11.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The units of Air-defense and Air Forces of Armenia will take part in the "Fighting Cooperation-2000" joint tactical exercises of the member countries of CIS on air-defense with battle gun-fire, planned on August 21-26 in the firing ground of the Air Forces - "Ashuluk"- in the Astrakhan region.

11.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. With the aim of increasing the activity and effectiveness of the works directed to the search of war captives and the missing, the Armenian mission of the International Committee of Red Cross and the Ministry of Defense of Armenia are going to create a common commission.

11.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. On July 11, early in the morning, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, left for St. Peterbourg. His Holiness will consecrate the Armenian Church of St. Catherine.

11.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. On July 11 the Central Bank of Armenia has fixed the following rates of foreign currency regarding dram: 1 US dollar - 548.03 drams, 1 German mark - 265.72 drams, 1 Euro - 519.70 dram, 1 pound sterling - 831.47 drams.

11.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The process of formation of the governing body of the parliament of RNK, elected on June 18, is over.

11.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The vice-president of the Congress of national associations of Russia, the member of the Expert Council at the Human rights commissioner in RF, lawyer and public figure Antuan Arakelian was in RNK for a business visit.

11.07.2000, MEDIAMAX. Michael Emerson - the author of "Stability Pact" project for the Caucasian region, worked out by the Center for European Policy Studies, located in Brussels, will visit the region and hold meetings with the authorities of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan in the near future.

11.07.2000, MEDIAMAX. The discussion of problems of regional cooperation, security and stability in "1+3" format (Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) is more real at present, declared today the foreign minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanian at the press conference in the National press club replying to the question of MEDIAMAX.

11.07.2000, MEDIAMAX. In the course of the last CIS Summit in Moscow Robert Kocharian and Vladimir Putin have arranged that the official visit of the president of Armenia to Moscow will take place in September 2000.

11.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The regular meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will be held, more likely, in August 2000 in the Crimea, within the frameworks of the unofficial summit of the leaders of the CIS countries.