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    MEETING WITH ENGLISH DIPLOMATS

    National Assembly of RA, Armenia
    June 20 2006

    On June 19 Vahan Hovhannisyan, Vice Speaker of RA National Assembly
    and Levon Lazarian, RA Minister of Education and Science met Anthony
    John James Cantor, Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
    and Northern Ireland and Andrew Page, Deputy Head of Russia, South
    Caucasus and Central Asia Directorate of the UK's FCO.

    Upon Mr. Page's request, Vahan Hovhannisyan, NA Vice Speaker touched
    upon the inner developments of the country, the reforms directed to
    Euro integration, the political shuffle, the forthcoming 2007 and
    2008 parliamentary and presidential elections.

    As Mr. Hovhannisyan evaluated, the presidential elections will greatly
    depend on the forthcoming parliamentary elections. These elections
    will also be a cornerstone of the country's democratisation. So all
    political forces should make all efforts not to violate the law. The
    legislative, economic and political reforms implementing in the country
    are on the right way, though there are drawbacks in the mechanisms
    of their fulfillment. The external factors, in particular Turkey's
    blockade and Azerbaijan's non-constructive stance connected with the
    settlement of Karabakh problem have their negative impact on Armenia's
    development of economy.

    In response to Mr. Page's question, what forecasts are there for the
    settlement of the Karabakh problem, Mr. Hovhannisyan informed that
    within the framework of the Minsk Group there are 3 recommendations,
    which Armenia adopted, and Azerbaijan denied. The latter doesn't want
    to see the key problem, but to eliminate the consequences, which
    is not possible without key problem. Vahan Hovhannisyan considered
    impermissible the Azeri's way of thinking in solving the problem by
    force later taking into account the oil factor, and not taking strict
    steps against that phenomenon by the world public.

    Mr. Page noted that some economic circles can connect the Karabakh
    problem with the oil factor, but that is not the official stance of
    Great Britain, and ensured that his country does everything for finding
    mutually beneficial settlement of the Karabakh problem in peaceful way.
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