KARABAKH PRESIDENT TO DISCUSS EXPANDING COOPERATION WITH UNION OF ARMENIANS OF RUSSIA IN MOSCOW

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
Oct 16 2007

Within the next few days Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President Bako
Sahakian will depart for Moscow to discuss expanding cooperation with
the representatives of the World Armenian Congress (WAC), the Union
of Armenians of Russia (UAR) and business circles, Novosti-Armenia
reports quoting Armenian Public TV.

To note, a new modern school, where 600 children will study, is
being built in Stepanakert under the aegis of the Union of Armenians
of Russia.

Yesterday the head of WAC and UAR Ara Abrahamian and Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic President Bako Sahakian got to know with the course of
construction works.

Abrahamian also visited Stepanakert School N 10, which had received
computer equipment from UAR. He noted the Union would provide four
more Karabakh schools with computers.

The Chair of the Union of Armenians of Russia also told journalists
that in the course of a meeting with NKR leadership the interlocutors
had discussed the mechanisms of UAR participation in educational
projects, the programs targeted at the development of rural regions,
health care, as well as providing the families of Karabakh army
officers and killed servicemen with housing.