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    ARKA News Agency
    March 1 2005


    RA Deputy Foreign Minister takes part in discussion of reforms of CIS
    bodies

    RA President demands prompt solution to allowance payment problem

    Presentation of Armenian-language Website on International Education
    held in Armenia

    Road to Desert exhibition opens today in Yerevan

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    RA DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER TAKES PART IN DISCUSSION OF REFORMS OF CIS
    BODIES

    YEREVAN, March 1. /ARKA/. Ra Deputy Foreign Minister Gegham
    Garibjanyan participated in a discussion of issues related to reforms
    of the CIS bodies. The Press and Public Information Department, Ra
    Foreign Office, reports that the discussion was held during a meeting
    of the CIS Deputy Foreign Ministers in Moscow, on February 28-March
    1, 2005. The document agreed on at the meeting is expected to be
    submitted to the CIS Foreign Ministers' Council on March 18, 2005.
    P.T. ~V0--

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    RA PRESIDENT DEMANDS PROMPT SOLUTION TO ALLOWANCE PAYMENT PROBLEM

    YEREVAN, March 1. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharian demanded the
    problem of payment of allowance to be resolved within the shortest
    period. The Ra presidential press service reports that the President
    stated this demand during his meeting with Ra Minister of Territorial
    Administration and production Infrastructures Hovik Abrahamyan. The
    President drew the Minister's attention to the delay in payment of
    allowances, stressing that the faulty work of relevant bodies does
    not allow people to receive the sums assigned to them at the
    beginning of the year. In his turn, the Minister informed the
    President that funds for allowance are budgeted and the reason for
    the delay in payments in January-February is the necessity of
    technical work to specify the beneficiaries' lists.
    At the meeting, Kocharian also issued a number of instructions to
    resolve socio-economic problems in Armenia's regions, particularly in
    the organization of spring seasonal work.
    The sides also discussed other issues related to the specification of
    regional borders, and enlargement of communities as part of the
    planned reduction of the number of communities from 930 to 300.
    According to the press release, the bill on Intercommunal Units has
    been sent to the RA National Assembly. The sides also discussed the
    preparations for the upcoming local elections. The Ra President
    demanded that necessary measures be taken to ensure transparent and
    free elections to prevent any interference in the election process.
    P.T. ~V0--

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    PRESENTATION OF ARMENIAN-LANGUAGE WEBSITE ON INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
    HELD IN ARMENIA

    YEREVAN, March 1. /ARKA/. A presentation of the Armenian-language
    Website on International Education http://www.projectharmony.am/ie/
    has been held in Yerevan today. Eric Nankervis, Regional Director,
    Project Harmony, pointed out that the resource was designed by
    secondary school students who participated in the International
    Education Week essay competition on "Why I need to be Internationally
    Educated". The website presents various opportunities available for
    Armenians to study abroad. Nankervis expressed a hope that the
    resource will become a handbook for students in seeking opportunities
    for receiving international education.
    The Project Harmony opened its office in Armenia in 2000, when it
    launched the Armenia School Connectivity Program in the country.
    Armenia School Connectivity program is a program of the US Department
    of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs funded through
    the FREEDOM Support Act and implemented by the Yerevan office of the
    Project Harmony. The project budget is $12.5mln and envisages the
    opening of Internet computer centers in 330 Armenian schools, 303 of
    such centers actually working now. P.T. ~V0--

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    ROAD TO DESERT EXHIBITION OPENS TODAY IN YEREVAN

    YEREVAN, March 1. /ARKA/. "Road to Desert" 3rd exhibition, organized
    by Woods of Armenia NGO and the Forestry Chair of Agricultural
    Academy opened today in Yerevan. The exhibition is dedicated to green
    zones of Armenia. According to Jeffrey Tufenkian, Head of woods of
    Armenia NGO, the objective of this exhibition is to draw the
    attention of students and future forestry specialists to issues of
    forestry, its preservation and rehabilitation and prevention of
    illegal fellings and wood export. "Unfortunately, the woods of
    Armenia are being exterminated. This results in erosion of the soil
    and extermination of species of fauna", he noted..
    The photos of the exhibition picture both the nature of Armenia and
    scenes of extermination of forests. The pictures were taken in the
    forests of Lori, Tavush, Syunik marzes. The exhibition will last till
    March 4. Then, it will be also taken to marzes of Armenia. --0--

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