Helsinki Committee of Armenia Avetik Ishkhanian stated at the conference devoted to the issues of introduction of alternative military service in the country.

Due to the data provided by Armenian ministry of public health, the diagnosis of 6 patients is confirmed at present.

During the summit held in Yalta, the leaders of the CIS member-states approved and adopted the resolution on establishing control over the sale of portable anti-aircraft rocket complexes within the CIS countries.

Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Peter Schider stated addressing the forum for issues of independence of public telecommunications held in Bucharest.

As reported by the press office of the commission for regulating the activity of Armenian nature monopolies, the Russian company should receive a corresponding license for exercising export operations.

According to head of NKR monuments guarding Slava Sargsian, the protest of State committee for Azerbaijan's religious structures regarding the intention to convert the Shushi mosque into an Armenian museum, are groundless and absurd.

Co-chairman of Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation, Armenian defense minister Serge Sargsian is in Moscow on a working visit at present.

Armenian president Robert Kocharian stated during his meeting with Ukrainian leader Leonid Kuchma in Yalta.

In the words of RAO UES administration vice chairman Andrey Rappoport, Armenian potential of electric power export is rather high and "should be used in an efficient way".

Vardan Oskanian will have a number of meetings with Argentinean, Iranian, Lebanese, Dutch, Romanian, Slovenian, Syrian and Ethiopian MFA heads within the framework of the 58-th UN General Assembly to be held in New York next week.