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ACCORDING TO WASHINGTON PROFILE, ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN HAVE EQUAL NUMBER OF WARPLANES

April 29, 2003 - 23:39 AMT  10:32 GMT
Armenia has some 100 warplanes, just as Azerbaijan, the Washington ProFile reports in a material called "Military Aviation Age."

RAIDS ON OFFICES OF HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES IN AZERBAIJAN

April 29, 2003 - 23:11 AMT  10:32 GMT
A group of activists of "Eni Azerbaijan" ruling party demanded to expel Leila Yunus and Eldar Zeynalov along with other human rights proponents from the country.

IRAN STILL READY TO MEDIATE KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

April 29, 2003 - 22:56 AMT  10:32 GMT
Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi told journalists in Baku last evening.

TURKS HELD PROTEST ACTION NEXT TO MONUMENT TO ARMENIAN COMPOSER KOMITAS IN PARIS

April 29, 2003 - 22:55 AMT  10:32 GMT
The action organizers made a statement calling all those willing to study history to make use of the materials of Turkish or "Soviet" archives evidencing that "early in the 20-th century England, France and the Czarist Russia instigated Armenians in order to break up the Ottoman Turkey."

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT AWARDED DIPLOMAS TO ARMENIAN GROUP, WHO PARTICIPATED IN ELIMINATING CHERNOBYL CRASH CONSEQUENCES

April 29, 2003 - 22:11 AMT  10:32 GMT
Ukrainian ambassador to Armenia Vladimir Tyaglo also announced general Astvatsatur Petrosian was awarded medal "For Services in Battle" (posthumous) for participation in battles for liberation of Ukraine during World War II.

NO CASES OF ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA REGISTERED IN ARMENIA

April 29, 2003 - 19:57 AMT  10:32 GMT
Nevertheless, sanitary control is established at "Armenia" international airport and other admission points, ministries and departments are suggested to limit visits to the countries, where the epidemic is observed.

SOUTH CAUCASIAN COUNTRIES MORE ORIENTED TOWARDS US THAN RUSSIA IN NEAR FUTURE

April 29, 2003 - 19:52 AMT  10:32 GMT
As written by "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" Russian newspaper, Armenia's stand is rather illustrative in this respect, which agreed to hold NATO military exercises in its territory in June with participation of the Turkish military, which was considered impossible until recently.

ARMENIAN NATIONAL TEAM PROGRESSED IN FIFA RATING

April 29, 2003 - 19:52 AMT  10:32 GMT
The Armenian national football team has moved from the 113-rd place to the 105-th in the FIFA rating.

OSCE MEDIATORS TO DISCUSS RATHER MODIFIED THAN NEW PROPOSALS ON KARABAKH

April 29, 2003 - 19:49 AMT  10:32 GMT
In the words of first deputy minister of foreign affairs of Russia Vyacheslav Trubnikov, at present the co-chairs have the outlines of the formula, which can be of interest to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, as well as Azerbaijan.

LEADERS OF AZERBAIJANIS OF GEORGIA WORK FOR ANKARA

April 28, 2003 - 05:00 AMT  10:32 GMT
On the day of 88th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the Azerbaijanis organized a hooligan action offending the memory of 1,5 million victims of the Ottoman Empire. At the morning session on April 24th the deputy Hamlet Movsisyan, representing the Akhalkalaki region populated with Armenians, urged his colleagues to commemorate the victims of the genocide. In response, 5 Azerbaijani MPs attacked Movsisyan offending him and threatening all the Armenians. The attack resulted in seizing the central microphone, as a result of which the session was cancelled.
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