A delegation of non-governmental organizations, which are against implementation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, monitors the Azeri segment of the pipeline.

The sixth meeting of the Armenian-US economic cooperation group will be held in Yerevan May 12-13.

The preliminary conclusion on the elections will be made May 26, after which a summary of the presidential and parliamentary election in Armenia will be submitted to the Council of the CIS leaders.

Lyudmila Putina will be present at a Russian Language Olympiad being held in Armenia.

In the words of Armenian foreign ministry head Vardan Oskanian, Armenia will further develop cooperation with Arab countries in all directions.

OSCE Minsk group co-chairs seeking a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute may put off a visit to the zone of conflict planned May 18 because of the deteriorating condition of Azerbaijan's ailing president and his absence from Baku.

The political crisis occurred because of contradictions between the government formed from moderate Islamists and the generals dissatisfied with Erdoghan's passion for Koran, is being deepened. Last week ssession of the Security Council took place in Ankara, during which the militarists demanded that the government stopped its support to extremist religious organizations. This was after the demarche of high-ranking generals who boycotted the reception organized by the Chairman of the National Assembly in occasion of the Day of Democracy. Thus the army leadership expressed its protest against the expected presence of women in headscarves which is a violation of the state protocol.