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Jirayr Libaridian, a former advisor to ex-Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian on foreign affairs tells the daily Haykakan Zhamanak that a territorial swap option calling for exchange of Armenian Meghri for Karabakh is not of equal value. He also says that Armenia°s neighbors Azerbaijan and Georgia are perceiving Yerevan as a serious obstacle on the way to regional integration Meantime the daily Azg reports, citing a Baku-based Zerkalo daily that the Armenian authorities will unveil soon their option of the so-called °Paris Principles° of the Karabakh conflict regulation, under which the Lachin corridor, providing an overland connection between Karabakh and Armenia, will go under the sovereignty of Armenia and the Meghri corridor goes under the joint supervision of the international peacekeeping forces and Armenia until the establishment of full climate of confidence. After the mutual trust is fully established Meghri corridor is put under the full supervision of Armenia. Karabakh practically gets the status which was supposed by the idea of the common state, but the term °common state° is not going to be used. Karabakh will receive a right to conduct independent foreign and internal policy as well as the right to have self-defense forces. The status of Shushi and the issue of return of Azeri refugees to the town will be adjusted separately. A senior official of the Armenian Assembly of America says to the daily Azg that Armenia°s economy is in a dire state and the unemployment forces most talented and gifted specialists to seek work in other countries. "It is our belief that if the governments of Turkey and Armenia start talking about improvement of economic relations, the AAA will welcome it and will support it," he says. The daily Haykakan Zhamanak says that the leader of a tiny Constitutional Right Union Hrant Khachatrian is having consultations with lawyers and some of opposition forces with the aim of nominating himself as a candidate for 2003 presidential election. In another story the leader of the National Democratic Union (NDU)) Vazgen Manukian says that his party will never back the incumbent president Kocharian in 2003 election. The daily Aravot reports that Vartan Makeyan of the opposition Democratic Fatherland party, whose complaints led the Constitutional Court to annul the official results of the vote of a by -election to parliament is withdrawing his candidacy because his supporters are facing "pressure and intimidation" from his pro-government rival from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. The daily Aravot claims that a very high-ranking government official has pledged substantial financial support to Stepan Demirchian, the leader of the People°s Party of Armenia (PPA) in the 2003 presidential election on condition that he leaves the alliance of 13 opposition parties. Judging from Stepan Demirchian°s latest steps he seems to have taken the proposal, the daily says. Seda Vermisheva, member of the board of the Union of Russian Armenians says to the bi-weekly Respublika Armenia that the only state in the region pursuing Western ideas is Turkey with which Armenia has no diplomatic relations. But the friendly Iran follows values which are not accepted in the West. The pro-Kocharian daily Hayots Ashkhar is still surprised by the agitation that is taking place in the headquarters of the former ruling Pan-Armenian National Movement. The daily claims that no one, including the ordinary people would welcome the return of the former authorities to the big politics.