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MEDIATORS WILL WORK ON NEW PROPOSALS WITH "DOUBLED ENERGY", RUSSIAN MEDIATOR SAID

May 21, 2001 - 23:40 AMT  03:03 GMT
YEREVAN, May 21. /Mediamax/. Russian co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group Nikolai Gribkov said today in Yerevan that after the meetings in Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia, "we will work with doubled energy over the proposals and ideas that may be useful for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict".

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT STATED NEW NUANCES TO MEDIATORS, NIKOLAI GRIBKOV SAID

May 21, 2001 - 23:40 AMT  03:03 GMT
YEREVAN, May 21. /Mediamax/. Russian mediator Nikolai Gribkov said today's meeting of the President of Armenia and OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen was "useful and interesting".

LEADERS OF ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN ARE MORE READY FOR COMPROMISES THAN THEIR PEOPLE, AMERICAN MEDIATOR SAID

May 21, 2001 - 23:39 AMT  03:03 GMT
YEREVAN, May 21. /Mediamax/. The heads of Armenia and Azerbaijan are more ready for compromises than their people, the U.S. Co-chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group, Carey Cavanaugh said today in Yerevan after the meeting with Armenian President Robert Kocharian.

HEAD OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH EXPRESSED CONDOLENCES TO IRANIAN AUTHORITIES

May 21, 2001 - 19:28 AMT  03:03 GMT
YEREVAN, May 21. /Mediamax/. All-Armenian Catholicos Garegin II, being with a parsonic visit in the USA, send today a telegram with condolences to the Iranian authorities and relatives of the victims of crash of Yak-40 plane, Mediamax was informed in the press service of Holy Echmiadzin.

COMMON AUTHORITATIVE BODY WITH ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI DELEGATES TO BE ESTABLISHED IN NAGORNO KARABAKH, "EXPERT" WRITES

May 21, 2001 - 18:24 AMT  03:03 GMT
YEREVAN, May 21. /Mediamax/. "According to the formula worked out for Nagorno Karabakh, a common authoritative body will be established there, with involvement of delegates from Armenia and Azerbaijan."

ACCORDING TO PRELIMINARY DATA, MEMBER OF RPA IS ELECTED DEPUTY OF ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT

May 21, 2001 - 18:21 AMT  03:03 GMT
YEREVAN, May 21. /Mediamax/. According to preliminary data, member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Arsen Darbinian won at the additional Parliament elections in the #49 district.

ARMENIA IS READY TO RESTORE RAILWAY COMMUNICATION WITH TURKEY

May 21, 2001 - 18:21 AMT  03:03 GMT
YEREVAN, May 21. /Mediamax/. Armenia is ready to reconstruct the Armenian sector of the railway connecting it with Turkey.

NEXT ROUND OF PEACE TALKS MAY BE DELAYED, U.S. ENVOY SAYS

May 21, 2001 - 18:21 AMT  03:03 GMT
YEREVAN, May 21. /Mediamax/. The U.S. envoy said the next round of Nagorno Karabakh peace talks scheduled for mid-June in Geneva may be delayed while the proposal, details of which have been kept confidential, is fine-tuned.

MEDIATORS HOPE TO MEET WITH NKR PRESIDENT TODAY IN YEREVAN

May 21, 2001 - 18:20 AMT  03:03 GMT
YEREVAN, May 21. /Mediamax/. The Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk group Nikolay Gribkov said the mediators hope to meet with the NKR President Arkady Ghukasian today in Yerevan.

SETTLEMENT WILL NEVER BE ACHIEVED IF NAGORNO KARABAKH'S INTERESTS ARE NOT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT

May 21, 2001 - 18:20 AMT  03:03 GMT
YEREVAN, May 21. /Mediamax/. "Nagorno Karabakh is a major independent factor, and no lasting and real settlement can be achieved without taking into account its interests."
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