US State Secretary Colin Powell stated at a meeting with Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov during the latter's current visit to the US.

Earlier Head of Transitive Democracies project, Chief of the NATO Committee in the US Senate Bruce Jackson, along with the delegation headed by him, was in Transdnestria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The Press Service of the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan has confirmed that the recurrent meeting of Vardan Oskanian and Elmar Mamedyarov will be held in August.

Addressing the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Azeri Foreign Minister noted that if the US intends to continue developing cooperation with Azerbaijan in that respect, it has to display a respective approach in rendering military assistance.

The Armenian Tennis Federation has proposed to hold the Euro-African selection tour of the 3-rd group of Davis Cup-2005 in Yerevan.

When commenting on the stand of the party, its leader reminded that in its time the French Parliament passed a law demanding to recognize the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey.

July 24-29 the Second All-Armenian Youth Forum will be held in Tsakhkadzor Armenian town.

In Azerbaijan's leader's opinion, the refusal from the OSCE MG mission would have meant refusal from talks.

The Ministers exchanged views on full launching of all railways in the region, specifically Kars-Gyumri-Tbilisi and the Abkhazian segment of the Russia-Georgia-Armenia railway.