This year it is expected that 80000 tourists will visit Armenia.

The availability of $29-mln debt for the acquisition of nuclear fuel for the Armenian NPP earlier will not prevent Armenia from getting a new part of fuel.

Azeri President's visit to Saint-Petersburg continues.

OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister Antonio Martins da Cruz stated it.

Today the meeting of the National Assembly of Armenia was defeated by a group of deputies-oppositionists, who seized the rostrum and refused to leave it.

Eduardo Ernekian Argentinean businessman, who yesterday assumed trust management of "Zvartnots" Yerevan international airport, intends to turn the present airport building into a trade center.

The Azeri sources continue to insist on that the agreement on the surrender of four regions of lower Karabakh controlled by the NKR defense army to Azerbaijan by the Armenian forces was reached in Strasbourg last week.

The past winter was less severe for Azerbaijan than the previous one. The affect of the energy crisis on the economy and the social life of the country was not so serious as in previous 2 years. However, the electricity was being cutoff in the houses. Even in Baku the inhabitants of the sleeping districts didn’t have light for days. Local newspapers were writing about the possibility of an energy catastrophe. It was rather difficult to avoid a social outburst forecasted by the opposition. And all this has happened in a country, which is trying to convince the world that it has innumerable resources of hydrocarbon.