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YEREVAN WELCOMES DECISION BY COUNCIL OF EU MEMBER-STATES FOREIGN MINISTERS TO INCLUDE ARMENIA IN ENLARGED EUROPE

January 27, 2004 - 23:18 AMT  14:15 GMT
Armenian FM Vardan Oskanian stated today during the meeting with EU special representative for the South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie, who arrived in Yerevan on a 4-day visit.

RAZDAN HPP: TERMS OF PASSING TO RUSSIA PROLONGED

January 27, 2004 - 22:52 AMT  14:15 GMT
Beside the postponement of the date of passing of the HPP, Russia's government proposes to change the list of Armenian property provided for the Russian party.

UN SECRETARY GENERAL APPROVED ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER'S PROPOSAL ON ANNOUNCING 2005 AS YEAR OF STRUGGLE AGAINST WARS AND GENOCIDE

January 27, 2004 - 22:10 AMT  14:15 GMT
A. Margarian also met with the President of Albania, Lithuanian Prime Minister as well as well-known expert of the Genocide issues, Nobel Prize winner Eli Vizel in Stockholm.

BEGUN IN PARIS KARABAKH DIALOGUE TO BE CONTINUED IN MOSCOW, AZERI FM STATED

January 27, 2004 - 21:29 AMT  14:15 GMT
Azerbaijani foreign minister Vilayat Guliyev confirmed the interdependence available between the visit of Ilham Aliyev to France and his forthcoming visit to Moscow within the frames of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.

RUSSIAN FRONTIER GUARDS DETAINED 80 TRESPASSERS OF ARMENIA'S STATE BORDER IN 2003

January 27, 2004 - 20:59 AMT  14:15 GMT
In the words of head of the frontier administration of the Russian Federal Security Service in Armenia Sergey Bondarev, 56 violators of the frontier regime were detained, 25 units of cold steel confiscated.

SWISS PRESIDENT AND TURKISH PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSED ARMENIAN ISSUE IN DAVOS

January 27, 2004 - 20:56 AMT  14:15 GMT
The Swiss President has also raised the question of Armenia's blockade imposed by Turkey.

US ARMENIANS CONCERNED OVER CONDITIONS OF ARMENIAN POPULATION IN SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETI REGION OF GEORGIA

January 27, 2004 - 19:13 AMT  14:15 GMT
Last week the Armenian National Committee of America held a series of meetings with White House and State Department officials, as well as the Georgian Ambassador to the United States Levan Mikeladze.

EU NODS INCLUDING OF ARMENIA IN ENLARGED EUROPE

January 27, 2004 - 18:18 AMT  14:15 GMT
After almost a year of waiting, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia now look likely to be offered the prospect of partial membership of the EU, Euobserver reported.

RUSSIAN VICE PRIME MINISTER BORIS ALYOHSIN TO VISIT YEREVAN

January 27, 2004 - 17:11 AMT  14:15 GMT
Russian delegation headed by co-chair of the Russian-Armenian intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation, vice Prime Minister of Russia Boris Alyoshin is arriving in Yerevan on a 2-day visit January 29.

HEAD OF WORLD ARMENIAN CONGRESS HONORED WITH RUSSIAN AWARD

January 27, 2004 - 16:49 AMT  14:15 GMT
The Russian academy of security and defense honored chairman of the World Armenian Congress and of the Union of Armenians of Russia Ara Abrahamian with the 1-st degree order of Peter the Great.
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