The issue of building the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline will be discussed in the course of the visit of Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi to Ukraine started today.

To bring its legislation into accord with the Geneva Convention on Refugees the Armenian Parliament today passed a decision on making amendments and supplements to the law on refugees.

Former ruling party - the Armenian National Movement - is ready to closely cooperate with the Republic opposition party "in the name of elimination of the present illegitimate authorities and establishing legal leadership in Armenia," chairman of the ANM board stated.

The Bush Administration's proposed fiscal year 2005 budget, which was released yesterday, would send four times more military assistance to Azerbaijan than Armenia.

The Nagorno Karabakh conflict will not be solved in 2004, however the negotiation mechanism should fully function, Vyacheslav Trubnikov said.

206 094 tourists visited Armenia in 2003, which according to the data of the National Statistical Service is 27.1% more than in 2002.

Visits to Belarus, Italy and the US are also planned.

The data provided by the Istanbul international airport shows it.