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DATA ON LABOR EMIGRATION FROM ARMENIA UNVEILED
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A study co-funded by the OSCE\'s Yerevan Office and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office of out-migration from Armenia in search of employment estimated the number of people who have left Armenia over the past three years in search of employment at approximately 147,000, or 4.6 percent of the total population. Of that number, some 90 percent sought work in other CIS states and the remainder in the EU and the United States.KYRGYZ PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER BOWS OUT OF SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING
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Parliamentary speaker Omurbek Tekebaev left the Security Council meeting after Usen Sydykov, head of the presidential administration, insisted that President Bakiev would not attend the session if Tekebaev were present. Tekebaev, who reportedly made disparaging comments about Bakiev on 7 February, recently announced that he is planning to resign. Asiya Sasykbaeva, director of the Interbilim civil society support center, told akipress.SOUTH OSSETIAN GROUP APPEALS TO RUSSIAN PRESIDENT
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The Union of Russian Citizens of South Ossetia has addressed an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, copying State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov and OSCE Chairman in Office Karel de Gucht. The statement praised the Russian peacekeepers\' role in response to the Georgian incursion of August 2004 and termed them the sole guarantee of peace and a nonresumption of hostilities. At the same time, it expressed concern over the anticipated decision by the Georgian parliament to insist on the Russian peacekeepers\' withdrawal from the conflict zone which, it suggests, will be followed by a new Georgian aggression.MUSAVAT PARTY QUITS AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION BLOC
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Following the decision by its leading council on 5 February to participate in the work of the new parliament elected on 6 November and field candidates in the repeat voting on 13 May in 10 constituencies where the outcome of the 6 November vote was annulled, the opposition Musavat party announced on 9 February its withdrawal from the Azadliq election bloc. A statement issued by Musavat\'s press office attributed that move to the \"campaign of slander and lies\" unleashed against Musavat by the remaining members of Azadliq, the Azerbaijani Popular Front Party and the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, both of which announced in late November that they will boycott the new legislature and refrain from fielding candidates in the 13 May repeat vote. On 9 February, Musavat party chairman Isa Qambar said that he is prepared to continue cooperation with those two parties.Visit also
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