January 21 deputy foreign minister of Armenia Tatul Margarian will leave for Strasbourg to participate in the recurrent meeting of the personal representatives of the Armenian and Azeri presidents on the Nagorno Karabakh settlement.

According to Wall Street Journal/Heritage Foundation researches, Armenia is recognized leader in rendering investment opportunities among the countries of the South Caucasus in 2002.

The Nagorno Karabakh Republic State Commission on military captives, hostages and the missing reported.

The Georgian president noted that he was in favor of resumption of railway communication through the territory of Abkhazia, too, but "the process should develop simultaneously to the returning of Georgian refugees to Abkhazia."

Armenian president Robert Kocharian told "Deutsche Welle" (German Wave) radio station.

The main goal of the program is to reduce the ethnic tension in the region and to create conditions for a better integration of Samtskhe-Javakhetia with other regions of Georgia.

Ara Abrahamian will meet with the leader of the Holy See of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church Aram I and the Lebanese top leadership.

One of them participated in the building of Krasnodar-Turkey gas pipeline.

As chief of the observation mission Peter Eicher said in Yerevan today, 26 European experts from 16 OSCE member countries served on it.

The US Department of State published the official report about the conformity of the aid provided to developing countries with the interests of the United States. The document is the result of a research carried out by the experts of leading analytical centers. The report placed on the site of the Department of State is titled: “Foreign aid in the national interests: support to freedom, security and possibilities of development”.