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    ARKA News Agency
    June 30 2004


    Vardan Oskanian: present authorities of Turkey can and wish to hold
    negotiations on establishment of mutual relations with Armenia

    NKR Foreign Minister receives EU Special Representative in South
    Caucasus

    A bank with data of invalids is being founded in Nagorno-Karabakh
    republic

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    VARDAN OSKANIAN: PRESENT AUTHORITIES OF TURKEY CAN AND WISH TO HOLD
    NEGOTIATIONS ON ESTABLISHMENT OF MUTUAL RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA

    YEREVAN, June 30. /ARKA/. Present authorities of Turkey can and wish
    to hold negotiations on establishment of mutual relations with
    Armenia, RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian stated today. He said
    that during his unscheduled meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Regep
    Erdogan it was confirmed that Turkey wants to establish bilateral
    relations with Armenia. At this, he said that despite of previous
    authorities of Turkey, present one indeed strive for settlement of
    the issue.
    Armenia and Turkey still do not have diplomatic relations. Corner
    stone in relations between the countries is the fact of Armenian
    Genocide in Ottoman Empire in 1915. L.D. --0--

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    NKR FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN SOUTH
    CAUCASUS

    STEPANAKERT, June 30. /ARKA/. NKR Foreign Minister Ashot Gulian
    received EU Special Representative in South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie,
    NKR MFA told ARKA. During the meeting the parties discussed
    perspectives of negotiating process of Karabakh settlement,
    involvement of Karabakh in regional projects. Ashot Gulian spoke for
    obligatory participation of Karabakh party in negotiations in case of
    their recommencement and stressed that it comes from the logics of
    negotiating process.
    Gulian paid attention of Talvitie to the fact that since new
    President of Azerbaijan Ilkham Aliev took the office, contacts
    between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan stopped even at
    non-government level and added that it does not contribute to
    creation of atmosphere of trust and settlement of the problem.
    Talvitie in his turn stressed the interest of EU in soonest
    settlement of Karabakh conflict and establishment of stability in the
    region. He said that EU plans to actively assist in settlement of the
    conflict without replacing OSCE Minsk Group. L.D. --0--

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    A BANK WITH DATA OF INVALIDS IS BEING FOUNDED IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH
    REPUBLIC

    STEPANAKERT, June 30. /ARKA/. In Nagorno-Karabakh a bank with data of
    invalids is being founded, according to NKR Minister of Social
    Welfare Lenston Gulyan. According to him, the bank aims at more
    detailed studying of the problems of invalids. He noted that about 3
    thsd. invalids are registered in NKR as of today. They receive
    monthly state pension and make use of the privileges. Most of them
    come across the social problems, as well as those connected with
    housing facilities, employment, treatment, etc. `In the created
    database each invalid will have his/her register list, which will
    contain all data about the person, such as education, specialty,
    occupation, marital status, and housing facilities that would help to
    solve housing problems of invalids', he said.A.H. --0--
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