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ARMENIA FEELS MORE CONFIDENT AT KARABAKH TALKS, ARMENIAN LEADER SAID

January 15, 2003 - 22:37 AMT  13:10 GMT
In his words, it is conditioned by the fact that official Yerevan managed to present its stand to the mediator countries and the entire world community.

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT TO PAY OFFICIAL VISIT TO RUSSIA JANUARY 16

January 15, 2003 - 22:35 AMT  13:10 GMT
R.Kocharian will meet with OSCE Minsk group co-chairs in Moscow January 18.

ARMENIAN AND GERMAN LEADERS DISCUSSED PROSPECTS OF KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

January 15, 2003 - 22:34 AMT  13:10 GMT
At the same time the main emphasis of the meeting was placed on the necessity to expand the Armenian-German economic relations.

ARMENIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY DENIED BAKU MEDIA REPORTS ON VIOLATING CEASE-FIRE

January 15, 2003 - 19:38 AMT  13:10 GMT
The Armenian defense ministry flatly denies Azeri media reports that Armenian armed forces violated the cease-fire regime in Aghdam stretch January 14.

ACCORDING TO RESULTS OF "GLOBE NEWS" SURVEY ROBERT KOCHARIAN LEADS PRESIDENTIAL RACE

January 15, 2003 - 18:59 AMT  13:10 GMT
The acting Armenian president Robert Kocharian enjoys the largest support of the population on the threshold of presidential elections to be held February 19.

DAMAGE OF GAS PIPELINE IN NORTH OSETIA REDUCED GAS SUPPLIES TO ARMENIA

January 15, 2003 - 18:44 AMT  13:10 GMT
At present, the blue fuel is being supplied from Russia to Georgia via a spare gas pipeline and repair works are held at the wreckage point of the main trunk line.

BBC SHOT FILM ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN OTTOMAN TURKEY

January 15, 2003 - 18:43 AMT  13:10 GMT
January 26 "Betrayed Armenia" documentary will be shown on BBC.

KARABAKH DEFENSE ARMY READY TO REBUFF ANY AGGRESSION BY AZERBAIJAN

January 15, 2003 - 18:40 AMT  13:10 GMT
The recent infringement by an Azeri diversion and intelligence group upon the Nagorno Karabakh defense border can be rated as an attempt to check the readiness of the Karabakh army, defense minister of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Seyran Ohanian said.

“AZERBAIJAN HAS CATASTROPHIC LACK OF GAS”

January 14, 2003 - 04:00 AMT  13:10 GMT
While the noise around the ecologic consequences of the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline has not yet calmed down, in Azerbaijan they have already started to think, how to spend the money saved from the transportation of the natural gas to Turkey via the same route. Meanwhile, the facts come to prove that Azerbaijan has a lack of natural gas even for its own needs. The volumes of gas production continue to decline, and the prime cost for one cubic meter of gas continues to increase, making its transportation senseless.
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