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    CHAIRMAN OF BELGIAN SENATE'S FOREIGN RELATIONS AND DEFENCE COMMISSION AND ARMENIAN DEFENCE MINISTER DISCUSS SECURITY PROBLEMS OF NKR AND REGION

    Noyan Tapan
    Aug 29 2006

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 29, NOYAN TAPAN. The Secretary of the National
    Security Council under the RA President, RA Defence Minister Serge
    Sargsian on August 29 received the Chairman of the Belgian Senate's
    Commission of Foreign Relations and Defence Senator Francois Roelant
    du Vivier. According to Spokesman for the RA Defence Minister Colonel
    Seyran Shahsuvarian, at the beginning of the meeting, the sides noted
    that the Armenian-Belgian relations are developing and entering a new
    qualitative stage. Speaking about the necessity to expand diplomatic
    relations, the senator stated the Belgian authorities' intention
    to open an embassy in the South Caucasus. As regards the regional
    countries' obligations for joining the European family, the senator
    underlined the importance of Turkey's recognition of the Armenian
    Genocide, and considered the destruction of Armenian khachkars in Hin
    Jugha (Nakhichevan) by Azerbaijan as unacceptable. Speaking about the
    Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, Roelant du Vivier expressed concern
    at an increase in Azerbaijan's military budget, and said that it
    is not always that an army's fighting efficiency is measured by its
    budget. The sides also discussed the current stage of the Karabakh
    conflict settlement, problems of regional security and other issues
    of mutual interest.
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