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    Armenian diplomats still in Equatorial Guinea to get pilots released

    Arminfo
    30 Nov 04


    YEREVAN

    After the six Armenian pilots were imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea,
    the Armenian delegation is still in that country to discuss the
    further fate of the Armenian pilots with the local authorities.

    The Armenian delegation has been allowed to visit the pilots, the
    press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry told Arminfo news
    agency. Ambassador Sergey Manaseryan and the deputy head of the
    Armenian state protocol service, Gevorg Petrosyan, are having ongoing
    negotiations with various representatives of the Equatorial Guinean
    leadership, including the secretary-general of the ruling Democratic
    Party, Filiberto Ntutumu Nguema. Meetings have been scheduled with the
    Equatorial Guinean foreign minister. A statement by the Armenian
    government in connection with the review of the case of the Armenian
    pilots will be submitted during the meeting. The Armenian delegation
    maintains close contact with the pilots' defence lawyer (?Ponciano
    Mbombo Nwo) who intends to appeal against the sentence at the Supreme
    Court of Equatorial Guinea.

    However, the court has still not provided the written version of the
    sentence, only after which it will be possible to appeal to the
    Supreme Court.

    [Passage omitted: South Africans' defence lawyers are also waiting for
    the sentence in a written form; background to the case]
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