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- Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt held talks Friday with visiting Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian. Bildt said he welcomed the joint declaration this week by the presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to seek a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, referring to the breakaway region claimed by both Armenia and Azerbaijan. Bildt said the recent war between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia showed the danger that so-called "frozen conflicts never stay frozen." The Swedish foreign minister said he hoped to visit Yerevan before Sweden takes over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union in July 2009. In a speech organized by the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Nalbandian said that the conflict in Georgia was a "matter of grave concern" for Armenia. As a neighbouring state, 70 per cent of Armenia's transits go through Georgia so "any major event in Georgia, echoes in Armenia," he said. The meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow was "a step forward," Nalbandian said. Nalbandian also noted that while the ramifications of conflict in Georgia were yet to be assessed, it had sent a signal that "war is never an answer."
- dpa
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Today in Armenian history- 1711 Death of Israel Oree. He sought justice for the Armenian Cause during the 17th century.
- 1827 Start of the two-month reconciliation negotiations of Dehkhrak.
- 1857 Birth of academician and philologist Stepan Malkhasian. He died in 1947.
- 1917 Anniversary of the Great October Revolution. According to a Moscow newspaper, about 110 million people were victims of Bolshevism.
- 1922 Opening of the State Public Library in Yerevan. (Known as the Miasnikyan Library since 1925).
- 1922 The Pedagogical Institute of Armenia's Public Commissariat of Education is opened on the basis of the Pedagogical Faculty of Yerevan University. In 1924/25 it is again joined to the State University.
- 1922 Opening of the State Museum in Yerevan containing exhibits on history, art, archeology, ethnography, the revolution, and an Archives Department.
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