The budgetary funds will be assigned for organizing the education process, as well as for repair and building works to be held at the university building.

NKR president Arkady Ghukasian told journalists about it today.

Within the framework of the visit the Iranian parliamentarians will meet with their Armenian counterparts, as well as with the Armenian leadership.

Iranian president Mohammad Khatami stated it at the meeting with the chief of Armenian president's administration Artashes Tumanian, who was in Teheran to participate in the final stage of the sitting of the Armenian-Iranian intergovernmental economic commission.

Meanwhile, the positions of the parties regarding the time of withdrawal of Russian military bases from Batumi and Akhalkalaki remained the same - as before Russia insists on a 11-year-long term, while Georgia limits it with a 3-year period.

"National Unity" opposition party will build the electoral program of proposing its candidate for the president of Armenia on the necessity of economic unification with Russia.

The repressions against religious minorities become tougher in Azerbaijan. Recently the authorities prohibited the activity of the Baptist church on the territory of the country. Concerned with the situation, the Secretary General of the World Baptist Alliance, Denton Lots sent a message to U.S. President George Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and other high-ranking U.S. officials urging them to intervene and to prevent the repressions towards citizens with untraditional for Azerbaijan religion.