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US ACTIVATES EFFORTS TO SETTLE KARABAKH CONFLICT

June 4, 2004 - 00:07 AMT  16:41 GMT
The process of settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict was discussed today by Armenian President Robert Kocharian and US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Steven Mann.

AZERI PRESIDENT'S FAMILY AT THE TOP OF CORRUPT PYRAMID IN COUNTRY, INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP REPORT SAYS

June 3, 2004 - 23:34 AMT  16:41 GMT
According to the report, the Minister of Justice, Chairman of the Parliament of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, as well as the leadership of the security service of the President have kin relations with Ilham Aliyev.

ARMENIAN OPPOSITION INTENDS TO HOLD RALLY IN YEREVAN IN SPITE OF CITY HALL REFUSAL TO SANCTION IT

June 3, 2004 - 23:12 AMT  16:41 GMT
Leaders of the Justice bloc, National Unity party and the Communist party called the Yerevan City Hall decision "ungrounded and illegal" and considered the court verdict to uphold it to be political.

ALIYEV REFUSED FROM AZERI CITIZENSHIP

June 3, 2004 - 22:27 AMT  16:41 GMT
Deputy Chairman of the Nakhichevan branch of National Front of Azerbaijan party Hasan Aliyev has sent an address to diplomatic missions of foreign countries in Azerbaijan, international human rights organizations, stating he refuses from Azeri citizenship.

WESTERN EXPERTS CONSIDER TIME HAS COME TO SOLVE CONFLICTS IN SOUTH CAUCASUS

June 3, 2004 - 22:17 AMT  16:41 GMT
In their words, these issues should become "top priority of our diplomacy towards Moscow."

INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS DENY REPORTS ON PRESENCE OF AZERI CHILDREN IN LACHIN CAMPS

June 3, 2004 - 19:46 AMT  16:41 GMT
This is stated in a press release of the International Working Group for Release of Prisoners of War and Search for Hostages and the Missing in the zone of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

OPPORTUNITY OF RESUMPTION OF MOTOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BAKU AND NAKHICHEVAN VIA IRAN DISCUSSED

June 3, 2004 - 18:58 AMT  16:41 GMT
In the words of the Minister of Transport of Azerbaijan, at present experts of the two countries discuss specific issues of tariffs, order of paper check-up and customs control.

ARMENIAN AMERICANS DEMAND SPEED-UP OF CONGRESS VOTE ON GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

June 3, 2004 - 18:32 AMT  16:41 GMT
Participants of a protest action, held in the US city of Fresno, demanded that Speaker of the House of Representatives Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and Senate Majority leader Bill Frist (R-TN) specify the terms of vote on the Genocide Resolution (193).

ARMENIAN OPPOSITIONIST RELEASED HAVING GIVEN WRITTEN UNDERTAKING NOT TO LEAVE

June 3, 2004 - 17:54 AMT  16:41 GMT
The preventive punishment of member of the Political Council, Head of the Press Service of the Republic opposition party Suren Sureniants is changed.

YEREVAN WELCOMES FORMATION OF IRAQI INTERIM GOVERNMENT

June 3, 2004 - 17:53 AMT  16:41 GMT
Armenia restates its readiness to join the international community and actively participate in Iraq's reconstruction process.
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