ARKA News Agency
June 17 2004

RA President receives the delegation of Armenian Assembly of Deputy
Friendship

RA President receives head of All-Russian State TV and Radio Company

Delegation of NKR Parliament to participate in sessions of Friendship
Armenian Parliamentary Assembly on June 18-19

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RA PRESIDENT RECEIVES THE DELEGATION OF ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF DEPUTY
FRIENDSHIP

YEREVAN, June 17. /ARKA/. The RA President Robert Kocharian received
the representatives of the Armenian Assembly of Deputy Friendship,
according to the RA Resident’s Press Service Department. “We have
accumulated a considerable experience of work in countries, where
Armenian Diaspora exists, we have many friends and we are interested
in developing these relations in different directions”, said the
President, welcoming the participants of the Assembly. Kocharian
noted that such kind of initiative is unprecedented to be carried out
at parliamentary level and expressed his hope that this practice will
bear a regular character. In their turn, the Assembly representatives
highly appreciated this initiative and said that it is viewed in the
context of Armenia-Diaspora relations. According to their estimates,
despite the outcomes, the fact of the Assembly itself is very
important in terms of initiating political relations between Armenia
and the Diaspora. L.V. -0–

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RA PRESIDENT RECEIVES HEAD OF ALL-RUSSIAN STATE TV AND RADIO COMPANY

YEREVAN, June 17. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharian received the
Head of All-Russian State TV and Radio Company Oleg Dobrodeev, that
arrived to Armenia on occasion of translation of Culture TV Channel
in Armenia. As RA President Press Service told ARKA, Kocharian
mentioned that he applied by representatives of intelligentsia with
the request of broadcasting the channel, adding that the broadcasting
of eth channel is to give opportunity to communicate with high
spiritual values as well as the sides attached importance to this
event in respect of esthetic education.
The RA National Committee for TV and Radio Broadcasting assigned 23
decimeter frequency to the RA Ministry of Transport and Communication
for broadcasting of Culture Russian TV Channel. T.M. -0–

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DELEGATION OF NKR PARLIAMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN SESSIONS OF FRIENDSHIP
ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY ON JUNE 18-19

STEPANAKERT, June 17. /ARKA/. The Delegation of Nagorno Karabakh
Republic Parliament headed by Speaker Oleg Yesayan is to participate
in the first session of Friendship Armenian Parliamentary Assembly
scheduled on June 18-19, 2004. As ARKA own correspondent in
Stepanakert reports, the Delegation also includes Vice-Speaker and
Chairman of Standing Commissions of NKR Parliament.
On the forthcoming session the Speaker of NKR Parliament to devote
his speech to working out of single approaches for solution of the
issues having national significance. T.M. -0–

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