The members of the Armenian parliament delegation returned yesterday from Washington, where they and the World Bank leaders negotiated.

Most of 4300 motor and railroad bridges in Armenia need reconstruction.

The government made a decision to give the refugees from Azerbaijan adopted Armenian citizenship, the right to make private the accommodations in dorms, if they have lived there not less than for 3 years.

Today, in the National Assembly President of Armenia Robert Kocharian has met with the leaders of the Parliamentary fractions and groups.

In comparison with 1999, last year the number of SSI workers, that have degrees, was reduced by 555 people, or by 21%.

The number of the cities having air communication with Yerevan will be amplified with Cairo (Egypt) and Ulyanovsk (Russia).

"The situation in Azerbaijan, where more than 90% of export during the first quarter of 2001, was due to oil and oil products, can be named dangerous", Dmitri Sorokin, the head of the center of political-economic studies of Russia, Doctor of Economy Sciences, thinks.

The first meeting of the parliamentary temporary commission, created for examination of the activity of the Government in the sphere of communication, has been held today.

Yerevan automobile factory "YerAz" started again the production of passenger minibuses of "3218" modification.

The biggest producers of cement in Transcaucasus - "Araratcement" and "Hrazdancement" factories, the activity of which had been paralyzed due to lack of gas entering the Republic - have resumed their work.