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OFFICIAL MEETING OF ARMENIA, POLAND DEFENSE MINISTERS HELD IN YEREVAN

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  Official meeting of Armenian and Polish defense ministers Seyran Ohanyan and Bogdan Klich was held in Yerevan. "I am confident that our countries have all conditions for continued close cooperation," RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan said during a welcoming ceremony in the ministry of defense of Armenia. After the official meeting the two ministers held talks behind closed doors, and then with other participants.

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• HATIS BEAT BESIKTAS 87:64

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• EU HOLDS TALKS ON TURKEY’S MEMBERSHIP

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• YEREVAN TEEMS WITH MINIBUSES

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• DPA CALLS FOR NKR RECOGNITION

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• RA FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS SHIMIZU CORPORATION LEADERSHIP

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• ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS CONFLICT WITH RA CONSTITUTION

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• IRAN FINALLY REJECTS IAEA PLAN

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• DPA: PM’S JOINING RPA NATURAL

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• U.S. GOVERNMENT DONATES USD 70 THOUSAND TO RA POLICE FOR COMBATING ILLEGAL MIGRATION

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• TIGRAN SARGSYAN: ARMENIA-INDIA ECONOMIC COLLABORATION HAS GREAT DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL

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• ARMENIAN MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES VISIT HOUSE OF HOPE

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• ANDRANIK VOSKANYAN: WE SHOULD STOP OBSESSING ABOUT RESPIRATORY VIRUSES, INCLUDING H1N1 VIRUS

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• RUSSIA, IRAN TO PRESS “RESTART” BUTTON IN BILATERAL TIES

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• FOREIGN POLICY: HOW THE WEST LOST TURKEY

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• YEREVAN TO HOST A CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND BUSINESS INTEGRATION

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• MOSQUES IN SWITZERLAND MAY HAVE NO MINARETS

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• IAEA PASSES RESOLUTION CONDEMNING IRAN

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• IRAN TESTS NEW MISSILE

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• OFFICIAL MEETING OF ARMENIA, POLAND DEFENSE MINISTERS HELD IN YEREVAN

  Official meeting of Armenian and Polish defense ministers Seyran Ohanyan and Bogdan Klich was held in Yerevan. "I am confident that our countries have all conditions for continued close cooperation," ...

• GEVORG DAVTYAN: ARMENIAN WEIGHTLIFTERS STAND GOOD CHANCE TO WIN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN SOUTH KOREA

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• TURKEY WILL LOSE AZERBAIJAN IN CASE OF ARMENIA-TURKEY BORDER OPENING

• MILICA DABOVIC JOINS HATIS

• ARMENIA ATTACHES IMPORTANCE TO REGIONAL COOPERATION

• SENATE MAJORITY LEADER TO COSPONSOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

  

• AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT CAN FALL INTO HIS OWN TRAP

• ARAKEL MIRZOYAN WINS SILVER AT WORLD WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONSHIP

• MEDVEDEV, ALIYEV TO MEET NOV. 24

  

• 1920  Lenin chairs a meeting of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party on the political question of Armenia and Georgia.
• 1991  The USSR Constitutional Oversight Committee deems unconstitutional the Supreme Soviet’s decision to create a Republic Organizational Committee in Soviet Azerbaijan headed by Viktor Polianichko (on 1990 01 15) in Artsakh as well as the 1991 11 23 decision by Azerbaijani President Mutalibov to dissolve the ‘’Nagorno Gharabagh Autonomous Region’’. It also revoked the reunification decision taken by Armenia and Artsakh on 1989 12 01. It does not annul the decision (1991 09 02) of the Nagorno Karabagh District Councils (including the Shahumian district) on the establishment of the Republic of Nagorno Karabagh. That decision was deemed in compliance with the then existing law of 1990 04 03 on the ‘’Procedure of Secession of a Soviet Republic from the USSR’’.

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