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RUSSIA TO SELL WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT TO CSTO MEMBER-STATES AT INTERNAL PRICES

February 11, 2004 - 22:41 AMT  17:50 GMT
"By order of Russia's President the possibilities of providing our CSTO allies - Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia and Tajikistan with weapons and equipment are being viewed at present", RF Security Council Secretary said.

RA FM DEPUTY SAYS NEGOTIATION PROCESS ON KARABAKH SETTLEMENT EXPERIENCING TRANSITIONAL PERIOD

February 11, 2004 - 22:20 AMT  17:50 GMT
"Years of negotiations, which were held not only by the Armenian and Azeri Presidents but also within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group, have certainly laid the foundation for building the pyramid of the conflict resolving", Ruben Shugarian said.

ARMENIA'S AND AZERBAIJAN'S INTERESTS COINCIDE MORE THAN BEFORE, ARMENIAN FM DEPUTY CONSIDERS

February 11, 2004 - 21:47 AMT  17:50 GMT
In Ruben Shugarian's words, today Armenia and Azerbaijan aspire to join European structures and "the settlement of the Karabakh conflict has become the stumbling block in the issue of achieving these common goals".

AZERBAIJAN NEEDS $25-50 BILLION TO RECONSTRUCT TERRITORIES

February 11, 2004 - 21:31 AMT  17:50 GMT
In the Azeri Vice Premier's words, "the government called to the international organizations to work out a new joint project for reconstruction of these territories and formation of a corresponding commission".

AZERI COINER DETAINED IN MOSCOW

February 11, 2004 - 20:52 AMT  17:50 GMT
The officers of the Department for Struggle against Organized Crime of Moscow arrested 43-year-old unemployed Azerbaijani citizen, who tried to work off 13 samples of false $100 banknotes.

POLICE BROKE UP RALLY IN BAKU

February 11, 2004 - 20:51 AMT  17:50 GMT
The staff of Hurriyet newspaper tried to arrange a picket in front of the Public Prosecutor's Office and demanded to discharge Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in-chief of Yeni Musavat opposition newspaper and Baki-Khabar employee Sadig Ismailov.

YEREVAN RESIDENT WANTED TO ENTER ARMENIA ON CAR OF AZERI EMBASSY IN GEORGIA

February 11, 2004 - 19:12 AMT  17:50 GMT
The Georgian police has detained a citizen of Armenia, who along with his accomplices hijacked a Niva car, owned by the Azeri Embassy in Georgia, from a parking lot in the center of Tbilisi a few days ago.

ARMENIAN PARTY RELEASED CAPTURED AZERI SERVICEMAN

February 11, 2004 - 18:54 AMT  17:50 GMT
February 3 Ismail Pirverdiyev lost his way near the Nakhichevan lot of the border with Armenia and was taken prisoner.

BUILDING OF NORD FIRST ELITE ADMINISTRATIVE RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX PLANNED IN YEREVAN

February 11, 2004 - 18:07 AMT  17:50 GMT
The project of the building of first elite administrative residential complex in Yerevan was presented at the Embassy of Armenia in Moscow yesterday.

IN TUAPSE VERDICT BROUGHT IN TO MURDERERS OF ARMENIAN COMMUNITY CHAIRMAN

February 11, 2004 - 18:05 AMT  17:50 GMT
The murderers of chairman of Shahumian Armenian village of the Tuapse district of the Russian Krasnodar region Makar Kochian are sentenced to imprisonment from eight to ten years.
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