U.S Allocated Funds To RA Parliament

U.S. ALLOCATED FUNDS TO RA PARLIAMENT

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| 21:01:29 | 13-10-2005 | Politics |

The U.S. allocated $2 million to the RA national Assembly. The
memorandum was signed today by Chairman Artur Baghdassaryan and
representative of the U.S. Agency for International Development
Robin Phillips.

In the course of the event Artur Baghdassaryan stated, “The world
belongs to optimists, pessimists are playing the role of observers. The
optimism of the Speaker lies in his confidence that after the
referendum on November 27 the Constitution will strengthen the role
of the parliament. And the parliament should be ready for it. $2
million will be spent on these preparations. NA specialists training,
technical re-equipment and international exchanged will take place.

Artur Baghdassaryan said he hopes that the nation-parliament ties
will also activate.

The NA-USAID cooperation is planned till 2007.