Action participants protested against Moscow's policy on the problem of Karabakh; but reinforced police detachments did not let the OKL activists approach to the legation.

On November 19, authorities in Abkhazia denied the allegations from the Georgian side that the Abkhazian army was preparing an invasion of the Kodori Gorge taking advantage of the internal political crisis in Georgia. This was announced earlier by Emzar Kvitsiani, plenipotentiary of the Georgian President in Kodori.

The Central Election Commission announced the results of the November 2 parliamentary elections on Thursday.

"The "Promoting Human Rights and Facilitating Public Awareness of the Public Defender?s Office in Armenia" Project designed jointly with the National Assembly of Armenia and supported by the Netherlands Government will commence in January 2004," announced Ms. Lise Grande, UN Development Programme Resident Coordinator in Armenia.

A traditional Armenian telethon arranged by the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund is to take place in Los Angeles, the U.S., on November 27. It is aimed at gathering donations for the construction of the North-South Highway in Nagorny Karabakh.

The refugees lodge complaints against illegal actions of Ingush migration service officials, who, as the declarants think, break the Russian Law on Displaced Persons.

Students of the town gathered at 10 a.m. in the republican blood transfusion station to transfuse blood, protesting in that way against the aggression in the Caucasus.

In spite of the fact that court trials in the cases on the October 27 events and murder of Tigran Nagdalian are over, in actual fact the organizers of these crimes have not been revealed and justice has not been rendered. Albert Bazeian, chair of the "Republic" Party and a member of the "Fairness" faction, made such a statement at a session of the Armenian Parliament on November 18.

Gunmen in masks and camouflage uniforms captured three people in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny and took them away in an unknown direction, locals reported.

At a press conference on November 18, President of Nagorny Karabakh Arkady Gukasian commented on the statement of the Azerbaijan Foreign Minister, who said Baku would not sit to the bargaining table with Stepanakert and Azerbaijan would be compelled to solve the problem "by other means". Arkady Gukasian declared this to be blackmail. Baku perfectly realizes no one wants a war in the region and Azerbaijan is trying to gamble on it, thrusting its stance on the world community.

On November 18, the Union of Parliamentary Journalists addressed a statement to Milli Majlis Speaker Murtuz Alekserov in view of the ban against the admission to parliament sessions for correspondents of the opposition "Azadlyg" and "Yeni Musavat" newspapers.

Abuyadig Saayev was attacked yesterday in Grozny. He was rounded up by gunmen; they put him in a car and took away.

As soon as meetings of protest is over in Tbilisi, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and representatives of Abkhazian and South Osetian virtual authorities will arrive in Georgia, according to Shevardnadze.

"The Erkel case remains unsolved. We are urging those responsible for this crime to free Erkel unconditionally and immediately," the UN acting Coordinator for Humanitarian Problems Mikko Vienonen said at a press conference at the Interfax central office on Wednesday.

Humanitarian organizations have two strategic goals in the Northern Caucasus: "to offer urgent humanitarian aid and help to restore normal living conditions and to enhance the potential of local civil society and government agencies".

Bodies conducting the investigation established that leaders of the opposition Musavat Party and Azerbaijan Democratic Party had planned the mass riots of October 15-16 in Baku beforehand, said Azerbaijan Interior Minister Ramil Usubov.

The opposition newspapers "Novoye Vremya", "Yeni Zaman", "Yeni Musavat", "Azadlyg" and "Khurriyet" have not been published in Baku since November 15. Their publication was suspended because publishing houses that printed them refused to sell paper.

The actions of protest are to star on November 19 with a picket of about 50 OKL activists in front of the Russian embassy in Baku.

The refugees themselves connect the raids by law-enforcement agents with the recent tragic occurrence in the Ingush village of Troitskaya when five Ingush OMON (special tasks platoon) fighters were killed as a result of an explosion.

Jean-Marie Guehenno will meet with leaders of the republic, political parties and non-government organizations, and with CIS Peacekeeping Forces Commander Major-General Aleksandr Yevteev.