The Armenian economy will likely contract by 1 percent this year due to spillover effects of Russia’s economic troubles, the International Monetary Fund has said in a sharp downward revision of its growth projections for Armenia.
A development bank founded by Russia and Kazakhstan provided the Armenian government on Tuesday with a $150 million loan that will finance the ongoing reconstruction of Armenia’s main highways stretching more than 550 kilometers to neighboring Georgia and Iran.
Pope Francis on Sunday again described the massacres of 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as “the first genocide of the 20th century” during an unprecedented Vatican Mass dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the tragedy.
Pope Francis will mark on Sunday the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey with a mass that will be held at the Vatican in the presence of President Serzh Sarkisian and the top clergymen of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Russia is strongly opposed to any attempts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by military means, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday after talks with his visiting Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian.
Armenia will eventually benefit from its recent accession to the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) despite increasingly suffering from knock-on effects of Russia’s current economic troubles, according to President Serzh Sarkisian.
Underscoring increased U.S.-Armenian military cooperation, an Armenian army platoon has joined thousands of soldiers from NATO member states, including Turkey, in conducting fresh U.S.-led exercises in Europe.
In a move hailed by Armenia, Cyprus enacted on Thursday a law making it a crime to publicly deny the 1915 Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey. (UPDATED)
President Serzh Sarkisian on Friday called for an “active” Chinese involvement in the realization of his government’s ambitious plans to build a railway connecting Armenia with neighboring Iran.
The central banks of China and Armenia have exchanged $160 million worth of each other’s national currency in an effort to boost to growing bilateral economic relations.
China’s President Xi Jinping promised more economic and military assistance to Armenia on Wednesday during talks with his visiting Armenian counterpart President Serzh Sarkisian which the two men said will give “new impetus” to growing ties between their nations.
President Serzh Sarkisian flew to Beijing on Tuesday for a four-day state visit aimed at cementing Armenia’s warm relations with China.
Armenia should stop pressing for an official Turkish recognition of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire and instead help Turkey join the European Union, former President Levon Ter-Petrosian said on Tuesday.
Three Armenian soldiers were killed and four others wounded in Nagorno-Karabakh early on Thursday in a fierce firefight which military authorities in Stepanakert said also left at least two Azerbaijani servicemen dead.
Lithuania supports the idea of a new accord that would deepen Armenia’s relations the European Union after the South Caucasus state’s recent accession to a Russian-led alliance, according to a senior Lithuanian official.
Underscoring Armenia’s uneasy relationship with Israel, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has not met with his Israeli counterpart or any other member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government during a rare visit to Jerusalem.
An alliance of Europe’s leading center-right parties has urged Turkey to recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire and “make restitution” to descendants of its 1.5 million victims.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian declined to shed light on his further political activities at the weekend as he rallied supporters in Yerevan for the first time since the dramatic collapse of his alliance with Gagik Tsarukian’s Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK).
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian on Wednesday strongly criticized President Serzh Sarkisian and leaders of Armenian Diaspora organizations for urging Turkey to recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
Armenia will open a consulate in Iraqi Kurdistan and launch direct flights to its capital Erbil this year as part of efforts to forge closer ties with the semi-autonomous region, official Yerevan confirmed over the weekend.
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