13.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. During 2000 nine more American states joined the growing list of those officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide of 1915, was informed to MEDIAMAX in the Armenian National Institute (ANI).

13.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. In the period of January-May 2000 the number of up to 14-year-old Armenian children, ill with syphilis, has increased 5 times if compared to the same period in 1999.

13.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "80 years will have passed on August 10 since the day of the signing of the Sevre agreement - the most significant achievement of the Armenian diplomacy in the course of the last centuries", is said in the address of the Armenian intelligentsia to the authorities of Armenia.

13.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The president of RNK Arkady Ghukasian signed the order of preliminary compensation of investments of the population.

13.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The acting charge d'affaires of Armenia to Iraq will be appointed in the nearest future, reported to the journalists the spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs of Armenia Ara Papian.

13.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The president of the Lebanon Emil Lahud will arrive in Armenia for an official visit in May 2001.

13.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. On July 13 the Central Bank of Armenia has fixed the following rates of foreign currency regarding dram: 1 US dollar - 548.23 drams, 1 German mark - 267.05 drams, 1 Euro - 522.30 dram, 1 pound sterling - 829.97 drams.

13.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The first international artist festival will be held in 2001 in the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh , for the preparation of which "Artsakh-2001" committee is set up in USA.