USD market average rate totals AMD 407.24 Dec 7December 7, 2012 - 17:02 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Deals amounting to USD 3,38 mln at an average rate of AMD 407.69 /USD1 were concluded at NASDAQ OMX Armenia on December 7. The closing price totaled AMD 407.50. The market average rate of USD totaled AMD 407.24 on December 7, increasing by 0.15 point compared to December 6, exchange rate of euro totaled AMD 526.89, decreasing by 5.50 points while the rate of Russian ruble decreased by 0.04 point to total AMD 13.17, CBA press service reported. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Police try to impede Armenian Church head’s access to war memorial Police tried to stop the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, from visiting a war memorial. Greece says ready to help as Armenia fights flooding consequences Greece is ready to assist Armenia in combatting the consequences of deadly floods in the country’s north. “He will leave”: Protest leader no longer demands meeting with Pashinyan Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan no longer demands a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Lemkin Institute petition seeks release of Armenians in Azerbaijan The Lemkin Institute is deeply concerned about the continued illegal detention of political prisoners from Karabakh in Azerbaijan. |