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    RIA Novosti
    July 2, 2004

    MOSCOW EXPECTING FOREIGN ARMENIAN MINISTER


    MOSCOW, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan
    Oskanyan will pay an official visit to Russia on July 5 through 7, the
    Information and Press department of the Russian Foreign Minister
    reported Friday.

    "The visit will take place in the context of Russia-Armenia political
    dialogue, which is developing dynamically after high- and top-level
    contacts of 2003-2004," the Information and Press department said.

    The Russian Foreign Ministry believes the visit will add momentum to
    Russo-Armenian relations which have a solid legal base (the Agreement
    on friendship, cooperation and mutual security dated December 29, 1991;
    the Declaration on allied interaction with prospects for the 21st
    century of September 26, 2000 as well as other 160 or more interstate,
    intergovernmental and interdepartmental agreements).

    A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said both Russian Foreign
    Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Armenian counterpart Vardan Oskanyan
    "will focus on coordination of joint efforts aimed at improvement of
    the situation in the Caucasus, settlement of ongoing conflicts as well
    as at an atmosphere of confidence necessary for the future
    all-Caucasian cooperation."

    "A special emphasis will be made on the issue of Nagorny Karabakh. We
    believe the parties to the conflict are to find an acceptable
    compromise," the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed.

    "Russia is ready to contribute to the settlement of the issue of
    Nagorny Karabakh and guarantee an agreement mutually acceptable for
    both parties."

    "The Russian and the Armenian parties will consider the CIS
    member-states' interaction in the framework of the Collective Security
    Treaty as well (Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
    Tajikistan are parties to the treaty) and in the context of EurAsEC
    (the parties are the same except Armenia, which has the status of an
    observer)," the Information and Press department pointed out.

    "Boosting Russian-Armenian trade and economic, cultural and
    humanitarian cooperation will be one of the priority issues at the
    talks," the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.

    The Information and Press department said the parties would discuss
    fighting all manifestations of terrorism.
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