In the words of OTCS secretary general Nikolay Bordyuzha, OTCS participants take NATO as an actual power in the post-Soviet space, with which one can actively cooperate in neutralizing contemporary challenges and threats.

Armenia is nominated for a prize instituted by "Mining Journal" US edition.

This was initiated by rector of Artsakh State University Hamlet Grigorian, when addressing the 3-rd congress of the UNESCO General Assembly.

Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oskanian today left for capital of Moldova Kishinev to participate in the 113-rd enlarged sitting of the Committee of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Council of Europe.

An amendment is made in the US fiscal year 2004 foreign aid bill, which contains a negative assessment of the presidential election held in Azerbaijan.

The parliament of Azerbaijan yesterday seconded the proposal by president Ilham Aliyev to appoint Artur Rasizade prime minister.

The course of Armenia's fulfillment of its undertakings before the Council of Europe will be discussed at a sitting of the monitoring committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Paris today.

Azeri defense minister Safar Abiyev reported that at present they work for forming an individual program of partnership between Azerbaijan and the NATO.

In MG Russian co-chair Yuri Merzlyakov's words, in the course of the visit the mediators will only suggest "new ideas, the accepting of which will depend on the approaches and the political will of the parties."

In the words of Armenian ambassador to Iran Gegham Gharibjanian, the parties hold active talks on defining the formula of the gas price - the main obstacle on the way of realization of the project in question.