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Wednesday, 21 January 2004
U.S. \'DISAPPOINTED\' BY ARMENIAN ABSENCE FROM BAKU NATO PLANNING CONFERENCE
By empty (1/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a statement released on 20 January by the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan, the State Department expressed \"disappointment\" that an Armenian Defense Ministry delegation was unable to travel last week to Azerbaijan to attend a planning conference for military exercises to be held in Azerbaijan later this year within the framework of NATO\'s Partnership for Peace program, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported.
In a statement released on 20 January by the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan, the State Department expressed \"disappointment\" that an Armenian Defense Ministry delegation was unable to travel last week to Azerbaijan to attend a planning conference for military exercises to be held in Azerbaijan later this year within the framework of NATO\'s Partnership for Peace program, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported. The statement noted that Washington does not yet have full information about why the Armenian officers were prevented from flying from Istanbul to Baku. (RFE/RL)