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    YEREVAN DENIES PLANS FOR KOCHARIAN TRIP TO WASHINGTON
    By Emil Danielyan

    Radio Liberty, Czech Rep
    April 25 2006

    The Armenian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday dismissed a newspaper report
    that quoted one of its senior officials as saying that President
    Robert Kocharian will likely visit Washington soon for talks with
    U.S. President George W. Bush.

    "A visit by the president of Armenia to Washington is not planned,"
    the ministry spokesman, Hamlet Gasparian, said in a statement.

    In an interview posted on its English-language website on Monday,
    the Turkish daily "Zaman" quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Arman
    Kirakosian as saying that Kocharian is likely to be "another guest"
    at the White House shortly following Friday's meeting between Bush
    and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev.

    Gasparian suggested that the remarks attributed to Kirakosian were the
    result of a "partial distortion of his words or their translation." The
    Armenian diplomat spoke about the possibility of Kocharian's trip to
    the U.S. capital only in "general" terms, he said.

    Bush's unexpected invitation to Aliev is attributed by observers to
    mounting international tensions over Iran's controversial nuclear
    program and U.S. efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict this
    year. Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian implied earlier that the White
    House sees no need for similar talks with Kocharian because Armenia,
    unlike Azerbaijan, has largely accepted international mediators'
    existing peace proposals on Karabakh.
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