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FM RECEIVES EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO THE SOUTH CAUCASUS |
YEREVAN, JULY 1, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan
received today EU Special Representative to the South Caucasus Peter
Semneby.
Foreign Ministry press service told Armenpress that during the meeting
Minister Nalbandyan and Ambassador Semneby discussed wide range of
issues on Armenian-EU cooperation.
During the meeting thoughts have been exchanged on normalization of
Armenian-Turkish relations and Karabakh conflict regulation.
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HEAD OF THE ARMENIAN PRESIDENT’S ADMINISTRATION
HAS A WORKING CONSULTATION ON THE ISSUES OF LAKE SEVAN |
YEREVAN, JULY 1, ARMENPRESS: Head of the Armenian President’s
Administration Karen Karapetian today had a working consultation with
the members of the Commission for the issues of Lake Sevan established
on the Armenian President’s decree as well as with the heads of
corresponding establishments. Presidential Press Office told Armenpress
that within the context of Sevan issues refer has also been made to
the amended variant of the charter of “Sevan” National Park
state non-trade organization which was presented by the Nature Protection
Minister Aram Harutyunian. A concerned discussion has been launched
during which proposals and remarks were sounded on the management issues
of the “Sevan” National Park and oversight functions.
The participants of the consultation considered it necessary to make
the issue of preservation of Sevan as a core subject in the implemented
works.
Head of the President’s administration stressed the importance
of involvement of all the sides concerned with the Sevan issues and
the coordinated activity. K. Karapetian considered the proper oversight
over the whole Sevan basin, discovery of the issues which gathered during
years and finding complex solutions to them as prior.
Head of the Commission for the Sevan Lake issues Vladimir Movsisian
presented brief information on the activity of the commission noting
that all the assignments given by the Armenian President are involved
in the working projects and put into execution.
| COOPERATION
MEMORANDUM TO BE SIGNED BETWEEN ARMENIAN AND SYRIAN WRITERS’
UNIONS |
YEREVAN, JULY 1, ARMENPRESS: Within the frameworks
of Syrian culture days held in Armenia, today the Armenian Culture Ministry
and the Embassy of Syria to Armenia organized a meeting with a group
of Syrian art and literature figures who are in Yerevan.
Addressing to the invited guests the head of the Armenian Writers’
Union Levon Ananyan stressed the importance of the circumstance the
visit of the arts figures was preceded by the visit of Syrian President
Bashar al Asad to Armenia which is an important event in the Armenian
Syrian relations.
L. Ananyan did not consider it accidental that Syria has a community
of Armenian writers the literary world of which is rather active and
the members of which maintain close links with the literature of the
homeland and assist mutual enrichment of the literature of the two states.
In his turn the Deputy Syrian Culture Minister Mohammad torky as-Sayed
welcomed the Armenian writers conveying the greetings of the Syrian
Writers’ Union who was absent at the meeting.
“The fact that our delegation also involves Armenian authors proves
that we evaluate the Armenians of our state and their activity,”
he said also stressing the importance of the Syrian President Bashar
al Asad’s visit to Armenia.
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