Today a meeting of defense minister of Armenia Serge Sargsian with commander of NATO combined forces and US Supreme Allied Commander in Europe James Jones was held in Mons, Belgium.

Co-chairman of the Armenian-European Economic Policy and Legal Advice Center Kenneth Munther stated.

The passing of the law "On alternative service" is one of Armenia's commitments to the Council of Europe.

Within the framework of the Maastricht forum of the OSCE foreign ministers Vardan Oskanian yesterday met with Constantine Grischenko.

According to "Washington ProFile", Armenia is the 22-nd on the number of citizens, who have addressed other countries to get political asylum.

Armenian president Robert Kocharian being in Brussels met with speaker of the House of Representatives of the Belgian Parliament Herman De Croo.

This was stated by Ruben Shugarian when addressing a seminar on the EU in Yerevan today.

Meanwhile, according to a source in the Azeri defense ministry, in Baku Donald Rumsfeld will discuss the topic of reconnoitering the locality for Americans to base their servicemen in the prospect.

The European Commission has provided the remaining 4 million euros to the Armenian government within the food security program of a total cost of 9.5 million euros.

Vardan Oskanian called falsehood and revisionism the statement made in Maastricht by Vilayat Guliyev that consensus over the content of the final document of the OSCE Council of Ministers over the Karabakh problem was never reached.