The diplomatic representative office will have been begun to function till the end of this year.

The consideration of the issue on the repeal of Jeckson-Venik amendment toward Armenia and other seven CIS countries will start today on the initiative of the administration.

The trial on the officer of guard service of Armenia's President Aghamal Arutyunian, who is accused of reckless killing of Georgia's citizen Pogos Pogosian, has started in Yerevan.

Today in Paris the committee of the Parliamentarian Assembly of the Council of Europe started the consideration of the issue on political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

At the press conference held today Armenia's foreign minister Vartan Oskanian has stated the official Yerevan welcomes not official contacts of the representatives of Armenia and Turkey.

Most likely, the meeting of the foreign ministers of the three countries will take place in February.

The event will be dated for the celebrations of the anniversary of the declaration of the first Armenian Republic.

The cost of the bargain is not announced but there is information that Americans acquire the energy for $2.5 per kWh.

The term for the talks between Armenia's leadership and telecommunication monopolist «ArmenTel» company regarding the terms and mechanisms of the establishment of per minute payment for the city calls approaches the end.

As we have already informed, several Arabian newspapers recently published articles which confirm that Israel secretly delivers military technique to Azerbaijan. The last article containing such facts was published recently in the "Muari" weekly issued in Beirut ("Strategic Alliance of Turkey and Israel Broadens at the Expense of Azerbaijan"). It was preceded by information infiltrated in the Turkish press saying that during the visit of the Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon to Ankara the sides discussed issue of rendering joint assistance to Azerbaijan. This was written in "Hurriet" and "Radical" newspapers. Tel-Aviv and Baku hastened to deny this sensational information. However, the following events proved that the concerns were not in vain.