16.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. A group of scientists of Russian Academy of Science addressed to their colleagues from Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan with an offer to establish Caspian States Organization on complex development of natural resources and protection of environment, was reported to MEDIAMAX in the Information and Press Department of the ministry of foreign affairs of Russia.

16.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The president of RNK Arkady Ghukasian discussed the results of the monitoring of the contact line of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh, held on August 14 by the OSCE mission with the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE, Anjey Kaspzyk, was reported to MEDIAMAX in the press office of the president of RNK.

16.08.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. On August 16 the Central Bank of Armenia has fixed the following rates of foreign currency regarding dram: USD - 538.61 drams, DEM - 248.15 drams, EUR - 485.34 dram, GBP - 810.88 drams.