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RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN GAS JV WILL DEAL WITH GAS TRANSIT TO ARMENIA AND TURKEY

December 22, 2000 - 20:58 AMT  23:15 GMT
22.12.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The transit of Russian gas to Armenia and Turkey through the territory of Georgia is listed among the main directions of the Russian-Georgian "GruzRosGazprom" JV activity.

ARMENIAN SOCIETY "ISN'T REALLY ENTHUSIASTIC" ABOUT THE FACT THAT PUTIN PREFERRED TO VISIT BAKU FIRST, KOCHARIAN SAYS

December 22, 2000 - 20:56 AMT  23:15 GMT
22.12.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "The Armenian society isn't really enthusiastic about the fact that the President of Russia preferred to visit Baku first, and then Yerevan", Armenian President Robert Kocharian said in the interview to Reuters.

KOCHARIAN AND ALIYEV TO MEET ON ARMENIAN-AZERI BORDER IN EARLY 2001

December 22, 2000 - 19:45 AMT  23:15 GMT
22.12.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan - Robert Kocharian and Heydar Aliyev are to meet in the first quarter of next year on their joint border to discuss the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, President Kocharian said in Yerevan in the interview with Reuters on December 21.

GUUAM IS NOT A THREAT TO ARMENIA, UKRAINIAN AMBASSADOR SAYS

December 22, 2000 - 19:20 AMT  23:15 GMT
22.12.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "The regional GUUAM union (Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldavia) pursues only economic aims and is of no danger either for Armenia or any other country".

ROBERT KOCHARIAN TO VISIT UKRAINE NEXT SPRING

December 22, 2000 - 19:19 AMT  23:15 GMT
22.12.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "In spring 2001 Robert Kocharian is expected to pay an official visit to the Ukraine".

UKRAINE SUGGESTS FORMING SECURITY SYSTEM IN THE SOUTHERN CAUCASUS UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE OSCE

December 22, 2000 - 19:19 AMT  23:15 GMT
22.12.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "The Ukraine is interested in establishing peace and stability in the Southern Caucasus and supports the idea of regional security system formation", said today the Ukrainian Ambassador to Armenia Alexander Bozhko in the interview to the Armenian "Azg" daily.

PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA RATIFIES AN AGREEMENT

December 22, 2000 - 19:05 AMT  23:15 GMT
22.12.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The President of Armenia Robert Kocharian ratified the agreement on "Providing aeronavigation information of CIS member-states Air Forces plane flights", signed in Moscow January 25, 2000.

HALO TRUST HAS DEMINED 300 HECTARES OF LAND IN NAGORNO KARABAKH IN SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 2000

December 22, 2000 - 19:05 AMT  23:15 GMT
22.12.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "Halo Trust" field engineers have demined 300 hectares of land in Nagorno Karabakh in September-November 2000, one of the co-ordinators of NKR National Committee of International Movement for anti-infantry mines prohibition, Ashot Adamian told Mediamax.

RUSSIAN MEDIA MAGNATE IS GOING TO SELL HIS PUBLISHING HOUSE TO THE "ARMENIANS OF RUSSIA" UNION PRESIDENT, THE GERMAN PAPER REPORTS

December 22, 2000 - 17:56 AMT  23:15 GMT
22.12.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The Russian media magnate Boris Berezovsky is going to sell the "Commersant" publishing house, belonging to him, the German Frankfurter Rundschau paper reported Thursday.
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