18.09.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Ex defense minister of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, Samvel Babayan, who is the main accused in the trial of the terrorist act against RNK president, which begun today, challenged the court stating that "the court is illegal and that all the accused sitting in the dock are innocent".

18.09.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. Armenia's membership in the Council of Europe should not be conditioned by the processes, proceeding in Azerbaijan, stated today President Kocharian at the meeting with the newly appointed Italian Ambassador to Armenia, Paolo Andrea Trabalza, was reported to MEDIAMAX in the press office of the President of Armenia.

18.09.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. A seminar dedicated to the problems of useful and dangerous influences of electromagnetic fields on human organism will be held in Yerevan on September 25-October 3.

18.09.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The trial of the accused of the terrorist act of March 22 against the RNK president Arkady Ghukasian has started today in Stepanakert.

18.09.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The President of Armenia Robert Kocharian met on Saturday, September 16, with the representatives of the Supreme Body of "Dashnaktsutiun" party and members of "Right and Unification" parliamentary faction, was reported to MEDIAMAX in the press office of the president of the country.

18.09.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The Genocide of Armenians of 1915 will be recognized not only in the United States, but in Turkey as well, stated in the interview to RFE/RL the Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ara Papian.

18.09.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. The head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Catholicos of All Armenians, Garegin II has left today for Romania on the invitation of the Head of the Romanian Church, Patriarch Teoctist.