Today Armenian officers, who head for Baku to participate in the conference on planning the NATO "Cooperative Best Effort-2004" exercises are in Istanbul, from where they intend to leave to the Azeri capital this evening.

A 17-th century violoncello of Italian violin-maker Andrea Guarneri, taken out from Armenia in 1982, has been returned to Yerevan from Lvov.

Bilateral documents, specifically a political statement of the Presidents of Azerbaijan and France, will be signed as an outcome of the visit.

Zuo Xueliang promised to assist Armenia in obtaining full information about the epidemic, as well as Chinese citizens arriving in the country.

In the words of member of the Armenian delegation to the PACE Armen Rustamian, such a position is necessary to avoid wordings in international documents, like "the issue of Nagorno Karabakh and other seized territories of Azerbaijan."

Members of the operative administration of the General headquarters of Armenian armed forces, Colonel Murad Isakhanyan and Lieutenant Colonel Albert Baghdasarian arrived in Baku to participate in the works of the primary conference on planning of military maneuvers ''Cooperative Best Effort-2004'' to be held in September in Azerbaijan within the frames of ''Partnership for Peace'' NATO program. The visit of Armenian soldiers took place despite the demarche of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan that refused issuing of entry visas.