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    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    July 6 2004

    Russian FM Segei Lavrov and his Armenian counterpart Vardan Oskanian
    focus on Nagorno-Karabakh settlement


    MOSCOW, July 2 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Segei Lavrov
    and his Armenian counterpart Vardan Oskanian are discussing ways to
    settle the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    `Russia is ready to help settle the conflict and take on the role of
    a guarantor to an agreement the two parties will come to,' Russian
    Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said earlier. `The
    conflicting parties should find a compromise to resolve the problem.'

    The two parties are expected to discuss cooperation in the CIS
    format, including in the Collective Security Treaty Organisation
    (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC). They will also
    discuss pooling the two foreign ministry's efforts to improve the
    situation in the Northern Caucasus.

    Bilateral trade and economic cooperation are on the top of the
    agenda. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, in 2003 trade
    turnover between Armenia and Russian grew by 34.5 percent to reach
    203.3 million U.S. dollars. Russian exports went up by 33.5 percent
    to reach 126.6 million U.S. dollars and imports by 36 percent to
    reach 77.1 million U.S. dollars.
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