On 11, July, the minister of industry and sale Karen Chshmarityan received the governor of the East Azerbaijan province of the Islamic Republic of Iran Yakhay Mokhmmad Zade and the members of the delegation headed by him.

Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament Murtuz Aleskerov, who is in Ankara with an official visit, has stated that noticeable improvement of the relations between Turkey and Armenia "disappoints" official Baku.

The chairman of the Constitutional court of Armenia Gagik Arutyunyan has stated today that the process of the constitutional amendments can take a long time.

The World Bank expressed its readiness to give Armenia nearly $ 620 million in 2001-2003.

Vice Prime Minister of Portugal, Minister of Foreign Affairs Jaime Gama, who left Yerevan for Baku yesterday, will meet today Heydar Aliev, the President of Azerbaijan.

The OCSE Minsk group cochairmen will meet President Heydar Aliev, the minister of foreign affairs Vilayat Guliev and minister of defense Safar Abiev today.

Armenia greets the OCSE Minsk group striving to follow the "Paris principals" of the Karabakh conflict settlement.