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RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CONFESSED HIS ARMENIAN ORIGINS

July 8, 2004 - 00:49 AMT  23:25 GMT
Sergey Lavrov stated, "Yes, I have Armenian blood, my father is an Armenian from Tbilisi."

NEW IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA APPOINTED

July 8, 2004 - 00:37 AMT  23:25 GMT
Ali Reza Haghighian, Iran's newly-appointed Ambassador to Armenia, was Iran's Charge d'Affaires in Iraq before.

ARMENIAN CITIZENS, WHO STARTED SKIRMISH IN SOCHI, DETAINED

July 7, 2004 - 23:54 AMT  23:25 GMT
Having got an "order" to eliminate the owner of a slipway - a construction for building ships - the criminal group fired on the slipway by means of a grenade cup discharge from Sochi-Adler highway.

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT PAID UNOFFICIAL VISIT TO KOMI REPUBLIC

July 7, 2004 - 23:33 AMT  23:25 GMT
Robert Kocharian had meetings with the leaders of Komi and representatives of the Armenian community of the republic.

IRAQI ARMENIANS EXPECT MORE AID FROM ARMENIA

July 7, 2004 - 23:06 AMT  23:25 GMT
Thereupon Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Ruben Shugarian said that the Armenian government had already discussed the question of providing assistance to Iraqi Armenians, adding the contribution forms are being specified at present.

NUMBER OF CRIMES INCREASED IN ARMENIA AS COMPARED WITH LAST YEAR

July 7, 2004 - 19:12 AMT  23:25 GMT
4251 crimes are registered in Armenia from January to May 2004, 1431 out of them being grave ones.

VARDAN OSKANIAN: EU AND CE INITIATIVES TO SETTLE KARABAKH CONFLICT CANNOT REPLACE OSCE MINSK GROUP

July 7, 2004 - 18:30 AMT  23:25 GMT
The Minister reported that in July the "Minsk" Co-Chairs are expected to pay a recurrent visit to the conflict region, where the positions of the parties on the current stage of the settlement will be presented to them.

AZERI PARTY DISSATISFIED WITH OSCE LEADER STAND ON KARABAKH CONFLICT

July 7, 2004 - 18:27 AMT  23:25 GMT
The Azeri delegation is indignant at the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy not reflecting "the fact of seizure of Azeri territories by Armenia" in his report.

NO PARALLELS CAN BE DRAWN BETWEEN ABKHAZIA, OSETIA AND KARABAKH

May 25, 2004 - 05:00 AMT  23:25 GMT
According to the newspaper ''Echo'', Baku, demonstrations of protest demanding to give Karabakh back to Azerbaijan are being held in Stepanakert. None of the sources confirmed this information. Our colleagues in Stepanakert assured there were no demonstrations in Karabakh. It is evident that this is another falsification.
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