Head of the CE Committee of Ministers group for monitoring CE member states Pietro Ercole Ago told journalists this opinion in Yerevan.

The deputy foreign minister of Russia, co-chair of the OSCE Minsk conference on the Nagorno Karabakh issue cited the instance of East Timor.

Sabit Bagirov noted that even in the Soviet time (according to the data on 1987) the commodity turnover between Armenia and Azerbaijan did not exceed 2-3% of the total turnover volume of the countries - due to various, mainly historical reasons.

Goran Lenmarker made a statement about it at a meeting with NKR Parliament Speaker Oleg Yesayan in Yerevan.

Though there are already evident leaders in the pre-election campaign, the Armenian organizations of America continue to work with electoral headquarters of all the main candidatures from Democratic Party. Almost all the candidates try to please the Armenians. Wesley Clark, John Edwards, Hoe Liebermann and Howard Dean hope that the support of the Armenian community may help them in their rivalry with John Kerry.