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    ARKA News Agency
    March 16 2005


    RA FM meets with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs in Vienna

    Ashot Hakobyan relieved of post of Vice-Chief of RA Emergency
    Department

    Association of young believers formed in NKR

    Draft of RA Government's national eurointegration program to be ready
    late in May

    RA Government to shorten list of licensed activities

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    RA FM MEETS WITH OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRS IN VIENNA

    YEREVAN, March 16. /ARKA/. RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan has
    held a meeting with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen in Vienna,
    Austria. The press service of the RA Foreign Office reports that the
    meeting participants discussed a number of issues related to the next
    stage of negotiations for the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement and to the
    OSCE fact-finding mission's report on the settlement of territories
    around Nagorno Karabakh. The report is to be submitted to the OSCE
    Permanent Council on March 17. The same day, Minister is to return to
    Yerevan.
    Late in January-early in February, an OSCE fact-finding mission was
    on a visit to Nagorno Karabakh to monitor the settlement of
    territories around the NKR. P.T. -0--

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    ASHOT HAKOBYAN RELIEVED OF POST OF VICE-CHIEF OF RA EMERGENCY
    DEPARTMENT

    YEREVAN, March 16. /ARKA/. RA Prime Minister issued a decree
    relieving Ashot Hakobyan of the post of Vice-Chief of the Emergency
    Department, RA Government, the Public Relations Department, RA
    Government, reports. P.T. -0--

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    ASSOCIATION OF YOUNG BELIEVERS FORMED IN NKR

    STEPANAKERT, March 16. /ARKA/. An Association of Young Believers has
    been founded in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) with efforts of
    the Artsakh diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC). The
    information center of the Artsakh diocese reports that the goal of
    the Association is to unite young people round the AAC, inculcation
    of centuries-old national spiritual values in them, protection from
    sects and encouragement of their spiritual growth. One of the
    components of the activities is the delivery of lecturers at
    collectives and organizations. The work is being carried out with the
    blessing of Leader of the AAC Artsakh diocese, Archbishop Pargev
    Martirosyan and is supposed to teach young people spiritual heritage
    and religion thereby battling various sects. P.T. -0--

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    DRAFT OF RA GOVERNMENT'S NATIONAL EUROINTEGRATION PROGRAM TO BE READY
    LATE IN MAY

    YEREVAN, March 16. /ARKA/. The original draft of the RA Government's
    national program of
    Executing the terms of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
    signed between the EU member-states is to be ready at the end of May
    2005, stated RA Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy, Chairman of
    the Coordinating Commission David Avetisyan. According to him,
    `Armenia assumed most serious commitments, which will have an
    appreciable impact on the country's development in the future.'
    A comparative analysis of the legislation of Armenia and of the EU is
    currently being made with the sponsorship of the Armenian-European
    Policy and Legal Advice Center (AEPLAC). P.T. -0--

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    RA GOVERNMENT TO SHORTEN LIST OF LICENSED ACTIVITIES

    YEREVAN, March 6. /ARKA/. According to the RA Government's program of
    action a proposal is to be made in the third ten-day period of this
    March for shortening or simplifying the list of activities liable to
    licensing, Karen Tamazyan Head of the Department for the Development
    of Financial Market and Currency Regulation, RA ministry of Finance
    and Economy, told a press conference. According to him, the Ministry
    is preparing relevant proposals concerning this document. `We have
    not yet determined specific directions, but we think changes need to
    be made in 6-7 types of activities in various spheres, especially in
    the case of doubling activities, which will be summarized,' Tamazyan
    said. He stressed that the RA Government will make a final decision,
    and changes themselves will be summary ones.
    The RA Government's program of action envisages the submission of a
    bill on amendments to the Law on Licensing to harmonize it with the
    Law on State Duty.
    In 2001-2004, a total of 3,670 licenses were issued by the simplified
    procedure in Armenia. A total of 120-130 types of activities are
    licensed in Armenia now, most of them by the complicated procedure.
    P.T. -0--
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