Venue of Armenian and Azeri football teams to be known April 14April 4, 2007 - 17:47 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The final decision on the venue of the Armenian and Azeri national football teams within EURO-2008 qualifying games will be announced April 24, head coach of the Armenian national team Ian Porterfield told reporters today. "Nothing is clear yet, we are awaiting the UEFA decision," he said, Novosti Armenia reports.Armenia and Azerbaijan are included in Group A together with the Finnish, Serbian, Polish, Portuguese, Belgian and Kazakh teams. The Armenian side has many times voiced readiness to hold matches in Yerevan and Baku. However, the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan stands for meeting in neutral fields explaining it by incapability to ensure security for the Armenian team. There are several variants discussed including the proposal to meet in Ukraine. Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |