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| Vrezh Kasuni’s “Love or …” short film t be presented at Cannes Film Festival (Culture & Entertainment) |
15-05-2008 |
 The Armenian National Cinema Center will present director Vrezh Kasuni’s “Love or …” short film at the Cannes International Film Festival. Director of the National Film Center Gevorg Gevorgyan informed Armenpress that the project of the “Zhanna and the Voices” directed by Armine Abrahamyan will also be screened in the framework of the Festival. “It will be screened, and in case it is approved, the Festival will render financial assistance to the film,” Gevorg Gevorgyan said. |
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| Lake Van dying (General) |
15-05-2008 |
 Lake Van, the fifth largest lake in Europe, is dying. Unless urgent measures are taken, the lake will dry up within the next 10-15 years.
The waste from residential areas and facilities surrounding the lake makes swimming impossible in some parts of Lake Van and the number of pearl mullet fish has decreased significantly. |
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| NKR Parliament urges to take steps for international recognition of Karabakh (Politics) |
15-05-2008 |
 The three factions of the NKR National Assembly “Democracy”, “Motherland” and “Dashnaktsutyun Movement” –issued their conclusion on the process of international recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and presented the primary steps to be taken towards this end, Mediamax reports. |
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| Jacques Chirac congratulates Minister Nalbandian (General) |
15-05-2008 |
 Ex-President of France Jacques Chirac congratulated RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on appointment. The message states, in part:“It was a greet pleasure for me to learn that you entered the Government of the Republic of Armenia as Minister of Foreign Affairs. |
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| Thousands of New Jersey High School students educated on the Armenian Genocide (General) |
15-05-2008 |
 In continuation with the New Jersey State mandate on genocide education, Armenian National Committee of America, Eastern Region (ANCA-ER) Executive Director Karine Birazian presented a series of lectures to The Academy of the Holy Angels in Demarest, New Jersey and Chatham High School in Chatham, New Jersey on the topic of genocide. |
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