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* A draft resolution imposing a third set of sanctions against Iran has been submitted to the UN Security Council, a Western diplomat said

* Armenian riot police broke a protest rally in the capital Yerevan by several thousand people protesting the results of the February 19 presidential election in the Caucasus republic

* The OSCE chairman-in-office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, condemned the use of force against peaceful demonstrators in Yerevan

* Kosovo, the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iran and international terrorism will be priority issues at the UN Security Council as Russia has assumed the council presidency, Russia's UN envoy said

* The people of Iraq can resolve their internal problems without the involvement of any foreign states, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, ahead of his official visit to Baghdad

* Collective peacekeeping forces in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict have set up additional observation posts, an aide to the peacekeeping force commander said

* President Vladimir Putin has held a meeting with permanent members of Russia's Security Council, a presidential spokesman said

* Ravil Geniatullin has been inaugurated as governor of the Trans-Baikal Territory, a local administration spokesman said