ARKA News Agency – 11/22/2004

ARKA News Agency
Nov 22 2004

Speaker of Armenian Parliament asks Azerbaijani Parliament’s head and
NATO Chairman to provide security of Armenian delegates on Rose-Roth
NATO seminar

Europe could be more insistent in issues of settlement of conflict on
South Caucasus

Special anti-emergency service to be launched in Yerevan soon

Armenia and Azerbaijan should come out with constructive
recommendations on Karabakh conflict settlement, PACE insists

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SPEAKER OF ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT ASKS AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT’S HEAD AND
NATO CHAIRMAN TO PROVIDE SECURITY OF ARMENIAN DELEGATES ON ROSE-ROTH
NATO SEMINAR

YEREVAN, November 22. /ARKA/. Speaker of the Armenian Parliament sent
official letters to the Chairman of Milli Mejlis of Azerbaijan Murtuz
Aleskerov and Chairman of Parliamentary Assembly of NATO Pierre
Leluche with request to provide security of the Armenian delegates on
NATO seminar Rose-Roth. As Armenian Parliament Public and Press
Relations Department told ARKA, the letter was sent on occasion of
recently increasing violence toward Armenians in Azerbaijan and in
other countries by Azerbaijanis, as well as hindering Armenian
officers participation in NATO exercises and expulsion from
Azerbaijan Bulgarian sport commentator of the Armenian descent Eduard
Papazyan. The Armenian Parliament confirming readiness of its
delegates to work in international structures and holding a positive
stance around leaving for Baku, at the same time he expressed its
concern around providing of security of the delegates on Azerbaijani
territory and expects that relevant security guarantees will be
provide to them on Rose-Roth seminar.
Armenian parliamentarians represented by two delegates – head of
associated of Armenian delegation to NATO PA Mher Shahgeldyan and
member of delegation Alexan KArapetyan will participate on the 58th
NATO Rose-Roth seminar in Baku scheduled on Nov 25-27, 2004. T.M.
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EUROPE COULD BE MORE INSISTENT IN ISSUES OF SETTLEMENT OF CONFLICT ON
SOUTH CAUCASUS

YEREVAN, November 22. /ARKA/. Europe could be more insistent in
issues of settlement of conflict on the South Caucasus, as Armenian
President Robert Kocharian said, making his speech on Berlin European
Forum. He stressed that the history of forming of the EU shows the
privileges of the regional cooperation that is the way to prosperity
and also an instrument of stability. “Based on its experience Europe
could be more insistent in the issues of the settlement of the
conflicts on the South Caucasus thru incentive to the cooperation”,
he said.
President stressed that one of the main obstacles for the settlement
of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is absence of eh regional
cooperation. He mentioned that Armenia believes in the settlement of
the conflicts thru regional cooperation, while Azerbaijan refrains
from the possible cooperation prior to the settlement of the
conflict. Among other obstacles on the way of cooperation of the EU
with the South Caucasus states he named the blockade of Armenia by
Turkey. “We think that it is not normal when the state launching the
negotiations on accession to the EU blockades the participants of the
European Neighborhood policy”, he said, adding that the EU actually
was formed due to pragmatism of its founders. “Everything began not
from parliamentary assemblies and ministerial councils, but
understanding of the common interests and compatibility of the value
systems. We would like to see something similar in the EU’s policy
toward the New Neighborhood participant countries”, Kocharian stated.
T.M. -0–

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SPECIAL ANTI-EMERGENCY SERVICE TO BE LAUNCHED IN YEREVAN SOON

YEREVAN, November 22. /ARKA/. A special anti-emergency service will
be launched in Armenia soon, as the Vice Mayor of Yerevan Vano
Vardanyan said. In his words, it will correspond to the US “911”.
“This program will be in accordance to the international standards.
The service employees will collect the signals received by “1-02″
service and the Emergency Management Department of Armenia”, the
official stressed. According to Vardanyan, similar cooperation of the
Department and the Municipality will allow to react operatively and
efficiently to the signals received from the capital residents. T.M.
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ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN SHOULD COME OUT WITH CONSTRUCTIVE
RECOMMENDATIONS ON KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT, PACE INSISTS

YEREVAN, November 22. /ARKA/. Armenia and Azerbaijan should come out
with constructive recommendations on Karabakh conflict settlement, as
states the published PACE report. According to the document, the
suggestions should be presented through the OSCE Minsk Group.
“Otherwise, the sides should consider the possibility of applying to
the International Justice Court attached to the UN” states the
report. Meanwhile, according to the report, the Council of Europe
should offer experts to Armenia and Azerbaijan, which would assist in
making up of the draft political status of NKR. PACE also expressed
concern regarding the fact that monoethnic territories are being
created in Armenia and Azerbaijan, “which looks a lot like ethnic
clean-ups”.
This report will be discussed at the regular plenary PACE session on
January 24-28, 2005. L.V.-0–

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