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US NEEDS ARMENIA JUST WITHIN THESE BORDERS - AS A WINNER COUNTRY, HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK NEWSPAPER CONSIDERS

December 11, 2004 - 19:54 AMT  12:36 GMT
"The US does not need at all for Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh surrender security belt territories to Azerbaijan," Armenian opposition representative stated in an interview with Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper.

6-TH CONGRESS OF UNION OF YERKRAPAH VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS HELD IN YEREVAN

December 11, 2004 - 19:24 AMT  12:36 GMT
"Nagorno Karabakh will never be part of Azerbaijan and no proposal, which does not secure the population of Armenia and NK will be accepted," Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Margarian stated in the course of the Union congress.

ARMENIA HAS WORKED OUT TWO PROJECTS OF BUILDING RAILWAY TO IRAN

December 11, 2004 - 18:17 AMT  12:36 GMT
According to the first project the railway will pass from the Yeraskh station to Meghri town at the Armenian-Iranian border. The second one suggests that the railway be laid from Zod village to Meghri town.

THE HEAD OF AZERI PARLIAMENT ASSERTS TERRITORIAL CLAIMS TO GEORGIA?

December 10, 2004 - 04:00 AMT  12:36 GMT
The Georgian special services investigate circumstances of incident in Vakhtangisi village (Gardaban region, Kvemo Kartli province) which is populated by Azeris. On Wednesday several hundreds armed residents of that village captured a group of Georgian Ministry of Finance financial police officers who had arrived to check if there was contraband. The officers of that department discovered contraband goods kept in the village to the amount of almost 3 million dollars which was illegally conveyed through the frontiers from Azerbaijan. The hostages could be released only after arrival of the internal forces detachment and SWAT division of the Ministry of National Security. The Head of the Financial Police David Kezerashvili was also among the hostages.
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