The execution of Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi president, will not have negative impact on Armenia and the whole South Caucasus," thinks the Armenian Foreign Minister.

Vartan Oskanian: The question to sell armaments to Armenia by Serbia needs to be asked to the Ministry of Defense.

Last year the first two-year stage of Armenia-NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) was launched.

The main event in the Armenian-American relations in 2006 became the signing of 'Millennium Challenges' program on March.

Russia continues to remain one of the biggest trade-economic partners of Armenia.

The conduction of the Year of Armenia in Russia in 2006 in many cases contributed to the activation of bilateral relations.

The relations with Azerbaijan in 2006 were of limited character and were conditioned in the frameworks of the Nagorno Karabakh peace talks.

In 2006 the issues of Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi railway and the situation in Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia were at the center of attention of the Armenian Foreign Ministry.

Among international reactions over the process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement can be underlined two statements made by G8 and OSCE Ministerial Council on July and November.

Vartan Oskanian: The main obstacle for normalizing the relations with Turkey and opening the borders is the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and not the Armenian Genocide.