The Armenian president today signed a decree on dismissing major general Levon Stepanian from the office of commander of frontier troops of the National Security Service of Armenia.

In US Congress member Kurt Weldon's words, today many well-known legislators, for whom it has become a matter of principle, come against the amendment.

"The state of the president is good, he controls all affairs," Ilham Aliyev told journalists yesterday.

700 young people from Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh and the diaspora participate in it.

Robert Kocharian and special representative of the European Union to the South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie discussed prospects of expansion of cooperation between the European Union and Armenia.

Baku is concerned over Turkish media active propagating normalization of relations between Ankara and Yerevan in the name of economic progress.

In the words of Vagif Huseynov, in spite of the support of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan by the OSCE Minsk group mediators, the prospects of the conflict settlement are not seen yet.

Armenia is one of the leading countries in terms of its campaign to promote the Millennium Development Goals, said Lise Grande, UN Resident Coordinator in Armenia.

Illegally acquired arms and ammunition were discovered in the study and the flat of Vahan Mkhitarian.

The commanders of the North-Atlantic Alliance are satisfied with the results of the ''Cooperative Best Effort-2003'' military maneuvers held in the end of June in Armenia. It was the first time when the NATO's ''Partnership for Peace'' program's trainings were being held in Armenia. In total there were 400 military men from 19 countries including Turkey participating in the maneuvers.