A solid program for the visit is composed and a meeting with the Armenian President, which will be useful for me and maybe for him, is planned, the ex-President of the Russian Federation stated.

Coordinator of US aid to European and Eurasian countries William Tailor stated it in Baku.

In particular, in the course of the meetings with higher military leadership of Armenia the delegation members discussed matters of preparation and conducting "Cooperative Best Effort-2003" military maneuvers in Armenia next year.

The meeting of the "Caucasian four" with participation of the speakers of the Armenian, Azeri and Georgian parliaments and Russian Council of Federation chairman started in the Georgian capital today.

A.Kaspshik stressed the importance of direct negotiations of the Armenian and Azeri Presidents and said that much time was necessary to solve such complicated and painful questions.

As Ara Abrahamian said, the new organization will unite the representatives of business circles of the Armenian diaspora of the world to intensify the process of solving the numerous urgent problems of Armenia.

Among the soldiers arrested on the territory of Ingushetia there are lots of persons with Azerbaijani passports. One of the 4 bandits seized by the Georgian militarists in the Pankissi gorge, was an Azerbaijani citizen. Twenty years old Chingiz Aslan oghli Askerov marched into the troop to participate in the war against Russians in summer last year. During this period he managed to get the necessary training.