Today President Robert Kocharian received Vakhtang Darchinyan, Australian resident, the IBF wrestling international federation 5-time champion and the IBO wrestling international organization 4-time champion and his first coach Vazgen Badalyan.

Taking into account the statement that the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group presented to the OSCE Permanent Council, in Vienna, on June 22, and the interview that Matt Bryza, the new US co-chair gave soon thereafter, where albeit partially, the principles of the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict were revealed for the first time, and also taking into account the recent desperate calls by...

On June 27-28 RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan will leave for Georgia on official duty. During the visit Mr. Oskanyan will meet the President of the country, the Foreign Minister and the President of the Parliament.

On June 26 RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan took a short vacation. Andranik Margaryan will spend his one-week vacation in France in order to undergo a prophylactic medical examination.

During the visit to Turkey Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II paid a visit to the island Heypel together with Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I and Patriarch of Armenians of Constantinople Archbishop Mesrop Mutafyan. They visited the Greek Orthodox church of Holy Trinity and the famous theological seminary.

The Facultative Protocol to UN Convention against Torture will be put into effect on June 22, 2006.

President Robert Kocharian will leave for Minsk tomorrow to participate in the session of the Collective Security Treaty Organization’s Council.

Minister Oskanian attended and addressed the first session of the newly-formed UN Human Rights Council. The opening ceremony on Monday was attended by UN SG Kofi Annan as well as High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour.

By the decision of RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan Stepan Barseghyan has been appointed deputy Minister of Regional Government.

Issues about small and medium business were discussed during the meeting of Robert Kocharyan and a number of representatives of the field. The Ministers of Agriculture and Commerce and Economic Development were also present at the meeting.

Today the delegation of Serge Sargsyan, the Defense Minister and the Secretary of the National Security Council adjunct to the RA President, left for Minsk to participate in the sessions of the of the Security Councils Secretaries' Committee and the Defense Ministers Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

The session devoted to the final discussion of the interdepartmental committee coordinating the work of the National security strategy was convened today. The session was presided over by Defense Minister and Secretary of the National Security Council attached to RA President Serge Sargsyan.

NA deputy Speaker Tigran Torosyan met with Hayke Renate Paychi, German Ambassador to Armenia. During the meeting Tigran Torosyan attached great significance to the improvement of political atmosphere in Armenia and noted that the amendments to the electoral code are not enough for holding elections by democratic criteria. He found the hostility of political powers towards each other inadmissible and focused on their rivalry.

Today RA NA deputy president Vahan Hovhannisyan and RA Minister of Education Levon Mkrtchyan met Anthony John James Kentor, Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Armenia, and A. Page, deputy head of the East administration of the Foreign Ministry.

«Any law can be endlessly amended but the truths of life are not connected with the flaws of the law», said NA President Tigran Torosyan during the meeting with head of the OSCE Yerevan office Vladimir Pryakhin and Ambassador Miklosh Harashti, OSCE representative on the issues of freedom of information.

Today Robert Kocharyan received Ambassador Miklosh Harashti, OSCE representative on the issues of freedom of information. Robert Kocharyan assess the cooperation with the OSCE as effective. Finding the freedom of information important, he said that free press has an important mission in representing the legal real situation in the country.

On June 19 the members of the NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations met the delegation of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, Defense and Security of the Senate of the Czech Republic. The delegation is in Armenia on official visit.

Today Robert Kocharyan received the members of the Armenian Jewellers’ World Union Council who are participating in the annual conference of the Council in Yerevan.

RA NA President Tigran Torosyan received Rina Pandey, the Indian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Armenia. During the meeting issues about enhancing cooperation between the Parliaments of the countries were discussed.

Today Robert Kocharyan received the delegation of Dmitri Kozak, the authorized representative of the Russian President in the Southern federative okrug.

Today RA Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan received the delegation of Dmitri Kozak, the authorized representative of the Russian President in the Southern federative okrug.

On June 17-18 the meeting of the Currency International Fund and the Dutch group of the World Bank will take place in Yerevan.

Robert Kocharian ratified the RA laws on rendering state assistance to the Constitutional Court and Innovation activity.

According to the decree of Robert Kocharyan Sergo Eritsyan was appointed the councilor of the RA President. According to another decree of the President Ara Ayvazyan was dismissed from the post of the RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Chile and Eastern Republic of Uruguay and Vladimir Karmirshalyan, RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Argentina was appointed instead.