Armenian singer Alida Yepremian will take part in the international "Plymouth Folk Festival" to begin July 18.

Baku has become a peculiar bulwark for preparation the revolution in Iran after South Azerbaijan (situated in the northern part of Iran) National Renaissance Movement leader Mahmudali Chekhreganli's visit there last weekend, reported by "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" Russian newspaper.

The agreement upon this has been achieved today at the meeting of Armenian president Robert Kocharian with French minister of transport and tourism Gilles de Robien in Paris.

France as the co-chairman-state of the OSCE Minsk group on Nagorno Karabakh settlement should be able to consider both parties to conflict in the same standpoint, Azeri foreign minister Vilayat Guliyev stated.

Russian ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolay Ryabov denied suppositions that Putin's visit aims at support to Ilham Aliyev's candidature for the Azeri president post.

Azerbaijan is not going to recommence the economic cooperation with Armenia until Nagorno Karabakh conflict is settled, Azeri foreign minister Vilayat Guliyev stated.

Georgian parliament chairman Nino Burjanadze is forming an opposition election bloc initiated by the American officials.

In Russian ambassador to Azerbaijan Nikolay Ryabov's words, the date of the meeting has been preliminary fixed for July, however "some discrepancies impeded its realization".

At the yesterday's meeting with Armenian president Robert Kocharian in Paris, French Senate chairman Christian Poncelet spoke with an initiative to recommence the meetings of the parliament speakers of the South Caucasian countries.

Armenian citizen Suren Petrosian being under the international investigation on the suspicion of a number of grave crimes was arrested in Saint Petersburg the other day.