The investigation bodies report yet there is no ground to state that those detained are members of extremist groupings.

Urgent regional problems and joint efforts to solve them will be discussed at the meeting.

During the consultations the parties also discussed questions related to preparation of "Cooperative Best Effort" exercises to be held in 2003 in the territory of Armenia within the framework of "Partnership for Peace" program.

Questions of building Syunik-Center high-voltage power transmission line, as well as technical-economic grounding of using Araks river hydropower potential will be discussed in Yerevan.

July 9 Walter Schwimmer will hold meetings in Armenian foreign ministry and the parliament, as well as will appear in Yerevan State University.

Director Don Askarian's new film "Hundred Takes of Ararat" is being prepared to production.

Advisor of peacemaking activity department of the CIS executive committee Mikhail Shalimo reported it.

PACE summer session is over. The deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly at last appointed the rapporteur on Karabakh. Leader of the PACE Socialist faction, British delegation head Tarry Davis took the office. The appointment of the rapporteur was held without excesses, in contrast to the hearings of the report on the situation with refugees and the consequences of the speech of the rapporteur on Azerbaijan. Being not satisfied with the content of the report and the speech, official Baku envoys stirred up an unprecedented scandal. It came to the Azeri delegation complaining to PACE President Peter Schieder about the rapporteur on Azerbaijan, member of temporary commission on the question of political prisoners in Azerbaijan Swiss deputy Andreas Gross, which was accused of Azerbaijanophobia. The situation was unprecedented. For the first time in the history of the Council of Europe not the rapporteur brought accusations against the country, which had not met its obligations, just the opposite – the country, which had failed to carry out its commitments, accused the rapporteur.