Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Saturday questioned the credibility of official results of Armenia’s presidential election, saying that President Serzh Sarkisian benefited from “implausibly high” voter turnout recorded in many precincts.
The United States urged Armenia’s leading political forces to show “restraint” in the wake of a disputed presidential election and again endorsed the findings of the main international vote-monitoring mission late on Wednesday.
In a crucial boost for President Serzh Sarkisian, Western monitors gave on Tuesday a largely positive assessment of Armenia’s presidential election, saying that major irregularities witnessed by them did not affect its outcome.
President Serzh Sarkisian secured a widely anticipated reelection early on Tuesday as preliminary official vote results gave him a comfortable lead over opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian and five other challengers. (UPDATED)
Colonel-General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of staff of Russia’s armed forces, met with Armenia’s top military officials on Friday to discuss what the Defense Ministry in Yerevan called joint military activities planned by the two states.
Two Azerbaijani army soldiers were reportedly killed on Tuesday in what the Defense Ministry in Baku called a ceasefire violation by Armenian forces.
The absence of common borders with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan is not the not only reason for Armenia’s reluctance to join the Russian-led customs union of the three former Soviet republics, according to Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian.
John Kerry, a veteran pro-Armenian senator who will take over as the new U.S. secretary of state on Friday, has reaffirmed Washington’s strong support for an unconditional normalization Turkey’s relations with Armenia.
Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on Friday stressed the importance of a Russian-Armenian agreement on joint manufacturing and maintenance of weapons that will reportedly be signed next month.
Despite serious misgivings voiced by senior tax officials a year ago, the Armenian government appears to have succeeded in achieving a further sizable increase in its tax revenue envisaged by the state budget for 2012.
President Serzh Sarkisian has made the first joint public appearance with businessman Gagik Tsarukian after the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader’s unexpected decision not to challenge him in next February’s presidential election.
The absence of a common border with Russia is not an “insurmountable obstacle” to Armenia’s accession to a Russian-led customs union, a senior official in Moscow said ahead of fresh talks between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Serzh Sarkisian due late on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian discussed his reform agenda with Vice President Joe Biden and sought greater U.S. economic assistance to Armenia as he ended a working visit to the United States late on Thursday.
The United States, Russia and France on Thursday criticized Armenia and Azerbaijan for the lack of progress in their long-running peace talks and called for a “greater sense of urgency” to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
President Serzh Sarkisian and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of a summit of former Soviet republics in Turkmenistan on Wednesday as their governments continued to discuss Armenia’s possible involvement in a Russian-led customs union.
A team of Armenian army officers has visited Turkish military bases deployed along Turkey’s border with Armenia to verify Ankara’s compliance with a key international arms control treaty.
Kuwait will provide humanitarian assistance to scores of Syrian citizens of Armenian descent who have taken refuge in Armenia since the outbreak of the bloody conflict in Syria, official Yerevan said on Tuesday.
Armenia’s President Serzh Sarkisian on Wednesday congratulated U.S. President Barack Obama on winning reelection and expressed confidence that U.S.-Armenian relations will grow even closer during his second term. (UPDATED)
The commander-in-chief of Russia’s ground forces, Colonel-General Vladimir Chirkin, has visited Armenia to meet with the country’s top military officials and inspect Russian troops deployed there.
President Serzh Sarkisian heaped praise on Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenia-backed armed forces and pledged to continue strengthening them with “the most modern weapons” late on Tuesday as he watched them end what military authorities described as large-scale exercises.
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