After the forum a decision was made to cooperate in the sphere of exchange of economic information and research on the prospects of strengthening economic cooperation.

The next NATO exercises within the framework of "Partnership for Peace" program will be held in Armenia next summer.

As Robert Kocharian noted in his turn, at present the intermediaries are trying to organize the meeting of the Armenian and Azeri Presidents.

Let us note that the Azeri delegation speaks well of the new rapporteur, calling him a man of authority and an objective person.

It was noted that Azerbaijan had used the International Committee of Red Cross to present fake figures.

In his words, the conflict solution is in Russia's own interest, which has begun improving its relations with Azerbaijan since 2000.

"ALROSA" company is annually expected to supply 400-450 thousand carats rough diamonds to Armenian enterprises for jewelry purposes and 400-800 thousand carats a year for technical purposes from Yakutia reserves.

In Gribkov's words, the co-chairs' decision to meet with the Azeri and Armenian leaders is conditioned by the fact that they had last met with the Presidents rather long ago and that it is necessary to refresh some ideas.

As the OSCE chairman-in-office emphasized earlier, he intended to pay special attention to that question.

Serge Sargsian familiarized the NATO representative with the main directions of the Armenian defense policy and the forthcoming programs in the sphere of cooperation with NATO.