The action participants will oppose Turkey's possible accession to the European Union.

A group of experts of the Bureau of democracy and human rights will arrive in Yerevan December 11 to conduct preparatory works for the coming presidential elections in Armenia planned February 19, 2003.

The 4-th department of the Russian foreign ministry on CIS countries stated it, answering the question about the prospects of settling the Karabakh confrontation received within the framework of "Russia and the world in answers to your questions" Internet project.

In assistant coordinator of production and export of electric energy of Iran Abdulhusein Fazlolahi's words, the supplies are brought up in a regime of mutual flows: in summer Iran got the same quantity of electric power from Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Director of "Siberia" air company Vladislav Filyov said that full maintenance of airliners like "Airbus" would be arranged in Armenia.

Foreign minister of Vatican Jean Louis Tauran stated it at the meeting with Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople and all Turkey archbishop Mesrop Mutafian.

Deputy chief of the department of external relations of the Moscow government Boris Silayev stated that 10 Armenians schools sponsored by Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov functioned in Russia today, as well as 5 Armenian cultural centers.

Advisor at the Russian embassy in Armenia, representative of "Roszarubezhcenter" company Gennadiy Baryshnikov stated that the center would also have a cinema hall and a library.

Turkish official representative in WTO stated it in Geneva when commenting on Armenia's coming accession to the organization.

The repressions against religious minorities become tougher in Azerbaijan. Recently the authorities prohibited the activity of the Baptist church on the territory of the country. Concerned with the situation, the Secretary General of the World Baptist Alliance, Denton Lots sent a message to U.S. President George Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and other high-ranking U.S. officials urging them to intervene and to prevent the repressions towards citizens with untraditional for Azerbaijan religion.