Ex-speaker of Armenian National Assembly Armen Khachatrian was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ukraine.

About 10 Armenian companies will take part in Food Festival-2003 international exhibition to be held October 12-17 in Sharjah (United Arab Emirates).

Transparency International organization published the annual report of Corruption Perceptions Index 2003, which was compiled according to the results of researches carried out in 133 countries of the world.

Number one international terrorist's adviser, Abu Ayati was arrested in Baku in September in result of a secret operation.

Probably, nobody doubts that Ilham Aliyev will be the next President of Azerbaijan as a result of Presidential elections. Authorities of Baku will hardly take into account the protests of Azerbaijani opposition and the indignation of the world community concerning the non-democratic process of the elections. Well-known Russian human rights expert, Deputy of Russian Parliament, member of the delegation of Russia in the Parliament Assembly of the Council of Europe Sergey Kovalev characterized the order being formed in Azerbaijan as an "Eastern Democracy".