Security tightened in Armenia ahead of French leader’s visit

Regnum, Russia
28 Sep 06
SECURITY TIGHTENED IN ARMENIA AHEAD OF FRENCH LEADER’S VISIT
29 September: Officers of the Armenian police and National Security
Service are taking security measures in Yerevan because of French
President Jacques Chirac’s official visit to Armenia.
In particular, control has been tightened on roads, patrol police
officers have been put on alert, and water, sewage and cable manholes
are being welded, our Regnum correspondent reports.
[Passage omitted: reported agenda of the visit]
[Chirac is expected to arrive in Yerevan on 29 September]

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“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS