First of all concrete projects that could be financed in the framework of the $4.3 million US aid to Armenian armed forces would be discussed.

The matter concerns providing the aid to Nagorno-Karabakh from the sum remaining after realizations of humanitarian aid programs in the fiscal year 1998.

Today the chair of the Georgian parliament Nino Burjanadze has left for Samtskhe-Javakhetia region populated mainly by Armenians.

During the recent visit of the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs to the region a number of newspapers paid attention to that Heydar Aliyev and Vilayat Guliyev evaluate the activities of the international mediators differently.

This is stated in the statement of the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs made in Vienna after their visit to the region.

In the OSCE documents on Karabakh conflict, territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is not mentioned, Azerbaijani foreign minister Vilayat Guliyev stated.

Armenian government has appealed to the European commission for foreign relations on account of Turkey and Azerbaijan's boycott regarding Armenia's participation in "TRASECA" program.

Recently there is a great interest towards private and public initiatives aimed at Karabakh conflict's settlement in Azerbaijan. Evidently, the leaders of Azerbaijani NGOs have perceived too literally the statements of the international mediators saying that a settlement for the Karabakh problem should be found in capital cities of the states, which are conflict sides. Without coming to an agreement with anyone, Baku's public figures have started to elaborate schemes of settlement and have put them for discussion of the society. Officials engaged in settlement of Karabakh problem are watching this strange process with bewilderment, but prefer not to intervene, while the initiatives become more and more active.