17.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The authorities of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh released today 4 Azerbaijani was prisoners. 2 prisoners were also released by the authorities of Armenia. The Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner declared this today at the press conference.

17.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Today a very convenient moment for the settlement of the Karabakh issue has come, stated today the Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner at the press conference in Yerevan.

17.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The direction of the European and European-Atlantic integration remains one of the priorities of the foreign policy of Armenia.

17.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Today the foreign minister of Armenia, Vardan Oskanian received the multi-party delegation of the economic cooperation and development committee of the German Bundestag, headed by Peter Weiss (Christian-Democratic Union).

17.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The regional cooperation, within the frameworks of TRACECA and INOGATE programs in particular, will create conditions for forming atmosphere of trust in the region. As was reported to MEDIAMAX in the press office of the president of Armenia, the director on the Caucasus and Central Asia issues of the general administration of the European Committee for foreign affairs, Cornelis Wittebrood stated this today at the meeting with Robert Kocharian on July 15.

17.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. On July 17 the Central Bank of Armenia has fixed the following rates of foreign currency regarding dram: USD - 548.60 drams, GEM - 262.23 drams, EUR - 512.89 dram, GBP - 822.52 drams.

17.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. In order to improve the medical service of the population, the Government of RNK has taken a decision of free medical care and services for the socially unprotected sections of society - invalids of all the groups, members of families of the killed and large families, participants of the Great Patriotic War, pensioners, the repressed, etc.

17.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The ex-candidate for the post of the chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, Maxim Mirzoyan, ("Dashnaktsutiun" faction) is deprived of the deputy mandate.

17.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria Benita Ferrero-Waldner is on her first visit to the region as the Chairperson-in-Office of OSCE.

17.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The Chairperson-in-Office of OSCE, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria Benita Ferrero-Waldner arrived in Yerevan on July 16 late in the evening.