Today RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian is to meet with the OSCE Minsk group Co-chairs in New York. Reminder: Armenian Foreign Minister is in New York to participate in the 61-th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Tomorrow the NA special session will discuss two draft laws regulating the Mass Media field which have been processed without the participation of the concerned sides. Neither are the workers of the field aware of the content of the laws.

Today, in answer to the announcement of the Prime Minister (“If they know everything, why don’t they give names?”), the representatives of the parties which are members of the anti-criminal movement made public the first names of criminal officials.

Despite the complaints of the Armenian community of Lebanon about the allocation of the Turkish peace-keepers in the country, the troupes will leave for Lebanon today. They will consist of a thousand soldiers. 400 of them represent the naval forces, 500 are infantrymen and the rest are civilians.

RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan did not exclude the possibility of his participation in the 2008 Presidential elections. Answering the questions about his possible participation in the 2008 Presidential elections by magazine «Nouvelles d'Armenie» which is published in France, the Foreign Minister said, «It is still too early to speak about it».

The third conference «Armenia-Diaspora» was concluded, but no one wants to recall that the works towards establishing business relations with the Diaspora were started by the previous authorities. Former RA Prime Minister, former Defense Minister and leader of the National Democratic Union Vazgen Manoukyan reminded about it in «Mirror» club today.

Honorary President of «Sil» group, NA deputy Khachatour Suqiasyan spoke about the state system in “Mirror” club today. Speaking about the possibilities of Armenian businessmen and the investments of the Armenians of the Diaspora he said that Gagik Khachatryan, the deputy head of the State Customs Committee, is an obvious obstacle in the investment field.

First RA Prime Minister Vazgen Manoukyan informed in “Mirror” club today that he did not participate in the demonstration of the 15th anniversary of Independence as he was not invited. First RA President Levon Ter-Petrosyan and first RA Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian were not invited either.

Washington, DC - The Armenian Assembly today praised a key Senate committee for affirming U.S policy in the South Caucasus by prohibiting funding for a bypass rail link sponsored by the Turkish and Azerbaijani governments and aimed at excluding Armenia from economic and regional transportation opportunities.

Today RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan will leave for Berlin to participate in the international forum “Bertelsmann”. Minister Oskanyan will leave Berlin for New York in order to participate in the session of the UN 61st Assembly General. On September 25 the Foreign Minister will make a speech.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev will leave for Germany on a two-day business visit on September 22-23. He will participate in the international conference titled “Bertelsmann” in which delegations from a number of countries will take part.

Faithful to the promise made two days ago, Hrant Khachatryan resigned from the post of the President of Constitutional Right Union. He announced that the decision was made by himself without any pressure from anyone. He added that with this step he is trying to save the status of CRU, the territory of CRU, the newspaper “Iravounq” and the reputation of the CRU officials.

“This is a political movement the aim of which is to clear the country of garbage”, announced commander of group “Artsakh” Miqael Apresyan in club “Pastark”. He also informed those present about the formation of the “Armenian Volunteers Movement”.

Today the highlight of the Armenian-American relations is the appointment of the US Ambassador to Armenia.

The Karabakh issue is a stake in the hands of superpowers. Armenian officialdom refers to the Karabakh issue only when the inner political procedures activate

The situation created in Constitutional Right Union was not cleared even after the conference. Moreover, although the conference reconfirmed Hrant Khachatryan in the post of the president of the party, and Hayk Baboukhanyan in the post of the vice president, the passions have not cooled down, and today Hrant Khachatryan made an ultimatum.

“I have worked with Robert Kocharyan for a long time. He was a very modest person. He was a legendary personality for Karabakh. I don’t recognize today’s Robert Kocharyan”, said member of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun administration Aram Manoukyan who was lucky enough to read the RA Declaration of Independence 15 years ago.

Leo Platvoet, the PACE rapporteur on the issues of missing persons, starts his regional visit today. The official will visit neither Armenia, nor Azerbaijan. On September 18-22 he will be in Nagorno Karabakh and in Abkhazia.

«It is a great achievement to have 15 years' independence for the last 600 years. And if we have many problems today, we should blame not the independence, but ourselves», said, Kiro Manoyan, Executive of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun Bureau Hay Dat and Political Office.

About 18 oppositional and pro-governmental parties and organizations which are included in the “Anti-criminal movement” were gathered today to create a document which would decide their future activity.

The Justice faction has applied to the Constitutional Court in order to check the legality of the judges being member of the electoral committees. They have managed to collect 27 signatures.

Two days ago at the suggestion of GUAM the issue of the frozen conflicts of the GUAM region (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova) was included into the agenda of the UN Assembly General. Years ago when Azerbaijan first managed to include the NKR issue into the agenda of the UN Assembly General, RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said that we may face the serious danger of taking the NKR problem from the OSCE Minks group to the UN.

Member of the Orinats Yerkir Party Mher Shahgeldyan who participated in the NA briefings today started his speech rather specifically: he asked the journalists to highlight their briefings and not to ignore them as opposition; otherwise they will have to revise the necessity of their participation in the briefings.

“It is better for an oligarch to privatize an electoral area than a whole party”, says Vahram Baghdasaryan, who has been elected deputy from Vanadzor by the majority system.