On March 5 while leaving for Moscow the leader of the party “New Times” Aram Karapetyan “deserved” the more than special attention of the RA Special Services.

Yesterday the Armenian delegation with the deputy Foreign Minister Armen Bayburdyan left for Brussels to participate in the second phase of the negotiations between Armenia and EU about the Action Plan. The first phase took place on November 28 in 2005 in Yerevan

Today the head of the Union for National Self-Determination Paruyr Hayrikyan visited the Foreign Ministry to hand three written questions to the Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan. Before that Mr. Hayrikyan met the journalists.

The RA NA Speaker Arthur Baghdasaryan had sent a letter to the CE President Terry Davis about the barbarian destruction of the khachqars in the Armenian cemetery in Old Julfa calling on him to put an end to the destruction of historical monuments.

If Azerbaijan tries to waste time in the negotiation process of the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, RA will recognize the independence of NKR. This announcement the RA President made yesterday became the theme of the discussions during the briefings of the parliamentary fractions. «In my opinion this means to declare war», the head of the Republican party fraction Galoust Sahakyan said.

In the interview to the Moscow newspaper «Moskovski Komsomolec» the first and the last President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev has also referred to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

The information service of the RA Defense Ministry informs that on March 2 another violation of ceasefire was noted from the Azeri side. At 05:50 p.m. the Azeris opened fire in the direction of Baghanis-Ijevan. The Armenian side did not open fire in answer.

«Punishment towards Iran can be prevented provided successful process of Russian-Irani negotiations», RA Deputy Minister of foreign affairs, ex-Ambassador of RA to IRI Grigor Gharibjanyan thinks.

RA Ombudsman Armen Haroutyunyan examined the history of Byuzand street realized territories and made certain of human rights violation facts.

RA Foreign Ministry Vardan Oskanyan took part in the session of OSCE Standing Council and appeared there with a speech and comments.

>“There are lots of robbers and brigands, they must go and watch their activity and not to... I know Gagik Avetyan. He is a man living on his salary. I don’t want today more”, - NA Chairman Arthur Bagdasaryan commented on the incident happened with deputy Gagik Avetyan two days ago.

Yesterday Azeris of the world applied to UNO Secretary General Kofi Annan asking him to give the Azeris status of «divided nation».

«We do not have a concept about the NKR issue, and we are losing the battle», representative of the Armenians of Azerbaijan, expert Alexander Manasyan announced in the «Mirror» club today. According to Mr. Manasyan, the Parliamentary diplomacy has its share of guilt in the situation created. He invited attention to the fact that when we did not have Parliamentary diplomacy, the international structures...

Making a speech for the residents of the village Bonovshalar of the region Aghdam, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev announced that their greatest compromise in the settlement of the Karabakh conflict us that Azerbaijan has been negotiating for 12 years.

The Republican Party is not going to privatize the RA Nuclear power station. At least, the representative of the fraction Gagik Meliqyan assured in the NA that they are against it, and they will fight, but they are “for the construction of the second nuclear power station in Armenia”. According to him, the Station can work till 2016, and the construction of a second Station is a must.

The officials of the NATO will try to teach the representatives of the RA Defense System to spend the financial means effectively. They will teach to raise the efficiency of the expenditures in the defense field. These urgent issues were discussed during the seminar «Economic Aspects of Security: Improvement of the Management of the Defense Field» which started in Yerevan today.

Regarding the search in the deputies apartment we tried to find out NA deputy, OEP Vice-Chairman Mher Shahgeldyan's attitude.

At 11:00 this morning NA deputy, OEP member Gagik Avetyan’s flat and attic were intruded and searched by the officials from the 6th department to discover traces of deputy's past business activity. As the «guests» said, they were greatly interested in it.

With posters «No statute of limitation for Sumgayit», «Armenian genocide is a crime against humanity» and with Armenian flag in their hands thousand of people gathered today in the Republic square to honor the memory of Sumgayit victims.

Chairman of the NKR National Assembly Ashot Ghoulian received a Parliamentary delegation from Luxemburg which had arrived in Nagorno Karabakh with a two-day visit.

“To sell the part of the Armenian Nuclear Power plant stock to private bodies compelling them to build new energetic blocks”. This is how RA government sees the future of our energy, offering to change the corresponding law.

Public ecological organizations of Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Iran, concerned about dehydration problem of Qour-Araqs basin are going to form a joint centre. In all probability, a new four-party forum will start working in spring and it will involve three public organizations from each of the above-mentioned countries.

“Joining Armenia is the only option higher than today’s status of Karabakh”, head of the Republican Party fraction Galoust Sahakyan says about the settlement of the conflict. According to him, it is natural for all of us that Karabakh must either be independent or form part of Armenia.

«That Vahe Grigoryan has been set free doe not mean that we will shut up: we do not need presets, Vahe Grigoryan is innocent, he is no criminal, and we will continue to fight till the end», announced Tigran Atanesyan, the defender of advocate Vahe Grigoryan who fought for the rights of the residents of the Buzand street and spent 4.5 months in prison.