Gegham Gharibjanian, the Former Armenian Ambassador in Iran, took the office.

The Council of the Public Organizations of Samtskhe-Javakhetia has formed a commission, which is to work out the program of the development of the region.

The international mission for investigating facts of inhabiting the territories, which bordering with Nagorno Karabakh form the safety belt, will arrive in Baku January 28.

January 25 members of the initiative group will give a press conference in one of the halls of the French National Assembly.

The first round of consultations on the issue of creating a Russian-Georgian-Armenian-Azerbaijan consortium began in Tbilisi. The consortium is to take up the reconstruction of Transcaucasian railway passing through Abkhazia. Although concrete decisions have not been made yet, it is quite obvious that the ice has begun to break. The information about possible launch of Abkhazian railway has caused a lot of worry in Azerbaijan. The press in Baku expresses outrage about the participation of Azerbaijan statesmen in the negotiations on implementing a project that has a paramount importance for Armenia.