ARKA News Agency
July 12 2004

RA President and OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen discuss present stage
of Karabakh settlement

RA Prsident Kocharian signs law on children and youth sport

RA President Kocharian signs some laws on making amendments to the
legislation of the country

Indonesian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia
finishes his diplomatic mission in Armenia

RA President Robert Kocharian signs a law on honorary titles of RA

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RA PRESIDENT AND OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRMEN DISCUSS PRESENT STAGE
OF KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

YEREVAN, July 12. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharian and OSCE
Minsk Group Co-Chairmen Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Steven Mann (USA)
and Anri Jakolein (France) discussed present stage of Karabakh
settlement, RA President’s press office told ARKA. The Ambassadors of
Russia, USA and France to Armenia also took part in the meeting.
Note OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen arrived in Armenia today, then they
plan to visit NKR. On July 15, the co-chairmen will arrive in Baku.
L.D. –0–

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RA PRSIDENT KOCHARIAN SIGNS LAW ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH SPORT

YEREVAN, July 12. /ARKA/. RA Prsident Kocharian signed law on
children and youth sport. According to RA President’s Press Service
Department, the law regulates programs of the state policy in the
field of children and youth sport, as well as relations referring to
education and development of physical training ands sport and healthy
life mode among children.
On May 11, 2004 RA NA in its third and final reading adopted law on
children and youth sport. The draft law is to encourage mass physical
training and sport as well as improve the quality of physical
training in schools and Universities of Armenia. Besides, separate
points of the law regulate the issues of involvement of mental
invalids into physical training and sport. The law also stipulates
physical training of the youth undergoing pre-conscription military
training. A.H. – 0 –

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RA PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN SIGNS SOME LAWS ON MAKING AMENDMENTS TO THE
LEGISLATION OF THE COUNTRY

YEREVAN, July 12. /ARKA/. RA President Kocharian signed some laws on
making amendments to the legislation of the country. According to RA
President’s press Service department, the President signed the law on
making amendments and novels to Civil Code, laws on diplomatic
service, on state service, on licensing , on physical training and
sport, and on notary. Kocharian also signed law on making amendments
to the law on state registration of juridical persons, on
organization of checks up in Armenia, as well as novel to the law on
payments for the ecology and nature management. A.H.–0–

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INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY TO ARMENIA
FINISHES HIS DIPLOMATIC MISSION IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, July 12. /ARKA/. Indonesian Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to Armenia Remi Momauli Siahani (headquarter in Kiev)
finished his diplomatic mission in Armenia. According to RA
President’s Press Service Department, in the course of the meeting
with RA President Robert Kocharian the Ambassador thanked him for the
support. During the meeting the sides discussed also the possibility
of enlargement of bilateral relations.
Remi Momauli Siahani was appointed as an Ambassador to Armenia in
March 2002. A.H. –0 –

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RA PRESIDENT ROBERT KOCHARIAN SIGNS A LAW ON HONORARY TITLES OF RA

YEREVAN, July 12. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharian signed a law
on honorary titles of RA. According to RA President’s Press Service
Department, the law regulates the relations connected with conferring
honorary titles to famous figures in the fields of science,
education, literature, culture, journalism, healthcare, physical
training and sport, economy, as well as to groups of people. The law
also stipulates the order and the terms of conferring honorary
titles.
RA NA adopted draft law on honorary titles of RA on June 11, 2004 in
the third final reading. The law stipulates monthly additional money
bonus, the amount of which to be determined by the Government, to
those conferred upon the honorary title `national’, and the honorary
title is to be conferred by the RA President. The titles are lifelong
except of the cases stipulated by the legislation. A.H.–0–
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