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Armenia: Administration, Opposition Take Tentative Steps toward Opening Dialogue
BY MARIANNA GRIGORYAN
They may still hate each other, but political necessity is pressuring two arch foes in Armenian politics, President Serzh Sarkisian and opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian, to start talking to each other. Even so, significant obstacles stand in the way of the start of a substantive political dialogue.
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ALMANAC FACTS
Area: 29,800 sq km (11,506 sq mi)
Population: 2,991,360
Capital: Yerevan 1,254,400
President: Robert Sedraki Kocharian
Religion: Armenian Apostolic 94%, other Christian 4%, Yezidi (Zoroastrian/animist) 2%
Life Expectancy: 71.23 years
GDP per capita: $3,500
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OSI Assistance Foundation - Armenia
7/1 Tumanyan, 2nd Dead-end
Yerevan, 375002, Armenia
Phone/Fax: (374 10) 533-862, 536-758
Email: office@osi.am, mlarisa@osi.am
Executive Director: Ms. Larisa Minasian
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