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    ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
    March 9, 2007 Friday

    NATO Week in Armenia



    The Foreign Ministry of Armenia, jointly with the U.S. Embassy, is
    launching a ``NATO Week in Armenia'', which is to begin on Monday.
    ``It does not pursue the aim of our membership in NATO,'' Armenian
    Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakosyan stated here on Friday. The
    week includes ``a visit of high-ranking NATO representatives, some
    information functions, TV programs, and meetings with journalists'',
    he stated.

    It is envisaged to arrange a TV bridge with Kosovo to guarantee the
    contacts of Armenian servicemen, stationed in that region of former
    Yugoslavia, with their relatives at home. A film on the republic's
    relations with NATO will be shown on the principal TV channels of the
    republic.

    Director of the NATO Information Centre in Armenia and Head of the
    ``Armenian Centre of Trans-Atlantic Initiatives'' Ara Tatevosyan
    reported that another public organisation, namely the ``Atlantic
    Association of Armenia'', would arrange ``An Information March of
    Young People''. A microbus, decorated with NATO symbols will visit
    different regions of the republic to inform the population on the
    goals of that alliance.

    In addition to information functions and publication of different
    materials, The NATO Information Centre is planning to launch some
    education programs, too. Lectures on the alliance's activities will
    be delivered to cadets of the Military Institute of the Armenian
    Defence Ministry. Agreement was reached on NATO's contacts with the
    International Relations Department of Yerevan State University.

    The ``Armenian Centre of Atlantic Initiatives'' is cooperating with
    the NATO Information Centres in Moscow and Kiev. This organisation is
    in charge of the Yerevan NATO Information Centre and is cooperating
    with the government of Armenia, which is paying rent for the Centre's
    building.

    Armenia is not pursuing the purpose of joining the North Atlantic
    Alliance, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakosyan stated here on
    Friday. ``The key principles of our relations with that organisation
    include mutual supplementation of our foreign policies and
    cooperation,'' he noted. ``Cooperation with NATO is important for our
    republic, especially with a view to reforming and modernising the
    national army,'' he stated. Kirakosyan noted that Armenia's
    cooperation with NATO was ``a component part of the multi-structural
    system of the republic's security''.
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