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TWO OUT OF FIVE ARMENIANS HELD HOSTAGE BY TERRORISTS IN THEATER CENTER IN MOSCOW ARE IN HOSPITAL

October 26, 2002 - 20:15 AMT  22:19 GMT
In assistant of Armenian ambassador to Russia Gagik Sayadian's words, there is no threat to the lives of Armenian citizen Tamara Gevorgyan and Russian citizen Karen Hayrapetian.

NEW MEMBER JOINED CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS ON ARMENIAN ISSUES

October 26, 2002 - 19:43 AMT  22:19 GMT
Representative John Coniers became the 124-th member of the Caucus on Armenian Issues of US Congress.

US AID PROGRAMS TO ARMENIA SHIFTED FROM HUMANITARIAN TO DEVELOPMENT

October 26, 2002 - 19:17 AMT  22:19 GMT
US ambassador to Armenia John Ordway stated it.

ARMENIA ACCEPTED PRESIDENCY IN BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION ORGANIZATION

October 26, 2002 - 19:12 AMT  22:19 GMT
Addressing the recurrent meeting of the Council of foreign ministers of the of the organization member countries in Tirana, the Armenian foreign ministry head Vardan Oskanian stated that within the term of Armenia's chairmanship the priority would be given to expanding the cooperation between the organization member states in the sphere of science and technology.

KARABAKH CONFLICT MEDIATORS ACTIVE TO DEGREE LET BY DEVELOPMENTS

October 26, 2002 - 19:01 AMT  22:19 GMT
US ambassador to Armenia John Ordway recognized that solving it appeared a more complicated task than it had seemed to Washington at the negotiations in Paris and Key West in 2001.

ARMENIA TO TAKE PART IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR IN HAVANA

October 26, 2002 - 18:59 AMT  22:19 GMT
Some 50 countries of the world will participate in the biggest fair in Latin America.

TURKEY DECIDES TO SAVE BAKU-JEYHAN PROJECT

October 23, 2002 - 05:00 AMT  22:19 GMT
Turkish authorities have decided to introduce more restrictions on the sailing of ships via the channels of Bosporus and Dardanelles. The introduced restrictions apply first of all to the transportation of oil and oil products. Explaining their actions by the ecologic security of the channels, Ankara, in fact, abuses its actual monopoly on the transit of cargos from Black Sea to the Mediterranean. However, the new navigation rules were dictated not only by the wish to get more money from the cargo transporters. The Turks, as usual, try to kill two birds with one stone: on the one hand – to get more money and on the other hand to secure the profitability of the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeyhan oil pipeline being constructed.
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