LATVIA IS INTERESTED IN THE ISSUES OF NKR AND THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

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06:16 pm 17 March, 2006

Today meetings with the Latvian Ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to Armenia Ayvars Vovers took place in the NA.

During the meeting with the NA Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan it was
mentioned that within the framework of the EU “New Neighborhood
Program” Latvia supports the member countries, and Armenia too will
be included in the program. By the way, a number of deputies of
the Latvian Parliament have taken the initiative to organize the
Armenian Genocide.

The Ambassador of Latvia also met the head of the NA Standing Committee
on Foreign Relations Armen Rustamyan.

Referring to the regional problems and in particular tot he process of
settlement of the Karabakh conflict Mr. Rustamyan mentioned that the
settlement of the conflict is the issue N1 of the political agenda of
Armenia. He expressed opinion that the negotiation process cannot be
successful without the participation of Nagorno Karabakh as a side,
as the agreements signed in 1992 and in 1994 which have been working
successfully for all those years are signed by Karabakh. And if there
is a third agreement, it must be signed by Karabakh too.