ARMENIA EXPRESSES REGRET AT START OF WAR IN IRAQ
By empty (3/21/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told journalists in Yerevan on 20 March that \"we regret that diplomacy has produced no positive results and that Iraq\'s disarmament is not occurring peacefully,\" RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported. He added that the Armenian leadership sees no point in either supporting or opposing the war, but merely hopes that it will end swiftly and without inflicting undue suffering on the Iraqi people. Also on 20 March, Armenian police spokesman Artak Vardazarian told Arminfo that security has been heightened at all strategic facilities.Visit also
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