It will be possible to properly assess the resolution on European Neighborhood only after its final version is published, Naira Zohrabyan, Secretary of the Prosperous Armenia Party Faction, briefed on Friday. 

 Armenia is not going to become the "tail" of any country in the Customs Union but is seeking benefits there, the head of the parliamentary group of the Republican Party of Armenia Galust Sahakyan said at a parliamentary briefing on Friday.

In order to preserve themselves, the Armenian authorities are ready to sacrifice Nagorno- Karabakh, the secretary of the parliamentary group of the Armenian National Congress Aram Manukyan said at a parliamentary briefing on Friday.

It is immoral to raise the wages of government officials in a country where almost one million of people are extremely poor, the head of the parliamentary group of Heritage Party Zaruhi Postanjyan said at a parliamentary briefing on Friday.  

 "Road map" on Armenia's accession to the Customs Union and the United Trade Area (UTA) should be prepared ahead of the December Summit of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council (SEEC) in Moscow, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov told reporters following the SEEC Summit in Minsk, overnight, ITAR TASS said.

 The draft resolution of the European Parliament on Nagornyy Karabakh will seriously affect the Karabakh conflict settlement process, Deputy director of the Caucasus Institute, Sergey Minasyan, said at today's press-conference. 

 Turkey will join the Customs Union when Russia joins NATO, Arghvan Vardanyan, Secretary of ARFD Faction, said in a briefing in the parliament, Friday, when commenting on Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's suggestion to admit Turkey to the Customs Union.  

I don't expert any drastic changes. The country will continue to integrate with the European Union and NATO and at the same time to improve its relations with Russia, Director of the Caucasus Research Resource Centers-Georgia Office Koba Turmanidze said in an interview to ArmInfo, when asked what changes he expects in Georgia's foreign policy as soon as a new president comes into power.

 Town planning in Yerevan has been destroying cultural and historical monuments and damaging environment throughout the country's independence, Karine Danielyan, Head of the Association for Sustainable Development, told ArmInfo.  

 October 27 presidential election in Georgia will change little. Georgian Dream Party will, probably, win. United National Movement and Nino Burjanadze's party will come the second and the third. Koba Turmanidze, Director of the Caucasus Research Resources Center (CRRC-Tbilisi) made such forecasts in an online interview with ArmInfo. 

Tbilisi. Celebrity of French movie Fanny Ardant came to Tbilisi overnight on Thursday, October 24, she will hold her first meeting with Minister of Culture and Monuments Protection Guram Odisharia in the ministry.

Tbilisi. According to results of the public opinion poll, conducted by the  "Psychoproject" research-consulting center, majority of the population of Georgia supports candidate for presidency from the ruling coalition Georgian Dream Giorgi Margvelashvili.

Tbilisi. The Council of Europe must impose sanctions against Georgia for refusal to allow two Russian observers to monitor the presidential elections, deputy head of the Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma Alexei Pushkov stated.

Tbilisi. Representatives of the International Democratic Institute (IRI) arrived in Georgia overnight on October 24 to observe the presidential elections, scheduled for Sunday, October 27.

 The Customs Union countries have supported the intention of Armenia and Kyrghyzstan to join the Eurasian integration project. A working group will be set up shortly to this end. The working group will prepare a relevant 'road map' for Armenia and Kyrghyzstan, President of Russia Vladimir Putin said in a press conference after the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, ArmInfo's correspondent reported. 

European parliamentarians refused to travel to Yerevan to attend the meeting of the Armenia-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee just because of preparations for the elections to the European Parliament, Samvel Farmanyan, Armenian MP (Republican Party),  Co- Chair of the Armenia-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, told ArmInfo.  

 President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, who is on a working visit in Minsk, attended the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in narrow format, with participation of the presidents of Kyrghyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine.  

The international congress of plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgery kicked off in Armenia on 24 October. The conference is dedicated to the use of information technologies in plastic surgery.

 The agreement on the Eurasian Economic Union to be signed in May 2014 by the members of the Customs Union should reflect the new qualities of their integration, President of Russia Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Minsk on Thursday.

 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has suggested admitting Turkey to the Customs Union and dissolving the EurAsEC.