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    ARKA News Agency
    Sept 16 2004

    The Head of Ra Parliament and Newly Appointed SAR Ambassador to
    Armenia discuss perspectives of economic cooperation

    RA Deputy Foreign Minister meets with representatives of Latvian
    Defense Ministry

    First meeting of Armenians of Europe to take place on Oct 18-19 in
    Brussels

    Political boycott cannot be considered a not valid reason by the
    political structures

    Armenia and Finland plan to activate cooperation in military and
    economic spheres

    The acknowledgement of Conversebank as the best bank in armenia by
    The Banker is a serious event for the bank

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    THE HEAD OF RA PARLIAMENT AND NEWLY APPOINTED SAR AMBASSADOR TO
    ARMENIA DISCUSS PERSPECTIVES OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION

    YEREVAN, September 16. /ARKA/. The Head of RA Parliament Arthur
    Baghdasarian and Newly Appointed SAR Ambassador to Armenia Ashraf
    Sentso discussed perspectives of economic cooperation, RA NA told
    ARKA. Special accent was made on cooperation in jewellery and tourism
    spheres. Besides, the parties discussed establishment and
    strengthening of bilateral political and trade relations. They
    emphasized the conclusion of base agreement on friendship and
    cooperation that will contribute to multilateral cooperation between
    Armenia and SAR.
    The Ambassador invited Baghdasarian to visit SAR. L.D. --0--

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    RA DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF LATVIAN
    DEFENSE MINISTRY

    YEREVAN, September, 16. /ARKA/. The RA Deputy Foreign Minister Tatul
    Margaryan met today with Edgar Rinkevitchs, Secretary of State of the
    Ministry of Defense of Latvia and Angey Wiloumsons, Director of
    Defense Policy and Planning Department of Latvian Defense Ministry.
    According to the Press Service and Public Relations Department of the
    RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during the meeting, Margaryan
    presented the approaches of Armenia to regional policy, Nagorno
    Karabakh conflict settlement and measures undertaken by the republic
    on ensuring regional security and strengthening of mutual confidence
    between its neighbors. Besides, he also acquaint the guests with
    Armenia-NATO relations current stage and further cooperation
    perspective
    In his turn, Rinkevichs noted the opportunity of cooperation
    expansion between the defense authorities of the two countries in a
    number of areas. L.V..--0--

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    FIRST MEETING OF ARMENIANS OF EUROPE TO TAKE PLACE ON OCT 18-19 IN
    BRUSSELS

    YEREVAN, September 16. /ARKA/. First meeting of Armenians of Europe
    will take place on Oct 18-19 in Brussels, Federation Euro-Armenienne
    told ARKA. For this goal, RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian will
    arrive in Brussels. The meeting will create an opportunity of
    dialogue between different Armenian communities, organizations and
    institutes of Europe that will lead to create of joint position on
    such an important issues as for example culture and language of
    Armenians of Europe, the issue of Turkey joining Europe. European
    experts, Europarliament deputies and representatives of
    Eurocommission will also take part in the work of the meeting.
    Today, more than two million Armenians live in EU countries. L.D.
    --0--

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    POLITICAL BOYCOTT CANNOT BE CONSIDERED A NOT VALID REASON BY THE
    POLITICAL STRUCTURES

    YEREVAN, September, 16. /ARKA/. Political boycott cannot be
    considered a not valid reason by the political structures, as stated
    Gourgen Arsenyan, the leader of Unified labor Party at today's press
    conference. He added that political boycott is a common event and
    occupies its special and important place in political field.
    It should be reminded that on September 10, 2004, the Parliamentary
    Commission on State-legal Issues of the RA NA decided to include the
    issue of unacceptable absence of 26 deputies in the agenda of the RA
    Parliament autumn session. The opposition deputies have been
    boycotting the session of the Parliament since February 2, 2004.
    L.V.--0--

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    ARMENIA AND FINLAND PLAN TO ACTIVATE COOPERATION IN MILITARY AND
    ECONOMIC SPHERES

    YEREVAN, September 16. /ARKA/. Armenia and Finland plan to activate
    cooperation in military and economic spheres. It was stated during
    the meeting of the Secretary of National Security Council at RA
    President, RA Minister of Defense Serge Sargsian with newly appointed
    Ambassador of Finland to Armenia Terji Hakkala. The parties discussed
    perspectives of cooperation in the frames of NATO "Partnership for
    Peace" program and peacemaking activity. Sargsian expressed
    confidence that experience of Finnish military men will be useful to
    Armenia. The Ambassador noted that first steps for the beginning of
    military cooperation are already being made. It was noted that
    Finnish specialists participated in the inspection of RA Armed Forces
    with OSCE. The parties also stressed that Armenian and Finnish
    peacemakers are successfully cooperating in Balcanas. L.D. --0--

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    THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CONVERSEBANK AS THE BEST BANK IN ARMENIA BY
    THE BANKER IS A SERIOUS EVENT FOR THE BANK

    YEREVAN, September 16. /ARKA/. The acknowledgement of Conversebank as
    the best bank in Armenia by The Banker is a serious event for the
    bank, according to the Director in Chief of the bank Smbat Nasibyan.
    According to him, "it is a high appraisal of the activities of the
    bank made on the base of the analysis of the speed of the development
    of the bank and the implementation of technological innovations by
    it".
    On September 9, 2004, The Banker, included into a group of Financial
    Times, acknowledged Conversebank as the best bank in Armenia in 2004.
    The bank was awarded a diploma and a prize "BRACKEN", which was the
    statuette of Drenden Bracken, the founder of the journal. British
    HSBC was recognized as the best bank of 2004 in the world. Among the
    Russian nominees the winner became the largest bank of the country -
    Savingsbank.
    All prize-winners are elected by The Banker on the basis of the
    answers of the banks to the questions relating to the growth of their
    capital, assets and profitability. In addition to that, they should
    demonstrate the way the implementation of technologies assists them
    in advancement in the market, as well as the structure and the
    strategy they use to prepare for the further developments in the
    market.
    To remind, in 2003, HSBC Bank Armenia was acknowledged the best bank
    in Armenia by The Banker. A.H. --0--

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    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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