Pietro Ercole Ago, who heads the CE Committee of Ministers group for monitoring fulfillment of commitments of the organization member countries, stated at a meeting with Armenian foreign minister Vardan Oskanian in Yerevan today.

R. Kocharian has nominated President of the Fund against Legal Arbitrariness non-governmental organization Larisa Alaverdian.

OCST secretary general Nikoay Bordyuzha said.

Russian President's special representative for the Caspian Viktor Kalyuzhny accentuated that the maneuvers "are of only practical-engineering, not political nature."

In Armenian minister of energy Armen Movsisian's words, a version of building the gas pipeline, acceptable for both parties, is found.

According to preliminary data, a 35% production growth is registered in the jewel and gold industry of Armenia in 2003.

Today the Secretary General of the EU Council and the Turkish foreign minister meet in Brussels.

The first candidate countries for the MCA funding are those that have a maximum average per capita income of $1,415 and have a strong commitment to development.

The "Ago" group will meet with leaders of a number of ministries and departments of Armenia.