US envoy to Russia Alexander Vershbow has stated at the press conference in Moscow that the issue of the Karabakh conflict settlement will be discussed in the course of the forthcoming meeting of the US and Russian Presidents.

Azeri President Heydar Aliyev has informed this will be the first meeting of this kind. It will be held on the initiative of Turkey.

The work on realization of the project of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline construction is going on according to the schedule.

The regions of Tbilisi where Armenians live were destroyed most by the earthquake.

In October 2003 meeting of the TRASECA intergovernmental commission third conference will take place in Yerevan.

Secretary General of the CIS Council for collective defense Valeri Nikolayenk has recently stated the conclusion of the Azeri-Georgian-Turkish agreement on the struggle against terror displeases Russian Federation.

It should be reminded that the head of self-declared Talish-Mugan Republic was arrested according to faked case and sentenced to life imprisonment.

In his speech, the chair of the union managing committee, deputy defense minister Manvel Gevorgian said that although the veterans of the Karabakh war wished peace they were always ready to stand up for the motherland.

At the present time energy to the sum of $5 mln is exported to Georgia.

Within the frameworks of the meeting, the conference on problems of Sevan lake and Armenian nuclear power plant safe running are planned to be held.