20.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "We welcome the decisiveness of Armenian authorities to realize economic reforms", said today World Bank Regional Director Judy O'Connor at a press conference in Yerevan.

20.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Declaration of new strategic program for struggle against poverty was signed today within the framework of the consultative meeting of donor-organizations and the government of Armenia, which was held in Yerevan.

20.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The winner of the tender for privatization of 4 distributive power networks of Armenia will be announced by February 28, 2001, while the process will end in March 2001.

20.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "The attempts of the French owners of the Yerevan Brandy Factory to monopolize "Ararat" trademark, taking advantage of Armenia's present difficulties, cannot but arouse protest in the heart of every Armenian", stated the President of "Great Ararat Company" Tigran Arzakantzyan.

20.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. This week a number of Armenian politicians accused the Armenian President Kocharian saying that he continues negotiating around the plan on territorial swap with Azerbaijan.

20.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "If the Armenian President Robert Kocharian signs any document on territorial swap with Azerbaijan it will mean that Meghri region will become a questionable territory, and we will have to prove all the world that it is our land," the chairman of the 21st Century party David Shahnazarian said.

20.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The recent visit of the Armenian President Kocharian to Moscow has failed, the chairman of the Armenian 21st Century party thinks.

20.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Withdrawal of the Russian weapons from Georgia to Armenia will more polarize the situation in the region, the chairman of the 21st Century party David Shahnazarian said.

20.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "It is hard for me to speak about the possible measures that Turkey may undertake as of the discussion of the Armenian Genocide bill in the US House.

20.10.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The Foreign Ministry of Armenia expresses regret on the fact that the Armenian Resolution was taken off from the agenda of the U.S. Congress House of Representatives, says the statement of Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ara Papian.