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    ARKA News Agency
    April 8 2004


    Armenian opposition is not trustworthy - Rector of State Institute of
    Theater and Cinema

    Armenian intelligentsia calls to authorities and opposition to a
    dialogue

    The Secretary General of OACS is arriving in Armenia today with a
    three-day official visit

    The NKR Minister of Defense: the situation on the border line in NKR
    is stable

    OSCE Office in Yerevan condemns the attacks on the reporters during
    the meeting of the opposition on April 5 in Yerevan

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    ARMENIAN OPPOSITION IS NOT TRUSTWORTHY - RECTOR OF STATE INSTITUTE OF
    THEATER AND CINEMA

    YEREVAN, April 8. /ARKA/. Armenian opposition is not trustworthy,
    Rector of State Institute of Theater and Cinema Sos Sargsian stated
    during the discussion organized by Dashnaktsutyun party. `Acting
    president must remain at power, because opposition is not solid, does
    not have joint ideology and program', he said. Sargsian urged
    Dashnaktsutyun party to become a mediator between authorities and
    opposition for achievement of agreement and decrease of tension. L.D.
    --0--

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    ARMENIAN INTELLIGENTSIA CALLS TO AUTHORITIES AND OPPOSITION TO A
    DIALOGUE

    YEREVAN, April 8. /ARKA/. ARF Dashnaktsutyun initiated today a
    meeting `Public Harmony and Collision' with participation of
    representatives of intelligentsia. According to RA NA Speaker, the
    Member of ARF D Supreme Body Vahan Hovhannisian, `we will try to
    create bridges between political powers and intelligentsia and to
    create the atmosphere that will stop tension in created situation'.
    Representatives of intelligentsia in their turn called to authorities
    and opposition to a dialogue. According to the Director of the Center
    of Aesthetic Education of Armenia Genrich Igitian there is no other
    alternative to dialogue. `We have to first of all think about future
    of the country. We must not break our home from the inside', he said.
    Rector of State Institute of Theater and Cinema Sos Sargsian added
    that `if Armenian fights against Armenian, it is the first sign of
    losing the State system'. L.D. --0--

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    THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF OACS IS ARRIVING IN ARMENIA TODAY WITH A
    THREE-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT

    YEREVAN, April 8. /ARKA/. The Secretary General of the Organization
    for Agreement on Collective Security (OACS) Nikolai Bordiuzha is
    arriving in Armenia today with a three-day official visit. According
    to the RA MFA Press Service Department, meetings with the RA
    President, RA NA Chairman, the RA Ministers of Defense and Foreign
    Affairs, and the Director of National Security Service and the Head
    of police are planned. A.H. -0--

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    THE NKR MINISTER OF DEFENSE: THE SITUATION ON THE BORDER LINE IN NKR
    IS STABLE

    STEPANAKERT, April 8. /ARKA/. The situation on the border line in NKR
    is stable, as Seiran Ohanian, the NKR Minister of Defense,
    General-Lieutenant stated, according to ARKA reporter in Stepanakert.
    Speaking of the present situation in the Army, the minister noted
    that it has entered a new stage of development. He emphasized that
    `constructions of соершенстуются frontier, strengthening and
    defensive, engineering importance are improved day by day, and the
    level of readiness for military action of the army, technical
    equipment of the army is high'. `The NKR Army of defense commits its
    duties of motherland defenders well. The army keeps the situation
    under control. The concepts of motherland and army are connected with
    the frontier, where an Armenia soldier serves, and he is ready to
    defend his motherland from any encroachments', said Ohanian.
    One of these days the NKR Ministry of Defense has invited a group of
    reporters from Armenia to get acquainted with the life and
    conditions, under which soldiers of defensive army serve. 27
    reporters, who represented 10 TV companies, at the head of the RA
    Minister of Defense Press Secretary Seiran Shakhsouvaryan visited
    different military units and the frontiers units of NKR Army and got
    acquainted with the life conditions of the Army on the spot. A.H.--
    0--

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    OSCE OFFICE IN YEREVAN CONDEMNS THE ATTACKS ON THE REPORTERS DURING
    THE MEETING OF THE OPPOSITION ON APRIL 5 IN YEREVAN

    YEREVAN, April 8. /ARKA/. Valeri Priakhin, the Head of OSCE Office in
    Yerevan condemned the attacks on the reporters during the meeting of
    the opposition on April 5 in Yerevan. According to OSCE Yerevan
    Office Press Service Department, Priakhin noted that any attack on a
    reporter must be condemned, and the organizers of such activities
    should be punished and legal proceedings should be instituted against
    them. `I hope that the RA Government will keep its promise to take
    certain measures against all this', said Priakhin. He also expressed
    profound anxiety about the arrests of the member of the political
    council of Respublika opposition party, the Press-Secretary of the
    party Souren Sourenyants. `OSCE Yerevan Office will carefully follow
    the further events', said Priakhin.
    On April 5 during the meeting some of National Unity opposition party
    TV cameras of some local TV companies were broken as well as photo
    cameras of the reporters. The General Office of Public Prosecutor
    instituted legal proceedings against Sourenyants in the morning of
    the same day. He is accused of public appeals to change the
    constitutional order by force, and offences addressed to the
    Government. A.H. --0--
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