Speeches dedicated to problems of Western Armenia and western Armenians' rights will be delivered the first day of the congress.

The number of tourists who visited Armenia in January-September 2010 increased by 15.6%. 488,000 tourists visited the country over the nine months of 2010. Besides, 19% growth was recorded in outgoing tourism over the same period, totaling 474,000 people.

Ilham Aliyev, following the old Russian tradition, started on a merry note, but finished on a sad one. In principle, this is what was to be expected. The combined exercises in Nagorno-Karabakh proved to be exactly the cold douche, so necessary for the Aliyev clan to recover and think a little, before threatening by war. It turns out that it was only necessary to call a spade a spade and to retell Aliyev Jr. the defeats of his father.

Chess: Armenia's Levon Aronian who has recently climbed to No. 3 in the world won the World Blitz Championship in Moscow on November 18. The Armenian grandmaster scored 24.5 points, passing 0.5 point ahead of Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan. Magnus Carlsen of Norway was another half point back in third. Slovakia's Sergei Movsisian finished 15th with 17.5 points.