As noted by the EU Commissioner for Enlargement Gunter Verheugen, in the long-term prospect a free trade zone with neighbor countries is planned to be created with the purpose of achieving "full economic integration."

May 12 spouse of the Georgian President Sandra Saakashvili visited the Samtskhe-Javakhetian region mostly populated by Armenians.

In the words of NKR Presidential Advisor for Political Issues Manvel Sargsian, the epoch of traditional geopolitical approach to the region of the South Caucasus has passed and today the conflict resolution policy of the united Europe is based on the principle of human rights and law.

Ashot Avetisian and Hrayr Harutyunian confessed to their actions and testified.

This was stated in the course of today's meeting of Armenian President Robert Kocharian with Iranian Minister of Oil and Gas Bijan Zanganeh.

Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan Vladimir Pryakhin welcomed the resumption of contacts between the authorities and the opposition of Armenia.

Representatives of the Republican Party, Orinats Yerkir and Dashnaktsutyun parties expressed readiness to discuss "the ways out of the situation created in Armenia after the presidential election in 2003".