October 29 The Armenian parliamentary delegation headed by NA Speaker and Head of the Armenian delegation to the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly Tigran Torossian leaves for Saint Petersburg October 29 to participate at the 29th plenary session of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly.

October 26, RA President Robert Kocharian signed a decree on appointing Armen Babayan Judge of the First Instance Court of Avan and Nor Nork Communities.

The RA Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan arrived in France on 24 October.

October 24 RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian received the newly appointed head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, Ambassador Sergey Kapinos (Russia).

On October 24, 2007, Foreign Minister Oskanian met with Ambassador Christian Strohal, Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, based in Warsaw, to recap their assessment of the progress made during the 2007 parliamentary elections and to talk about the preparatory steps for 2008.

The Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Beings (CETS n° 197) will enter into force on 1 February 2008, following the ratification by Cyprus as the tenth country to ratify it.

October 24, RA President Robert Kocharian received OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Matthew Bryza (USA) and Bernard Fassier (France) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk.

The RA NA Speaker Tigran Torosyan had a breakfast meeting with the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The RA Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan and the delegation led by him participated in the annual meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund on 22 October.

October 21 RA Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian hosted the OSCE Minsk Group American Co-Chair Matthew Bryza at the Armenian Embassy in the USA.

Under a decree of RA Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian, Harut Sasunian was awarded with a medal of RA Prime Minister for his humanitarian activity, great contribution to the sphere and charity programmes.

RA Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian sent a congratulating message to his Georgian counterpart Zurab Noghaideli on the latter’s birthday.

President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is arriving in Armenia on October 22 on an official visit.

On October 19 Minister Oskanian met with Crown Prince Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi of Ras Al Khaimah Emirate in the United Arab Emirates on the occasion of the Taste of Armenia Cultural Week.

RA Prime Minister Serge Sargsian leaves the United States for the Republic of France on October 24.

25 October, Lanzarote – A new Council of Europe convention aimed at protecting children against sexual abuse and exploitation will be opened for signature at a conference of European justice ministers on Thursday.

October 19, RA President Robert Kocharian received the delegation headed by the Co-Chair of the Armenian-Russian Interparliamentary Cooperation Commission, member of the Federal Assembly of Russian Federation Nikolai Ryzhkov.

RA Prime Minister Serge Sargsian met with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in the framework of the visit to the United States.

’’Once again, we urge UNESCO to send monitors to our region, specifically to Nakhijevan, to see and appropriately judge the intentional destruction in areas far removed from war and confrontation”, announced the RA Minister Foreign of Affairs in Paris.

The RA Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Armen Bayburdyan received the members of Delegation of the Germany-South Caucasus Friendship Group of Germany Bundestag headed by Steffen Reiche.

The 13-th session of the RA NA and the Armenian-Russian Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Commission will start their work tomorrow at the NA.

On October 17, RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian met with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Bernard Fassier (France) and Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia) in Paris.

The RA Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan will leave for the US on 17 October for one week.

The 8th session of EU-Armenia Interparliamentary Cooperation Committee took place in Luxemburg.