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31 Dec 1997

Armenia
Armenia Situation Report No.18

Report
— UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs
REG. NO. 98/0004
Situation Report from the DHA Coordinator in ARMENIA - No. 18
December 1997

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Armenia participated in the World Bank (WB) Consultative Group Meeting in Paris
  • The Government of Armenia initiate a system of family allowances
  • The Ministry of Agriculture and the International Fund for Agricultural Development signed an agreement on a USD 13 million loan
  • Only 40 percent of all houses and apartments in the earthquake zone have been rebuilt to date. USD 500 million is required
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23 Dec 1997

Armenia + 3 others
UNHCR seeks $37 Million for CIS Programs

Report
— UN High Commissioner for Refugees
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees today launched a special appeal for $37 million to help millions of displaced people living in often destitute conditions across the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Although fighting has ended in all of the seven major conflicts which erupted in the region since 1988, the area is still suffering the after- effects of some of the largest and most complex population movements in recent history.

The 1998 special appeal aims to bring relief to many of the nine million people displaced in the region

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17 Dec 1997

Armenia + 2 others
The Caucasus - Emergency Assistance Situation Report No.3

Report
— IFRC
appeal no. 01.32/97

period covered: May - August 1997
Federation programmes in the Caucasus continue to move towards development. Several important evaluations and assessments have been carried out, both by the Federation itself and by donors. These have led to fine-tuning and refinement of some programmes, resulting in even better systems and hence improved service for beneficiaries.

The context

The break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, economic collapse and a series of military conflicts have combined to place

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08 Dec 1997

Armenia
Armenian migration-related ngos compete for UNHCR/IOM funds

Report
— Open Society Foundations
FM Alert, Vol. I, No. 58

ARMENIAN MIGRATION-RELATED NGOs COMPETE FOR UNHCR/IOM FUNDS

Grants worth $57,000 from the UNHCR NGO Fund to follow up the 1996 CIS Conference will be distributed in late December to selected Armenian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that assist refugees. UNHCR's implementing partner in this project is the Yerevan NGO Training and Resource Center, run by the Armenian Assembly of America, a Washington-D.C.-based private voluntary organization. The NGO Training and Resource Center has received the bulk of its funding since its inception in 1994 from USAID,

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05 Dec 1997

Armenia
Armenian NGOs Compete for UNHCR/IOM Funds

Report
— Soros
amindel@sorosny.org
Fri, 05 Dec 97 15:30:17 EST
Grants worth $57,000 from the UNHCR NGO Fund to follow up the 1996 CIS Conference will be distributed in late December to selected Armenian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that assist refugees. UNHCR's implementing partner in this project is the Yerevan NGO Training and Resource Center, run by the Armenian Assembly of America, a Washington-D.C.-based private voluntary organization. The NGO Training and Resource Center has received the bulk of its funding since
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04 Dec 1997

Armenia
IFAD launches second project in Armenia

Report
— International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFAD/97/32
Rome- Wednesday 4 Dec. 1997 - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of Armenia have today signed a USD12.95 million to help finance the North-West Agricultural Services Project, the Fund's second project in the country. The agreement was signed at the Fund's Headquarters by Fawzi Al-Sultan, President of IFAD and HE Vladimir M Movsissian, Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Armenia.

The project, which has a total cost of USD 15.91 million, aims at improving the living condition of some 9500

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30 Nov 1997

Armenia
Armenia Situation Report No.17, Nov 1997

Report
— UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs
REG. NO. 97/0386
November 1997

HIGHLIGHTS

The Government of Armenia plans to increase budget expenditures on social, health and education sectors

Workshop on Social Indicators was held in Yerevan

The US President approved the FY'98Foreign Aid Bill sending USD 87.5 million in direct aid to Armenia

Agreement about providing DM 40 million of humanitarian aid to Armenia in 1997-98 was signed between the Governments of Armenia and Germany.

10,000 MTs of kerosene will be distributed during winter months to some 32,000 families in the earthquake zone as

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20 Nov 1997

Armenia + 1 other
Armenia: Ambassador Optimistic About Nagorno-Karabakh

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
By Robert Lyle
Washington, 20 November 1997 (RFE/RL) - Armenian Ambassador to the U.S. Rouben Shugarian says he is quite optimistic about the status of negotiations dealing with Nagorno-Karabakh.
Shugarian says the process with the Minsk Group is "quite promising," and adds he thinks the time is approaching when a permanent solution may be found.
Speaking to a conference in Washington on Caspian Sea oil pipelines, Shugarian said regional cooperation on pipeline proposals travelling through both Armenia and Azerbaijan should be kept separate from the political dispute,
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13 Nov 1997

Armenia
Opposition party urges Council of Europe to demand democratization in Armenia

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
NEWS BRIEFS
A leading Armenian opposition party, the Self-Determination Union (IM), says Armenia's full membership in the Council of Europe should be made contingent on the democratization of its political system.

The leader of the IM, prominent Soviet-era dissident Paruyr Hayrikian, told a news conference today in Yerevan that the Council of Europe should set a number of preconditions to the Armenian government before the country can become a full member of what he called "the family of democratic nations." One such precondition, Hayrikian

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10 Nov 1997

Armenia
Armenia/Azerbaijan: Minister Wants 'Honorable' Peace

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Yerevan, 10 November 1997 (RFE/RL) -- Armenia's interior and national security minister said today he supports only an "honorable" peace with Azerbaijan that would involve concessions from all sides to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but did not elaborate on what that may involve.
Speaking at a news conference in Yerevan, Serzh Sarkisian said a "peace at all costs" is unacceptable to him. Sarkisian said mutual concessions must not "transform into unilateral concessions" on the part of the Armenian side in the course of the peace process.
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03 Nov 1997

Armenia
Armenia: OSCE Plan For Nagorno-Karabakh Accepted

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— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Yerevan, 3 November 1997 (RFE/RL) - Armenia says it will accept an international initiative on gradual settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute with Azerbaijan.
Armenian news media published an article over the weekend by President Levon Ter-Petrossyan in which he called for the resumption of talks with Azerbaijan that were put on hold one year ago. He says "mutual concessions" are the only way to ensure that ethnic Armenians continue to populate the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. But he adds, these concessions mean choosing between the lesser of two evils.
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03 Nov 1997

Armenia
Armenia: Nagorno Settlement Requires Compromise

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Yerevan, 3 November 1997 (RFE/RL) - A senior U.S. State Department official says only a settlement acceptable to all the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can bring a lasting peace and provide security in the region.
Ambassador at Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the Newly Independent States, Stephen Sestanovich, told reporters in Yerevan today that the settlement of the dispute requires compromise from the parties. But he did not elaborate on what that might involve.
Sestanovich heads an inter-agency U.S.
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31 Oct 1997

Armenia + 1 other
Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh statement to SFRC

Report
— US Information Agency
TEXT:

(At Oct. 29 confirmation hearing, for rank of ambassador) (1040)

Washington -- B. Lynn Pascoe, who has been nominated by President
Clinton for the rank of ambassador in conjunction with his duties as
special negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh, appeared before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee at an October 29 confirmation hearing.

Pascoe described the goals of U.S. policy in the Caucasus: "We want to
promote the resolution of conflicts that hold back the social and
economic progress of these countries; we want help them develop their

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31 Oct 1997

Armenia
Armenia Situation Report No.16

Report
— UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs
Ref: DHAGVA - 97/0372
October 1997

HIGHLIGHTS

- World Bank voices concern over the slow economic growth and high poverty level in Armenia

- Swiss Government Food for Work evaluation workshop conducted in Yerevan

- Reforming of the water and sewage systems is one of the top priorities in Yerevan says Prime Minister

- Swedish SIDA Mission to Armenia

SITUATION OVERVIEW

Economic Performance

At a news conference on 8 October World Bank (WB) representatives voiced their concern over the slow economic growth

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23 Oct 1997

Armenia + 1 other
Emergencies Bulletin - Caucasus, October 1997

Report
— Oxfam
Azerbaijan / Armenia
In July there were floods in the south-west of Azerbaijan and also across into Armenia.
In Armenia seven times the average monthly rainfall has been recorded in one 24 hour period. Some landmines were being washed out of river banks and exploding downstream. Oxfam is working in five affected villages and the town of Goris (where 8 400 people lacked proper access to water. Sewerage systems were also damaged. Oxfam is carrying out a programme, funded by ECHO, of restoration to drinking water and sanitation systems.

In Azerbaijan, Oxfam's immediate response

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17 Oct 1997

Armenia + 2 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 42 of 1997: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia

Report
— World Food Programme
This report includes: A) Central Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo
and Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) B) East Africa: Rwanda, Burundi,
Uganda and Sudan C) West Africa: Angola D) Commonwealth of Independent
States: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia E) Afghanistan.
From J.-M. Boucher, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the
Internet at WFP Home Page http://www.wfp.org/ or by e-mail from
Deborah.Hicks@wfp.org (fax 39 6 6513 2837). For information regarding
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09 Oct 1997

Armenia
OSCE/Minsk Plan For Karabakh Accepted

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Yerevan, 9 October 1997 (RFE/RL) - A spokesman for Armenia's foreign ministry today says his country has accepted a proposal by the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on a "step-by-step" basis.
Spokesman Arsen Gasparyan told RFE/RL that Armenia has accepted the proposal and is now awaiting clarification on the
order in which the issues will be discussed.

Azerbaijan last night said it would agree to the plan put forward by the OSCE on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

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08 Oct 1997

Armenia
Growing Disagreement On Nagorno-Karabakh?

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
By Emil Danielyan
Yerevan, 8 October 1997 (RFE/RL) - Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are apparently drifting apart in their positions on the resolution of their conflict. The hints of growing discord between Yerevan and Stepanakert may have significant repercussions on the mediation process sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group.

Arkadii Ghukasyan, the president of the unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, said yesterday that Karabakh will continue to demand a "package" solution to the conflict

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30 Sep 1997

Armenia + 1 other
Negotiators Try New Approach To Karabakh

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
By Roland Eggleston
Vienna, 30 September 1997 (RFE/RL) -- International negotiators trying to resolve the long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh are now trying to persuade all sides to accept a step-by-step approach beginning with the withdrawal of Armenian forces from captured Azerbaijani territory.

Officials close to the negotiations said in Vienna this week it was clear that attempts to negotiate a single comprehensive document containing both a military and political settlement had failed. A comprehensive document was proposed earlier this summer by the

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