Throughout the past week the focus of the Armenian community was on the issues of the Karabakh conflict settlement, and the Munich meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan. A little less as compared with the previous week, was touched upon the ratification of Armenian-Turkish Protocols. A significant event of the week was also the 12th congress of the Republican Party of Armenia.

The IAEA Governors passed a new resolution condemning Iran for the construction of a second uranium enrichment plant "Fordow", near the Iranian City of Qom (a hundred kilometers south of Tehran), and urged Iran to confirm, as requested by the Agency, that " Iran has not taken a decision to construct, or authorize construction of, any other nuclear facility which has as yet not been declared to the Agency". The resolution was passed early on Friday by a 25-3 margin, opposed by Cuba, Venezuela and Malaysia.

Over the past 10 months, Armenia fixed a 17.5% economic downfall compared to the same period of last year. According to the official data of RA National Statistic Service, GDP in January-February comprised AMD 2466,3 billion. This is a very promising rate which leads local and foreign experts to the assumption that 2009 economic downfall will make up 15%.

A couple of years ago I had a chance of an interview with Robert Sahakyants and one could not assume at that time that he would leave the world so soon. We all knew he was ill, but no one suspected how serious the illness was. He was one of those without whom, in his opinion, everything would sink in sweet syrup. All that you'll read further are his direct words, as we thought no one could speak of Robert Sahakyants and the world surrounding him better than he himself. For some reason he always spoke Russian, although he knew his native language perfectly well. Call it freak of a genius if you like, but now that he is gone words, however beautiful they might be, are needless.