7 nationalist organizations of Armenia have signed a memorandum on creation of the Armenian Nationalist Front.

The following 3 components form the main criteria of UN Development Program annual monitoring: life expectancy, per capita income and standard of education.

In the opinion of leader of the National-Democratic Bloc of Armenia Arshak Sadoyan, the recent verdict of the Constitutional court of Armenia, which recognized the election official returns legal, is "unjust and illegal."

In the course of the visit the head of the Armenian state is expected to meet with French president Jacques Chirac, Senate and National Assembly chairmen, as well as ministers of economy, finance and industry, internal affairs.

In the opinion of the "Novye Izvestiya" Russian newspaper, Americans have already begun making use of the "Azeri factor" in Iran.

The act of passing took place in the course of a meeting of defense ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan held in the Tavush-Kazakh strip of the Armenian-Azeri border yesterday.

Secretary of the Council for the national security of Georgia Tedo Japaridze will visit Armenia July 10.

Only peaceful negotiations can secure final and just settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh issue, Turkish minister of internal affairs Adbulkadir Aksu said before his visit to Baku.

Simultaneously with the 5000 banknote issued in 1999 it will become an equivalent means of payment in the territory of Armenia.

As "Hurriyet" Baku newspaper writes, principal contender for the post of the state leader, acting president Heydar Aliyev was born not in 1923 as it is presented in the documents but in 1919, in the Sissian region of Armenia.