“In Q1, 2012, a 40% drop in direct investments was posted, with Q3 plunge totaling 60%,” ex-Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said.

AFAD said in a statement there were now 100 363 Syrians at more than a dozen camps in Turkish provinces along the border.

In comparison, about 8.3m people accessed the BBC’s sport website on the first day of this year’s Olympic Games.

“Going to Armenia to study massacre of Armenians in 1915 and perhaps make a film on it later,” Kapur tweeted.

A number of docs will be signed, with Artur Baghdasaryan to participate in a sitting on Armenia’s activity within the SCTO.

In Baghdad, a police officer said gunmen staged a drive-by shooting against a civilian car in a southern suburb.

The advisory referendum was held alongside elections to the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas. Voter turnout was at 50.13 percent.

“The landing of the plane carrying humanitarian aid to Syria had been planned,” Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

As the spokesperson of Armenia’s Department of Civil Aviation said, the plane will continue the flight following the examination.

Current siting of S-300PS batteries closes re-existing air defense gap, allowing Armenia to deny air travel into Nakhijevan.

Iran has previously threatened to disrupt Gulf oil shipping if Israel or the United States carries out any attacks on its nuclear facilities.

Edward Nalbandian: Armenia will contribute to strengthening of the Organization’s role on international scene.

At the convention, the head of the Union of Armenians of Russia Ara Abrahamyan has been reelected as the Congress president.

The attackers left 23 dead and 17 wounded, said a regional coordinator with Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency.

BP controls a 35.8 percent stake in the project, while SOCAR has 11.6 percent and Chevron has 11.3 percent.

The deal is designed to carve a potentially lucrative opening in the U.S. for Softbank, Japan’s third-largest mobile carrier.

Brahimi underlined that the crisis in Syria “was getting worse every day and stressed the urgent need to stop the bloodshed”.

The military commission hearings will also be shown at forts in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland.

The EU ministers are expected to impose new measures against Iran’s banking sector, industry and shipping.

Ali Zeidan got 93 votes from Libyan lawmakers, eight more than his closest contender, Mohammed al-Harary.

King Sihamoni is flying to Beijing to accompany the late king home, a Cambodian government spokesman said.

But it has struggled to reduce its deficit because the cuts have deepened a recession, sending unemployment to a record 15.9%.

New companies and individuals are likely to be added to the list of some 270 Belarusian entities and people already blacklisted.

Calcalist quoted TI spokeswoman Whitney Jodry as saying that the company refrains from commenting on rumors.

The initiative of the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption began in May 2010, and included special benefits for those returning to Israel.

Rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible in the Virgin Islands, Culebra and Vieques, forecasters said.

Bako Sahakyan appreciated the AGBU’s invaluable role in maintaining Armenian national identity in the Diaspora.

ZTE’s bigger Chinese rival, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, is also under scrutiny by the United States.

Regarded as a comic-strip art masterpiece, the weekly strip first appeared on October 15, 1905 in the New York Herald.

For this purpose, the AHPC has teamed up with French, Dutch, and Israeli greenhouse construction companies.