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    ARKA News Agency
    March 23 2005


    Armenia to adopt national security concept before end of 2007

    RA President meets with head of OSCE Yerevan office

    Serge Sargsyan: All stores of weapons and ammunition of Armenia and
    Nagorno-Karabakh are under control

    Bill on higher school of law to be discussed in Yerevan on March 24

    Russia and Armenia need to settle economic issues: Ara Abramyan

    Favorable migration balance of 2,000 people recorded in Armenia in
    2004

    Armenia, Azerbaijan to release pows in future

    A campaign of protest by Armenian youth against destruction monuments
    of Armenian architecture to be held in Yerevan on March 25

    OSCE Chairman-in-Office to visit Armenia on March 30

    RA, RF Presidents to hold one-on-one meeting on March 25


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    ARMENIA TO ADOPT NATIONAL SECURITY CONCEPT BEFORE END OF 2007

    YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. Armenia is to adopt a national security
    concept before the end of 2007, Secretary of the RA Presidential
    Security Council, Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan stated in
    Parliament. According to him, the concept will be published in a
    month. The Minister reported that he has submitted the concept to the
    country~Rs top officers, and it ~Scontains a detailed and comprehensive
    description of possible threats to the state~Rs security and ways of
    neutralizing them.~T Sargsyan said that the document will clearly
    indicate what relations Armenia wants to build up with NATO, Russia,
    EU, and the USA, as well as with other organizations and countries,
    considering its own security interests. P.T. ~V0--

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    RA PRESIDENT MEETS WITH HEAD OF OSCE YEREVAN OFFICE

    YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharian has met
    today with Head of the OSCE Yerevan office Vladimir Pryakhin,. The RA
    presidential press service reports that Pryakhin informed the RA
    President of the main directions of the office~Rs activities in 2005.
    The sides also discussed issues of improving the RA Election Code and
    constitutional reforms, as well as a number of programs being
    implemented with the OSCE~Rs assistance. President Kocharian
    congratulated Pryakhin on the 5th anniversary of the OSCE Yerevan
    office and wished him success in his work. P.T. ~V0--

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    SERGE SARGSYAN: ALL STORES OF WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION OF ARMENIA AND
    NAGORNO-KARABAKH ARE UNDER CONTROL

    YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. All stores of weapons and ammunition of
    Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are under control, as stated RA Minister
    of Defense Serge Sargsyan. According to him, the investigation of
    weapons smuggling by a criminal group headed by an Armenian native in
    the USA doesn~Rt prove that weapons were exported to the USA or other
    country from Armenia. Sargsyan noted that the representative of RA
    Armed Forces involved in the case hasn~Rt done any illegal activity,
    since taking photos of weapons is not a crime. ~SThis doesn~Rt mean
    that weapons should be sold somewhere~T, he said.
    The Attorney~Rs Office of New York, the USA, announced on March 15
    about the arrest of 18 people suspected of smuggling Russian military
    arms. The ringleaders are Arthur Solomonyan, 26, native of Armenia
    and native of South Africa, Christiaan Dewet Spies, 33. The arrested
    are charged with making a scheme including attempts to smuggle
    rocket-propelled grenade launchers and shoulder-fired surface-to-air
    missiles, which experts have warned attackers might use to down a
    plane. According to the Head of RA National Security Service Hrachya
    Harutyunyan, on March 17 criminal proceedings were instituted, and
    already three people involved in crime are arrested in Armenia.
    A.H.~W0--

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    BILL ON HIGHER SCHOOL OF LAW TO BE DISCUSSED IN YEREVAN ON MARCH 24

    YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. A bill on higher school of law is to be
    discussed in Yerevan on March 24, at an international seminar
    ~SDevelopment of lawyers retraining institutions~T. Ara Saghatelyan,
    Press Secretary of the Minister of Justice, reported that RA Minister
    of Justice Dacid Harutyunyan and a CE representative, Joze Maria
    Fernandes, are to take part in the seminar. P.T. ~V0--

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    RUSSIA AND ARMENIA NEED TO SETTLE ECONOMIC ISSUES: ARA ABAMYAN

    YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. President of the World Armenian Congress
    (WAC) and of the Union of Armenians of Russia (UAR) Ara Abramyan
    believes that Russia and Armenia need to focus on resolving economic
    problems. At his press conference at the RIA ~SNovosty~T he stated that
    ~SArmenian-Russian political and military relations are closest and
    warmest. However, economic problems must be solved as well.~T
    According to Abramyan, the sides should also cooperate in resolving
    the problem of Armenia~Rs transport blockade and discuss the issue of
    withdrawal of Russian military bases from Georgia. ~SI believe that
    Armenia deal with these issues together [with Russia],~T Abramyan
    said.
    In his turn, Andranik Migranyan, Professor of Moscow State Institute
    of International Relations, expressed a hope that the meeting of the
    two countries~R leaders in Yerevan will result in a mutually
    acceptable decision being reached. ~SWe are unlikely to get any result
    from the visit, but a breakthrough may be expected in a number of
    issues,~T Migranyan said. He also expressed a doubt that the
    Azerbaijani president~Rs recent statement that a war with Armenia may
    break out at any moment may cause changes in the agenda of
    negotiations between the Armenian and Russian Presidents. ~SThe
    Nagorno-Karabakh settlement would be on the agenda in any case. But
    it would cause the problem to be considered more thoroughly,~T
    Migranyan said. P.T. ~V0--

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    FAVORABLE MIGRATION BALANCE OF 2,000 PEOPLE RECORDED IN ARMENIA IN
    2004

    YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. A favorable migration balance of 2,000
    people was recorded in Armenia in 2004, the RA presidential press
    service reports, referring to Head of the Ra Department for Migration
    and Refugees Gagik Yeganyan, who made this statement at his meeting
    with RA President Robert Kocharian.
    The sides discussed a housing program for 760 refugee families,
    reduction of illegal migration, problems of Armenian migrants in
    Russia. The President instructed to classify the problems and take
    measures to resolve them. P.T. ~V0--

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    ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN TO RELEASE POWs IN FUTURE

    YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. The Armenian and Azerbaijani State
    Commissions for POWs and Missing Persons intend to establish regular
    direct contacts. A relevant agreement was reached at a meeting of the
    Commissions in Tbilisi. The Information and Propaganda Department, RA
    Ministry of Defense, reports that the meeting participants elaborated
    a mechanism of constructive cooperation, which is based on the
    principle of handing over POWs after necessary investigations within
    the shortest period. The meeting participants consider exchange of
    people immoral, stressing that in future they will only raise the
    issue of releasing POWs. The sides stated their willingness to create
    conditions for meetings of relatives and representatives of
    international organizations with the POWs to be convinced of their
    voluntary decisions to return to their native countries.
    The Armenian and Azerbaijani Commissions for POWs and Missing Persons
    held the meeting in Tbilisi on March 18. The Armenian Commission was
    represted by Vice-Chairman Mikael Grigoryan and his assistant Leo
    Agajanov, and the Azerbaijani Commission by Secretary Shahin Sailov
    and Head of the task group Firudin Sadigov. Participating in the
    meeting were also Co-Chairmen of the international task group for
    missing persons and released POWs in the Karabakh conflict zone
    Svetlana Gannushkina and Bernhard Klasen. P.T. ~V0--

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    A CAMPAIGN OF PROTEST BY ARMENIAN YOUTH AGAINST DESTRUCTION MONUMENTS
    OF ARMENIAN ARCHITECTURE TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN ON MARCH 25

    YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. A campaign of protest by Armenian youth
    against destruction monuments of Armenian architecture will be held
    in Yerevan on March 25. According to the Armenian Youth Union, the
    campaign will be followed by march in the center of the city for
    protection of historical-cultural monuments of the capital. In this
    regard, the Union collected 1012 signatures that as an open letter
    was sent to RA President Robert Kocharyan, RA NA Speaker Arthur
    Baghdasaryan, RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan, Yerevan Mayor
    Yervand Zakharyan. It states in particular that for the recent years
    active reconstruction of the center of Yerevan is accompanied with
    destructions of the national historic heritage, valuable buildings of
    Armenian architecture, urban planning complexes and historical
    atmosphere. ~SAll this brings to the fact that Yerevan gradually loses
    its peculiar historic architecture face. The Armenian youth expressed
    anxiety in regard with the fact and asks direct and immediate
    interference with it to prevent the process and preserve common human
    values of the capital~T, according to the letter.
    As it became known, the letter sent to the President~Rs apparatus was
    addressed to Yerevan municipality and RA Ministry of Culture and
    Youth Affairs. A.H. --0--

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    OSCE CHAIRMAN-IF-OFFICE TO VISIT ARMENIA ON MARCH 30

    YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign
    Minister Dimitry Rupel is to arrive for a two-day visit to Armenia on
    March 30. The press and public relations department, RA Foreign
    Office, reports that during his visit D. Rupel is to hold meetings
    with RA President Robert Kocharian, Speaker of the RA Parliament
    Artur Baghdasaryan, RA Premier Andranik Margaryan and RA Foreign
    Minister Vardan Oskanyan. The OSCE Chairman-in-Office may also meet
    with President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Arkady
    Ghukasyan. P.T. ~V0--

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    RA, RF PRESIDENTS TO HOLD ONE-ON-ONE MEETING ON MARCH 25

    YEREVAN, March 23. /ARKA/. RF President Vladimir Putin is to arrive
    for a working visit to Armenia in March 24. The RA presidential press
    service reports that on March 25 the Russian and Armenian Presidents
    are to hold a one-on-one meeting, after which a joint press
    conference is to be held. The two countries~R leaders are also to
    attend meetings of Russian and Armenian officials. President Putin is
    also scheduled to meet with Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II.
    The Armenian and Russian Presidents are to attend the ceremonial
    opening of a Year of Russia in Armenia at the Armenian National
    Opera. The Russian delegation led by the RF President is to leave
    Armenia on March 25 evening. P.T. ~V0--

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