The Armenian-Russian relations, as well as questions of developing economic cooperation between Armenia, Russia and Canada were discussed in the course of the meeting of member of the Canadian parliament committee on external affairs, chairman of the Armenian-Canadian inter-parliamentary friendship group Sargis Asaturian with Armenian and Russian ambassadors to Canada Ara Papian and Vitaliy Churkin in Montreal.

The OSCE Minsk group co-chairs, who display much flexibility in the process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, did not receive any support from Azerbaijan, Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oskanian stated addressing the summit of foreign ministers of the OSCE member countries in Porto yesterday.

The full range of goods of the leading companies of Armenia continuing the traditions of Armenian winemaking was presented to the judgement of Belarus importers.

The fourth sitting of the Armenian-Iranian intergovernmental economic commission is held in Teheran.

Bringing into line the military regulations of the OTCS countries, the status of the united armed forces, regulation of the crossing process of the OTCS member states' frontiers are discussed at the sitting.

After long debates the Ministry of Ecology of Georgia gave a sanction for construction of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. The observations of 5 expert commissions and claims of 64 international ecologic organizations were not taken into account. Under a pressure from investors and interested states, the government of the country approved the project which may have extremely dangerous consequences for the ecology of the regions through which the route of the pipeline will pass.