at the meeting of the PACE spring session representative of the Armenian delegation Gagik Manukain proposed to put the Armenian genocide issue on the agenda.

In Abu Dhabi a plot is chosen for building of the Armenian Embassy.

Deputy of the Turkish parliament Shamil Ayrim, speaking at the Azeri milli mejlis, stated, «Turkey will not have any contacts with Armenia unless the Azeri occupied territories are liberated».

Yalim Yeralp has reported the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement must be settled through territory exchange.

April 24 US President George Bush has addressed the American Armenians the statement of commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide victims. As the Armenian Assembly of America reported to «Arminfo» agency, speaking about «appalling tragedy» George Bush noted it was necessary to draw lessons from these terrible events.

Reports the representatives of the community of the Krasnodar Territory have applied to the Russian President regarding the discrimination campaign against people of origin other than Slovenian carried on by Territory's governor Aleksander Tkachev.

Today in Yerevan the international conference «Peace, stability and confidence atmosphere creation in the South Caucasus: the role of international and regional security organizations» has started its work.

The head of the department of the CIS countries of the Russian Institute of Strategic Researches (RISR) Aleksander Skakov expressed his opinion that Nagorno-Karabakh has to participate in the negotiation process as a full side of the talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

US President George Bush called the events at the beginning of the century «the appalling tragedy" in his statement of commemoration issued on the 87th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

In Ashkhabad the summit of the heads of the Caspian states finished. The main issue for the discussion at the summit was the issue of the status of the Caspian Sea.