Belarusian defense minister Leonid Maltsev, who had arrived in Yerevan on a two-day official visit, stated it today.

Armenia together with Kazakhstan, Albania, Croatia, France and traditionally neutral Switzerland were included in the list of countries searching for ways of accession to NATO.

According to the preliminary data, they were winners out of the ten Armenian candidates.

A Greek delegation headed by deputy foreign minister, co-chair of the Armenian-Greek intergovernmental commission Andreas Loverdos will visit Armenia November 27-28.

In his words, this is first of all due to the opportunity of selling the Armenian production at the large Russian market.

In the words of chief of the Ashgabat office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Zoran Milovic, all of them expressed wish to return to their fatherland.

As also reported by Guliyev, the Armenian-Azeri negotiations on the Karabakh settlement will be continued in 2003: by Azeri leader Heydar Aliyev and the winner of the coming presidential elections in Armenia.

"Human Comedy" story written by famous American writer of Armenian origin William Saroyan and translated by Beril Eubogli was published in Istanbul the other day.

The Armenian government plans to get about $300-400 thousand for the share holding of "Ararat" brandy and wine factory, RA agriculture minister David Zadoyan has stated.

In his words, in the early twenties of the last century Nagorno Karabakh was included in the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic by force, after which official Baku began claiming these territories.