The issues of Armenia-NATO relationship were discussed today at the meeting of Armenia defense minister Serge Sargsian with the recently arrived in Yerevan NATO Joint Command South generals headed by general-lieutenant Antonio Kvintana.

In the words of Georgi Khosroyev, Yerevan and Tbilisi have approached such a level of interaction, which in the case of the mobilization of forces will provide the realization of the both countries' strategic interests.

The production of the Yerevan Brandy Company and "Vedi Alco" company from the very first day arose interest among the specialists attending the exhibition.

Member of PACE commission for political issues, Swiss deputy Andreas Gross presented the new principle of the regional autonomy within the country, allowing constructive regulation of contradictions available between the central authorities and the autonomic regions.

Iranian Embassy in Baku disproved today the statements regarding the quartering of additional subdivisions of the Iranian army and security forces at full length of the frontier with Azerbaijan.

Reporter of the PACE monitoring group Irzhi Yaskernya and member of the group Jozef Yuvio emphasized that the present suggestion did not correspond to the logic of the observing mission activities.

In response to this member of PACE commission for political issues Andreas Gross elucidated that there was PACE special reporter on this issue.

In the course of the meetings with Georgian leadership the issues of consolidation of the bilateral economic cooperation and the regional security will be discussed.

On the day of the 16-th anniversary of the adoption by the European Parliament the first resolution, appealing to Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide, a petition of the "Union of Genocide Opponents" representing the Turkish citizens living in Germany was handed to European Parliament chairman Pat Cox.

The summer session of the Parliament Assembly of the Council of Europe started in Strasburg. The agenda of the session to last till June 27 includes issues touching upon the interests of both Yerevan and Baku. Armenia has already heard the criticism addressed to it. The PACE MPs mentioned the serious shortcomings noticed during the Parliamentary elections held in the end of May. They took into account the evaluation of the PACE observers which nevertheless described the elections as a ''step forward in the way to the democracy''. Nobody spoke about sanctions towards Armenia, and the issue on recognition of plenipotentiaries of Armenian MPs was postponed for the next session. The situation with Azerbaijan is a little bit different. The PACE bureau has refused to the Azerbaijani delegation asking to postpone the discussion of the issue on political prisoners for January.