January 25 the Armenian delegation headed by Prime Minister Andranik Margarian will leave for Sweden to take part in the 4-th international forum on the Genocide issues.
Co-chairs of the Armenian Congressional Caucus Frank Pallone and Joe Knollenberg sent a letter to US President George Bush asking to call on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan to immediately raise Armenia's blockade.
Human Rights Watch, the organization dedicated to protecting the rights of people charged the Azerbaijani leadership of the arrests and beating of the opposition activists.
Certain measures for rendering assistance to Tatoul Manaserian have been already undertaken, particularly, he was offered the possibility of meeting with the officials of the Armenian Embassy.
Armenian energy minister Armen Movsissian stated at the meeting with his Georgian colleague Mamuka Nikolaishvili, who arrived in Yerevan with a short working visit yesterday.
During the coming visit to the US Recep Tayip Erdogan will discuss the problem of the Armenian-Turkish relations with George Bush and a number of high rank representatives of the US administration