In the opinion of head of the Azeri Citizens' Initiatives Center Mais Gulalyev, the Karabakh conflict in Azerbaijan and national minority problems in Turkey should be solved first, then one can set about the building of the BTC.

"At present the need to reform and make the CIS a more efficient structure has ripened," Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian stated.

In the course of the meeting the current state of gas supplies to Armenia and prospective programs in the field were also discussed.

July 21-27 a delegation of the House of Representatives of Thailand will visit Armenia.

Kazakh State Secretary Oralbay Abdykarimov handed the diploma to Eduard Khurshudian at a meeting with the Ambassador on the occasion of completion of his diplomatic mission in the country.

According to the newspaper ''Echo'', Baku, demonstrations of protest demanding to give Karabakh back to Azerbaijan are being held in Stepanakert. None of the sources confirmed this information. Our colleagues in Stepanakert assured there were no demonstrations in Karabakh. It is evident that this is another falsification.