This day two years ago, until midnight, it never occurred to anyone that the authorities would order to raise batons on the peaceful demonstrators

«The country which tries to solve the Karabakh conflict by the military way will be excluded from the CE», announced the President of PACE Rene van der Linden.

The OSCE Minsk group French co-chair Bernard Fassier will arrive in Armenia from Baku today. During the concluding press conference in Baku he said, “We cannot take decisions instead of the two states.

“Now the favourite moment of many deputies starts,” the NA vice-speaker Vahan Hovhanessyan said these words in his speech the key issue of which was the sale of the 5th block of the Hrazdan heat-electric generating plant to the Russian side.

The bill on the “account establishment on the program implementation of the 2001 - 2003 state property privatizations” was put on the agenda of the NA session yesterday.

The 3rd session of the committee regulating the bill review on the national security strategy was held today. The session was presided over by the Defense Minister and the secretary of the RA national security strategy council Serge Sargsyan.

2 years have passed since the night of the severe beatings of peaceful strikers on Baghramyan Ave. initiated with the order of high – rank officials. Today the NA Deputy Hmajak Hovhannesyan declared that it is time to give political assessment to the events.

“Is this a country, and are you authorities?” Arshak Sadoyan raised this oratory question during the discussion of the bill on “the account establishment on the implementation program of the 2001 - 2003 state property privatization.”

Today the Armavir deputy Nahapet Gevorgyan who rarely appears in the Parliament was present in the session after a long absence. According to the data of the mass media the latter is suspected in the organization of encroachment on the Chairman of the “Erkrapah-Kamavor Alliance” (“Alliance of Volunteer-Defenders”) of Armavir Rustam Gasparyan.

The deadline of taking signatures on the formation of a temporary committee on the estrangement of the Hrazdan power station and the gas price increase initiated by the party “Justice” expired at 12:30 today.

Today the NA resumed its work with 103 deputies and held “rather efficient” voting.

Congressman Jim Kolbe, Congressman Scott Garrett and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO John J. Danilovich are visiting Armenia April 10-12 as part of regional travel. The focus of the visit is to review government, economic, and military issues in the South Caucasus.

“The price of electricity will not be raised because of the raise of the cost of gas”, the RA NA Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan said in the Parliament during the briefing with the journalists. He evaluates the sale of the 5th energy block of the Hrazdan heat-electric generating plant from three angles.

The session convened in NA after a 20-minute pause lasted only ten minutes. NA deputy speaker Vahan Hovhannisyan who presided over the session asked the deputies to vote only for themselves. The 51 deputies present in the hall managed to provide 70 votes.

OSCE Minsk group French co-chair Bernard Fassier has started a regional visit. According to “Trend” agency, he arrived in Azerbaijan this morning. He intends to carry out consultations in Baku about the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict.

The Foreign Ministry of NKR made a statement today which says: “The cases of the violation of ceasefire in the borderline of the NKR and the Republic of Azerbaijan have become more frequent lately, mostly because of the absence of the proper evaluation of the militant statements which sound on the highest levels in Azerbaijan.

STRASBURG (FRANCE) - Speaking at an official conference on Thursday, April 6th, the President of the European Parliament was joined by the leaders of its political parties in strongly approving the body's decision to send a delegation in Djulfa, in the Nakhichevan region of Azerbaijan.

«There must not be any war in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict», Mher Shahgeldyan, head of the NA Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs thinks because of several reasons.

The first public showing of the documentary «The Armenian Genocide» took place in the library of the US Congress several days ago. The showing was organized on the initiative of Congressman Adam Shiff.

The Ramkavar-Azatakan and the Powerful Homeland Parties were concerned by the draft Electoral Code which was sent to the Venice Commission by the NA. Today they organized a discussion of the Electoral Code.

The Bush administration intends to increase the military aid allotted to Azerbaijan. The deputy press secretary of the US State Department Adam Elry confirmed this information. Nevertheless, he found it difficult to say how much exactly the aid will become.

A radio monitoring of communication line was initiated by the mandate of the OSCE representative Anjey Kasprshik on the Armenian – Azeri border, in the section Idjevan – Ghazakh near the village Berkhaber on April 6.

The assistant of the police station head Ararat Mahtesyan brought examples from the new Government resolution trying to prove that the coming elections will be fair in Armenia due to their institution. By using the word “fair” Mr. Mahtesyan meant only one thing

The impact of the gas price increase on the RA agriculture is already evident. The price of the necessary fertilizer improved mainly from Georgia, Russia and Ukraine has gone up.