Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan demanded from the US military men to discharge the Turkish special detachment soldiers who had been arrested in the northern part of Iraq on Friday on suspicion of organization of the attempt on the Kurd governor of the town of Kirkuk.

Estonian president Arnold Ruutel signed the decree on the appointment of Andreas Unga to the post of the ambassador to Armenia.

It was 75-year-old academician Jalal Aliyev, Heydar Aliyev's brother.

The delegation of the "Ago" monitoring group of the Council of Europe being in Yerevan met today with the Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oskanian.

Armenian Communist party functioning since 1920 did not join the present union.

In Italian ambassador to Armenia Marco Clemente's words, visit of "troika" of EU leaders' planned July 9-10 testifies to it.

At the briefing with journalists Azeri president administration head Ramiz Mekhtiyev did not specify the exact terms and aims of the visit.

According to the information provided by the Armenian defense ministry, the new terms of the visit of General Georgios Antonakopoulos are being fixed.

As UAR chairman Ara Abrahamian told, the Armenian Diaspora of France being one of the numerous in the Western Europe (over 500 000) can express its ponderable opinion concerning this issue.

The commanders of the North-Atlantic Alliance are satisfied with the results of the ''Cooperative Best Effort-2003'' military maneuvers held in the end of June in Armenia. It was the first time when the NATO's ''Partnership for Peace'' program's trainings were being held in Armenia. In total there were 400 military men from 19 countries including Turkey participating in the maneuvers.