Armavia Armenian air carrier and local daily Chorrord Inqnishkhanutyun (“Fourth Self-Authority”) today settled their dispute at the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron and Nork Marash Administrative Districts of Yerevan. Recall, Armavia had filed a lawsuit against the paper, asking 2 million drams (approx. $5,300 USD) in damages for harming its business reputation.<\/p>\n
The article in question, “Armenian Air Carrier Supplied Arms to Libya?<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>” published by Chorrord Inqnishkhanutyun, was in fact reprinted from Epress.am. The article noted that Commander of the National Army and Chief of General Staff of Moldova\u2019s Armed Forces, Brigadier General Iurie Dominic said<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> that a IL-76 aircraft that arrived in Moldova from Libya, with the aim of picking up a regular shipment of arms (and it is presumed will go back), belongs to \u201can Armenian civil air carrier.\u201d [Note, the statement was originally published<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> by the Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station as well as Interfax news agency.]\n Epress.am at the time sought comment from Armenian Department of Civil Aviation press secretary Nelly Cherchinyan, who said that \u201conly [Armenian national air carrier] Armavia can comment on this matter.\u201d\u00a0 However, Armavia\u2019s press office did not respond to calls at the time.<\/p>\n