The head council of the organization consisting of 111 members has been elected as well.

Armenian minister of commerce and economic development Karen Chshmaritian said.

The issues urgent for the Caucasus, particularly the ones regarding investments in the spheres of energy and communications, national and territorial conflicts, security and struggle against terrorism, contraband of weapons and drugs.

"We should discuss and work out in detail these offers" - OSCE MG Russian co-chairman Yuri Merzlyakov said.

Yuri Merzlyakov said it, when commenting on the statement made recently by Arkadi Ghukasian, who said that "NKR will never refuse from its independence".

John Ordway said when commenting on the calls to settle the issue by resorting force uttered during the pre-election campaign in Azerbaijan.

Armenian defense minister Serge Sargsian told journalists upon completion of the meeting held in Kiev with his Ukrainian colleague Yevgeni Marchhuk.

Today deputy to the Armenian foreign minister Ruben Shugarian received Israeli ambassador to Armenia Rivka Kohen and expressed Yerevan's concern over the last developments in the Middle East.

The third annual conference of the intergovernmental commission of TRACECA program is to start in Yerevan October 9.

Az result of the blockade imposed by the neighbor countries, deficiency of grain-crops Armenia amounts in 187 000 tons annually, as special report of the department says.