YEREVAN, May 18. /Mediamax/. A high-tech council will be set up in the Government in near future, where issues of strategic development of spheres will be discussed, prime minister Andranik Margarian said at today's news conference in Yerevan in response to the question of Mediamax.

YEREVAN, May 18. /Mediamax/. Prime minister Andranik Margarian named "not true and provocative" the news about cooling in Armenian-Russian relations.

YEREVAN, May 18. /Mediamax/. Armenian side will do all it can at the new stage of the settlement of the dispute over Nagorno Karabakh, prime minister Andranik Margarian said at today's press conference in Yerevan.

YEREVAN, May 18. /Mediamax/. Prime minister of Armenia Andranik Margarian named "hasty and unacceptable" the statement of the People's party and "Hayastan" deputy group about the necessity to set up temporal parliamentary commission to disclose any possible violations of the law-enforcement bodies, guarding the accused of the fall 1999 terrorist act in the Armenian parliament.

YEREVAN, May 18. /Mediamax/. The co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group, Carey Cavanaugh (USA), Nikolai Gribkov (Russia) and Philip de Surmane (France) will visit May 20th morning Armenian regions, damaged from the Spitak quake of 1988, an informed source told Mediamax today.

YEREVAN, May 18. /Mediamax/. After Levon Ter-Petrosian's resignation, President of Armenia Robert Kocharian took all the responsibility to speak at the talks for Karabakh conflict settlement also on behalf of Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR), head of "Constitutional Right" Union, deputy of the parliament Hrant Khachatrian said today in the National press-club.

YEREVAN, May 18. /Mediamax/. Recent statements of Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian reflect President Kocharian's position and some other details of his concepts on Karabakh conflict settlement, head of "Constitutional Right" Union, deputy of the parliament Hrant Khachatrian said today in the National press-club.

YEREVAN, May 18. /Mediamax/. Development of IT and high-tech is one of the priority directions of government's activity, prime minister of Armenia Andranik Margarian said today at a press conference in Yerevan.

YEREVAN, May 18. /Mediamax/. Armenian premier Andranik Margarian said today at a press conference in Yerevan that he was satisfied with the work of the government in 2000.

YEREVAN, May 18. /Mediamax/. Defense Minister of Azerbaijan Safar Abiyev urged today his colleagues from the CIS member-countries to exclude Armenia from the Agreement on Collective Security.