ARKA News Agency
Aug 19 2004
RA Foreign Minister met teachers from Diaspora
Robert Kocharian to leave for sochi for a working meeting with
Vladimir Putin on August 20
A mourning ceremony devoted to the anniversary of the terrorist act
against the UN Headquarters in Baghdad held in the UN Headquarter in
Armenia
Some seminars for Karabakh refugees held in Stepanakert
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RA FOREIGN MINISTER MET TEACHERS FROM DIASPORA
YEREVAN, August 19. /ARKA/. RA Foreign Minister VArdan Oskanian met
today the teachers from the Diaspora that attend the professional
training classes held in Yerevan. Attaching importance to the
training programs for teachers from the Diaspora, Oskanian pointed
out to two aspects: rapprochement of Armenia and the Diaspora as two
parts of the single people and spreading of the idea of statehood
among the young generation of the schools in Diaspora. `This is a new
element, fruit of independence. Nowadays we are not a nation, but
also a state’, he mentioned.
The professional training courses of teachers from the Diaspora are
held on August 4-27. T.M. -0–
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ROBERT KOCHARIAN TO LEAVE FOR SOCHI FOR A WORKING MEETING WITH
VLADIMIR PUTIN ON AUGUST 20
YEREVAN, August 19. /ARKA/. The RA President Robert Kocharian will
leave for Sochi on August 20 to have a working meeting with the
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, according to the
Press Service Department of RA President. Details of Kocharian’s
visit to Sochi are not reported. L.V. -0
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A MOURNING CEREMONY DEVOTED TO THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE TERRORIST ACT
AGAINST THE UN HEADQUARTERS IN BAGHDAD HELD IN THE UN HEADQUARTER IN
ARMENIA
YEREVAN, August 19. /ARKA/. A mourning ceremony devoted to the
anniversary of the terrorist act against the UN Headquarters in
Baghdad was held in Yerevan, in UN Headquarter in Armenia. According
to the representative of the UN Department for Public Information
(DPO) in Armenia Valeri Tkachuk, it’s a personal tragedy for the
staff of UN. `It’s one of the dates which will remain in the history
of UN as a day for mourning the loss of our colleagues in Iraq’, he
added. According to Tkachuk, it was an unexampled attack on the staff
of UN, and all the members of UN were shocked by the explosion in
Canal Hotel in Baghdad. He added that the situation in Iraq is
complex, but notwithstanding this members of the UN continue their
work. `The members of the organization are always ready to render
help and work at the programs that will be implemented in the
country’, he emphasized.
on August 19, 2003 as a result of the explosion of the mined truck
near the UN Headquarter in Baghdad located in Canal Hotel 22 members
of the organization, including the Special Representatives of UN
Secretary General in Baghdad and the UN Chief Commissar on Human
Rights Sergio Viera De Mello died, and 200 people were badly injured.
That terrorist act became one of the most severe terrorist acts
against UN for the whole period of its history. According to UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan, the terrorist attack on the Canal Hotel
brought them face to face with a new danger in more intimidating form
– the danger that we, servants of the United Nations, may become the
main target of political violence. A.H.–0 –
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SOME SEMINARS FOR KARABAKH REFUGEES HELD IN STEPANAKERT
STEPANAKERT, August 19. /ARKA/. Nagorno-Karabakh committee `Helsinki
Initiative -92′ with the support of Westminster Democracy Fund (GB)
held seminars from February to July 2004 for the refugees living in
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). According to ARKA’s reporter in
Stepanakert, the seminars were on the following subjects: `refugees
in international-legal documents’, `the rights of refugees and people
who temporarily left their homes in legal documents of the South
Caucasus’, `the role of refugees in the development of democracy and
open society’, `the Influence of refugees on the development of civic
institutes and on the conflict transformation’. The project aimed to
enrich the knowledge of the refugees in the area of international
law, to activate their participation in the development of democratic
institutes and civic society in NKR.
As a result of the seminars, a brochure titled `Legal Education of
Refugees in the Regions of NKR’ was issued with the circulation of
500 copies. It contains international -legal documents and regional
laws, concerning refugees and people who temporarily left their
homes, and the results of various public surveys. The brochures will
be delivered both among the refugees and governmental and public
figures. A.H. -0 –