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DEMIRCHIAN SUIT CHALLENGING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RETURNS HEARD AT CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

April 3, 2003 - 23:26 AMT  01:35 GMT
Lawyers representing the plaintiff's interests interceded for adjourning the sitting to have time to familiarize with the documents provided by the central electoral commission.

ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER TO VISIT RUSSIA ON OFFICIAL CALL

April 3, 2003 - 22:44 AMT  01:35 GMT
Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia and the Russian ambassador discussed details of the recurrent meeting of parliament heads of the four Caucasian countries to be held in Tbilisi April 29-30.

ARMENIA NOT DISCUSSING JOINING "RUSSIA-BELARUS" UNION YET

April 3, 2003 - 22:44 AMT  01:35 GMT
Armenian foreign ministry press secretary Dzyunik Aghajanian responded this way to the statement of state secretary of the union state Pavel Borodin that Russia and Belarus come for Armenia's joining the Russian-Belarus union.

AZERI FOREIGN MINISTRY CONCERNED OVER "POSSIBLE MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO KARABAKH BY FRANCE"

April 3, 2003 - 22:14 AMT  01:35 GMT
The Azeri foreign ministry intends to lodge a protest against the meetings of the Nagorno Karabakh leader Arkady Ghukasian with representatives of National Institute for Civil Population Protection of France.

NO CHANCES FOR AZERBAIJAN TO RESTORE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY ANY MORE, RUSSIAN ISLAMIC COMMITTEE HEAD SUPPOSES

April 3, 2003 - 22:00 AMT  01:35 GMT
Azerbaijan's joining the anti-Iraqi coalition "put Baku in a position of an outcast both in respect of Muslims and Europe" and threatens Azerbaijan "with full marginalization," Heydar Jemal said.

INDIAN PRESIDENT INVITED KOCHARIAN TO DELI

April 3, 2003 - 20:21 AMT  01:35 GMT
The visit is planned in the latter half of the year.

AZERBAIJAN SECURES ECONOMIC GROWTH VIA HIGH OIL PRICES, WB VICE-PRESIDENT CONSIDERS

April 3, 2003 - 20:03 AMT  01:35 GMT
The economic growth in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan is secured not via implementation of reforms, but due to selling oil at extraordinary high prices.

ARMENIAN REPRESENTATIVE IN EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS ELECTED

April 3, 2003 - 19:12 AMT  01:35 GMT
The candidacy of member of the Constitutional Court of Armenia Alvina Gyulumian received majority support at a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe vote April 2.

WEB PAGE DEVOTED TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN OTTOMAN TURKEY OPENED

April 3, 2003 - 19:11 AMT  01:35 GMT
It offers users detailed information and photographs of genocide memorials in 25 countries around the world.

IN BAKU THEY WANT TO SEE LEVON TER-PETROSYAN AND HIS SON IN POWER OF ARMENIA

April 2, 2003 - 05:00 AMT  01:35 GMT
The fact that the son of the former president of Armenia, David Ter-Petrosyan intends to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, was taken with enthusiasm in Baku. It is interesting that Azerbaijan pays much more attention to this fact than Armenia where nobody seriously discusses the political career of the son of the ex-president.
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