In Belgrade, the Serbian government gathered on Friday at an emergency meeting - in connection with the arrest of the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Momchilo Perishic. Employees of the Yugoslav counterintelligence claim that they detained Perishic at the moment when he transmitted secret information to the American diplomat. The diplomat, whose name is not reported, was also detained and released after 15 hours.

Former Libyan intelligence agency Abdel Basset Al-Migrahi was taken to a Scottish prison, where he will serve his life explosion for organizing the explosion of an American airliner. Yesterday, the Scottish court unanimously rejected the appeal of al-Migrahi lawyers and confirmed the justice of the sentence. Al-Migrahi was found guilty of organizing the explosion of the American airliner over the Lokeri village in Scotland in 1988, as a result of which 270 people were killed.

In Minsk today - on the day of the Constitution of Belarus - supporters of the opposition intend to conduct an unauthorized rally. The organizers of the action plan that up to 10 thousand people will take part in it. The police warned that he would take “hard measures” in case of riots. The Constitution of Belarus was adopted on March 15, 1994.

Georgian citizen of Azerbaijani nationality Farid Khalilov became hostage a few months ago. All this period was contained in one of the villages of the Pankis gorge. According to the reports of Tbilisi media, Khalilov’s relatives paid a large ransom for him. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia does not comment on this information.

The program is being conducted by Andrei Shari. Correspondents of Radio Freedom Aurora Galoe and Semyon Mirsky participate. Andrey Sharry: On Friday in Barcelona, in an atmosphere of unprecedented security measures, the European Union summit was opened, in which the heads of state also claim to join this organization. Our correspondent in Spain Aurora Galego reports. Aurora Galoro: Barcelona looks like a besieged city.

Vladimir Abarinov, Washington : Russia announced its intention to send representatives of law enforcement agencies to the Cube of the US naval base to establish citizenship of persons captured in Afghanistan and call themselves Russian citizens. It is still unknown whether Moscow is going to achieve their issuance in the event that the fact of Russian citizenship is established.

Victoria Munblit, Tel Aviv: The representative of the White House, who arrived on Thursday in the region, General Anthony Zinni handed over to the prime minister of Israel Ariel Sharon the unambiguous demand of Washington: the Israeli army should immediately leave the territory of the Palestinian autonomy. The UK also joined this request. At the same time, it should be noted that the White House does not impose special hopes for the success of the Zinny mission.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell stated that he would fight against the Russian ban on the import of chicken from the United States with the same tenacity as he, the former general, showed during the Cold War. Today, ”said Powell,“ we are no longer worried about Russian missiles, but are concerned about the “chicken war”. The former chief of the United Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the United States promised to win this war.

Evgeny Bovkun , Bonn: If the relations of the famous football clubs of Barcelona and Madrid are now reminding the Spaniards "Star Wars", then the participants of the European Union summit in Barcelona are also not far from such a state. Chancellor Germ Gerhard Schreder on the eve of the meeting warned that he would defend the interests of Germany with all the rigidity. Germany resolutely opposes Brussels to reduce state support to new federal lands.

In Serbia, Deputy Prime Minister Momchilo Perishic was detained. Details are unknown. It is only reported that he was detained yesterday in Belgrade by the military police. Until 1998, Perishic was the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia. He became deputy prime minister of Serbia in January last year.

Leading program "Topics" Andrey Sharry: Soon in Kabul the Council of Elders of the Afghan tribes, Loya-Jirga, who, as hoped in Afghanistan, will be able to somehow unite the still divided country. With a comment - Andrey Babitsky: Andrey Babitsky: Loya-Jirga, an organ whose history has about a hundred years, nevertheless, has never played any significant role in the political life of Afghanistan.

Deputies of the State Duma of Russia refused to watch a film-investigation on explosions of residential buildings in Russia in 1999, shot by French journalists with the assistance of entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky. The proposal to show the film in the Duma was supported by only 75 deputies - with the required minimum of 226 votes.

In Vienna, at a meeting of ministers of the oil industry, OPEC member countries decided to leave an oil production by the same level by the end of June. Now the OPEC states produce 21 million 700 thousand barrels of oil per day. The quota was installed in December to prevent further reduction in world oil prices, which fell sharply after the attacks in the United States on September 11th. Currently, the barrel of oil on average costs a little more than $ 22.

In Chechnya, over the past day, the positions of the Russian military were fired five times. In the Leninsky district of Grozny, one soldier was injured. On suspicion of participating in hostilities on the side of the Chechen armed groups, a resident of Dagestan was detained.

Leading program "Topics" Andrey Sharry: The man of the day of Radio Liberty is Moscow Prose -prose Sergey Babayan, the laureate for the first time handed by the literary prize named after Ivan Petrovich Belkin for the story “Without a Return”, published in the journal “Continent”.