Official Moscow does not wish for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to get out of Russia's control, Azeri political scientist Zardusht Alizade stated.

"The international community and the OSCE Minsk Group should be the mediators in the issue," Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said.

In the words of Chairman of ArmRosGazProm CJSC Karen Karapetian, next week the working group of the Russian company intends to pay a recurrent visit to Armenia to get acquainted with the Armenian segment of the route of the pipeline.

Thursday the Baku Police detained several members of the Organization for Karabakh Liberation for an attempt to hold a picket in front of the Azeri Parliament building.

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.