ArmInfo. President of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Joao Suares told APA he intends to personally engage settlement of 'frozen' conflicts. PA OSCE President said the Parliamentary Assembly will continue working to settle 'frozen conflicts'. The issue will be among key tasks

ArmInfo. "ArmRosgazprom" Armenian-Russian CJSC is going to invest 7,7 bln drams ($25,6 mln) in reconstruction of the gas distribution network in 2008, today's message of the Company says.It is also scheduled to invest 3 bln drams in construction of the

ArmInfo. ArmenTel is not able to give providers access to the network on demand, the director general of Armentel (Beeline brand) Neicho Velichkov said during a press-conference today.He said that it was not an instance of unfair competition. "To be

ArmInfo. 'Actions of Azerbaijani authorities are beyond the frames of allowability. This is the howling violation of human rights and impudent ignoring of the elementary norms of international humanitarian law', - the leader of the Working Group under Armenian State

ArmInfo. Opposition New Times party has disseminated a statement regarding the situation in Samtskhe-Javakheti region of GeorgiaThe statement says that the situation in the Armenian populated Javahkh region has again escalated. Georgian authorities are politically prosecuting Armenian patriotic forces, especially

ArmInfo. Ex-premier of Armenia Hrant Bagratyan has no intention to apologize to incumbent Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Bagratyan's lawyer Artur Grigoryan said at Mirror Debate Club Thursday. He mentioned that on 2 February 2008 H. Bagratyan published an item 'Old

ArmInfo Today, the maximum buying rates at commercial banks of Yerevan were 301 drams for 1 dollar, 472drams for 1 EUR and 12,8 drams for 1 Russian ruble. The minimum selling rates stood at 302 drams for 1 dollar, 475

ArmInfo. Amendments to RA Constitution of 2005, which assure lack of jurisdiction of ex-President Robert Kocharyan, force the opposition to search for justice in Hague, Chairman of the Union of political scientists of Armenia Hamayak Hovhannisyan told journalists. 'It is

ArmInfo. First University of "VimpelCom" OJSC (Beeline) outside of Russia opened in Yerevan today, Head of the Management and Corporate Development for CIS countries of "VimpelCom" OJSC Galina Voronetskaya told journalists. She said that the relevant certificate has been awarded

ArmInfo. Earthquake with magnitude of 6,8 happened in Japan on July 23 at 8:26 PM by local time at 35 km to the North-East of the town of Morioko. The earthquake shock in the epicenter was of force 7. 90

ArmInfo. Measure of restraint to deputy Director of Yerevan Institute-Storage of ancient manuscripts Matenadaran Arshak Banuchyan has been changed for recognizance not to leave, the press service of RA Special Investigation Service told ArmInfo.According to the message, Head of the

Afghan troops killed at least 34 Taliban in battle after militants ambushed an army convoy in the country's south Thursday, while 15 Taliban and seven policemen were killed elsewhere, officials said. Meanwhile, the Danish army also reported that two of

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir paraded as a man of peace on Thursday as he wrapped up a heavily protected tour of Darfur defying accusations that he masterminded genocide in the region. Wearing a safari suit, shades and a giant ring,

Iraq's three-member Presidency Council said on Thursday it had rejected a provincial election bill, a move widely expected to delay October polls which are strongly backed by Washington. "President [Jalal] Talabani, and his deputy Adel Abdel-Mehdi, have agreed that the

Al-Qaeda militants have vanished from the streets of Fallujah - their former bastion in west Iraq - but economic growth that could protect the city from their return has yet to materialize. The patience of local leaders in this Sunni

Police have arrested 26 Internet activists in the port of Alexandria, and 14 of them were jailed for more than two weeks for "threatening national security," a security official said on Thursday. Some 30 young Egyptians who belong to the

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said Thursday there should be no armed factions outside state control, in a direct reference to Hizbullah. Sfeir made the remark to members of the Journalists Union who visited him at his seat in suburban

Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's media office dismissed on Monday rumors circulated by some media outlets claiming that the dossier of the Lebanese detainees in Syrian jails was being neglected. "Such claims are an untrue smear against the government and the

A 1 million euro ($1.56 million) project to improve irrigation in the Bekaa Valley town of Baalbek was launched Thursday by the Italian Embassy in Lebanon. Representatives from the embassy and Baalbek Municipality offered the aid, which was donated by

Former Premier Omar Karami on Wednesday night called on all political leaders to implement Article 95 of the Lebanese Constitution, which calls for the formation of a national council for the abolition of sectarianism in politics. "If I were the