ARKA News Agency
May 13 2005

Armenian President discusses constitutional reforms in Armenia with
PACE Monitoring Commission’s Reporters

Armenian-US security relations good: John Evans

Regional international relations program for young civil servants
implemented in Armenia

NKR citizen suspected in spying for Azerbaijan arrested in Nagorno
Karabakh

NKR Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs: one of the main goals of the
Karabakh diplomacy is to achieve transformation of armistice into
final and stable peace

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ARMENIAN PRESIDENT DISCUSSES CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IN ARMENIA WITH
PACE MONITORING COMMISSION’S REPORTERS

YEREVAN, May 13. /ARKA/. Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and PACE
Monitoring Commission’s Reporters Yerzhi Yaskernia and George
Columbier as well as the Commission Secretary Bony Theofilova
discussed constitutional reforms in Armenia on Friday. According to
Presidential Press service, the sides paid attention to regional
issues and Karabakh settlement process. M.V. -0–

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ARMENIAN-US SECURITY RELATIONS GOOD: JOHN EVANS

YEREVAN, May 13. /ARKA/. Armenia and the USA have formed good
relations in the security sphere, US ambassador to Armenia John
Evans. According to him, these relations will be developing and
expanding. This cooperation is chiefly formed within NATO, but direct
bilateral relations will be developed as well, he said. Ambassador
Evans specified that a group of Armenian specialists recently visited
Armenia to conduct a strategic study of direct Armenian-American
relations in the security sphere. Another example is, according to
him, the US financial aid to Armenia’s defense sphere. The USA is
happy that Armenia is cooperating with it in various spheres – in
ratification of antiterrorist conventions or in the dispatch of
non-combatant troops to Iraq, Evans said. He said that Armenia is
cooperating with the USA in frontier-guarding. Armenia’s borders are
not violated by those trying to smuggle weapons of mass destruction,
Evans said. P.T. -0–

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REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PROGRAM FOR YOUNG CIVIL SERVANTS
IMPLEMENTED IN ARMENIA

YEREVAN, May 13. /ARKA/. Regional program of international relations
for young civil servants of Armenia and Georgia is being implemented
in Yerevan. Daniel Warner, Deputy Director, Geneva Institute of
International Relations (HEI), said that the goal of the program is
affording civil servants the opportunity to improve the knowledge of
international relations as well as contributing to regional
cooperation. He reported that since 2001 biannual trainings have been
held in Tbilisi for representatives of the three Transcaucasian
countries, and the first training in Yerevan was held last October.
Warner also said that two participants in the program from each
country that demonstrate their capabilities for being leaders will
spend a week in Geneva, where they will hold meetings with
representatives of the Government and of various international
organizations. The program was organized by HEI in cooperation with
the Swiss CIMERA organization, with the sponsorship of the Swiss
Development and Cooperation Agency. The program is being implemented
under the auspices of the RA Foreign Office. Sixty Armenian civil
servants from the RA Central Bank, RA Ministry of Trade and Economic
Development, RA Foreign Office and Ra Supervisory Chamber have so far
been involved in the program. P.T. -0–

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NKR CITIZEN SUSPECTED IN SPYING FOR AZERBAIJAN ARRESTED IN NAGORNO
KARABAKH

STEPANAKERT, May 13. /ARKA/. As a result of joint manhunt launched by
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic National Security Service and Police, a
citizen of the republic suspected in spying for Azerbaijan has been
arrested in Nagorno Karabakh. Name of the suspect is still kept
secret. According to NKR National Security Service, the arrested has
been in contact with Azerbaijani special services providing
information containing state secret to them. NKR Prosecutor General
Office launched a legal action charging the arrested man with
espionage (Article 299 of NKR Penal Code), carrying from 10 to 15
years in jail. M.V. -0–

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NKR DEPUTY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: ONE OF THE MAIN GOALS OF THE
KARABAKH DIPLOMACY IS TO ACHIEVE TRANSFORMATION OF ARMISTICE INTO
FINAL AND STABLE PEACE

YEREVAN, May 13. /ARKA/. One of the main goals of the Karabakh
diplomacy is to achieve transformation of armistice into final and
stable peace. According to NKR MFA, the NKR Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs Masis Mailyan told about it in regard with the
regular anniversary of armistice in the zone of Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict concluded on May 12, 1994 through the mediation of Russia.
According to him, the achievement of ceasefire became the only result
in the process of peaceful settlement of the conflict. According to
Mailyan, support of the regime of ceasefire, notwithstanding any
separate facts of its violation, mostly are preconditioned by the
fact that the agreement is signed by the representatives of the
authorities of the three parties in conflict, namely Azerbaijan,
Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.
Mailyan was satisfied with the fact that for the recent time the
situation on the front line between the Armed Forces of
Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan became stable. According to him,
significant role in it played the “firm position of international
mediators, who stated about inadmissibility of escalation of tension,
as well as monitoring of a line of demarcation conducted regularly by
the OSCE mission”. A.H.-0–