Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian left for Brussels to participate in the session of the Council of Defense Ministers of the countries of Euro-Atlantic cooperation opening tomorrow.

According to the Baku media reports the official leadership of the country inclines to accuse of the current situation the local right defending organizations that «air their dirty linen in public» as their reports state about hundreds of political prisoners in the country.

Over thirty high-ranking officials of the Pentagon accompanied the minister.

US defense minister Donald Rumsfeld paid a short-term visit to Yerevan on Saturday. He arrived in Armenia's capital from Baku.

China's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia Chju Chjaoshun has stated this to the «Arminfo» agency reporter.

Chairman of human rights protection commission of the Georgian Parliament Yelena Tevdoradze has come out with an initiative to postpone implementation of the law on repatriation of Turk-Meskhetians.

Pakistani mass media has recently spread information that three associates of Usama bin Laden - Huseyn Ahmed Mikkavi, Seyful Adal, Ahmed Hamza Yemeni - left Afghanistan by crossing Azerbaijan.

Tension in connection with Mikael Mahmudov's claims for deputy mandate grows in the regions of Georgia that are inhabited by Azeris.

Today a contract on passing Yerevan "Zvartnots" airport to trusty management of "Aeroportos Arkhentina 2000" was signed in the Armenian capital.

As we have already informed, several Arabian newspapers recently published articles which confirm that Israel secretly delivers military technique to Azerbaijan. The last article containing such facts was published recently in the "Muari" weekly issued in Beirut ("Strategic Alliance of Turkey and Israel Broadens at the Expense of Azerbaijan"). It was preceded by information infiltrated in the Turkish press saying that during the visit of the Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon to Ankara the sides discussed issue of rendering joint assistance to Azerbaijan. This was written in "Hurriet" and "Radical" newspapers. Tel-Aviv and Baku hastened to deny this sensational information. However, the following events proved that the concerns were not in vain.