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RUSSIA AND TURKEY SIGNED AGREEMENT ON MILITARY COOPERATION

January 15, 2002 - 21:55 AMT  10:29 GMT
The heads of the headquarters of RF and Turkey Anatoly Kvashnin and Huseyn Kivrikoghlu signed bilateral agreement on military cooperation between Russia and Turkey.

STAMP DEDICATED TO 1700 ANNIVERSARY OF CRISTIANITY ADOPTION IN ARMENIA ISSUED IN GREEC

January 15, 2002 - 21:47 AMT  10:29 GMT
The medivial Armenian miniaturist Toros Roslin is pictured on the stamp.

NEW ELECTING CODE BILL STIPULATES PROPORTIONAL SYSTEM OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION HOLDING EXCLUSIVELY

January 15, 2002 - 21:35 AMT  10:29 GMT
According to the theory that is the document basis, voters will have to vote not for parties but for concrete candidates of parties.

TOMORROW APTITUDE TEST FOR JUDGES TO TAKE PLACE

January 15, 2002 - 21:34 AMT  10:29 GMT
Knowledge of the pretenders to the judge positions will be assessed according to a twenty-mark system.

ARMENIA STATE EX-MINISTER SEPUH TASHCHYAN EXPRESSED
READINESS TO TESTIFY ON CASE ON MISUSE IN ENERGY SPHERE

January 15, 2002 - 21:33 AMT  10:29 GMT
US citizen Tashchyan was state minister in 1993-94 and coordinated the energy sphere.

BAKU POLITICAL SCIENTIST TELLS HEYDAR ALIYEV SADDAM HUSEYN'S FORTUNE

January 15, 2002 - 21:32 AMT  10:29 GMT
Baku media notes that the foreign minister Vilayat Guliyev returned from Strasbourg depressed.

MAN ATTEMPTED NKR PRESIDENT'S LIFE CONSIDERED TO BE IN SOUND HEALTH

January 15, 2002 - 21:31 AMT  10:29 GMT
The psychiatric checkup has confirmed that the prisoner Sasun Aghajanyan, sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for the attempt on NKR President Arkady Ghukasyan's life, is in sound health.

TWO ILLEGAL MIGRANTS TRYING TO GET IN ARMENIA'S TERRITORY ARE IRAN CITIZENS

January 15, 2002 - 21:30 AMT  10:29 GMT
Now the procedure of handing over of the arrested to Irani side is being discussed.

ISSUE ON NON-FULFILLMENT OF ENGAGEMENTS IS ON AGENDA OF PACE WINTER SESSION FIRST MEETING

January 15, 2002 - 21:29 AMT  10:29 GMT
The deputies will consider the issue on non-fulfillment of the engagements undertaken at the joining the European Council January 24.

AZERBAIJAN ARMED BY ISRAEL?

December 15, 2001 - 04:00 AMT  10:29 GMT
As we have already informed, several Arabian newspapers recently published articles which confirm that Israel secretly delivers military technique to Azerbaijan. The last article containing such facts was published recently in the "Muari" weekly issued in Beirut ("Strategic Alliance of Turkey and Israel Broadens at the Expense of Azerbaijan"). It was preceded by information infiltrated in the Turkish press saying that during the visit of the Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon to Ankara the sides discussed issue of rendering joint assistance to Azerbaijan. This was written in "Hurriet" and "Radical" newspapers. Tel-Aviv and Baku hastened to deny this sensational information. However, the following events proved that the concerns were not in vain.
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