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US TO STRENGTHEN AZERI BORDERS

February 14, 2003 - 22:08 AMT  15:02 GMT
Due to the waiver of the Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act, Washington intends to redirect funds assigned for strengthening Azeri borders to putting frontier control zones in good order and modernization of frontier observation posts.

RUSSIAN RAILWAY AUTHORITIES READY TO RESUME RUNS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND SOUTH CAUCASUS

February 14, 2003 - 22:06 AMT  15:02 GMT
In Krasnodar railway department chief Yevgeny Gorlakov's words, now the political figures of the country decide the issue.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ARAM SARGSIAN WITHDREW RACE

February 14, 2003 - 22:05 AMT  15:02 GMT
He would support leader of the People party of Armenia Stepan Demirchian at the forthcoming elections.

BAKU NOT TO CEASE DEMANDS TO CLOSE ARMENIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN SPITE OF RUSSIAN MANAGEMENT

February 14, 2003 - 22:04 AMT  15:02 GMT
Chief of the department of external relations of the Azeri president's staff Novruz Mamedov stated today.

US LOWER CHAMBER ADOPTS $90 MILLION AID PACKAGE FOR ARMENIA IN 2003

February 14, 2003 - 19:17 AMT  15:02 GMT
The Senate is scheduled to vote on this measure today.

NATO SUGGESTS ARMENIA COOPERATION ONLY

February 14, 2003 - 19:06 AMT  15:02 GMT
Armenian defense minister, secretary of the Security Council under the Armenian president Serge Sargsian said.

PACE OBSERVERS TO ARRIVE IN YEREVAN FEBRUARY 17

February 14, 2003 - 18:18 AMT  15:02 GMT
Along with OSCE observers, they will monitor presidential elections in Armenia planned February 19.

LAW ON ALTERNATIVE MILITARY SERVICE PLANNED TO BE PASSED IN ARMENIA THIS YEAR

February 14, 2003 - 18:17 AMT  15:02 GMT
Armenian minister of defense Serge Sargsian said.

DESTRUCTION OF ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN AZERBAIJAN SHOULD BE CONDEMNED AND CEASED

February 14, 2003 - 18:16 AMT  15:02 GMT
Azeris' planned and consistent destruction of an Armenian historical monument - Jugha settlement in the district of Nakhichevan of Azerbaijan - has given cause for representatives of Armenian intelligentsia to meet in Yerevan.

NO DOUBT, IT WAS A GENOCIDE

February 13, 2003 - 04:00 AMT  15:02 GMT
Turkish authorities, busy with preparation of the war against Iraq, have not managed to understand the seriousness of consequences which the verdict read on Monday in New York by the leadership of the International Centre of Justice of transitional period will have. This influential organization confirmed that the tragic events taken place in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923 are nothing else but genocide of the Armenian people. The study carried out by the Center’s experts, allows to assume that the crimes conducted by the Young Turks’ government, totally concords with the international model of genocide, and is a subject of the Convention on punishment for conducting of a genocide adopted by the United Nations Organization in 1948.
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