In an interview to Baku "Azadlig" newspaper leader of the reformatory wing of Popular Front of Azerbaijan party Ali Kerimli expressed a supposition that Heydar Aliyev knowingly goes to confrontation with Strasbourg to achieve the country expelling from the Council of Europe.

U.S. Administration has stated its readiness to discuss the opportunity to reduce tariffs for Turkish production import and to write off the country military debt.

Foreign Minister of Nagorno Karabakh Republic Naira Melkumian stated today that official Stepanakert invited all Azeri refugees, who had left their homes in Karabakh, to return and live in the Republic together with its aboriginal population.

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.