A meeting of the Armenian leader with French Senate chairman Christian Poncelet, which will be awarded with "Mesrop Mashtots" Armenian order, is expected today.

Vardan Oskanian said when commenting on the breaches of the cease-fire regime, which have become more frequent at the line of contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

In the words of director of "Aquatech" fish farm Arkady Gevorgian, already in 2004 Armenia will export some 10-12 tons of caviar.

The parliament has the final word in final and unreserved repeal of death penalty in Armenia.

Christopher Patten, European commissioner for external relations, stated.

The opportunities of expansion of the Armenian-Indian relations and within that context issues referring to the coming visit of the Armenia president to India were discussed in the course of Armenian leader Robert Kocharian's meeting with state minister of India Digvijay Singh today.

In the words of Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oskanian, president Robert Kocharian's working visit to Paris starting today will become a new stimulus for developing the Armenian-French relations.

In Christopher Patten's opinion, Russia, Turkey, Iran and US do not compete with each other but gradually come to an agreement over a mutually beneficial cooperation and the necessity to contribute to the South Caucasus.

The commanders of the North-Atlantic Alliance are satisfied with the results of the ''Cooperative Best Effort-2003'' military maneuvers held in the end of June in Armenia. It was the first time when the NATO's ''Partnership for Peace'' program's trainings were being held in Armenia. In total there were 400 military men from 19 countries including Turkey participating in the maneuvers.