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    ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT CREATES COUNCIL ON EU RELATIONS

    AP Worldstream
    Sep 07, 2006

    Armenia's Cabinet said Thursday that it is creating a national council
    for cooperation with the European Union and a government commission
    that will coordinate relations with Brussels.

    The commission will be chaired by Prime Minister Andranik Margarian,
    and the council will include civil society groups, the government
    press service said.

    While it seeks to improve ties with the West, Armenia is Russia's
    closest ally among the three ex-Soviet republics of the Caucasus
    Mountain region.

    The speaker of parliament triggered a political scandal in the nation
    of 3.3 million in April, when he reportedly told a German newspaper
    that Armenia's future lies with the European Union and NATO.

    President Robert Kocharian quickly disavowed the remarks, saying
    Armenia's close military ties with Russia and other regional countries
    provide sufficient security and that it has no plans to join NATO.

    The speaker, Artur Bagdasarian, later resigned after his liberal
    party quit the governing coalition because of dissatisfaction with
    the government's foreign policy and the pace of democratic reform.
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