YEREVAN, JUNE 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The first sitting of the working group on elaboration of information strategy on European integration in Armenia took place on June 15. Representatives of interested departments included in the group discussed working issues connected with strategy elaboration. Artur Baghdasarian, the Secretary of the National Security Council, Chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission on Coordination of Armenia's Cooperation with European structures, presiding at the sitting proposed submitting strategy's general provisions for discussion in a three-month term, discussing them with interested structures and submitting the revised document for endorsement in 2010. Strategy's endorsement will be followed by opening of European Union information centers in Yerevan and in the regions. According to the report of the National Security Council Staff Press Service, experts from the European Union involved in the working group expressed readiness to support strategy elaboration and creation of EU information centers. They said that the information centers will be of much importance in Armenia-European Union relations.

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