Today in Yerevan, the conference of the International Union of Manufacturers, "Eurasian cooperation. The situation and perspectives" is taking place.

The government has convictions that the reduction of fixed payments for petrol will lead to the growth of the fuel import to Armenia. The Minister of revenue Andranik Manoukian said about that to the journalists today.

Today the president Robert Kocharyan stated, that he positively appraises the government functioning. At the same time, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the macroeconomic rates during May 2001, which are not as high as they were during the rates of preceding months.

According to the informed source, which is unconfirmed by officials, today the prisoners of Sevan colony of strict regime N 2 go on hunger strike.

Today, in Yerevan, the Eurocommission and European Union representatives visited the Armenian companies, engaged in the sphere of information technologies.

For great desert to Armenians, particularly for organization of help after Spitak earthquake in 1988, Science Academy of Armenia decided to award Nikolay Rijkov and Oleg Lobov the honorary title of Doctor.

During 2001 about 20% of army officers of the Defense Ministry RA were discharged of their posts.

The net income of the communication monopolist of Armenia, the telecommunication company "ArmenTel", in 2000 was $4.7 million.

During the planned visit of Putin, the president of Russia, to Armenia it is planned to sign the program of Armenian and Russian economic cooperation for 10 years.

The prime minister Andranik Markaryan, the Minister of National Necurity Karlos Petrosyan and secretary of security council under the president, the Minister of Defense Serge Sarksyan expressed concern in connection with the decision of the temporary parliament commission, formed for keeping track of the conducting the trial of the terrorist act, taken place on October, 27, 1999.