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    ARKA News Agency
    May 13 2005


    Armenian President discusses constitutional reforms in Armenia with
    PACE Monitoring Commission's Reporters

    Armenian-US security relations good: John Evans

    Regional international relations program for young civil servants
    implemented in Armenia

    NKR citizen suspected in spying for Azerbaijan arrested in Nagorno
    Karabakh

    NKR Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs: one of the main goals of the
    Karabakh diplomacy is to achieve transformation of armistice into
    final and stable peace

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    ARMENIAN PRESIDENT DISCUSSES CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IN ARMENIA WITH
    PACE MONITORING COMMISSION'S REPORTERS

    YEREVAN, May 13. /ARKA/. Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and PACE
    Monitoring Commission's Reporters Yerzhi Yaskernia and George
    Columbier as well as the Commission Secretary Bony Theofilova
    discussed constitutional reforms in Armenia on Friday. According to
    Presidential Press service, the sides paid attention to regional
    issues and Karabakh settlement process. M.V. -0--

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    ARMENIAN-US SECURITY RELATIONS GOOD: JOHN EVANS

    YEREVAN, May 13. /ARKA/. Armenia and the USA have formed good
    relations in the security sphere, US ambassador to Armenia John
    Evans. According to him, these relations will be developing and
    expanding. This cooperation is chiefly formed within NATO, but direct
    bilateral relations will be developed as well, he said. Ambassador
    Evans specified that a group of Armenian specialists recently visited
    Armenia to conduct a strategic study of direct Armenian-American
    relations in the security sphere. Another example is, according to
    him, the US financial aid to Armenia's defense sphere. The USA is
    happy that Armenia is cooperating with it in various spheres - in
    ratification of antiterrorist conventions or in the dispatch of
    non-combatant troops to Iraq, Evans said. He said that Armenia is
    cooperating with the USA in frontier-guarding. Armenia's borders are
    not violated by those trying to smuggle weapons of mass destruction,
    Evans said. P.T. -0--

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    REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PROGRAM FOR YOUNG CIVIL SERVANTS
    IMPLEMENTED IN ARMENIA

    YEREVAN, May 13. /ARKA/. Regional program of international relations
    for young civil servants of Armenia and Georgia is being implemented
    in Yerevan. Daniel Warner, Deputy Director, Geneva Institute of
    International Relations (HEI), said that the goal of the program is
    affording civil servants the opportunity to improve the knowledge of
    international relations as well as contributing to regional
    cooperation. He reported that since 2001 biannual trainings have been
    held in Tbilisi for representatives of the three Transcaucasian
    countries, and the first training in Yerevan was held last October.
    Warner also said that two participants in the program from each
    country that demonstrate their capabilities for being leaders will
    spend a week in Geneva, where they will hold meetings with
    representatives of the Government and of various international
    organizations. The program was organized by HEI in cooperation with
    the Swiss CIMERA organization, with the sponsorship of the Swiss
    Development and Cooperation Agency. The program is being implemented
    under the auspices of the RA Foreign Office. Sixty Armenian civil
    servants from the RA Central Bank, RA Ministry of Trade and Economic
    Development, RA Foreign Office and Ra Supervisory Chamber have so far
    been involved in the program. P.T. -0--

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    NKR CITIZEN SUSPECTED IN SPYING FOR AZERBAIJAN ARRESTED IN NAGORNO
    KARABAKH

    STEPANAKERT, May 13. /ARKA/. As a result of joint manhunt launched by
    Nagorno-Karabakh Republic National Security Service and Police, a
    citizen of the republic suspected in spying for Azerbaijan has been
    arrested in Nagorno Karabakh. Name of the suspect is still kept
    secret. According to NKR National Security Service, the arrested has
    been in contact with Azerbaijani special services providing
    information containing state secret to them. NKR Prosecutor General
    Office launched a legal action charging the arrested man with
    espionage (Article 299 of NKR Penal Code), carrying from 10 to 15
    years in jail. M.V. -0--

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    NKR DEPUTY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: ONE OF THE MAIN GOALS OF THE
    KARABAKH DIPLOMACY IS TO ACHIEVE TRANSFORMATION OF ARMISTICE INTO
    FINAL AND STABLE PEACE

    YEREVAN, May 13. /ARKA/. One of the main goals of the Karabakh
    diplomacy is to achieve transformation of armistice into final and
    stable peace. According to NKR MFA, the NKR Deputy Minister of
    Foreign Affairs Masis Mailyan told about it in regard with the
    regular anniversary of armistice in the zone of Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict concluded on May 12, 1994 through the mediation of Russia.
    According to him, the achievement of ceasefire became the only result
    in the process of peaceful settlement of the conflict. According to
    Mailyan, support of the regime of ceasefire, notwithstanding any
    separate facts of its violation, mostly are preconditioned by the
    fact that the agreement is signed by the representatives of the
    authorities of the three parties in conflict, namely Azerbaijan,
    Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.
    Mailyan was satisfied with the fact that for the recent time the
    situation on the front line between the Armed Forces of
    Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan became stable. According to him,
    significant role in it played the "firm position of international
    mediators, who stated about inadmissibility of escalation of tension,
    as well as monitoring of a line of demarcation conducted regularly by
    the OSCE mission". A.H.-0--
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