A soldier of the Azeri army, who was earlier detained by the Armenian party, was returned to Azeri authorities through the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross today.

NATO press office representative Despina-Ino Aventuli stated addressing "NATO and prospects of security in Armenia" seminar held in Yerevan.

In the opinion of Gagik Harutyunian, it is not necessary now for the situation has changed in the country and as compared to April there is no opposition stirred up among people as it was then.

As commercial director of Pernod Ricard Rus company Oleg Bukin said, the 10-20% rise of wholesale prices for Armenian brandy can be explained by poor harvest of grapes reaped in Armenia.

"I do not pay attention to the attempts to drive a wedge into our bloc", - the chairman of Armenian People's Party, leader of Justice opposition bloc said when commenting on the rumors about the discrepancy available between him and Republic Party Aram Sargsian.

The co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk group for Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement informed Armenian FM about the details of the meeting with OSCE acting chairman, Dutch FM Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

Turkey wishes to improve its relations with Armenia, as Ahmed Sezer stated in Ankara.

Speaking of the development of the South Caucasus it is impossible to disregard the Karabakh issue, as president of the US Institute of Transitional Democracies, chairman of the US committee for the NATO issues Bruce Jackson stated in Stepanakert.

He defeated fivefold winner of this prize Yevgeni Kafelnikov in the 2-nd lap.

Azeri acting president withdraws his candidature in favor of prime minister Ilham Aliyev.