YEREVAN, May 15. /Mediamax/. Head of the parliamentary faction of the Communist Party of Armenia (CPA) Norayr Petrosian sharply criticized today in the interview to Mediamax the statement about "failure of Russia-Belarus Union", made today by the chairman of the permanent parliamentary commission for foreign affairs, Hovanes Hovanesian.

YEREVAN, May 15. /Mediamax/. Today, at the initiative of the Communist Party of Armenia (CPA) and other left-wing forces, a mass meeting was held in Yerevan, the participants of which demanded that an extraordinary sitting of the National Assembly be summoned.

YEREVAN, May 16. /Mediamax/. The second "Armenia-Diaspora" forum, which was planned on 19-20 September 2001 in Yerevan, will take place in 2002, Mediamax was told in the commission for preparation of the forum.

YEREVAN, May 15. /Mediamax/. The President of Armenia signed the Domestic Market Protection Law, passed by the National Assembly.

YEREVAN, May 15. /Mediamax/. The initiative of the faction of the Communist Party of Armenia (CPA) to summon today an extraordinary sitting of the parliament to turn to the president of the country to hold a referendum on Armenia's joining to Russia-Belarus Union became a failure.

YEREVAN, May 15. /Mediamax/. An extraordinary sitting of the National Assembly of Armenia, which will take place on May 23rd, will be dedicated to the discussion of the course of the trial over the executors of the terrorist act in the parliament.

YEREVAN, May 16. /Mediamax/. Armenia is ready to submit for discussion of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) the issue of protection of Armenian historical-architectural monuments in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, chairman of the permanent parliamentary commission for foreign affairs, Hovanes Hovanesian told Mediamax in an interview.

YEREVAN, May 16. /Mediamax/. If the Karabakh issue is discussed in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), we are not going to speak from positions of a defensive side, head of the commission for foreign affairs of the National Assembly of Armenia, Hovanes Hovanesian told Mediamax in an interview.

YEREVAN, May 16. /Mediamax/. Head of the permanent parliamentary commission for foreign affairs Hovanes Hovanesian will represent Armenia at the spring meetings of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which are to be held in Istanbul on May 21-23.

YEREVAN, May 16. /Mediamax/. The faction of the Communist Party of Armenia (CPA) spoke with an initiative to hold an extraordinary parliamentary sitting today to discuss the address to the president on holding a national referendum on the issue of Armenia's joining to Russia-Belarus Union.