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ARMENIA CALLS NATO TO RECONSIDER EXPEDIENCY OF HOLDING "PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE" MANEUVERS IN AZERBAIJAN

January 16, 2004 - 23:59 AMT  18:21 GMT
The NATO leadership has to draw corresponding conclusions from the Azeri authorities impeding participation of the Armenian delegation in the Baku conference on planning "Cooperative Best Effort-2004" NATO exercises, chief of the foreign relations department of the Armenian defense ministry Mikayel Melkonian said.

ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT PRESENTED NEW ANTI-CORRUPTION PROGRAM TO SOCIETY

January 16, 2004 - 23:11 AMT  18:21 GMT
The program has a 3-year term and includes as legislative as administrative reforms.

GEORGIAN CUSTOMS OFFICIALS BLEW UP BOUNDARY WITH ARMENIA ROADS TO PREVENT CONTRABAND CARGO TRANSPORTATION

January 16, 2004 - 22:28 AMT  18:21 GMT
Such measures were undertaken in view that the lowering of Debed river separating Georgia and Armenia allowed the vehicles with contraband loads to cross the frontier avoiding the customs control situated on Tbilisi-Yerevan main highway.

US DISAPPOINTED ARMENIAN DELEGATION DID NOT PARTICIPATE NATO CONFERENCE IN BAKU

January 16, 2004 - 22:05 AMT  18:21 GMT
At the same time the officials of the US Embassy in Armenia stated they do not possess all the facts disclosing the reasons, by which the Armenian delegation could not be in Baku January 13.

ARMENIAN FM TO BE PRESENT AT MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI'S INAUGURATION IN TBILISI

January 16, 2004 - 21:51 AMT  18:21 GMT
Armenia's foreign minister Vardan Oskanian will head the Armenian delegation at the ceremony of inauguration of newly elected Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Armenian MFA press service reported.

YEREVAN EXPECTING NATO REACTION ON ARMENIAN DELEGATION NON-ADMISSION TO NATO CONFERENCE IN BAKU

January 16, 2004 - 20:05 AMT  18:21 GMT
Otherwise, in Armenian defense minister Serge Sargsian's opinion, a lot of questions would remain open for all the participants of "Partnership for Peace" NATO program.

BAKU AWAITING TROUBLES FOR NOT ADMITTING ARMENIAN OFFICERS TO NATO CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

January 16, 2004 - 19:46 AMT  18:21 GMT
In the opinion of high rank Azeri military expert, within a month's term after the organizers of the measure produce the written reports on the Baku conference to the NATO headquarters, certain comments will follow.

NORWEGIAN AUTHORITIES EXPELLED GEORGIAN CITIZEN SAMVEL AMBARIAN, WHO MADE SELF-IMMOLATION ATTEMPT AS PROTEST ACT

January 16, 2004 - 18:24 AMT  18:21 GMT
S. Ambarian, who tried to immolate himself in front of the parliament building in Oslo, wanted to express his protest against the refusal of the country's authorities to grant him asylum.

ACCORDING TO REFINED DATA ARMENIA INCLUDED IN LIST OF COUNTRIES WITH MOSTLY FREE ECONOMY

January 16, 2004 - 17:54 AMT  18:21 GMT
Washington ProFile agency refined that according to the rating of the Index of Economy Freedom compiled due to the outcomes of researches carried out by Heritage Foundation organization, Armenia has been included in the list of the countries with "mostly free" economy.

FRENCH SPEAKER OFFERED TO HOLD RECURRENT MEETING OF FRANCE'S SENATE AND SOUTH CAUCASIAN PARLIAMENT CHAIRMEN IN PARIS

January 16, 2004 - 17:51 AMT  18:21 GMT
Being in Paris on vizit the Armenian parliamentary delegation headed by Speaker Artur Baghdasarian met with President of the French Senate Christian Poncelet.
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