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    THERE SHOULDN'T BE DISCRIMINATION IN FOREIGN TERRITORY

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    [06:55 pm] 02 May, 2006

    The bill referring the problems of the RA national minorities and the
    legal mechanisms regulating them is already in effect. The author of
    the bill is the RA Government Board representative dealing with the
    issues of national minorities and religion.

    The bill is an urgent need as in 2000 the RA signed the convention on
    the rights of national minorities which prescribes certain privileges
    and first of all the existence of an adequate law. The bill is still
    being discussed by various ministries. Later it will be presented to
    the Government.

    A seminar was organized in the hotel "Congress" on this score. The
    representatives of Assyrian and Ezdi communities as well as the
    representatives of the Government corresponding boards and interested
    persons participated in it.

    Hranush Kharatyan, the Chief of the RA Government Board on national
    minorities and religion, mentioned that there are many legal acts
    in all the laws on national minorities, but "their rights aren't
    distinctly formulated in any law, and there is no mention about
    the characteristics according to which this or that group may be
    considered a national minority. Even the Convention doesn't define
    their status as each country is to decide it itself."

    According to the bill, national minorities must be protected and
    financed by the RA State budget.

    Only the ethnic communities providing certain number will be
    financed. "We attempted to be democratic in connection with
    Armenia. Only those communities will be financed where at least two
    generations lived, which weren't aggressive and had no problems with
    the local inhabitants. According to the second condition, they will
    form 15% of the urban or rural population.

    Their number must be 200 000 people, both adults and juveniles, so
    that they could have at least 3 - 4 pupils in each class and would
    be able to educate them," noted Hranush Kharatyan.

    Vigen Kocharyan, the member of the European Convention on ethnic
    minorities, stated that national minorities fall into 4 groups;
    existence and identity preservation, discrimination protection and
    provision of engagement into public and state affairs. He mainly
    underlined the exclusion of discrimination the provision of which is
    very vital in a foreign territory.
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