From Vandenberg airbase in California, a satellite was launched yesterday. It is assumed that it will be used in the search of the Noah's Ark that is on Ararat Mountain.
According to "Sobitia" newspaper issued in Baku, a number of ultra-extremist organizations that "are engaged in forcible introduction of Islam having selfish ends", are operating in Azerbaijani northern region.
Armenian foreign minister Vartan Oskanyan expressed his hope that Armenia would not be involved in the events in Abkhazia in order to defend its fellow countrymen living there as " the situation is being settled down".
The head of "Peace and democracy institute" Azerbaijani social organization Leila Yunusova has stated that she and several Armenian public figures develop a plan for Karabakh problem settlement.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee have had appointed John Ordway, who was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Moscow, the US Ambassador to Armenia.
"Azerbaijan will hardly make any steps to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh problem with its own scenario", has stated the chief of the Armenian armed force general headquarter Mikael Arutyunyan
According to foreign minister Vartan Oskanyan, the sanctions, adopted by the Congress in 1992, restricting the USA administration's aid to Azerbaijan until it lifts the blockade against Armenia, is a key element of the Karabakh conflict settlement.