August

1 Yeter weekly features front-page article on NCI activities.

5 “A Greeting to NCI and Raffi Hovannisian” is published in the Karabagh weekly What to Do?

6 Iranian Ambassador Mohammad Farhad Koleini visits NCI, confers with Raffi K. Hovannisian and NCI coordinator Hrach Hakobian.

12 NCI councilmember Haik Sargsian attends in Tsakhkadzor a seminar of the University Graduate Women’s Association, delivers lectures on “The Economic Policy of Armenia and the Role of the State.”

16 NCI coordinator Hrach Hakobian meets with Albert Topolian, Abkhazia’s minister of sport, youth, and tourism issues.

NCI councilmember Dr. Hranush Kharatian sums up the results of the NCI-supported Vardavar festival on Armenian public television’s “Midnight Express” program.

21 NCI’s website is voted in the Armenian top ten.

27 NCI councilmembers Haik Sargsian, Sos Gimishian, and Hrachia Tatevian attend the third special congress of the Armenian Communities’ Union.

29 Raffi Hovannisian and NCI coordinator Hrach Hakobian receive Russian Ambassador Anatoliy Driukov, confer on Armenian-Russian relations, geostrategic and economic processes, and regional political developments.