Ex-ambassador of the European Union in Russia Michael Emerson, who is now the expert of the European center of political studies in Brussel, has given an interveiw to the Turkish newspaper ''Zaman'' that, it can be said, is sensational.

Turkish specialists have started inspection of the military base of the group of Russian troops in the Transcaucasus, which is located in Armenia.

In autumn the auditing company " Amio Exko Armenia" will complete the work on the technical analysis of the program of the building of the factory producing sugar in Spitak.

Armenia occupies the 72-nd place in the world and the third place among the CIS countries on "the index of the human potential development". That is said in the UNO development program report.

The visit is dedicated to discussion of the suggestions of OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen, made during their tour to the countries of the region.

The principles on which the Karabakh settlement will be based should proceed from the present reality. President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Arkady Ghukasian stated this at the meeting with OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen.

Any mode of settling the Karabakh conflict should be acceptable for the parties to conflict, and the people of Karabakh first of all. First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Vyacheslav Trubnikov stated this at the meeting of OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen with President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Arkady Ghukasian.

"Azerbaijan did not manage to find new oil fields after three years of exploring works in the Caspian shelf," - "IRNA" writes.

The meeting was initiated by the heads of Jerusalem and Constantinople Sees, who suggested the Supreme Patriarch to hold joint consultations on a number of questions.

Vice-Premier of Azerbaijan Abbas Abbasov has received from his Turkmen colleague a message, which rather sharply raises the question of returning Baku's debt to Ashkhabad for the energy resources supplied.