ARKA News Agency
April 1 2004

Secretary of Security Council, RA Defense Minister to travel to
Georgia with official visit today

Nothing threatens constitutional order of Armenia, PM confident

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SECRETARY OF SECURITY COUNCIL, RA DEFENSE MINISTER TO TRAVEL TO
GEORGIA WITH OFFICIAL VISIT TODAY

YEREVAN. April 1. /ARKA/. The Armenian delegation headed by Serge
Sargsyan, the Secretary of the National Security Council subject to
the RA President, RA Defense Minister is going to travel to Tbilisi
with official two-day visit today. As stated by the RA Foreign
Ministry during the course of the visit tge delegation to meet with
the Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian PM Zurab
Zhvania, the Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia
Ivane Merabishvili, the Chief of Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of
Georgia Major-General Givi Iukuridze. T.M.–0–

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NOTHING THREATENS CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER OF ARMENIA, PM CONFIDENT

YEREVAN. April 1. /ARKA/. Armenia lives a definite political tension,
but it is not so strong to threaten the constitutional order, as said
by RA PM Andranik Margarian commenting on oppositions’ intention to
achieve power change. `If any party or individual undertakes actions
aimed at braking the country’s stability, he will be punished within
frames of the law’, he stressed. Margarian also mentioned that the
coalition expressed its wish to enter a dialogue with the opposition,
but unfortunately, the latter puts precondition – `power change then
dialogue’. `We do not accept the idea of power change, but are ready
to negotiations on the issues related to the Government or coalition
parties’, added the PM. In his words, `the State must cautious so
that statements of the group of people not to contradict the
interests of the majority of people’. T.M. -0–