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    Panorama, Armenia
    Oct 2 2010


    Absence of Azeris didn't affect conference activity, its efficiency


    A news conference marked today the end of the 2-day conference on
    `Security and Information Cooperation Issues in the South Caucasus'
    with participation of media representatives and political experts from
    Armenia, Russia, Georgia, and initiated by the information and public
    relations center of the Armenian President's Administration and RIA
    Novosti Russian news agency.

    The head of the information and public relations center of the
    Armenian President's Administration Ara Saghatelyan commented on the
    reasons why, though invited by RIA Novosti, Azerbaijani
    representatives didn't participate in the conference, which raised
    South Caucasus issues.

    The latter commented on the issue from two points of view: how Azeris
    explained their absence and what his personal disposition on the issue
    is.

    `Their participation would make the conference activity more
    efficient, though, they explained they didn't attend it for being busy
    with preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections in
    Azerbaijan,' Saghatelyan said.

    As to his disposition on what hindered Azerbaijani side to participate
    in the works of the already 5th conference held in Yerevan, A.
    Saghatelyan highlighted:

    `I would find it hard to introduce a country the Foreign Ministry of
    which is busy with making some black lists, while hatred to Armenians
    is propagated on state level. They didn't come and now they are
    looking for explanations.'

    However, the absence of Azeris in no way could affect the conference
    activity and, in particular, its efficiency, as both A. Saghatelyan
    and Alan Kasayev, the head of RIA Novosti division for the CIS and
    Baltic States, expressed satisfaction with the conference activity.

    What was achieved? First, a number of documents, as well as mechanisms
    for spreading and investing these, directed to ensuring information
    security and cooperation in the South Caucasus. In this context
    significant was the endorsement of `Yerevan Declaration' on
    information cooperation.

    In the declaration Armenian, Russian and Georgian representatives
    signify the necessity of the existence of joint information projects
    and voice readiness to support in calling these to life.

    `This aims at making the region more secure,' A. Kasayev underscored.




    From: A. Papazian
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