RA NA REPRESENTATIVE NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN WORKS OF "ROSE ROTH" SEMINAR
YEREVAN, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Armenia will
participate at the level of the Foreign Ministry's representative in
the regular, 63rd "Rose Roth" seminar to take place in Sochi in June
22-24, within the framework of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. It was
invasiged beforehand that Mher Shahgeldian, a member of the "Orinats
Yerkir" (Country of Law) faction who has resigned the post of the
head of the Armenian delegation to the NATO PA recently, must also
participte in the seminar, but he refused to go there at the last
moment, returning the tickets. NA Speaker Tigran Torosian informed
about it at the June 22 press conference. He also mentioned that he
found purposeful that M.Shahgeldian participates in the above-mentioned
seminar to be held on the theme "Russia-NATO: Security Issues in South
Caucasus" as it directly relates to Armenia as well. Conflicts in South
Caucasus will be discussed at the seminar and the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict will be a subject of a separate discussion. According to
T.Torosian, M.Shahgeldian expressed a wish to participate in a number
of meetings to be held in Washington almost at the same time, June
19-23, within the framework of the NATO PA, what was not encouraged
by the NA Speaker. By the way, the NA Speaker also informed that he
proposed M.Shahgeldian to head the Armenian delegation at the NATO PA
still in early June coming out of two circumstances: the first, there
is a short period of time left till the end of the acting parliament's
commissions, and the second, a number of issues must be brought to end.
YEREVAN, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Armenia will
participate at the level of the Foreign Ministry's representative in
the regular, 63rd "Rose Roth" seminar to take place in Sochi in June
22-24, within the framework of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. It was
invasiged beforehand that Mher Shahgeldian, a member of the "Orinats
Yerkir" (Country of Law) faction who has resigned the post of the
head of the Armenian delegation to the NATO PA recently, must also
participte in the seminar, but he refused to go there at the last
moment, returning the tickets. NA Speaker Tigran Torosian informed
about it at the June 22 press conference. He also mentioned that he
found purposeful that M.Shahgeldian participates in the above-mentioned
seminar to be held on the theme "Russia-NATO: Security Issues in South
Caucasus" as it directly relates to Armenia as well. Conflicts in South
Caucasus will be discussed at the seminar and the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict will be a subject of a separate discussion. According to
T.Torosian, M.Shahgeldian expressed a wish to participate in a number
of meetings to be held in Washington almost at the same time, June
19-23, within the framework of the NATO PA, what was not encouraged
by the NA Speaker. By the way, the NA Speaker also informed that he
proposed M.Shahgeldian to head the Armenian delegation at the NATO PA
still in early June coming out of two circumstances: the first, there
is a short period of time left till the end of the acting parliament's
commissions, and the second, a number of issues must be brought to end.