RA NA SPEAKER HANDED OSCE MEDAL FOR PROMOTING CLOSE COOPERATION WITH THIS ORGANIZATION

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 7 2006

YEREVAN, March 7. /ARKA/. Armenian National Assembly Speaker Arthur
Baghdasaryan received a medal from OSCE for promoting close cooperation
with this organization, Armenian Parliament press service told ARKA
News Agency on Monday. The medal was handed by OSCE Yerevan Office
Head, Ambassador Vladimir Pryakhin.

The Ambassador stressed the importance of Parliament’s role in forming
civil and democratic institutions and pointed out kind relations
established between OSCE and Armenian Parliament.

Baghdasaryan, in turn, said the cooperation had produced particular
results.

Pryakhin also handed books in Armenian, Russian and English languages
to parliamentary library.