006-10-18 04:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN1466	GOAM REPS AND NGOS DISCUSS MEDIA AMENDMENTS [...] The Partnership for Open Society Institute (OSI) local NGO held a discussion on media freedom in Armenia on October 9. The discussion focused on the draft amendments on media regulations that the government plans to re-submit following the parliament's failure to achieve a quorum for an Octob [...]	2006-10-19 12:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1467	ARMENIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. AT ITU [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-19 13:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ECPS ITU ECON AM
06YEREVAN147	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for January 2006. Major headlines include: -- Armenian Central Bank establishes a new Unified Financial Control Body; -- World Bank (WB) approves second Poverty Reduction Support Credit for Armenia; --Global [...]	2006-02-02 04:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP AM
06YEREVAN1475	WHO WATCHES THE BORDER BETWEEN IRAN AND [...] (C) Armenia's border with Iran extends only some 40 kilometers along the Arax river and is patrolled effectively by Russian border guards with Armenian support. Much more opaque, however, is how the 95 kilometer border between Iran and the territories of Azerbaijan now occupied by Armenian an [...]	2006-10-20 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR AM
06YEREVAN1476	BRYZA AND PRIME MINISTER DISCUSES DEMOCRACY, [...] (C) EUR DAS Bryza met with Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Markarian on October 4 to encourage Armenia to work towards free and fair elections in 2007 and 2008 and to discuss energy security and other regional issues. Markarian was open and engaged. He welcomed U.S. assistance on elections [...]	2006-10-20 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET ENRG IR TU AM

06YEREVAN1484	ASSESSING KURDISH MILITANCY IN ARMENIA -- SO FAR, [...] (S) PKK activities in Armenia seem thus far to be fairly low-level, though Armenia's Yezidi community -- an ethnic minority related to Kurds by blood and language -- may be receptive to PKK outreach. Among other things, we have heard reports that the PKK sends money to some Armenian Yezidi a [...]	2006-10-24 09:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PREL ASEC PTER PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1492	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON HUMAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Valery Mkrtumian, the head of the Armenian MFA's International Organizations Department. Mkrtumian said "many countries" had approached the GOAM with a request to cosponsor the NAM-sponsored resolutions. "We will not cosponsor, and we will take into consider [...]	2006-10-25 04:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER AM
06YEREVAN150	WITH POWERLINES ENERGIZED, ARMENIAN ELECTRICITY [...] (C) The flow of natural gas from Russia through Georgia has continued at full capacity (9 million cubic meters daily) without interruption since January 31. The GOAM energized two power lines to Georgia (reftel) which have supplied an average of 125 megawatts since the thermal power unit in H [...]	2006-02-02 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL RS GG AJ IR AM
06YEREVAN1506	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS AT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Valery Mkrtumian, head of the MFA's International Organizations Department. Mkrtumian noted that Armenia had abstained from the vote on the resolution on the Division for Palestinian Rights. Regarding our request that Armenia abstain from voting on the other t [...]	2006-10-27 04:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA IS AM
06YEREVAN1507	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNSCR 1718 [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Valery Mkrtumian, head of the MFA's International Organizations Department, on October 16. Mkrtumian responded October 26, that the GOAM would cooperate with the United States. However, he commented, as he has in the past, that Armenia is very far removed fro [...]	2006-10-27 04:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KN AM
06YEREVAN1508	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OSCE UNSCR 1540 WORKSHOP [...] (SBU) We inquired with Valery Mkrtumian, head of the MFA's International Organizations Department, about Armenia's plans to attend the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation workshop. Mkrtumian said it was possible Armenia would send a deputy minister, but that the decision had not yet been finali [...]	2006-10-27 04:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OSCE PARM PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP AM
06YEREVAN1509	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel summary to Karine Afrikian, head of the United States and Canada desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and asked for suggestions on possible projects to promote the empowerment of women. After the meeting and at Afrikian's request, we sent her an electronic versio [...]	2006-10-27 04:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PHUM PREL UNGA
06YEREVAN1511	BSEC MINISTERIAL: ARMENIA'S VIEWS [...] (C) In response to ref A demarche, the Head of the International Economic Cooperation Department at the MFA told us that Armenia is likely to offer only luke-warm support to any U.S. proposal for a BSEC meeting on the environment. He also expressed concern about Georgia's efforts to include it [...]	2006-10-27 06:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV PREL ECON AM
06YEREVAN1512	MEDIA REACTION TO A/S FRIED'S STATEMENTS ON FRENCH [...] (U) Armenian media broadly covered A/S Fried's October 20 remarks in Brussels on a bill approved by France's lower chamber of parliament that would criminalize denial of the "Armenian genocide." Major television stations and a number of newspapers and news agencies covered Fried's remarks, wit [...]	2006-10-27 11:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN1514	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-OCTOBER 2006 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ODC conducted an End-Use Monitoring (EUM) inspection of Harris radios provided to ARM MOD in Southern Armenia with 92 percent accountability results. Expeditionary Medical Services (EMEDS) facility is being prepared for shipment to Armenia. FMF AM-B-BAA, A-1: Peacekeeping [...]	2006-10-27 12:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
06YEREVAN1516	REVISED ELECTION CODE MOVING FORWARD, FINALLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenia passed its revised election code through its first reading October 26, a small positive step. The draft can still be modified before final passage. OSCE/ODIHR and the Council of Europe Venice Commission (CoE/VC) provided a detailed joint commentary on the draft bill. The [...]	2006-10-30 04:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM OSCE AM
06YEREVAN1518	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PSI AND UNSCR 1718 [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-30 13:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PARM PREL PHSA EWWT EAIR PBTS AM
06YEREVAN1524	PROSECUTOR-GENERAL'S TIP-MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATION [...] (C) An internal probe of allegations of misconduct with human traffickers by two investigators in the Prosecutor General's (PG) Office is apparently over, and the investigators reportedly cleared of all charges. No results have been released publicly. Sources within the PG's Office and some [...]	2006-10-31 04:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM
06YEREVAN1525	GOAM WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] The GOAM informed us via an October 25 diplomatic note that it would support Michael Matheson's candidacy for the International Law Commission. GODFREY [...]	2006-10-31 10:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA
06YEREVAN1529	CONCERN BUT NOT PANIC: ARMENIAN BUSINESSES COPE WITH CLOSURE OF THE GEORGIA-RUSSIA BORDER [...] (SBU) While Armenian officials have voiced considerable concern about the economic impact of the Georgian-Russian border closing, the Armenian business community's response has been relatively mild and fatalistic. Some local exporters report a 30 percent increase in shipping costs to Russia, [...]	2006-10-31 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EAGR AM KFRD
06YEREVAN1530	KOCHARIAN COMPLAINS TO EU AMBASSADORS ABOUT N-K [...] (C) In a meeting with EU Heads of Mission on October 27, President Kocharian was deeply pessimistic about chances for a settlement on Nagorno-Karabakh, resigned that Armenia would pay a greater cost for poor Russia-Georgia relations than either of the two parties, and expressed some frustratio [...]	2006-10-31 14:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OSCE AM
06YEREVAN1531	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OBLIGATIONS UNDER UNSCR 1718 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-01 03:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM AM
06YEREVAN1537	GAZPROM MOVING TO TAKE CONTROL OF IRAN-ARMENIA [...] (C) Russian energy giant Gazprom strengthened its hold over the Armenian energy sector yesterday when it purchased all of the additional shares ArmRosGazprom (ARGP) issued to raise capital for the purchase of the Fifth Unit of the Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant (Hrazdan 5). With the share purcha [...]	2006-11-01 15:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL AM
06YEREVAN1538	A GOOD START: GOAM COMMITS FUNDS TO NUCLEAR SAFETY [...] (C) The GOAM has pledged USD 5.3 million towards safety upgrades at the Armenian nuclear power plant (ANPP) and USD 1 million annually to support Armenia's newly established decommissioning fund. The European Commission and the U.S. also proposed between USD 6-7 million each for safety upgra [...]	2006-11-02 07:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PNNL AM
06YEREVAN1539	TV STATIONS AIR AD CRITICIZING OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The opposition Orinats Yerkir Party has called for an official investigation into a television advertisement that it said unfairly denigrated the leader of its party, Artur Baghdasarian. According to the party, the advertisement is part of a "black PR" campaign that government o [...]	2006-11-02 08:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1548	POST'S ANTI-TIP FULL-COURT PRESS [...] (C) Post delivered a major push on trafficking in persons this week, meeting a number of senior government officials to discuss the GOAM's anti-trafficking efforts. In each meeting, we delivered a strong message: Armenia risks another year on the Tier 2 Watch List, or worse, if the GOAM doesn' [...]	2006-11-02 14:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM
06YEREVAN1565	USOSCE AMBASSADOR FINLEY PUSHES FAIR ELECTIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Julie Finley, US Ambassador to the OSCE, visited Armenia October 17-19, and met a wide range of GOAM officials and non-governmental contacts. While they embraced her strong messages on free and fair elections, media freedom, trafficking in persons (TIP),and anti-corruption, offi [...]	2006-11-06 04:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE AM
06YEREVAN1566	ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO PSI AND UNSCR 1718 DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian sent the embassy a reply to Under Secretary Joseph's letter (ref A) on PSI. Kirakossian reaffirmed Armenia's support for the PSI and the Statement of Interdiction Principles. He also commented on Armenia's record of non-proliferation cooperatio [...]	2006-11-06 07:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM PREL PHSA EWWT EAIR PBTS ETTC AM
06YEREVAN1586	FM OSKANIAN BLASTS GUL FOR MOSCOW COMMENTS ON [...] (C) FM Oskanian responded November 4 to Turkish FM Gul's remarks to RFE/RL on Turkish-Armenian relations. Oskanian's statement rebuked Turkey for ignoring President Kocharian's April 2005 response to PM Erdogan's historical commission proposal, and for Turkey's renewed insistence on the histo [...]	2006-11-08 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
06YEREVAN1587	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OPPOSING CUBA EMBARGO [...] (SBU) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered reftel points to Valery Mkrtumyan, head of the MFA's International Organizations Department. Mkrtumyan said that Armenia has voted in favor of the Cuba Embargo Resolution in the past, and like [...]	2006-11-08 14:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU AM
06YEREVAN1597	ARMENIA'S TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Armenia has improved its record on four of the five interim assessment indicators provided to post by G/TIP. There have been no positive developments so far this year for the fifth indicator, "vigorously investigating and prosecuting officials for complicity in trafficking." However, we [...]	2006-11-14 06:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HSTC KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG AM
06YEREVAN1602	FM OSKANIAN PRESENTS FOREIGN POLICY GOALS [...] (C) Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian presented a succinct outline of Armenian foreign and domestic policy priorities during the Wilton Park Conference on the South Caucasus held in Yerevan November 6 - 10. Oskanian elaborated on Armenia's foreign policy of "complementarity," identified economic li [...]	2006-11-14 11:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ TU AM
06YEREVAN1603	RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT WARNS ARMENIA AGAINST "ELECTION [...] (C) A Russian diplomat delivered a strong anti-Western message at the Wilton Park Conference in Yerevan November 7. While discussing Russia's foreign policy vis a vis each of the South Caucasus countries, he praised Azerbaijani "independence," blasted Georgian nationalism, and warned Armenia a [...]	2006-11-14 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM RU AM
06YEREVAN1609	ARMENIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR ILC [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-15 07:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ILC UNGA AM
06YEREVAN1612	DEMARCHES DELIVERED: UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-15 13:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KTIA UN AM
06YEREVAN1616	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] (S) The following information is provided in response to reftel. (a) TFCO: Anthony Godfrey, Charge d'Affairs Phone: (37410) 464-700 ext. 4599 Tie Line: 996 0000 UNCLASS E-Mail: GodfreyAF@state.gov SIPDIS CLASNET/SIPRNET: Godfreyaf@state.sgov.gov (b) Deputy TFCO: Elizabeth Pelletr [...]	2006-11-16 11:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER AM
06YEREVAN1626	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. REPORT ON UNSCR 1718 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-20 13:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KNNP KN AM
06YEREVAN1633	ARMENIA RATIFIES HAGUE CONVENTION ON INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION [...] SUMMARY: On November 14, President Kocharian signed into law the bill ratifying the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption. The GOAM had worked toward ratification for several years, but relevant agencies were divided on whether to ratify first and then work on implementation or implement f [...]	2006-11-21 11:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	CACS PGOV PHUM KTIA KOCI KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1634	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NOVEMBER 17 EMERGENCY SPECIAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-21 11:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA IS AM
06YEREVAN1635	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SHARING DRAFT IRAQ TEXT WITH [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-21 11:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL UNSC IZ AM
06YEREVAN1639	MOBILE TRAINING TEAM REQUEST CALL-UP MESSAGE [...] MOBILE TRAINING TEAM REQUEST: A. BATTALION OPERATIONS TRAINING: MTT B. TEAM COMPOSITION: 10 SOLDIERS: ONE EACH, MTT OIC (LTC),POST INFANTRY BATTALION COMMAND),PERSONNEL OFFICER (LT),INTELL OFFICER (CPT),OPERATIONS OFFICER (MAJ),FIRE SUPPORT OFFICER (CPT),AIR OFFICER (CPT),LOGISTICS [...]	2006-11-22 04:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
06YEREVAN1640	VIMPELCOM BUYS ARMENTEL, AGREES TO GIVE UP MONOPOLY [...] (SBU) On November 14, the Armenian Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) approved the sale of Greek-owned OTE's 90 percent stake in ArmenTel to Russian mobile telecommunications leader, VimpelCom, for USD 474 million. At the PRSC hearing, VimpelCom announced plans to end ArmenTel's mono [...]	2006-11-22 12:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECPS ECON EINV RS AM
06YEREVAN1644	ARMENIAN ADVANCES WITH FMF AND IMET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After years of pushing against our refusal to allow use of Foreign Military Financing (FMF to purchase communications equipment for the entire Armenian army -- including units stationed on the border with Azerbaijan -- the Armenian Ministry of Defense (MOD) has finally agreed to [...]	2006-11-27 13:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PARM MASS MARR AM AJ
06YEREVAN1645	JAVAKHETI: AN ARMENIAN PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) Georgia,s predominantly Armenian Samstkhe-Javakheti (S-J) region periodically makes news in Armenia, colored by the local perception here that Georgians treat their Armenian minority shabbily. Armenian government officials have not generally complained on this theme, but others, including [...]	2006-11-27 13:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG AM
06YEREVAN1646	OPPOSITION POLITICIAN CLAIMS GOVERNMENT BANNED HIM [...] (C) The leader of the opposition New Times Party, Aram Karapetian, has announced that the GOAM has banned television stations from providing him with airtime. A New Times spokesperson says no television station has aired a political interview with Karapetian since April 2005. Television stat [...]	2006-11-28 08:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1647	IRAN'S MELLAT BANK MAINTAINING A SMALL PRESENCE IN [...] (C) On November 27, while meeting on other issues, we spoke with Armenian Central Bank Board Member Vache Gabrielyan about banking relations between Armenia and Iran. Gabrielyan said the only Iranian bank in Armenia is Mellat Bank CJSC Armenia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mellat Bank Iran. H [...]	2006-11-28 08:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON IR AM
06YEREVAN1649	WILL PRIVATIZATION HELP ARMENIA'S DECAYING RAILROAD [...] Armenia's out-dated and decaying railway infrastructure may soon receive a facelift, thanks to a GOAM decision to allow private companies to bid on a 40-year lease for the national rail network. Earlier this month, Presidents Kocharian and Putin discussed the possibility of Russian Railways bid [...]	2006-11-29 07:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELTN AM
06YEREVAN1665	MTT CALL-UP MESSAGE FOR MEDICAL PLT MTT [...] MOBILE TRAINING TEAM REQUEST: A. MEDICAL PLATOON ESTABLISHMENT B. TEAM COMPOSITION: AT LEAST 2 OFFICERS AND 2 NCOS WITH EXTENSIVE TRAINING BACKGROUND IN MEDICAL PLATOON/COMPANY OPERATIONS/SUPPORT TO BATTALION OPERATIONS. 1 CURRENT OR FORMER OFFICER SHOULD HAVE COMPANY/PLATOON COMMAND EXPERIE [...]	2006-12-01 05:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
06YEREVAN1666	MTT CALL-UP MESSAGE FOR SIGNAL PLT MTT [...] MOBILE TRAINING TEAM REQUEST: A. SIGNAL PLATOON ESTABLISHMENT FUNDED BY FMF CASE AM-B-UAA B. TEAM COMPOSITION: AT LEAST 2 OFFICERS AND 2 NCOS WITH EXTENSIVE TRAINING BACKGROUND IN SIGNAL PLATOON/COMPANY OPERATIONS/SUPPORT TO BATTALION OPERATIONS. 1 CURRENT OR FORMER OFFICER SHOULD HAVE COMPA [...]	2006-12-01 05:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
06YEREVAN1667	RESULTS OF POST'S ANTI-TIP FULL-COURT PRESS [...] (C) A November 27 meeting with the Prosecutor General (PG) suggests our series of "straight talk" interventions with GOAM officials in late October and early November (ref B) may be bearing fruit. The PG was more forthcoming than in previous meetings, foreshadowing changes to the PG anti-TIP u [...]	2006-12-01 11:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	HSTC PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG AM
06YEREVAN1673	FM OSKANIAN UPBEAT ON N-K NEGOTIATIONS, WARNS [...] (C) In a December 1 briefing to Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions resident in Yerevan, FM Oskanian said that the November 28 meeting between Presidents Kocharian and Aliyev was "positive and productive." He went into limited detail about new elements which will be the basis of future discussions [...]	2006-12-04 11:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET UNGA AM
06YEREVAN1674	DE FACTO N-K AUTHORITIES INVITE U.S. TO OBSERVE [...] (C) The Yerevan representative office of the self-declared "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (NKR) asked post to convey a letter to EUR DAS Matt Bryza, in his capacity as Minsk Group co-chair, advising him of an NKR referendum December 10 and inviting him to observe the proceedings. Full text of the [...]	2006-12-04 16:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS AM AJ
06YEREVAN1675	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-OCTOBER 2006 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ODC continues to develop the ARM Peacekeeping Brigade equipping plan for consideration in FY08. Expeditionary Medical Services (EMEDS) facility is beginning to arrive in Armenia. FMF AM-B-BAA Peacekeeping battalion equipment is also arriving. Awaiting FMF Harris radio reque [...]	2006-12-05 10:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
06YEREVAN1677	REQUEST FOR TREATMENT OF IRAQ-WOUNDED ARMENIAN [...] Post strongly urges that the Department of Defense approve the evacuation to Walter Reed Army Medical Center of Armenian First Lieutenant Georgi Nalbandian, who was wounded during his service with coalition forces in Iraq. Providing treatment and rehabilitative care to Nalbandian in Washington [...]	2006-12-05 14:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MOPS AM
06YEREVAN1679	PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN CRACKS THE DOOR WIDER FOR NDI; [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian used his meeting with EUR/ACE Tom Adams to complain at length about allegedly anti-government NDI activities, while reiterating appreciation for other NDI programs. He stated that NDI would be registered "after the elections." However, NDI would remain free [...]	2006-12-06 09:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PHUM KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1680	ARMENIA: TERRORIST LISTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-06 10:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC PGOV PREL PTER KVPR KTFN AM
06YEREVAN1683	ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT REAUTHORIZES IRAQ DEPLOYMENT [...] The National Assembly voted December 6 to reauthorize the Armenia's troop deployment to Iraq. The 85-19 vote followed two days of vigorous debate, and the personal appearance of Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian who debated with some skeptical deputies the wisdom of the deployment on the parlia [...]	2006-12-06 14:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV MOPS PREL AM IZ
06YEREVAN1685	NDI PRESIDENT'S VISIT SPEAKS TO ARMENIAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-06 14:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1686	AVIAN FLU PREPAREDNESS IN ARMENIA [...] The GOAM, with support from the USG, has significantly improved its avian flu preparedness, but would still face serious challenges responding to a large-scale outbreak. At a recent meeting, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Levon Rukhkian told us that the Ministry had almost completed a series [...]	2006-12-07 06:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID PREL TBIO KFLU AM
06YEREVAN1687	ARMENIA'S CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR IF-AND-WHEN RUSSIA [...] (C) As winter approaches and tensions continue between Georgia and Russia, Armenians are increasingly concerned that Russian gas, shipped to Armenia through Georgia, will be cut off as happened in January 2006 (ref A). According to a USAID-funded expert, Armen Arzumanyan, if Russian gas is cut [...]	2006-12-07 10:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PREL RS GA AJ AM
06YEREVAN1688	ARMENIAN NEWSPAPER PRESSES ALMOST STOP ROLLING [...] (U) Armenia's leading printing company announced on December 1 that it had run out of newsprint and would cease printing Armenian newspapers December 6. The company said it could no longer import paper due to Russia's closure of the Upper Lars checkpoint on the Georgian border, as well as the [...]	2006-12-07 12:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM OPRC KPAO AM
06YEREVAN169	EMBASSY YEREVAN EMPHASIZES STATE OF THE UNION [...] Embassy Yerevan took advantage of the public diplomacy opportunities provided by the President's State of the Union Address in a variety of events and formats. As a result, the Armenian media extensively covered the major foreign policy themes of the speech. Specifically, the Ambassador's F [...]	2006-02-06 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1694	ENERGY SECTOR OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) Since Armenia's severe energy crisis in the early 1990s, energy security and independence have been critical priorities for the government of Armenia (GOAM). This cable, drawn primarily from conversations with representatives from the Armenian Ministry of Energy and USAID energy project [...]	2006-12-08 13:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG AM
06YEREVAN1697	POST CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR POSSIBLE NATURAL GAS [...] (C) Reftel outlined the risks that the political crisis between Russia and Georgia may result in a cutoff of Russian natural gas supplies to Armenia this winter. Our contacts suggest that if such a cutoff takes place, it would likely be of relatively short duration, as it was in January 2006. [...]	2006-12-11 04:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT ABUD ADCP ENRG AM
06YEREVAN1700	ARMENIA TV ARGUES ITS CASE [...] (SBU) MCC Country Director and PAO met with Armenia TV President Bagrat Sargsian and toured the company's facilities. Sargsian affirmed his belief in the TV channel's independence and promised to provide opposition candidates a platform to air their views in the lead-up to the May parliamenta [...]	2006-12-11 08:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAID KPAO KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1701	ARMENIA'S POTENTIAL REACTION TO USUN SANCTIONS [...] (C) Armenian trade with Iran remains relatively modest, accounting for four percent of overall trade. Much of this trade, however, is in key industries such as oil, energy and construction materials. In the event of UNSC sanctions against Iran, it likely that both Armenian industries and the [...]	2006-12-11 12:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON EINV ENRG PINR UNSC AM
06YEREVAN1704	ARMENIA'S HEAD IN THE SAND ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) During a two-day conference on domestic violence in Yerevan, representatives of the police and the Prosecutor General's (PG) office variously denied the existence of the problem in Armenia, used flowery language to expound upon the strength of the Armenian family and vigorously opposed lo [...]	2006-12-11 13:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KWMN AM
06YEREVAN1705	ARMENIA'S PRESS REPORTS ON REFERENDUM IN "NKR" [...] (SBU) The Armenian media widely covered the constitutional referendum held December 10 in the "Nagorno Karabakh Republic." According to preliminary results, the constitution passed by 98.6 percent, with an 87 percent voter turnout. Newspapers complained at the international community's refus [...]	2006-12-11 14:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM AJ
06YEREVAN1706	ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (U) Members of parliament debated the country's first-ever draft National Security Strategy December 1. Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian presented the draft and moderated a remarkably civil and constructive discussion. Heads of foreign missions, representatives of NGOs and journalists were in [...]	2006-12-12 09:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR EAID KDEM AM
06YEREVAN1707	WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR REMAIN RARE IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) In 2006, the Armenian government tightened some of its legislation pertaining to child labor. While there is still no explicit law against the worst forms of child labor, at the end of 2005 the government adopted a list of occupations considered too hazardous for children. The Labor Cod [...]	2006-12-12 09:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID AM
06YEREVAN171	RUSSIAN G-8 CTAG LEADERSHIP "JUST LIKE YOU" [...] (SBU) Russia kicked off its G-8 presidency year following instructions to head up local Counter-terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meetings in the pattern of earlier French and U.S. local leadership. Representatives of local G-8 embassies were invited to participate and, with the exception of the [...]	2006-02-06 13:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS AM
06YEREVAN1711	NK WAR VETERAN ARRESTED FOR SEDITION, FACES [...] (C) On December 10, Armenian authorities detained Nagorno-Karabakh war hero Zhirair Sefilian on charges of plotting to overthrow the government by force. The Armenian National Security Service (NSS) arrested Sefilian and alleged co-conspirator Vardan Malkhasian while the offices and apartment [...]	2006-12-12 13:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN1715	RESULTS OF PG'S TIP INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Although we believe the Prosecutor General's (PG) Office's internal probe into allegations of investigatorial misconduct was less than thorough, we were pleased to learn December 11 that the PG's order to restructure his Anti-TIP Unit includes the reduction in status and transfer of the ac [...]	2006-12-13 13:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM
06YEREVAN1716	ARMENIA PROSECUTES FIRST LABOR TRAFFICKING CASE [...] (SBU) On December 12, a court in Gyumri ruled on the first-ever labor trafficking case in Armenia, sentencing the trafficker to five years of imprisonment and financial compensation for the victims. According to testimony, the victims had been trafficked to Russia to work construction near Alme [...]	2006-12-13 13:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM
06YEREVAN1717	MCC INITIAL DISBURSEMENT RECEIVES WIDE-SPREAD PUBLICITY [...] (U) On December 12, MCC, MCA-Armenia, and the U.S. Embassy held a press conference and reception to announce that Armenia had completed the requirements necessary to receive an Initial Disbursement of approximately USD 1.4 million of the Millennium Challenge Compact's USD 236 million. The pres [...]	2006-12-14 06:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN1726	ARMENIA: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] SUMMARY: There have been no major terrorism-related developments in Armenia in 2006. Per reftel instruction, the following is an update of Armenia's 2005 Country Report on Terrorism. END SUMMARY. 2. With substantial U.S. assistance, Armenia continues to strengthen its capacity to counter th [...]	2006-12-18 13:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC AM
06YEREVAN1735	KOCHARIAN LAYS DOWN HIS MARKERS ON ELECTION PERIOD [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian delivered a nationally-televised interview December 15, laying out his expectations for the campaign season and May 2007 parliamentary elections. Kocharian called for elections to be free and fair, placing the onus on election commissions and political parti [...]	2006-12-19 14:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM
06YEREVAN174	"WHO'S WHO" IN ASSISTANCE FUNDING TO ARMENIA [...] International assistance has been the primary driver of development in Armenia since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. In the early 1990s, Armenia suffered devastating losses in its industrial sector and severe deterioration of its public infrastructure. Initial [...]	2006-02-07 11:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EFIN EAID PREL AM
06YEREVAN1742	AZERBAIJANI SOLDIER CAPTURED BY ARMENIAN TROOPS [...] (U) The Armenian press reports that an Azerbaijani soldier was captured by ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno Karabakh (N-K) on the line of contact December 7, after he reportedly crossed into Armenian-controlled territory east of N-K, in the Aghdam District. It is unclear whether 19-year-old V [...]	2006-12-20 11:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AJ AM
06YEREVAN1745	POLITICAL BLOOD SPORT GOES COLLEGIATE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-21 07:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM KDEM KPAO
06YEREVAN1748	POLITICAL BLOOD SPORT GOES COLLEGIATE [...] (U) Summary: The European Academy - a relatively new private college - has found itself at the center of a political skirmish. The Academy's Board of Trustees is chaired by former Parliament Speaker and current political wilderness-dweller Artur Baghdasarian. A recent court case brought aga [...]	2006-12-21 12:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1750	CDA HOSTS HUMAN RIGHTS LUNCH [...] (C) Lively discussion at a Human Rights Day lunch hosted by the Charge d'Affaires December 20 demonstrated that, while Armenia's most vocal human rights advocates agree that the upcoming parliamentary elections will not be free and fair, they do not fear airing their most damning complaints in [...]	2006-12-21 13:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV APER KPAO AM
06YEREVAN1757	THREE LIFE PRISONERS FREED BY ARMENIA'S HIGHEST COURT [...] (U) In a very surprising move, Armenia's highest court overturned the conviction and sentences of three defendants in a controversial murder case December 22. Soldiers Razmik Sargsian, Musa Serobian and Araik Zalian had been serving life sentences for the 2003 murder of two fellow servicemen i [...]	2006-12-22 12:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN176	THE REAL STORY BEHIND ARMENIA'S 7.7 PERCENT [...] (SBU) According to the Armenian National Statistical Service, official unemployment at the end of 2005 was 7.7 percent. The official statistic is based on the number of Armenians collecting unemployment benefits. Many international organizations estimate that the true rate is closer to 25 per [...]	2006-02-07 11:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD ELAB AM
06YEREVAN1764	ARMENIA WILL COMPLY WITH UNSCR 1737, HOPES WE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-27 10:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP MNUC AM
06YEREVAN1765	ARMENIA: INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] (SBU) Per ref A request, the following are the titles and contact information for the women we identified in ref C: - Culture and Youth Affairs Minister Hasmik Poghosyan, tel. (374-10) 529-349, 566-065; address: Government Building #3, Yerevan 0010, Republic of Armenia. - Labor and Social [...]	2006-12-27 10:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PHUM PREL
06YEREVAN1776	REQUEST FOR LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para. 2. 2. The Embassy requests the Department's timely assistance in performing human rights vetting for the following proposed participants in two George C. Marshall Center programs. Ruben Anany [...]	2006-12-29 10:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN188	ARMENIA CONSIDERING POSITION ON GUATEMALA'S UNSC [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-08 13:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNSC GT VE AM
06YEREVAN189	ARMENIAN BODY POLITIC: FEARING A DEAL ON N-K [...] (C) Despite the fact that only a handful of people in the GOAM have any concrete information about the state of the discussions on Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K),the Armenian political class is clearly concerned that a deal might well be in the works. In contrast to senior government officials' publi [...]	2006-02-08 13:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN190	ARMENIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IAEA REPORTS IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-08 13:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP PREL IR EU AORC AM
06YEREVAN191	ARMENIA SET TO PARTICIPATE IN INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-08 00:50:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PARM MARR AM
06YEREVAN192	ARMENIA'S COMPETITION COMMISSION: GROWING [...] (SBU) Founded in 2001 to regulate monopolies and combat anti-competitive behavior, the Armenian Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition (the Commission) plays a limited role in managing the Armenian marketplace. The Commission's caseload and enforcement action increased signific [...]	2006-02-09 12:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL EAID ETRD AM
06YEREVAN193	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MESSAGE ON PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-09 13:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAL PREL IS AM
06YEREVAN200	ARMENIA TO SUPPORT GUATEMALA FOR UN SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-10 05:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNSC GT VE AM
06YEREVAN208	AVIAN FLU UPDATE AND ACTION REQUEST [...] (SBU) An eleven-member Avian Influenza (AI) Interagency Team including representatives from USAID, USDA, HHS/CDC, DoD and State, traveled in Yerevan from January 24-26. The team, or elements thereof, met with the Ministers of Agriculture, Health and Education, with representatives from interna [...]	2006-02-10 13:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO SENV ECON PREL AM EAGR
06YEREVAN213	NUCLEAR NEIGHBORHOOD: ARMENIA SEEKING US GUIDANCE [...] (C) This is an action request. Member states of the Association of State Nuclear Authorities of Countries Operating VVER-type Reactors are tentatively scheduled to meet June 2006 in Yerevan. Armenia is the current chair of the association. Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian [...]	2006-02-13 12:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ENRG KNNP PREL AORC IR EU RS AM
06YEREVAN214	USG'S TIP REPORT: DRIVING ARMENIA'S ANTI-TIP [...] (SBU) On February 9 the State Inter-Agency Anti- Trafficking Commission met to discuss GOAM efforts on combating trafficking in persons (TIP) throughout 2005 in advance of the submission of the USG annual TIP Report. Members of the Commission representing state bodies (Ministry of Justice, Mi [...]	2006-02-13 12:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC
06YEREVAN215	ARMENIA NOT PREPARED TO DONATE TO IRAQI AND AFGHAN [...] (S/NF) We delivered ref A points regarding GOAM support for Iraqi and Afghan Security Forces to Foreign Relations and Military Cooperation Department Head General-Major Misha Melkonyan February 13. Melkonyan told us that he would forward our request "to military leadership" but that Armenia, [...]	2006-02-13 13:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	MARR MASS MOPS PINS PREL AF IZ AM
06YEREVAN223	ARMENIA NONCOMMITTAL ON SELECTION PROCESS FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-13 13:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN AM
06YEREVAN227	FULL TEXT OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY REPORT ON N-K [...] (SBU) The National Assembly's Committee on Foreign Relations released its report on the March 29-30, 2005 hearings on the "Nagorno Karabakh Problem: Settlement Ways" (original in English). Although at this late date the report itself is not likely to inform Armenian public opinion, its relea [...]	2006-02-14 12:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN230	ARMENIA: UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL [...] (C) The UNESCO convention is not likely to appear on the Armenian Parliament's legislative agenda in 2006. There has been little or no media attention or public debate specifically directed at ratification of the Convention, but perception in Armenia of UNESCO in general is quite negative. P [...]	2006-02-14 13:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD SCUL UNESCO AM
06YEREVAN231	IRANIAN FM LAUDS RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA, CALLS [...] (C) "We do not need permission to pursue a peaceful nuclear program," Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki told reporters during a press conference at the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs February 14 in Yerevan. Mottaki arrived in Yerevan February 14 for a series of official meetings at Forei [...]	2006-02-14 14:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ENRG KNNP PREL MARR RS AJ IR AM
06YEREVAN237	IS AN N-K SETTLEMENT DEAD? EVERYONE POINTING [...] (C) Official Yerevan remains careful not to close the door on the possibility of a settlement in the long-running Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, while opposition politicians and thinktankers appear almost gleeful in what is being widely reported as a breakdown in the talks at Rambouillet. Most im [...]	2006-02-15 14:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN238	ARMENIAN FM OSKANIAN REFLECTS ON RAMBOUILLET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Oskanian was not as pessimistic about the results of Rambouillet as we had anticipated when we heard him reflect on the event and on his views of the way ahead February 15. Although agreement eluded the two presidents at Paris, it was Oskanian's view that many is [...]	2006-02-16 04:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM AJ OSCE
06YEREVAN244	DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE: PM ON BOARD, WITH CAVEATS [...] (C) The Ambassador discussed USG plans for democracy assistance leading up to the 2007-2008 elections and designed to bolster Armenia's record on ruling justly during a recent meeting with Prime Minister Andranik Markarian. Noting the failures in the constitutional referendum in 2005, the Amb [...]	2006-02-17 11:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM

06YEREVAN246	NA ELECTS HARUTYUNYAN OMBUDSMAN [...] (SBU) The National Assembly elected Armen Harutyunyan as Armenia's new Human Rights Ombudsman on February 17. As the president's candidate, his election was not in doubt, but the governing coalition and the president found they needed to expend more political capital than they had intended un [...]	2006-02-17 13:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN249	ARMENIA SUPPORTS CREATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-21 13:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PREL PHUM ADCO AM
06YEREVAN254	ARMENIA: COMMENTS FOR 2006 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Armenia remain off the Special 301 Watch List for 2006. Music and video piracy does exist in Armenia, but industry losses in the Armenian market are probably small. The government's decision to establish an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Enforcement U [...]	2006-02-22 09:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON KIPR AM
06YEREVAN255	DEMOCRACY, MCA AND CORRUPTION FOCUS OF USATF [...] (SBU) Minister of Finance Vardan Khachatryan and Ambassador Evans co-chaired the mid-term review session of the U.S.-Armenia Task Force on Economic Cooperation (USATF) February 17. The USG raised issues linked to the Action Plan of the September 2005 USATF meeting held in Washington and reque [...]	2006-02-22 12:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV AM
06YEREVAN257	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HOST COUNTRY MEETINGS WITH [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-22 13:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN258	ORPHANED RADIOLOGICAL SOURCES IN ARMENIA: SEARCH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian nuclear regulatory authorities are preparing to ship two high-intensity, orphaned radiological sources to Russia for secure storage. According to the director of the quasi-govermenta [...]	2006-02-23 03:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP AM
06YEREVAN264	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIA TO CONDEMN THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-23 11:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV PTER IZ AM
06YEREVAN267	PROSECUTOR GENERAL LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF [...] (SBU) On February 17, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan created a commission to investigate allegations against his employees including the investigator of his Anti-Trafficking Unit, Aristakes Yeremyan (see paragraph 6). In a meeting with the DCM, Hovsepyan was notably upset about Armenia's [...]	2006-02-23 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PGOV PREL AM KTIP HSTC
06YEREVAN268	AVIAN FLU UPDATE: USG SUPPORT FOR IMPROVED [...] (SBU) Although there are still no reported cases of AI in Armenia, the government has begun to take steps to prepare. Motivation for the GOAM's new level of action has come not only from increasing AI reports from neighbors, but also from strong international community pressure, with the USG at [...]	2006-02-23 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO ECON SENV AM
06YEREVAN269	ARMENIA ENJOYS FOUR YEARS OF DOUBLE-DIGIT [...] (SBU) For the fourth year in a row, Armenia's gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a double-digit rate according to National Statistical Service data. (Note: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has consistently praised the National Statistical Service for the quality of its data. End Note. [...]	2006-02-23 14:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID AM
06YEREVAN274	GHUKASIAN CALLS FOR ARMENIA TO LEAVE THE [...] (C) Nagorno-Karabakh "president" Arkady Ghukasian called on Armenia to pursue negotiations with Azerbaijan only if N-K representatives were a part of the process. Although Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian quickly moved to issue a clarification of Ghukasian's comments, the GOAM was clearly [...]	2006-02-24 11:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN280	ARMENIA'S NEW POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (C) Although parliamentary and presidential elections are still more than a year away, Yerevan's political season is well and truly underway. Several well-known political and business figures have announced the formation of new political parties in early 2006, in effect revealing their ambiti [...]	2006-02-24 13:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN281	KEEPING ARMENIA'S LIGHTS ON: PIPE DREAMS AND [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian is, by most accounts, Armenia's negotiator-in-chief on energy. He has personally formulated and, through a tight network of close advisors, controlled the implementation of the GOAM's strategically important and financially significant energy deals with Russia a [...]	2006-02-27 10:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP GG AJ AM
06YEREVAN282	TUMANYAN OUT, GEVORKIAN IN -- PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) President Kocharian accepted Chief of Staff Artashes Tumanyan's resignation on February 24, then immediately named his long-time senior assistant, Armen Gevorkian, in Tumanyan's place. Although Gevorkian had been the de-facto head of Kocharian's administration for a number of years, Tuman [...]	2006-02-27 13:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR AM
06YEREVAN294	MORE ON RAMBOUILLET FROM KOCHARIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a private discussion February 28 with the Ambassador, President Kocharian did not rule out further talks on Nagorno-Karabakh, but dilated at some length on why he believed Rambouillet had been doomed to failure from the outset, and why he did not believe that Azeri President Al [...]	2006-03-01 11:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ AM PGOV PREL OSCE
06YEREVAN295	ARMENIA: ANXIOUS NOT TO CONFRONT IRAN ON NUCLEAR [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered ref A points regarding Iran's application for membership in the Association of State Nuclear Authorities of Countries Operating VVER-type Reactors during separate calls on Energy Minister Armen Movsisyan and Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian February 28. Si [...]	2006-03-01 12:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL IR RS AM
06YEREVAN308	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: FEBRUARY [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for February 2006. Major headlines include: -- GOAM approves a USD 240 million investment plan for Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Plant; -- Armentel plagued by customer lawsuits; -- EBRD issues 2006-2007 Strategy [...]	2006-03-02 05:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB BEXP BTIO AM
06YEREVAN312	ENERGY MINISTER POINTS TO IRAN'S ROLE IN BALANCING [...] (C) During a meeting with the Ambassador on February 28, Minister of Energy Armen Movsisyan discussed Armenia's ongoing disagreement with Russia over anticipated price hikes in gas supplies, the GOAM's ambitions to diversify its sources of energy, Iran's role in the Armenian energy market, and [...]	2006-03-02 11:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL IR RS AM
06YEREVAN315	N-K: KOCHARIAN'S PRIME-TIME INTERVIEW [...] (SBU) In a rare, 45-minute television interview aired live on March 2, President Kocharian addressed Nagorno-Karabakh and OSCE-Minsk Group-led negotiations at Rambouillet in February. Looking fully at ease and in complete control of the scene, Kocharian answered questions from a carefully se [...]	2006-03-02 12:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN323	CONTRASTING INDIA AND IRAN FOR THE ARMENIANS [...] (C) Ambassador delivered points contained refs A and B to Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian March 6, editorializing that, whereas India, though not a signatory of the NPT, had now agreed with the United States to enter the non-proliferation mainstream, Iran, an NPT signatory, was stil [...]	2006-03-05 13:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AM IR IN KSCA PARM PREL
06YEREVAN33	FORMER HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER GRANDSTANDING, [...] (SBU) Larisa Alaverdyan's tenure as Armenian Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) concluded January 5, under the terms of Armenia's newly amended constitution (reftel). On January 4, President Robert Kocharian created an ad hoc commission to oversee the HRD's administrative activities until Parl [...]	2006-01-10 11:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN330	ARMENIA FALLING SHORT ON AI DETECTION AND [...] (C) We are increasingly concerned that there are non-human cases of avian influenza (AI) in Armenia that have gone undetected and/or unreported. This cable details a series of incidents which collectively call into question the GOAM's willingness and ability to respond to reports of suspect c [...]	2006-03-06 13:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KFLU TBIO SENV ECON AM
06YEREVAN343	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: THE THIRD MEETING OF THE CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-09 10:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD TBIO AM
06YEREVAN344	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTS ON RUSSIA/HAMAS MEETINGS [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-09 10:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS AM
06YEREVAN350	ACTION ALONG THE ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN BORDER [...] (C) Cease-fire violations along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan have intensified over the last several weeks, according to news reports confirmed by Deputy Minister of Defense General-Lieutenant Artur Aghabekyan and Ministry of Foreign Affairs OSCE Desk Officer Head Varuzhan Nersissia [...]	2006-03-09 13:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PBTS PGOV PREL MARR AJ AM
06YEREVAN352	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION ON DAS BRYZA VISIT [...] Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza visited Armenia on March 6-8. As part of his visit, Bryza held a press conference on March 7 that received broad coverage from the print and broadcast media. The press reported on Bryza's comments on energy security, Nagorno- Karabakh, the d [...]	2006-03-09 13:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN353	ARMENIA: DIFFICULT TO EXCLUDE IRAN FROM NUCLEAR [...] (C) Armenia seeks a face-saving way to support our request to exclude Iran from an upcoming Forum of State Nuclear Safety Authorities of the Countries Operating VVER-type Reactors. Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ANRA) Chairman Ashot Martirosyan told us the MFA will convene a meeting t [...]	2006-03-09 13:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL IR RS AM
06YEREVAN354	ARMENIA'S POVERTY RATE FALLS TO 34.6 [...] (SBU) According to the National Statistical Service (NSS),Armenia's poverty rate was 34.6 percent in 2004, down from 56.1 percent in 1998- 1999. The rate of extreme poverty in 2004 was 6.4 percent, down from 21 percent. These findings were based on an NSS survey supported by the World Bank [...]	2006-03-09 14:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB EAID PHUM AM
06YEREVAN364	CONSUMER GAS PRICES SET TO RISE APRIL 10 [...] Effective April 10, Armenian consumers will pay the Armenian Dram equivalent of USD 0.20 (up from USD 0.13) per cubic meter (residential rate) and USD 0.1465 (up from USD 0.08) per cubic meter (industrial rate) for Russian natural gas under a new pricing scheme adopted by Armenia's Public Se [...]	2006-03-13 13:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG AM
06YEREVAN366	RATHER THAN DISINVITE IRAN, ARMENIA SET TO CANCEL [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian has ordered Armenian organizers of the 12th Annual Forum of State Nuclear Safety Authorities of the Countries Operating VVER-type Reactors to "find technical reasons" to withdraw as host of the conference, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian told t [...]	2006-03-13 13:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL IR RS AM
06YEREVAN370	YEREVAN AMBASSADORS ISSUE CALL FOR FREE, FAIR [...] (SBU) In the wake of the flawed referendum on constitutional changes held in Armenia last November, chiefs of mission accredited to Yerevan found themselves on the same page: almost all had cautiously endorsed the amendments, which were worked out in consultations with the Council of Europe's [...]	2006-03-14 11:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN380	HIGH DEMAND FOR AGRICULTURAL LOANS [...] The Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) recently released the results of a survey of 635 farmers around the country aimed at estimating local demand for agricultural loans. The CBA estimated that, without considering profitability and collateral requirements, total demand for loans was approximat [...]	2006-03-16 13:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR EFIN EAID AM
06YEREVAN389	SHIPMENT OF RADIOLOGICAL SOURCES: CORRECTING THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-19 11:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ASEC EAID ENRG KNNP RS AM
06YEREVAN393	DAS BRYZA: BALANCING ENERGY INTERESTS IN THE [...] (C) During March 7-8 meetings in Yerevan, DAS Bryza found broad consensus for the need to diversify Armenia's sources of energy and general concern about GazProm's overwhelming influence in the sector. Bryza urged support for regional solutions to energy issues, including increased electricity [...]	2006-03-20 04:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL IR RS AM
06YEREVAN395	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION ON FRIED VISIT [...] Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried, accompanied by Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Eurasian Conflicts Steven Mann, visited Armenia March 15-16. As part of his visit, Fried held a press conference on March 16 that received broad coverage from the print and broadcast media. [...]	2006-03-20 08:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN406	FM OSKANIAN "HOPES" TO DELIVER GOAM ENDORSEMENT OF [...] (C) We delivered points and draft diplomatic note contained ref A to MFA Arms Control and International Security Department Head Arman Hakobyan, Arms Control and International Security Advisor Vartuhi Asaturian, and Americas Desk Head Lilit Toutkhalian March 22. We noted that, despite numerou [...]	2006-03-21 13:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP MNUC AM
06YEREVAN421	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: MARCH [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for March 2006. Major headlines include: -- Microsoft opens a subsidiary in Armenia; -- GOAM approves new technopark in Gyumri; -- Germany issues Armenia a USD 9.7 million loan; -- Public Services Regulatory [...]	2006-03-26 07:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB CCSR BEXP BTIO AM
06YEREVAN423	DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH NA SPEAKER BAGHDASARIAN [...] (C) During his March 7-8 visit to Yerevan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza pressed National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian to take a leadership role in developing Armenia's democratic institutions and urged Armenia to work with neighbors toward g [...]	2006-03-26 10:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN424	ARMENIANS TRYING TO BARGAIN ON INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) We delivered reftel points regarding Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky's re-election to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) March 27. Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan told us that the GOAM would actively support Ambass [...]	2006-03-26 13:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR AORC PREL UN AM
06YEREVAN432	EUR A/S FRIED DISCUSSES N-K, ENERGY SECURITY AND [...] (C) During an informal dinner March 15 with a group of Armenian political leaders, visiting EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried underlined the USG's policy that strong democracies were better equipped to solve the region's most pressing problems, especially the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and [...]	2006-03-27 09:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IR AM RU
06YEREVAN438	ARMENIA SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR ELECTION TO HUMAN [...] (SBU) On March 28, Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Baiburtian convoked CDA to request U.S. support for Armenia's candidacy as a member of the UN's new Human Rights Council. In addition to presenting a formal note (text at para 4 below),DFM Baiburtian said that Armenia's strong performance for [...]	2006-03-28 09:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AM UNGA
06YEREVAN458	SHOOTING DISRUPTS MARCH 29 OSCE MONITORING MISSION [...] (C) OSCE Special Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk told CDA on March 31 that he called off a March 29 cease fire monitoring event because shots were fired in the vicinity and neither the "N-K" nor the Azeri side could account for their origin. A report signed by OSCE Special Representatives And [...]	2006-03-30 13:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS OSCE AJ AM
06YEREVAN468	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CLARIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-03 11:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KTBT AM
06YEREVAN473	PRESS ALLEGES "RELIGIOUS SECTS" COLLUDING WITH [...] (C) A short, vague, and unsigned article published April 4 in opposition weekly Iravunk, alleged that a "top police official" had information that "religious sects," in particular Mormons and Pentecostals, had established ties with "well known criminals" who protected the "sects' interests" pr [...]	2006-04-03 12:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KRCM AM
06YEREVAN479	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROBLEMATIC GUIDELINES ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-04 08:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECE KTIA SENV UNAUS XG AM
06YEREVAN481	ARMENIAN MPS REJECT PUBLIC TV'S CALL TO END [...] (SBU) At a March 4 press conference, National Assembly (NA) Speaker Artur Baghdasarian announced that NA leaders decided to reject calls by Chairman of Armenian Public TV and Public Radio Aleksan Harutiunian to abolish a law requiring Public TV to broadcast National Assembly sessions. Oppositi [...]	2006-04-04 12:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN484	JUDGES CONTINUE TO DEMONIZE TIP VICTIMS AND [...] (SBU) Armenian courts continue to stigmatize trafficking victims and hinder the efforts of law-enforcement bodies to punish traffickers. On March 2 the Court of Appeals downgraded a trafficking conviction into pimping and reduced the key defendant's sentence. Hope and Help NGO, which provide [...]	2006-04-05 08:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP HSTC PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN487	ARMENIANS ALSO AMONG RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-05 12:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI IR AM
06YEREVAN489	ARMENIA'S NORTHWEST PROVINCE: DEAD END? [...] (C) Armenia's northwest Shirak province is bound by a closed border with Turkey to the west and the Samstkhe-Javakheti region of Georgia to the north. A 1988 earthquake centered in Shirak killed tens of thousands of people and leveled a significant portion of the region's infrastructure. Alm [...]	2006-04-05 12:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN492	ARMENIA, RUSSIA REACH TENTATIVE DEAL ON ENERGY [...] (C) A tentative agreement reached April 5 between Armenia and Russia, would transfer ownership of key components of Armenia's dwindling energy infrastructure to Russia in exchange for Russian natural gas subsidies. Under terms of the agreement, Russia appears set to assume immediate control, [...]	2006-04-06 03:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL IR AM
06YEREVAN501	ABANDONED AZERI GRAVEYARD SUFFERS NEGLECT, [...] (SBU) Beyond common neglect, which, for the most part has led to the deterioration of an abandoned Azeri cemetery in Armenia's northern Lori province, we noted during a March 26 visit that vandals had intentionally damaged several of the cemetery's Muslim grave markers. The destruction did not [...]	2006-04-06 12:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETRD UNESCO SCUL AJ AM
06YEREVAN508	ARMENIA RUNNING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL--U.S. NOT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-10 08:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KUNR PREL PHUM UNGA AM
06YEREVAN523	ARMENIA: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-12 11:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KUNR OPDC PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN531	ARMENIA: URGING SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION OF THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-13 10:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT AM
06YEREVAN532	USG ROLE IN WORLD BANK MULTILATERAL DEBT RELIEF [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-13 11:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN KPAO AM
06YEREVAN549	IRANIAN-ARMENIAN SCIENCE UNIVERSITY EXPECTED TO [...] (C) Iran's largest state-sponsored university -- with branches in Afghanistan, Central Asia, and correspondence courses on-line -- recently partnered with Yerevan State University (YSU) to establish a private "Armenian-Iranian Science University" in Yerevan, according to YSU's Caucasian Center [...]	2006-04-17 11:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM IR AM
06YEREVAN557	ARMENIAN KATHOLIKOS PLANS OUTREACH TO TURKEY, [...] (C) The Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Karekin II, told Ambassador April 18 that he planned to visit Istanbul June 20-26 at the invitation of the Ecumenical Patriarch, but would not be venturing further into Turkey on this, his first visit there. Instead, he hoped to make a second [...]	2006-04-18 11:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM AJ TU
06YEREVAN56	TRAFFICKER SENTENCED IN FIRST CASE OF ARMENIA [...] (SBU) On January 8, the first instance court of Artashat sentenced Sos Meliksetyan, charged under the trafficking statute (Article 132) with aggravating circumstances (reftels),to two years of corrective labor. Under this verdict Meliksetyan, who exploited three women and a minor girl from U [...]	2006-01-13 11:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC
06YEREVAN560	CODEL KOLBE: KOCHARIAN REQUESTS BENCHMARKS TO [...] (C) During their April 10-12 visit to Yerevan (ref A),Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Appropriations Subcommittee for Foreign Operations Jim Kolbe, Congressman Scott Garrett and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Amb. John Danilovich discussed developments related to im [...]	2006-04-18 13:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL PGOV EAID AM
06YEREVAN566	ARMENIAN SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT ON ELECTORAL REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The OSCE Ambassadors' group (reftel) met with Speaker Baghdasarian of the Armenian National Assembly for an extensive briefing and discussion of electoral law revisions that have been sent to OSCE/ODIHR and the Council of Europe's Venice Commission for expert review. The new e [...]	2006-04-19 12:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN58	ARMENIA: NO IMMEDIATE RESPONSE ON UN REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-13 12:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KUNR PHUM ADCO AM UN
06YEREVAN586	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: APRIL [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for April 2006. Major headlines include: -- Greek Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) to sell its 90 percent share in the Armenia Telephone Company (ArmenTel); -- GOAM sells Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant [...]	2006-04-27 12:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB CCSR BEXP BTIO AM
06YEREVAN59	ARMENIA TO FOLLOW CONSENSUS ON INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-13 12:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC AM UNCND UN
06YEREVAN599	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - ARMENIA STILL UNDECIDED [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-28 10:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM PREL AM IR
06YEREVAN6	KOCHARIAN MENTIONS MCA, IRAN DURING ANNUAL NEW [...] (C) President Robert Kocharian's New Year's address, which is traditionally broadcast via all local television stations in Armenia on January 31, included a specific reference to the Millennium Challenge Account program. Kocharian said that thanks to the MCA program, Armenia would "see a brea [...]	2006-01-04 12:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN602	ICRC: ARMENIA TO SUPPORT THIRD ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points regarding the Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions to DFM Armen Baiburtian and MFA International Organizations Department Head Valery Mkrtumyan. Mkrtumyan told us that Armenia planned to sign the Protocol and to support changing the statutes of [...]	2006-04-28 13:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PHUM PREF PREL AM SZ ICRC
06YEREVAN617	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - FOLLOW UP ON CANDIDACY [...] (C) In separate meetings on May 1 and 2, the Ambassador and DCM raised demarche points on Iran's candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council with Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian (May 1) and Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Baiburtian (May 2). Kirakossian told the Ambassador that Armenia [...]	2006-05-03 12:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL IR AM
06YEREVAN623	TURKISH FM GUL EXPRESSES HIS CONDOLENCES TO FM [...] (U) The MFA Press Service announced May 4 that FM Oskanian had received a letter of condolences from Turkish FM Abdullah Gul. While the information did not yet make the Armenian papers, wire services carried a brief notice about the letter, quoting FM Gul as having written, "It was with deep [...]	2006-05-05 06:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AM TU
06YEREVAN628	U.S. CANDIDACY FOR INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-05 11:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS AORC AM
06YEREVAN629	WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY: SMALLPOX DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-05 12:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC TBIO WHO AM
06YEREVAN631	ARMENIA'S ENERGY SITUATION: DEALING WITH DEVILS [...] (C) While official Armenia insists that the incomplete Iran-Armenia gas pipeline was not included in the recent Hrazdan 5 energy-for-infrastructure agreement with Russia (reftel),the specific details of the midnight deal remain unclear. In response to the Ambassador's inquiries during May 2 [...]	2006-05-05 13:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL IR RS AM
06YEREVAN632	ARMENIA WILL NOT SUPPORT IRAN FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-09 05:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KUNR PREL PHUM IR AM
06YEREVAN64	ARMENIA CONSIDERING NEXT STEPS IN VIEW OF U.S. [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on reporting Iran to the UNSC to Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian January 13. Although officially on leave, Kirakossian was well aware of recent developments, had seen the EU-3 FMs' statement already and undertook to consider how Arm [...]	2006-01-13 13:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC EU IR KNNP PARM PREL
06YEREVAN647	BAGHDASARIAN LEADING HIS PARTY INTO THE COLD? [...] (C) In a series of recent setbacks for National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian and his Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law, OY) party, it is becoming apparent that Baghdasarian is being marginalized well before the 2007 parliamentary elections (ref A). Baghdasarian's penchant for playing to a We [...]	2006-05-10 13:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN661	"PROSPEROUS ARMENIA" - OLIGARCH'S NEW PARTY [...] (C) The political grouping "Prosperous Armenia" is gathering steam and is expected to be one of the most important factors as the political season heats up. Its leader, the business tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan, has declared that his goal is to support financially a group of professional legislato [...]	2006-05-12 09:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AM
06YEREVAN662	"A CIVILIZED DIVORCE"--BAGHDASARIAN LEAVES [...] (C) National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian formally announced his party's withdrawal from the governing coalition and his intention to step down as Speaker during a press conference May 12. His formal announcement ended intense speculation about his falling out with President Kocharian [...]	2006-05-12 10:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN665	UN IN ARMENIA SAYS IT IS FREE OF TIES TO TERROR [...] (C) UN Resident Coordinator Consuelo Vidal told us May 11 that she had complete confidence that UN agencies in Armenia had no terrorist organizations among their partners. Asked whether UN agencies in Armenia were vetting existing and potential partners against the U.S. Treasury Department's [...]	2006-05-12 13:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EFIN UNDP AM
06YEREVAN666	ARMENIA'S ECONOMY INSULATED FROM PLANE CRASH, [...] (C) On May 3, an Armavia flight to Sochi crashed into the Black Sea, killing all 113 aboard. Two days later, a fire in a Brussels maintenance hangar destroyed another Armavia aircraft as well as a second plane owned by another Armenian company. Investigations into both the crash and the fire [...]	2006-05-12 13:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR EAID PREL RS BE AM
06YEREVAN682	ARMENIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH REMAINS STRONG [...] (SBU) Armenia's GDP grew by eight percent during the first quarter of 2006, continuing a trend of impressive, often double-digit, growth rates over the past few years. Construction remained the primary driver of growth, up 25.2 percent compared to the first quarter of 2005. Retail trade was [...]	2006-05-18 07:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID AM
06YEREVAN687	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RECONCILING MARITIME SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-18 11:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO MARR MOPS RS BU GG RO TU AR AJ AM
06YEREVAN688	GOOD POLITICAL CLIMATE IN ARMENIA FOR A DEAL ON N-K [...] (C) We look forward to welcoming you to Yerevan again. Given your familiarity with the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations, we would like to take this opportunity to update you on domestic political developments, some of which may influence Armenian decision-making with respect to N-K. 2. (C) Des [...]	2006-05-18 12:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OTRA OSCE AJ AM
06YEREVAN691	DASHNAKS PICK UP MINISTER OF EDUCATION SLOT [...] (SBU) Nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF, Dashnaktsutyun) party received a new cabinet portfolio after Speaker of the National Assembly Artur Baghdasaryan pulled his Orinats Yerkir (OY) party and its cabinet members from the ruling coalition on May 12 (reftel). On May 17, Pres [...]	2006-05-19 10:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN692	ARMENIA'S SYUNIK MARZ: NOT MUCH GROWTH AND LITTLE [...] (C) Armenia's southern Syunik region feels very little of the economic growth that is now so obvious in the capital. Separated from the rest of Armenia by mountains and connected by a two-lane road occasionally washed out by landslides, Syunik borders the Azerbaijani exclave Nakhichevan on the [...]	2006-05-19 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL AM IR
06YEREVAN693	GOAM PAVES WAY FOR IRAN TO JOIN NUCLEAR REACTOR [...] (C) Despite high-level assurances to the contrary (ref A),Armenian organizers of the 12th Annual Forum of State Nuclear Safety Authorities of the Countries Operating VVER-type Reactors have acknowledged that they will not withdraw from hosting the nuclear reactor conference (ref B). The GOAM' [...]	2006-05-19 13:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL IR RS AM
06YEREVAN696	NA SPEAKER BAGDASARIAN FORMALLY RESIGNS [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-22 12:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN701	SHAKING OUT THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (C) Armenia's governing coalition, now down to two official members, will be strengthened with the (informal) addition of the United Labor Party and the continued support of the People's Deputy Group. Current Deputy Speaker Tigran Torosyan (Republican) is looking ever more likely to fill the [...]	2006-05-24 03:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN710	NA RATIFIES MCC COMPACT; AMBASSADOR DELIVERS [...] (U) On May 24, the Armenian National Assembly ratified the GOAM's Compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for USD 235.6 million. The vote was 77 to 0 in favor with 4 abstentions. The Compact was signed in Washington on March 27 by MCC Chief Executive Officer Ambassador John D [...]	2006-05-24 13:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN714	FORMER ORINATS YERKIR DEPUTIES ESTABLISH NEW [...] (SBU) On May 25, ten (of eleven) National Assembly members who left outgoing Speaker Artur Baghdasarian's Orinats Yerkir (OY) Party Faction, created a new deputy group called Gortsarar (Entrepreneur). The members of Gortsarar elected Grigor Margaryan, the owner of "Bellagio" restaurants netwo [...]	2006-05-25 12:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN715	ARMENIA AND IRAN: KOCHARIAN WISHES HE HAD A [...] (C) With U.S. concerns about Iran peaking, so are Armenia's concerns about how the U.S. and the international community will respond to Armenia's attempts to maintain a vestige of neighborly relations with its southern neighbor. As Armenia had only two open international borders, President Koc [...]	2006-05-25 13:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KNNP IR AM
06YEREVAN721	A1-PLUS FAILS YET AGAIN TO WIN FREQUENCY [...] (SBU) The independent television and media company A1-Plus failed to win a radio frequency in the latest of its recurrent attempts to resume broadcasts. The National Commission on Television and Radio (NCTR, a regulatory body appointed by President Robert Kocharian) rejected the A1-Plus appli [...]	2006-05-26 11:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN724	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO OSCE MINSK GROUP VISIT [...] As part of an OSCE Minsk Group delegation, Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried, Russian Deputy Foreign SIPDIS Minister Grigoriy Karasin, and French Ambassador Pierre Morel, accompanied by the three OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, visited Armenia on May 25. During the visit, the delegatio [...]	2006-05-26 12:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
06YEREVAN74	KOCHARIAN WON'T CONDEMN REFERENDUM, STILL HOPES [...] (C) In a January 17 meeting with President Kocharian, the Ambassador pressed for a clearer GOAM acknowledgement of shortcomings in the November 27 constitutional referendum. The January 12 response to Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Danilovich from FM Oskanian was a principled statement, [...]	2006-01-18 11:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN743	ARMENIA: OPINION POLL ON N-K SETTLEMENT, POLITICS [...] (C) The vast majority of Armenians believe it is important to solve the problems related to Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K) in the "near future," according to the results of a May 2006 Gallup poll commissioned by the International Republican Institute (IRI). The poll results also demonstrated that, wh [...]	2006-05-31 13:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ AM
06YEREVAN747	ARMENIA PARLIAMENT ELECTS NEW SPEAKER, NO [...] (SBU) On June 1, the Armenian Parliament elected Tigran Torosyan to the post of Speaker of the National Assembly, which became vacant on May 29 (reftel A). Torosyan, a member of Armenia's Republican Party and the former Deputy Speaker, was the only candidate. The vote was 94-1, with two ballo [...]	2006-06-01 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AM
06YEREVAN751	ARMENIANS CAUGHT IN HEADLIGHTS ON IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with President Kocharian late June 1 to deliver ref A points on Iran, and with Deputy Foreign Minister Kirakossian the following day. Kocharian had no immediate reaction except to repeat his concerns about the heightening tensions over Iran's nuclear program, to la [...]	2006-06-02 10:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP IR AM
06YEREVAN761	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 2006 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) DCM presented reftel points and the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report summary for Armenia to Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian and Valery Mkrtumyan, head of Armenia's interagency Anti-TIP Commission, during a June 5 meeting. Mkrtumyan said the Anti-TIP Commission would take ou [...]	2006-06-05 12:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN PREL PGOV SMIG AM
06YEREVAN767	IMI (ARMENIA): TENDER FOR SUPPLY OF ALL [...] The Armenia Telephone Company (ArmenTel) invites local and foreign companies to participate in an International Open Tender for the supply of all types of mobile communication (postpaid/prepaid SIM, Scratch) cards. Bids must be submitted on or before noon on July 3, 2006. 2. Bidders sho [...]	2006-06-06 11:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
06YEREVAN768	FITCH RATES ARMENIA "BB-" WITH A STABLE [...] (SBU) On June 5, 2006, Fitch Ratings assigned Armenia foreign and local Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) of "BB-" with a Stable Outlook. This is the first time Armenia has received a sovereign credit rating from an internationally-recognized rating company. Representatives from the Central Bank o [...]	2006-06-06 11:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD AM
06YEREVAN784	ARMENIA SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) GOAM Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian publicly declared Armenia's support for the U.S. statement on Iran during a June 8 press conference (see text in paragraph 3 below). Oskanian's statement came after the Ambassador's push to President Robert Kocharian, Oskanian and Deputy Foreign Minis [...]	2006-06-09 10:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN785	ARMENIA'S NEW (OLD) MINISTER OF EDUCATION [...] Summary: On June 5, Ambassador, DCM and CAO met with newly appointed Minister of Education Levon Mkrtchyan, who took up his post when the party of Parliament Speaker Baghdassarian left the ruling coalition in early May. Mkrtchyan made a strong first impression, with a firm command of the chall [...]	2006-06-09 10:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI AM

06YEREVAN807	RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT: ARMENIA SUPPORTS CHANGES [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points to MFA International Organizations Department's Human Rights and Humanitarian Division Chief Tigran Samvelian. Samvelian said the GOAM's position on the change to the statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is "very much in line" with [...]	2006-06-14 09:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL ICRC IS AM
06YEREVAN819	TURKISH MP'S VISIT TO ARMENIA MARRED BY HEATED [...] (C) A member of the Turkish parliament made Armenian news June 13 when he got into a verbal scuffle with Armenian National Assembly Speaker Tigran Torosyan during a rare visit to Armenia. Twenty parliamentarians visited Armenia June 12-14 on an information-gathering trip managed by the NATO i [...]	2006-06-15 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PGOV PREL TU AM
06YEREVAN827	RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT: ARMENIA WILL NOT SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Post contacted the MFA International Organizations Department's Human Rights and Humanitarian Division Chief Tigran Samvelian per ref A. Samvelian reaffirmed that the Armenian representatives who would attend the June 20-21 meeting did not plan to vote to adjourn (ref B). EVANS [...]	2006-06-19 12:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PHUM PREL PREF ICRC SZ AM
06YEREVAN830	REBEL A1-PLUS MEDIA OUTLET MAY BE FORCED OUT OF [...] (SBU) Independent media outlet A1-Plus is being forced to vacate its offices, which may result in the shut-down of its website and newspaper. The Ministry of Territorial Administration has offered a new set of offices to the news outlet, whose television station was forced off the air in 2002 [...]	2006-06-20 10:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM OPRC KMDR KPAO AM
06YEREVAN831	ARMENIAN PRESIDENT GOING TO TEHRAN [...] (C) Armenian President Robert Kocharian will accept a long-standing invitation to visit Tehran for a working visit that has been tentatively set for July 5-6, according to Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian, who told the Ambassador this June 20 in the course of a meeting on ano [...]	2006-06-20 10:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP IR AM
06YEREVAN836	TIP RATING CATCHES KOCHARIAN'S ATTENTION [...] (C) Armenia's second consecutive ranking on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Tier 2 Watchlist seems to have touched a nerve in the highest levels of Armenian government. During a June 20 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian confirmed news reports that Preside [...]	2006-06-21 09:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AM
06YEREVAN838	YEREVAN-BATUMI TRAIN DEPARTS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN [...] A train departed Yerevan for the Georgian Black Sea resort town of Batumi on June 17, marking the first train service between the Armenian capital and the autonomous region of Adjara in 14 years. According to press reports quoting Georgian Minister of Economic Development Irakli Chogovadze, A [...]	2006-06-21 12:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GG AM
06YEREVAN840	TOP ADVISER CLAIMS KOCHARIAN ORDERED TOUGHER [...] (C) Presidential National Security Adviser Garnik Isaghulyan told us June 21 that President Kocharian ordered law enforcement officials to toughen court verdicts for human traffickers and ensure that criminals are sentenced to the fullest extent of the law. This instruction was delivered at a [...]	2006-06-22 03:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG TU AE AM
06YEREVAN844	ARMENIA WILL COMMENT ON USDA/APHIS PROCESS ON [...] (SBU) On June 16, 2006 Reftel we delivered talking points to Lilit Toutkhalian, Americas Departmental Head at MFA. Toutkhalian said she would forward to George Kocharyan, the official responsible for Agricultural portfolio in Armenian Embassy in Washington. 2. (SBU) During a separate meet [...]	2006-06-22 12:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AM EAGR ETRD USDA USTR
06YEREVAN850	ARMENIA: UN OPTIONAL ANTI-TORTURE CONVENTION [...] The United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came into force June 22 in Armenia. The Parliament unanimously ratified the Protocol on May 31. The Protocol, which the UN General Assembly adopted in December [...]	2006-06-23 11:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
06YEREVAN851	N-K DFM BLAMES FIRES ON AZERI TRACER BULLETS AS [...] (SBU) A top "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (NKR) official has refuted Azeri allegations that the Armenian military is starting fires in Azerbaijani settlements bordering N-K. NKR "Deputy Foreign Minister" Masis Mayilian told the press some of the fires were natural occurrences, but that Azeri tra [...]	2006-06-23 12:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN858	ARMENIAN PRESS BLASTS TURKISH RECEPTION OF [...] Armenian cultural and political leaders blasted the GOT in the press following an incident during which a group of about 50 protesters reportedly egged cars carrying Armenian religious dignitaries on their way to meet the leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church at the Istanbul airport. Accordi [...]	2006-06-26 10:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM TU AM
06YEREVAN875	GOAM INVESTIGATES CLAIMS OF MENTAL HOME ABUSE, [...] (C) Armenia's sensationalist press has reported allegations of human organ sales from a state-run mental facility in a western province of Armenia. While the prosecutor's investigation has not turned up evidence of organ sales, it did uncover widespread malnutrition, abuse and medical malprac [...]	2006-06-29 11:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN895	ARMENIA RELEASES ANTI-TIP MANUALS FOR ITS OVERSEAS [...] At the release of a USG-funded anti-trafficking in persons manual for Armenian consular officials overseas, GOAM officials pledged to improve their track record in identifying and protecting trafficking victims and to strengthen Armenia's interagency Anti-TiP Commission. End Summary. 2. [...]	2006-07-03 06:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AM
06YEREVAN900	GAZPROM AGAIN LAYS CLAIM TO IRAN-ARMENIA GAS [...] (C) Gazprom announced June 30 its intention to purchase the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline still under construction. The Armenian deputy energy minister told us the statement was just an expression of the company's desire to buy the pipeline, and thus was not news to the GOAM. This is not the fir [...]	2006-07-03 12:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG IR AM
06YEREVAN905	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points to MFA Department for Arms Control and International Security Counselor Vartuhi Asaturian on July 6. Asaturian said the GOAM also was concerned about the July 4-5 North Korean missile tests, and hoped for a peaceful solution to the situation. She said the GOA [...]	2006-07-06 10:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KN PARM KNNP AM
06YEREVAN910	ARMENIA'S "LEAST COST" ENERGY FUTURE INCLUDES [...] (SBU) At a June 30 conference to plot out how Armenia's energy generation capability needs to change to match its projected demand, GOAM energy policy leaders and top USAID consultants presented persuasive arguments that Armenia must replace its aging nuclear power plant by 2015 with a new nuc [...]	2006-07-06 12:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV PREL KNNP AM
06YEREVAN914	KOCHARIAN'S JULY 5-6 "WORKING VISIT" TO IRAN [...] (C) From July 5-6, during a "working visit" to Iran, President Kocharian met twice with President Ahmadi-Najad and presided over the signing of several agreements to further economic and cultural cooperation. Most significant of these dealt with increasing energy integration, including the c [...]	2006-07-07 11:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP IR AM
06YEREVAN920	GOAM OFFICIALS WORRY GEORGIA-RUSSIA BORDER [...] (U) The July 7 closing of the Kazbegi-Verkhniy Lars checkpoint (reftel) between Russia and Georgia is worrying GOAM officials. GOAM Prime Minister Andranik Margarian told reporters the closure will become a serious problem for Yerevan, particularly in the agricultural sector. End Summary. [...]	2006-07-11 03:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN922	OSCE: "NOTHING TO" AZERI CLAIMS OF ARMENIAN ARSON [...] (C) There is "nothing to" the claim that Armenians had set fires to destroy Azeri property in the occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, according to Andrzej Kasprzyk, special representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office (CiO) on the Minsk Conference. The OSCE sent a monitoring gr [...]	2006-07-11 06:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ AM
06YEREVAN933	ARMENIAN MEDIA CONCERNED ABOUT TABLOID EDITOR'S [...] (C) The Armenian media is concerned about the arrest and pre-trial detention of the editor of Zhamanak Yerevan, Arman Babajanyan, on charges of document fraud and the evasion of military service. Babajanyan reportedly confessed to the charges that he forged documents between 1996 and 2002 to g [...]	2006-07-12 12:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN938	MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES GOAM-GOG BORDER [...] (C) The Georgian and Armenian governments have delimited between 100 and 110 kilometers of the border between the two countries, and the entire project should be completed by year's end, according to the director of the MFA's Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Department. Though the sta [...]	2006-07-13 11:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RU AM
06YEREVAN946	NDI HOLDS WOMEN'S FORUM IN YEREVAN [...] (U) The National Democratic Institute (NDI) put on a well-attended forum about women and elections earlier this month. The event was the latest in a series that is part of NDI's Women's Leadership Forum of Armenia (WLFA),established in March, part of the Mission's USAID Democracy Promotion S [...]	2006-07-17 08:50:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KWMN AM
06YEREVAN948	TFLE01. ARMENIA DENOUNCES [...] On July 14, the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on the situation in Lebanon which condemns the use of "disproportionate force intended solely to collectively punish civilians..." Full text of the statement below: 2. Begin text of Armenian Foreign Ministry Statement [...]	2006-07-17 10:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL LE AM
06YEREVAN95	KOCHARIAN ON TAX AND CUSTOMS: "A CASTE OF PARASITES..." [...] (U) Despite acknowledging limited improvements, President Kocharian strongly criticized the State Customs Committee and State Tax Service for failing to coordinate and for reported cases of corruption and smuggling which continued to undermine revenue collection during a working meeting with He [...]	2006-01-23 12:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD AM
06YEREVAN951	HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER: DEMOCRACY COULD BE [...] (C) During a July 13 lunch with Mission staff at the Ambassador's residence, Armenian Human Rights Defender Armen Harutyunyan speculated about Armenia's chances of becoming the region's leading democracy. When the Ambassador raised the linkage between potentially fraudulent elections and susp [...]	2006-07-17 11:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN952	KOCHARIAN'S NEW COMMISSION ON ARMENIAN- [...] (U) Armenian President Robert Kocharian recently established a new Commission to better coordinate Armenia's collaboration with Europe. The high-ranking commission has been given two months to develop a timeline of "concrete activities" to fulfill Armenia's commitments to the Council of Europ [...]	2006-07-17 12:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN959	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COMMISSION FOR ASSISTANCE TO A [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points to Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan July 17. Mkrtumyan said Armenia stands behind the USG in its efforts. "Our voting pattern has changed drastically in favor of the U.S. on this issue," he sai [...]	2006-07-18 12:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CU PGOV PHUM PREL AM
06YEREVAN960	ARMENIA DRAMATICALLY INCREASES PENALTIES FOR [...] (SBU) Recent changes in Armenia's Criminal Code significantly increase penalties for trafficking in persons (TIP),making them commensurate with penalties for crimes such as rape. The Prosecutor General initiated the amendments, which took effect July 16. The changes attempt to distinguish be [...]	2006-07-19 06:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HTSC AM
06YEREVAN970	ARMENIAN REFUGEE POPULATION DWINDLES AS PEOPLE [...] (C) Armenia's refugee population has dwindled enormously since hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians fled across the border from Azerbaijan, according to U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) statistics. UNHCR Representative Peter Nicolaus told us preliminary results from the Armeni [...]	2006-07-19 11:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM AJ AM
06YEREVAN971	PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESPERSON CLAIMS OPPOSITION HAS [...] (C) On July 4, Presidential Spokesperson Victor Soghomonian sent official letters to OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti and Head of the "Ago" monitoring group of the COE Council of Ministers Ambassador Roland Wegener refuting claims that opposition politicians are not [...]	2006-07-19 11:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN98	ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO GAS SUPPLY CUT OFF [...] (C) Russian gas via Azerbaijan will not flow to Armenia according to Deputy Minister of Energy Iosef Isayan. As a result, Armenia will deplete its reserves by January 31 if Russian supplies through Georgia are not restored. Armenian authorities halted exports of power to Georgia, and began t [...]	2006-01-23 14:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG PREL RS GG IR AM AZ
06YEREVAN982	ARMENIAN DFM SAYS HE'LL ASK ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR TO [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel points to Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian July 21, stressing that Armenia should use its influence with Iran to encourage the government to accept the P5 1 package and suspend nuclear enrichment-related activities. Kirakossian said he would discus [...]	2006-07-21 12:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC AM
06YEREVAN983	ARMENIAN JOURNALISM REMAINS A DANGEROUS PROFESSION [...] (SBU) Two recent incidents, although they are unrelated, highlight the fact that journalists in Armenia are subject to intimidation. Journalist Edik Baghdasaryan reported receiving e-mail threats following the publication of an article on his web site about oligarch Gagik Tsarukyan's new poli [...]	2006-07-21 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
06YEREVAN985	DEFENSE MINISTER SARGSIAN OFFICIALLY ENTERS THE [...] (C) Although parliamentary elections are still nearly a year away and presidential elections are almost two years off, Armenia's political scene has begun to coalesce. Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian has long been tipped as the likely successor to President Kocharian, and on July 14, he declar [...]	2006-07-21 13:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN991	DEFENSE MINISTER JOINS RULING REPUBLICAN, [...] (SBU) As expected (reftel) the leadership of the governing Republican Party finally secured the long-awaited membership of Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian, electing him to the post of chairman of the party's governing council during its extraordinary congress July 22. The party also e [...]	2006-07-25 05:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
06YEREVAN995	PRAGUE EL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-25 12:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT PREL AM
06YEREVAN998	GOAM HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT 61ST UNGA [...] (SBU) Post submits the following list of high-level GOAM attendees for the 61st UNGA per reftel instructions. MFA International Organizations Department Director Valery Mkrtumyan told us schedules remain tentative but that Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian will head the GOAM delegation. Post [...]	2006-07-25 13:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OTRA OVIP UNGA AM
06YEREVAN999	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH EU SPECIAL [...] (C) During a July 25 meeting with the Ambassador, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby seemed most concerned with determining what "flanking measures" he could take to assist the Minsk Group in getting Nagorno Karabakh (NK) negotiations back on track. The Ambassador [...]	2006-07-25 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ AM
07YEREVAN1000	EUR DAS BRYZA'S VISIT YIELDS UPDATES ON NK, [...] (C) SUMMARY: DAS Bryza's intense day of meetings in Yerevan July 30 touched important bases with top GOAM and opposition leaders. The visit was aimed at bilateral business, but Nagorno-Karabakh deliberations nonetheless dominated meetings with the President and Foreign Minister. On Turkey, [...]	2007-08-07 10:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM TU IR
07YEREVAN1008	ARMENIA HAS SIGNED, STILL WORKING TO RATIFY, [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-08 05:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PARM PINS PINT MCAP KNNP AM
07YEREVAN1012	CDA CALL ON ENERGY MINISTER RAISES IRAN, NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. CDA met August 6 with Energy Minister Armen Movsisian to discuss the Armenian nuclear power plant (ANPP) and Armenia's economic relations with Iran. Movsisian assured that the GOAM aims to close the plant by the target date (2016). He believed that Armenia's only option is to [...]	2007-08-09 05:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON ETTC PREL PARM IR AM
07YEREVAN1015	ARMENIA DISMAYED BY RUSSIAN POSITION ON CFE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian strategists are unanimously chagrined by Russia's plan to withdraw from the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, believing that a functioning CFE is very much in Armenia's national interests to restrain a regional arms race. FM Oskanian and MFA experts tell us t [...]	2007-08-09 12:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM AM RU
07YEREVAN102	ARMENIA LOOKS FOR MOVEMENT TOWARD RE-OPENING [...] (C) During a January 30 meeting with CDA, DFM Arman Kirakossian indicated that the GOAM would consider a signal from Turkey that opening the border was not contingent on a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement as "encouragement" to negotiate seriously normalization of relations between the two countries [...]	2007-01-30 13:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
07YEREVAN1032	TOUCHING ALL THE BASES: DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bryza's opposition party meetings pointed up the sharp contrast between the two, with Heritage on the upswing, and Orinats Yerkir seeming like a spent force. The parliament speaker, typically, delivered a windy oration of questionable relevance on Armenia's constitution. Bryza [...]	2007-08-16 03:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM TU
07YEREVAN104	"AND THEY'RE OFF!" -- OUR OVERVIEW FOR THE ELECTION SEASON [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Kocharian's January 29 decree announcing the May 12 parliamentary election is the first step in the election process, and comes two days ahead of the 100-day advance notice prescribed by Armenian law. Following is an overview and projected timeline of key dates for the [...]	2007-01-31 05:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1048	SPECIAL ELECTION WILL TEST GOAM'S DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) The August 26 race to fill the District 15 parliamentary seat may be a small harbinger of Armenian authorities' commitment to election integrity, looking ahead to the 2008 presidential election. The race will also either strengthen or deal a setback to Heritage Party leader Raffi Hova [...]	2007-08-24 12:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1049	SPECIAL ELECTION WILL TEST GOAM'S DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) The August 26 race to fill the District 15 parliamentary seat may be a small harbinger of Armenian authorities' commitment to election integrity, looking ahead to the 2008 presidential election. The race will also either strengthen or deal a setback to Heritage Party leader Raffi Hova [...]	2007-08-24 12:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1050	EX-PRESIDENT TER-PETROSSIAN TESTING THE COME-BACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA's courtesy call on Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) found the former president candid, in high spirits, and eagerly exploring his chances to unify Armenia's opposition under his own banner for the 2008 presidential election. LTP evaluated his chances as slender, but worth trying, gi [...]	2007-08-24 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1051	UNCONFIRMED AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN ARMENIA [...] 1.(SBU) SUMMARY: Agriculture Minister Lokian called in post's USDA officer August 24 to report his ministry's strong suspicion that a virus that has recently appeared in northern Armenia is the African Swine Fever (ASF) that has already decimated the pig population in Georgia. He requested U [...]	2007-08-24 13:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1055	RULING PARTY CANDIDATE WINS COMMANDING PLURALITY [...] (C) Polling and vote tabulation proceeded fairly smoothly during the August 26 special election for the district 15 parliamentary seat. The Republican candidate was declared the winner with about 46 percent. His formerly-Prosperous Armenia rival came in second with almost 29 percent. The Da [...]	2007-08-28 02:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1056	UPDATE ON SUSPECTED AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN [...] 1.(U) The following is an update of the suspected African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak described Friday in reftel. Though the virus is widely believed to be ASF, it has not/not yet been officially confirmed as such. 2. (U) Approximately three weeks ago the first cases of suspected ASF in No [...]	2007-08-28 02:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1058	ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE POSITION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DRAWS [...] (U) Armenian media outlets have not played up the recent decision by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to recognize the Armenian "genocide." Virtually all television stations reported the news in a brief, straightforward manner. The newspapers HAYASTANI HANRAPETUTIUN and AZG carried the news i [...]	2007-08-28 13:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN106	GOAM ACTIVE ON TIP NATIONAL ACTION PLAN, RAISING [...] (C) Charge d'affaires presented the interim TIP report to Armenian DFM Arman Kirakossian January 30, a week later than first planned, because Kirakossian had had to travel abroad. CDA emphasized the progress Armenia had made, and pointed out that its relatively positive interim assessment was l [...]	2007-01-31 11:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM
07YEREVAN1062	8/28 UPDATE ON AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN ARMENIA [...] The Russian government has confirmed that the suspect virus affecting swine in Armenia is in fact ASF. The testing was done at a laboratory at the Institute of Virology and Microbiology in Pokrov. Upon receipt of an official letter, Armenia will be obligated to inform the World Veterinary Org [...]	2007-08-28 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1069	OPPOSITION PARTY INTRODUCES BILL TO RECOGNIZE [...] (U) Fresh from his stinging defeat in the TEC 15 parliamentary election, on August 28 Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian introduced a bill into parliament which would extend Armenian recognition to the self-declared "Republic of Nagorno Karabagh." To date, no country, including Armenia, [...]	2007-08-30 05:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1073	ARMENIA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS [...] This is the inaugural issue of a new, periodic digest of news events which we hope will inform, educate, and perhaps occasionally amuse our readership. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS (U) POLITICAL NEWS: -- Chief Prosecutor Killed in Vanadzor -- Police stop opposition leafleting -- Iranian Vice-P [...]	2007-08-30 10:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EINV KCRM AM IR
07YEREVAN1089	PRESIDENT, FOREIGN MINISTER, AND OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (U) President Robert Kocharian took time out from his Greek vacation to send a congratulatory message to new Turkish President Abdullah Gul. As Kocharian is abroad on a private trip, details of the message were unavailable in Yerevan. Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian sent his own letter of [...]	2007-08-31 08:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AM TU
07YEREVAN1093	MACROECONOMIC OVERVIEW FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2007 [...] (SBU) Double-digit expansion of Armenia's economy continued in the first half of 2007, with GDP growth equal to 11.2 percent year-on-year. As in the previous year, the growth was driven mostly by construction and services. The inflation rate in June was 4.8 percent year-on-year, due to rising [...]	2007-08-31 12:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EAID
07YEREVAN1094	SUSPICION OVER THE FUTURE OF THE OSCE YEREVAN OFFICE [...] (SBU) OSCE Office in Yerevan 's outgoing Economic and Environmental Officer and current Acting Deputy Head Jeannette Kloetzer revealed to Poloff that there seems to be some confusion over her successor once she leaves her current position September 27 to become DCM at OSCE's Office in Kazakhsta [...]	2007-08-31 12:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM OSCE AM
07YEREVAN1105	ARZUMANIAN DETENTION EXTENDED TO TWO MORE MONTHS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former FM Aleksander Arzumanian's AmCit wife, called on CDA August 31 to brief him on the status of the case. Arzumanian remains in the National Security Service (NSS) lock-up, under investigation for money-laundering. Coincidentally, on the same day, the courts approved an add [...]	2007-09-05 10:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1107	UPDATE ON AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) As of September 4, the World Animal Health Organization (OIE) has confirmed ASF's existence in Armenia, and has announced the situation in Armenia on its website. (NOTE: In the past this has meant that, in order to contain the African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak, OIE will probably recomme [...]	2007-09-06 02:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1120	UPDATE ON AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN ARMENIA [...] (U). On September 6, the GOAM finally approved a program to combat African Swine Fever (ASF) and announced creation of a ministerial-level interagency task force to oversee the effort. Some 1,800 animals have been slaughtered to date, and affected areas quarantined. Although the economic impac [...]	2007-09-10 07:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1134	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-August 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Harris Radio End-Use-Monitoring inspections conducted with 100% verification; Crisis Response Survey Conducted; Developing FMF FY08 Letters of Request with Armenian MOD ; Three JCTP events conducted in Aug; Awaiting Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) to b [...]	2007-09-12 03:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN1135	ARMENIA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS: SEPTEMBER 1-12, 2007 [...] TABLE OF CONTENTS POLITICAL NEWS: -- FM: Armenia ready for an "effective political dialogue" with NATO, will double Kosovo contingent by year's end -- "Inauguration" Day in "NKR" -- Air Tax to take flight? -- Be careful with that!: GOAM reaction to more Turkish "reconstructions" [...]	2007-09-12 07:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EINV AM TU
07YEREVAN114	DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH NGOS, [...] (C) Visiting EUR DAS Bryza received two previews of the upcoming parliamentary elections on January 26. Opposition leaders predicted that the May elections would be the worst yet in Armenia's post-Soviet history, and complained that U.S. and European leaders had done too little to push for de [...]	2007-02-01 13:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1148	READING THE TEA LEAVES -- AN INSIDER'S TAKE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Halfway out the door, a government insider offered a behind the scenes peek into the jockeying now underway among ruling elites to secure their places in the presumed Serzh Sargsian presidency. The leading candidates for prime minister: current DPM Hovannes Abrahamian, former P [...]	2007-09-14 06:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PINR AM
07YEREVAN116	IMPROVING U.S. DIPLOMACY ON INDOOR AIR POLLUTION [...] Post delivered reftel points to Head of the Department of Air Pollution at the Ministry of Nature Protection Aram Gabrielian. Post's assessment of GOAM commitment to reduce indoor air pollution and summary of recent projects in this area are provided below. --------------- GOAM COMMITMENT - [...]	2007-02-02 11:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO AID AM
07YEREVAN118	NEW REFORMS SEEK TO IMPROVE TRAFFIC LAW COMPLIANCE, LESSEN [...] (U) SUMMARY. Armenia's traffic police division implemented reforms in late 2006 aimed at modernizing their operations with an eye toward reducing corruption. The traffic police adopted new procedures for citing driving infractions which include plans for the purchase of more modern equipment [...]	2007-02-02 11:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV KCRM AM
07YEREVAN1193	UPDATE ON AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) A Food and Agriculture Organization (UN/FAO) delegation dispatched to Armenia to assess the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in mid-September characterized the current situation as alarming. Concerned by the lack of bio-security measures to combat the outbreak, the delegation recomm [...]	2007-09-27 12:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1197	CDA FINDS CATHOLICOS A CONSTRUCTIVE VOICE ON TOUGH [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on Armenian Catholicos Karekin II September 27 to discuss the church leader's five-week visit to the United States, which begins September 30. CDA conveyed that at the moment a meeting with President Bush appeared unlikely. The Catholicos expressed disappointment, rem [...]	2007-09-28 12:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF OVIP AM
07YEREVAN1235	LETTER FROM NAGORNO-KARABAKH "FOREIGN MINISTER" TO [...] (SBU) The "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" representative office in Yerevan forwarded the below letter, from "NKR Foreign Minister" Georgiy Petrossian to OSCE Special Representative Kasprzyk, with the request that we convey to U.S. Minsk Group negotiator Matthew Bryza. Post has no plans to forwar [...]	2007-10-12 08:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS AM AJ
07YEREVAN1241	SCENESETTER FOR PM SERZH SARGSIAN'S WASHINGTON [...] (C) Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian's visit to Washington October 17-23 is his chance to see and be seen with Washington leaders in the run-up to his February 2008 presidential election bid. With his extensive defense and security background, Sargsian now needs to show himself as a world leade [...]	2007-10-16 02:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP SERZH SARGSIAN KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1244	PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN PROMISES ANSWER ON IRAQ TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Initially opposed, Kocharian eventually agreed to consider DOD's request to "enhance" Armenia's contribution to Iraq. His goal, if he agreed, was to keep the change as low-profile as possible. He will get back to us in eight to ten days. He wants to check whether a new legisla [...]	2007-10-16 11:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL MARR MASS IZ AM
07YEREVAN1247	A DEEPLY SKEPTICAL KOCHARIAN AGREES TO HEAR OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian made clear to CDA his profound disbelief in Turkey's sincerity on rapprochement, but grudgingly agreed to hear out any Turkish proposal. Kocharian complained at length about past bad faith from Turkey, and said he considers talking with Turkey a lost cause for [...]	2007-10-16 13:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TK AM
07YEREVAN1251	DASD CAGAN RECEIVES QUALIFIED AGREEMENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: DASD Cagan's Yerevan visit October 11 got positive signals from the Armenian government on doubling its Iraq contingent to 100 and taking on a new fixed-site security mission. Sargsian requested, however, that CDA Perina present the request directly to President Kocharian, who [...]	2007-10-17 06:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL AM IZ
07YEREVAN1255	ARMENIA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS [...] This is the latest in our periodic series of cables highlighting news of U.S. policy interest. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS: (U) POLITICAL NEWS: -- Ex-President Blasts Government In Quasi-Campaign Speech -- ...And Reaches Out To Old Enemies -- PM Sargsian Talks Iran and Turkey in Moscow -- Pro [...]	2007-10-17 12:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD KCRM AM
07YEREVAN1257	EX-PRESIDENT (AND CANDIDATE) TER-PETROSSIAN MAKES [...] (S) SUMMARY: Former President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) asked CDA to convey points on Nagorno-Karabakh to Minsk Group negotiator Matthew Bryza. LTP said he met recently with new NK "President" Bako Sahakian, and found in him a credible partner to discuss N-K settlement options. Ter-Petross [...]	2007-10-17 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PBTS PREL AJ AM
07YEREVAN1259	SANCTUARY AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIP FOR ARMENIA'S [...] (SBU) Numbering 40,000, the Yezidi minority in Armenia has found sanctuary as well as economic hardship since taking refuge in Russian Armenia in the 1830s. Based on fieldwork by Dr. Mark Yoffe, a George Washington University researcher participating in the U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist Progr [...]	2007-10-17 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ASEC PTER PREF SMIG SOCI KWMN KIRF KFRD
07YEREVAN126	SURVEY FINDS ARMENIANS LESS TOLERANT OF CORRUPTION [...] Armenians are becoming less tolerant of corruption, according to a Transparency International Armenia (TIA) survey released January 31. The most striking symbol of their mounting dissatisfaction was respondents' answers to a question regarding the most visible and common manifestation of Arme [...]	2007-02-06 06:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KCOR SOCI AM
07YEREVAN1268	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-September 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: PAP-DIB Survey conducted; IMET graduate reception; Humanitarian Assistance events conducted with KSNG; FY08 FMF Letter of Request being finalized; One JCTP and two SPP events conducted in Sep; Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) still in DoS Legal. 2. [...]	2007-10-19 12:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN1274	IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S VISIT LOW-KEY, BUSINESS-LIKE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on FM Oskanian for an immediate readout of President Ahmadinejad's visit. Oskanian said that the Iranian delegation's early departure (a fact which dominated local media coverage) was at the Iranian side's request, and that only vague explanations were offered of urge [...]	2007-10-23 13:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETRD EINV ENRG KNNP IR AM
07YEREVAN1278	DISMISSED ARMENIAN JUDGE CRIES FOUL [...] (C) Fired judge Pargev Ohanian told us his October 16 dismissal by President Kocharian was politically motivated, and a clear indication that judicial independence is nonexistent in Armenia. Ohanian had garnered public fame for dismissing prosecution charges against Armenian businessmen, who [...]	2007-10-24 11:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL AM
07YEREVAN1279	APPARENT CRACKDOWN ON TER-PETROSSIAN SUPPORTERS [...] (SBU) Armenian police on October 23 detained 12 opposition activists as they publicly called for an opposition rally in support of the candidacy of Armenia's first president, Levon Ter-petrossian in the approaching presidential election. Police scuffled with, and then detained the activists, af [...]	2007-10-24 12:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1282	JUDGE OHANIAN BROUGHT DOWN BY CORRUPTION [...] (C) The case of fired judge Ohanian (reftel) came up during a conversation with David Harutyunian (protect). Harutyunian currently chairs the parliamentary committee on State and Legal Affairs, but was justice minister prior to the May 2007 elections. Harutyunian confirmed that top law enfo [...]	2007-10-25 11:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1300	ONE AND THE SAME? THE COMPLEX ETHNIC PICTURE OF YEZIDIS [...] (SBU) Self-identification as either Yezidi or Kurd largely depends on individual self-perceptions. While closely related, many Yezidis and Kurds in Armenia insist on being either/or. Almost all Yezidis and Kurds here observe the pagan, sun-worshipping Yezidi faith, and speak the same Kurdish [...]	2007-10-30 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SOCI AM
07YEREVAN1302	MEDIA REACTION: COVERAGE OF FORMER PRESIDENT'S RALLY [...] (SBU) Almost all Armenian broadcast media and much of the printed press failed to report fully and accurately the most significant event so far in the presidential campaign. On October 26, 2007, several opposition parties organized a rally in Liberty Square at which former president Levon Ter- [...]	2007-10-30 14:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KPAO KMDR KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1303	POLICE FILE CHARGES AGAINST TER-PETROSSIAN SUPPORTERS [...] (U) On October 30, Armenian police filed criminal charges against five supporters of former president Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) who were detained October 23 (reftel). The charges include "hooliganism committed by a group," and "violence against a representative of the authorities." If proven [...]	2007-10-31 04:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1307	TER-PETROSSIAN DECLARES CANDIDACY AT LARGE RALLY, [...] (SBU) Former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) announced his candidacy for president at an October 26 outdoor rally of some 20,000 supporters who gathered despite light rain in Yerevan's Freedom Square. Blasting the authorities for over 90 minutes, LTP called the ruling regime a [...]	2007-10-31 10:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
07YEREVAN1311	MINING ARMENIA'S TEGHUT FOREST - AN INEVITABILITY? [...] (C) The GOAM is set to approve a much-criticized clear-cutting and strip-mining operation in the Teghut Forest. Critics, decrying environmental damage, have asserted that the GOAM,s approval process fails to meet international commitments, and violates Armenian law. Suspicions of official cor [...]	2007-11-01 08:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AM ECON ENV
07YEREVAN1313	DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-01 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM EFIN KNNP IR AM
07YEREVAN1317	COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER [...] (U) The Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe (COE) visited Armenia October 7-11 to assess the human rights situation. During his trip, Thomas Hammarberg visited police stations, prisons, refugee centers, and the Gyumri earthquake zone. He also met with Armenian leaders and NGOs. [...]	2007-11-02 13:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN132	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-JANUARY 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Expeditionary Medical Services (EMEDS) contingency hospital training conducted in Armenia on 31 Jan - 4 Feb 07. WIF funded personnel reform seminar coordinations on track. FMF AM-B-BAA Peacekeeping battalion equipment delivery not yet completed. NCO program development mee [...]	2007-02-06 11:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN133	NATO REVIEW PLEASED WITH ARMENIA IPAP PROGRESS, [...] (C) NATO international staffers gave Armenia high marks on implementation of their Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) during a February 2 briefing to Chiefs of NATO Missions in Yerevan. Frank Boland, NATO's Staff Director of Force Planning, said that the review was "very positive" and [...]	2007-02-07 08:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO AM
07YEREVAN1333	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-October 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Letter of Request totaling $6.8M of FMF for Peacekeeping equipment and radios requested for Armenian Peacekeeping Brigade; Review of Armenian National Military Doctrine conducted; DASD Cagan visit; Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) still awaits State Dep [...]	2007-11-07 08:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN1346	ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ANNOUNCED FOR FEBRUARY 19, [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-09 13:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1347	DELIVERING MCC SCORECARD TO PM, WITH A SIDE ORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on Prime Minister Sargsian to present the MCC FY08 scorecard, and discuss its implications. He acknowledged the message that Sargsian had heard in Washington from MCC CEO Danilovich, that Armenia should not be "punished" for having graduated to a higher national income [...]	2007-11-12 14:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1359	PM STAFF GIVE AND TAKE ON TURKEY, ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/DCM had a long and fruitful conversation with two of PM Sargsian's close advisers. The two men affirmed the PM's desire to start a process to reconcile with Turkey, even before he become president. They agreed that a string of recent events against pro-opposition figures damag [...]	2007-11-19 04:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TU IR AM
07YEREVAN1361	KOCHARIAN GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO ARMENIAN TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armen Gevorkian, Chief of Staff to President Kocharian, informed CDA on November 16 that Kocharian has agreed to authorize an Armenian troop enhancement in Iraq. The additional troops, however, will not be deployed before Armenia's February 19 presidential election. Gevorkian adde [...]	2007-11-19 10:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL AM IZ
07YEREVAN1362	AUTHORITIES DOG ARMENIAN TV STATION FOR COVERAGE [...] (C) On November 7, Emboffs visited GALA TV in Gyumri to learn more about its ongoing run-in with authorities, widely attributed to GALA's October 14 airing of a critical speech by former president Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP). According to GALA's owner, the authorities' threats before airing the [...]	2007-11-19 10:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AM

07YEREVAN1363	UN 3RD COMMITTEE: ARMENIA WITH US ON N.KOREA, [...] (C) Polchief spoke with MFA International Organizations director Dziunik Agahjanian, conveying demarche points (reftels). Aghajanian affirmed that Armenia remains committed to voting just as it did on these issues last year. Specifically, Armenia will vote for a "no action" resolution on Ir [...]	2007-11-19 12:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNGA UN AM

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