15.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. RNK Foreign Minister Naira Melkumian received today the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Anjey Kaspzyk, was reported to MEDIAMAX in the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of RNK.

15.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The meeting of the heads of the three South Caucasian states and Russia in "3+1" format will take place at the forthcoming informal summit of the heads of the CIS states in the Crimea.

15.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The state program of tourism development in Armenia will be realized in two stages - in 2000-2003 and 2004-2005, stated to the journalists the deputy minister of industry and trade of Armenia Ara Petrosian.

15.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. "Robert Kocharian illegally holds the post of the president of Armenia, as he is not a citizen of the country", is said in the statement of the head of "Armenian House" National-Patriotic Union, Vardan Petrosian, addressed to the General Prosecutor of Armenia Boris Nazarian.

15.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The working session of the government of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Anushavan Danielian has taken place, was reported to MEDIAMAX in the press service of the government of RNK.

15.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Iranian Minister of Roads and Transportation Mahmoud Hojjati and Romanian Counterpart Anca Daniela Boagiu signed a memorandum of mutual understanding in Tehran on Monday.

15.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. In connection with the accusations of the Russian Federal Security Service addressed to the international HALO Trust organization, the head of its mission in Nagorno Karabakh Simon Porter told the correspondent of MEDIAMAX that HALO Trust deals only with minefields inspection, humanitarian mine-clearing teaching, and has never turned to reconnaissance services or provided them with any information.

15.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. On August 15 the Central Bank of Armenia has fixed the following rates of foreign currency regarding dram: USD - 537.00 drams, DEM - 249.41 drams, EUR - 487.81 dram, GBP - 809.69 drams.

15.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The traces of the terrorist act are being removed from inside the Armenian parliament, where on October, 1999 the prime minister and the chairman of the parliament of the country were shot dead.

15.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The president of the Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, who is having his rest in the Crimea, will take part in the meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, planned to take place in Simferopol. The presidents will discuss the Karabakh issue settlement, reported today RIA-Novosti agency.