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    ARKA News Agency, Armenia
    Jan 26 2005


    Report of David Atkinson will not have special influence on Karabakh
    negotiations - RA MFA

    RA and NKR presidents discuss Karabakh conflict settlement process

    "NATO CMX-2005 exercises started today

    Azerbaijan transfers the discussions around the Karabakh conflict
    issue into the course of public parliamentary discussions

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    REPORT OF DAVID ATKINSON WILL NOT HAVE SPECIAL INFLUENCE ON KARABAKH
    NEGOTIATIONS - RA MFA

    YEREVAN, January 26. /ARKA/. Report of David Atkinson will not have
    special influence on Karabakh negotiations, RA MFA Press Secretary
    Hamlet Gasparian told ARKA. According to him, passed resolution does
    not have obligatory legal character, it is declarative and of
    recommendation. Gasparian noted that report of Atkinson along with
    positive sides is in the whole imperfect because considers
    consequences of Karabakh conflict and does not go deep in its
    reasons. He also noted that the process of implementation of changes
    to the report was not objective.
    According to Gasparian, RA MFA welcomes the principles again
    strengthened the report according to which namely `independence of
    territory and its separation can be achieved only by peaceful process
    based on support of the population of the territory» and `the issue
    cannot have military settlement. Future of the population and its
    status should be determined by the population itself'. The change
    made by Armenian delegation which reminds Armenian commitment to CE
    on use of influence on Karabakh Armenians for achievement of
    conflict's settlement is also important. `Thus it is accepted that
    Karabakh conflict is the conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and
    Azerbaijan', Gasparian said.
    Resolution on report of D.Atkinson was passed on Jan 26 by majority
    of votes - 123 voted for and only 7 deputies against. The document
    will be soon discussed in Ministers Committee. L.D. -0 -

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    RA AND NKR PRESIDENTS DISCUSS KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT PROCESS

    YEREVAN, January 26. /ARKA/. RA and NKR presidents discussed Karabakh
    conflict settlement process, RA President's press office told ARKA.
    The parties discussed socio-economic situation in Nagorno Karabakh
    and realization of cooperation programs between Armenia and NKR for
    2005. L.D. -0 -

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    NATO CMX-2005 EXERCISES STARTED TODAY

    YEREVAN, January 26. /ARKA/. NATO CMX-2005 exercises started today,
    RA Ministry of Defense Press Secretary Seiran Shakhsuvarian told
    ARKA. The goal of the exercises is practical training of procedures
    of crisis management, including cooperation of civil and military
    bodies, for support and increase of readiness of NATO to work in
    crisis conditions. The scenario of exercises will have hypothetical
    character and include conduction of operation on settlement of crisis
    between two fictitios states outside NATO region in the frames of UN
    mandate. Servicemen and civilian representatives of 26
    country-members and of 7 country-partners - Austria, Armenia,
    Azerbaijan, Croatia, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland and
    Macedonia - will take part in the exercises. Representatives of UN,
    EU and OSCE invited as an observers.
    Exercises will be coordinated from NATO base in Brussels, last 7 days
    and end on Feb 1.
    NATO group of experts on crisis management visited Yerevan for the
    first time on Nov 23-25, 2004. L.D. -0

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    AZERBAIJAN TRANSFERS THE DISCUSSIONS AROUND THE KARABAKH CONFLICT
    ISSUE INTO THE COURSE OF PUBLIC PARLIAMENTARY DISCUSSIONS

    YEREVAN, January 26. /ARKA/. For the recently period Azerbaijan
    transfers the discussions around the Karabakh conflict issue from the
    specialized expert groups into the course of public parliamentary
    discussions, as the Vice-Speaker of RA NA Vahan Hovhannisyan told
    ARKA. According to him, it's to the best advantage to Azerbaijan,
    since expert groups like OSCE Minsk Group, probe into the issue and
    the cause-effect relations deeply, and their conclusions often are
    closer to the reality. As a result, according to Hovhannisyan, the
    conclusions cause irritation and abrupt reaction on the part of
    Azerbaijan, because the conclusions being close to the objective
    reality mostly reflect the point of view of the Armenian side that is
    close to human values. According to him, this explains the desire of
    Azerbaijan to take the discussions to the spheres and organizations
    possessing not enough information and being guided by political
    conjuncture and by what moments and situations demand. `Mainly, those
    are parliamentary organizations having even no technical possibility
    to make use of the accumulated experience of the expert groups', RA
    NA Vice-Speaker noted. A.H. --0 -
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