YEREVAN, February 17. /Mediamax/. The Head of the Union of relatives of the missing soldiers of NKR, Vera Grigorian stated in the interview to Mediamax that after the meeting of the representatives of the Union of relatives of the missing soldiers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh, held February 11-13 in Tbilisi, "there arose some hope for intensification of works for the search of the missing".

YEREVAN, February 17. /Mediamax/. The Prime Minister of Armenia Andranik Margarian received the State minister of Georgia Georgi Arsenishvili, who arrived today to Armenia for a one-day working visit.

YEREVAN, February 17. /Mediamax/. The President of Armenia Robert Kocharian stated that he would never agree with an "unfavorable" variant of Karabakh issue settlement.

YEREVAN, February 17. /Mediamax/. The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will pay an official visit to Armenia in October-November 2001, an informed source told Mediamax.

YEREVAN, February 17. /Mediamax/. Meeting of the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and France will be held in Paris in early March, an informed source told Mediamax.