YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. The delegation of Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) led by President Arkady Ghukasian arrived Thursday in Paris on a one-week working visit, Mediamax was told today in the press service of the Foreign Ministry of NKR.

YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) expressed the hope today for progress of the OSCE Minsk Process towards settlement of the Karabakh conflict.

YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Vardan Oskanian commented today on the numerous negative statements about him, which appeared after Armenian Foreign Minister named on Wednesday the territories, which are under the control of the NKR Defense Army, "occupied".

YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. Robert Kocharian is interested in dragging out the settlement of the Karabakh conflict for at least a year, which will allow him "to provide favorable for him outcome of presidential elections in the year 2003", ex-speaker of the Armenian Parliament Babken Ararktsian said today at a press conference in Yerevan.

YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. The question of Armenian Ex-president's return to the big politics is not discussed at our meetings with Levon Ter-Petrosian, ex-speaker of the Armenian Parliament Babken Ararktsian said today at a press conference in Yerevan in response to the question of Mediamax.

YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. The recent statement of the Foreign Minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanian was approved by President Kocharian, reads the joint statement, accepted today in Yerevan by the organizational committee "In Defense of Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR)" and non-governmental organization "In Defense of liberated territories".

YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. The organizational committee "In Defense of Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR)" and non-governmental organization "In Defense of liberated territories" spoke today with a joint declaration, in which they expressed their discontentment with the recent statement of the Foreign Minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanian.

YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. Changing Nagorno Karabakh from the subject of negotiations to an object is inadmissible and is fraught with serious consequences, ex-speaker of the Armenian parliament Babken Ararktsian said today at a press conference in Yerevan.

YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. Head of the Center of Democracy and Civil Society Development "Armat", ex-speaker of the Armenian parliament Babken Ararktsian said today at a press conference in Yerevan that under the pretext of the resolution of the Karabakh conflict a "geopolitical reorganization" of the region is taking place.

YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. Foreign Minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanian signed today in Strasbourg in the presence of Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Schwimmer 6 documents of Council of Europe Conventions.