As Georgia does not have the necessary funds, it cannot repair the gas pipeline, via which Russian gas is being supplied to Armenia, Director General of the Georgian Gas Transportation Company Yuri Shiukashvili said.

A representative of the International Environmental Fund Frank Mershel warns that rapid realization of the project of building the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline threatens the flora and fauna of the Caspian region.

March 9 an international chess tournament, devoted to the 75-th anniversary of world chess champion Tigran Petrosian, will open in the Nagorno Karabakh capital of Stepanakert.

The first official visit of Azerbaijani President to Kazakhstan ended. Leaders of the two countries signed a Declaration on friendship and strategic partnership, as well as several agreements concerning the cooperation in the spheres of science and technique, defense, culture, tourism and aviation on March 1 in Astana. The visit was summed up with a press conference of the two Presidents where Nazarbayev made statements which were considered by the Yerevan commentators as not sufficiently correct.