ISSUE OF VIOLENCES TOWARDS RF CITIZENS OF ARMENIAN ORIGIN OCCUPIES
CENTRAL PLACE DURING CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN RA AND RF FOREIGN
MINISTRIES
MOSCOW, JUNE 30, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Regular consultations
between the RA and RF Ministries of Foreign Affairs took place in
Moscow on June 29. The RA Foreign Ministry’s delegation participating
in the consultations was headed by Gegham Gharibjanian, the RA Deputy
Foreign Minister, and the Russian side’s delegation was headed by
Grigory Karasin, State Secretary – RF Deputy Foreign Minister.
Issues on agenda of the Armenian-Russian bilateral relations were
discussed during the consultations. The sides particularly touched
upon issues relating to political dialogue between the two countries,
ways of bilateral cooperation in the affair of providing regional
security and safety, holding the year of Armenia in Russia.
As Noyan Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and
Information Department, the issue of violences committed towards RF
citizens of Armenian origin during the recent period occupied the
central place on the agenda of the consultations. Crimes committed in
the RF on the ethnic basis were bilaterally condemned.
The RA Deputy Foreign Minister again expressed the Armenian side’s
serious anxiety relating to that problem, emphasizing that those
tragic events found serious response among wide circles of the society
of Armenia. G.Gharibjanian also attached importance to the necessity
of regularly informing the Armenian side about steps taken by the RF
authorities in the direction of revealing those crimes.
In its turn, the Russian side informed the RA Foreign Ministry’s
delegation about the means undertaken by the RF authorities in the
affair of calling culprits to account. The Armenian side got the
Russian side’s assuarances that all the necessary steps were taken in
the direction of preventing in future repetition of similar phenomena.
The sides also touched upon issues concerning bilateral relations in
the sphere of migration. It was mentioned bilaterally that amendments
to be made to the legislation regulating the legal status of foreign
citizens in RF will allow to make easier the order of getting
permission for temporary living and work activity in the RF for
citizens of the CIS member-states.