Foreign Minister Iran Kamal Harazi will meet today in London with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Foreign Minister Jack Str. Karasi said yesterday that he would discuss the possibility of avoiding war in Iraq and convincing Baghdad of the need to comply with UN resolutions. According to Harazi, Iran does not intend to support any of the parties to the conflict.

Georgy Kobaladze , Tbilisi: Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze announced the need to bring an anti -terrorist operation in the Pankisi Gorge as soon as possible. The performance of the US Secretary of State Colin Powell at the UN Security Council regarding the Pankisian Gorge, several Georgian officials commented on Thursday at once.

On February 19, International Kitov Day is celebrated. In the last three years, on the coast of Sakhalin, in the immediate vicinity of the places of feeding gray whales, foreign companies have been drilling oil wells. Tens of thousands of tons of toxic drilling solutions are discarded from the oil producing platform into the sea. Oil is shipped to tankers. Oganes Targulian: Of course, oil companies can produce oil in such a way that gray whales will remain alive.

In Switzerland, the court sentenced to four years in prison a French citizen who stole dozens of exhibits from local museums. At the process, the defendant admitted that from 1995 to 2001 he stole 69 paintings, figurines, cups and other art objects. According to the criminal, they were owned by an obsessive idea, but one fine day he was going to return everything stolen. After the museum thief sets out the term in the Swiss prison, he will have a court in France - for similar crimes.

In St. Petersburg, 330 police officers were held accountable over the past year-for concealing crimes. This was announced today by the prosecutor of the city Ivan Sydoruk. According to him, criminal cases have been instituted against 24 employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg, the police hid more than 4.5 thousand crimes last year.

The United States was provided by the UN department for refugees $ 15 million to ensure the return of Afghan refugees to their homeland. According to the State Department, this year, the United States will allocate $ 65 million for Afghan refugees.

In Brussels today there is a special session of the NATO Council dedicated to the Iraqi problem. NATO Secretary General George Robertson reported yesterday that representatives of countries that are part of the North Atlantic Union will discuss measures to protect Turkey - in the event of a war in Iraq. Türkiye included in NATO is Iraq's neighbor. According to Robertson, NATO and the European Union, like the United States, advocate the disarmament of the Iraqi regime.

Recently in Kyiv, Vladimir Putin opened the year of Russia in Ukraine. A month and a half before Leonid Kuchma in Moscow closed the year of Ukraine in Russia. He closed, but did not explain what changed during this year, in addition to the fact that already a small turnover between the two countries fell even more. Meanwhile, private Russian capital was normally flowing and flowing to Ukraine.

Great Britain sends additional troops to the Persian Gulf area - on the eve of a possible war against Iraq. According to the British Minister of Defense, Jeff Hong, at this stage, about one hundred aircraft and almost 7 thousand military personnel will be sent to the region. About 30 thousand British military personnel and 17 warships have already been deployed in the Persian Gulf. London is the most consistent US ally in Iraq politics.

Since the beginning of the year, according to official figures, 6 people have died from the beginning of the year, among them are four children. According to the information of the state-owned supervision of Russia, two deaths were recorded in St. Petersburg and Voronezh, one at a time in Astrakhan and Ulyanovsk. Epidemic of influenza covers more than two dozen Russian regions.

The program involves: Georgian political scientist and publicist Ivlian Khaindrava, representative of the Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia Tina Hidasheli and Radio Liberty correspondent in Tbilisi Yuri Vachnadze. Tengiz Gudava: Peacekeepers are a word, in relation to Russian peacekeepers in the zone of Georgian -Abkhaz conflict, has long lost all meaning. No world is happening here, but there is a state of paralysis, shock and thrombosis.

In the United States, more than 17 thousand reservists are called up for actual military service. The US Department of Defense reported that the total number of the azed reservists is more than 111 thousand. During the war in the 1991 Persian Gulf, 265 thousand reservists participated in combat operations. In the Persian Gulf zone, more than 100 thousand American troops are currently deployed.

The program is maintained by Andrei Sharogradsky. He talks with Andrei Sharym and the Moscow Balkanist historian Sergei Romanenko. Andrei Sharogradsky: In the focus of our program, disappearance from the world of the world of the state of Yugoslavia, after the Constitutional Charter of the new state of Serbia and Montenegro was ratified by the Yugoslav parliament. In the conversation, Moscow historian and Balkanist Sergey Romanenko, and my colleague Andrei Shariy take part in the conversation.

US President George Bush is ready to play a more active role in the Middle Eastern peaceful process, ”said Secretary of State Colin Powell. According to him, Bush supports a plan providing for the creation of the Palestinian state by 2005. A document prepared by the United States, the European Union, the UN and Russia will soon be published. As Powell noted, the Palestinian authorities have not yet made enough to reform autonomy - the necessary condition for creating a Palestinian state.

US President George Bush expressed consent to the adoption by the UN Security Council of a new resolution on Iraq, allowing the use of force against Baghdad. George Bush warned that the United States - along with the growing coalition of countries - would take military steps if the security council does not fulfill its debt to disarm. Saddam Hussein regime.