26.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Today at the special session the National Assembly of Armenia adopted the bill about the privatization of distributive power networks of the country.

26.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Works carried out after the first Washington meeting of the Armenian-American special group on bilateral economic cooperation, were discussed today at the meeting of the prime minister of Armenia Andranik Margarian and Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the USA to Armenia Michael Lemmon

26.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "Itera" is negotiating with Azerbaijan on gas sale in connection with the decision of the government of the republic to purchase 2 billion cubic meters of fuel in 2000, and to bring gas import to 4-5 billion cubic meters in the future.

26.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The special session the National Assembly of Armenia, discussing the bill about the privatization of the four distributive power networks of the country, is in process for the third day already.

26.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. On July 22 the meeting of the representatives of Taman and other subdivisions of the Kuban Cossack troops with the members of "Otechestvo" movement, controlled by governor N. Kondratenko, took place in Krimsk, Krasnodar region.

26.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. During the session of one of the EKOSOS working bodies, which took place in New York, the head of the Georgian delegation, the deputy State minister T. Isakadze accused Russia, saying that it has supposedly participated in the beginning of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict and that the Russian peacemakers, located in the border zone, are supposedly not realizing their mission effectively.

26.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The deputy Secretary General of NATO on political affairs, Ambassador Dr. Klaus-Peter Klaiber will arrive today in Armenia for a three-day working visit.

26.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. On July 26 the Central Bank of Armenia has fixed the following rates of foreign currency regarding dram: USD - 548.25 drams, DEM - 261.59 drams, EUR - 511.63 dram, GBP - 831.31 drams.

26.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "The relations between Armenia and Kazakhstan remind a Platonic love", stated the Ambassador of Armenia to Kazakhstan.

26.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The relations between Armenia and Iran are developing rather actively, acquiring in time the character of close, constructive partnership.