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    ARFD BUREAU MEMBER MARIO NALBANDIAN MEETS WITH JOE BIDEN

    Noyan Tapan
    Apr 2, 2009

    VINA DEL MAR, APRIL 2, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. ARF
    Dashnaktsoutiun Bureau member Mario Nalbandian met with Vice-President
    Joe Biden during the sixth Conference of Progressive Leaders, which
    was being held in Chile.

    Nalbandian, who is Dashnaktsoutiun's representative to the Socialist
    International where he is a co-chair of the CIS, Caucasus and Black
    Sea Committee, discussed pressing issues of concern to Armenia and
    Armenians.

    The Conference of Progressive Leaders was attended by British Prime
    Minister Gordon Brown, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg,
    Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and Presidents
    Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Cristina Fernandez of Argentina
    and Tabare Vazquez of Uruguay.

    Chile's socialist President Michelle Bachelet hosted the summit,
    which opened with a seminar on "a progressive response to the global
    crisis," organised by the Policy Network, an international think tank,
    and Chile's Instituto Igualdad (Equality Institute).

    Other participants in the gathering were Organization of American
    States (OAS) secretary general Jose Miguel Insulza, and the executive
    secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC),
    Alicia Barcena.

    The progressive leaders summits, the first of which took place in 1999
    at the urging of then President Bill Clinton and then British Prime
    Minister Tony Blair, bring together heads of state and government and
    oth er high-ranking government and international officials with ties
    to socialist, social democratic, labor and democratic parties around
    the world.
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