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The Azerbaijan Ministry of Transportation has asked the republican government to settle with the Turkish government a question concerning the detention of the "Fikret Amirov" ship and two aircrafts for the debts of the Ministry of Agriculture to Saka Korkmaz, a private Turkish company.

President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov met with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Magas on August 18 to discuss problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chechnya and North Osetia and prospects concerning the ICRC's help to the republic.

Chechen law enforcers believe panic rumors are being spread by rebels and their accomplices in order to destabilize the situation in the republic before and during the election of the Chechen president.

Minister for Special Affairs of the Republic of South Osetia Boris Chochiyev asked the American guests to bring the following questions to the attention of the US Congress: against whom does the US arm Georgia and what do 5 thousand gunmen from Georgia do in South Osetia?

Reports, confirmed by the press center of the Combined Peacekeeping Forces, claim there was a moment when Georgian positions near Eredvi were shelled by Georgian army units. Three people were killed as a result.

As reported by parliamentarian Guram Vakhtangishvili, the Osetian side violated the August 13 ceasefire agreement at 11 p.m. yesterday. The gun-fire came from the direction of the villages of Sarabuki and Kokhati.

$2,760 million were invested for the first six months of 2004 within the limits of three projects, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan pipeline project, BP Azerbaijan President David Woodward told a press conference in Baku.

Only high-ranking officials of the government and ministries and officers of security agencies can use mobile phones until now.

Several editors of Azerbaijan newspapers are likely to go to Strasbourg to inform the Council of Europe of the campaign of pressure on the press.

Both the sides sustained losses in a skirmish on the night of August 15-16: three injured people were taken to the republican hospital in Tskhinvali, two people are said to have been killed and several people are said to have been injured on the Georgian side.

The task of TEPCO's mission is to show the real situation in the country's power system, to determine the reform rate in the field, and to reveal sectors that are in urgent need of investment. This will help the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to determine its position concerning directions of further joint work with Azerbaijan.

The dissatisfaction of the 2 out of 7 contenders for the post of head of the republic was caused by results of the survey conducted on the territory of the republic from 4 to 8 August, which were published by the information and analytical department of the Chechen Ministry for Nationalities, Information and External Relations recently.

"I think it's not realistic to talk about the resumption of hostilities in Karabakh in the foreseeable future. But nothing can be excluded," Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian said to journalists after command and staff exercises of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army.

It is planned to fix the oil price in the 2005 state budget within the bounds of $20-22 per barrel, the Ministry of Finance has announced.

According to available information, four people arrived at the village of Paraboch in two Zhiguli cars without number plates, smashed the front door and rushed into the house on Terskaya Street which Dzhayruddin Nazhuyev lived in.

It may well be that the Georgian side will try to storm Tskhinvali and nearby settlements already today.

The authorities found the owners of rented rooms, put pressure on them, and achieved the eviction of the editors.

Over 4,700 new subjects with almost 11 thousand workplaces were registered in the field of small and middle business in the first six months of 2004.

Many people assert they had to give local functionaries from 30 to 50 percent of the compensation so that to receive the rest of the sum.

Providing security of the population and central authorities' paying attention to the residents of the district will contribute to the greater integration of the Gali district into the economy of Abkhazia, Chairman of the Gali District Assembly Otar Latsuzbaya holds.