In an annual global survey released on Tuesday, the World Bank reported a further, significant improvement of the business environment in Armenia, singling out the areas of tax administration and investor protection.
Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire leader of an opposition alliance that has won Georgia’s parliamentary elections, has raised eyebrows in Armenia after reportedly questioning the existence of a sizable Armenian community in his country. (UPDATED)
Citizens of the European Union member states travelling to Armenia will no longer need entry visas starting from next year, the Armenian government announced on Thursday in what it called a further boost to the country’s European integration.
Hungary’s relations with the United States have been seriously damaged by the repatriation of an Azerbaijani army officer jailed for axe-murdering an Armenian colleague in Budapest, according to a senior Hungarian government official.
Vartan Ayvazian, a senior Armenian lawmaker and former environment minister, on Monday dismissed a U.S. federal court ruling ordering him to pay more than $37 million in damages to a U.S. mining company that has accused him of corruption.
President Serzh Sarkisian appeared to express on Wednesday his dissatisfaction with the European Union’s reaction to Azerbaijan’s decision to pardon, promote and reward Azerbaijani axe-killer Ramil Safarov immediately after his extradition from Hungary.
Luxembourg’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn urged Hungary on Tuesday to acknowledge what he called “offense” caused to Armenia by its decision to repatriate the Azerbaijani axe-killer of an Armenian army officer.
President Serzh Sarkisian criticized the international community on Friday for what he described as a lenient approach to Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian rhetoric and actions, saying that it is paving the way for another Armenian-Azerbaijani war.
Corruption was a key factor behind Hungary’s decision to extradite the Azerbaijani axe-murderer of Armenian Lieutenant Gurgen Markarian to Azerbaijan and thus enable his triumphant release in Baku, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian suggested on Tuesday.
International mediators have held separate negotiations with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan to discuss the “damage” which they believe has been inflicted on the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process by the release from prison of the Azerbaijani killer of an Armenian army officer. (UPDATED)
The Hungarian government has protested and condemned Azerbaijan’s decision to free a soldier found guilty of axe-murdering an Armenian serviceman that was announced immediately after his controversial extradition from Hungary.
Armenia suspended diplomatic relations with Hungary on Friday, furiously condemning the NATO and European Union member state for effectively freeing the convicted Azerbaijani killer of an Armenian army officer. (UPDATED)
The Armenian government dismissed on Wednesday critics’ renewed skepticism about its ability to meet key budgetary targets this year, saying that that tax collection in the country is proceeding according to plan.
U.S. Ambassador John Heffern heaped praise on growing civic activism in Armenia on Tuesday, saying that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) believes it is now more effective than in virtually all other parts of the former Soviet Union.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will meet his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian in Moscow next week for talks that are expected to touch upon his controversial efforts to create a Russian-led “Eurasian Union” of former Soviet republics.
Visiting Chinese military officials on Wednesday presented Armenia’s top army commanders with China’s traditional strategies of warfare at a conference in Yerevan that highlighted growing defense cooperation between the two nations.
The commander of U.S. Army troops stationed in Europe, Lieutenant General Mark Hertling, met with Armenia’s top military leaders and discussed growing U.S.-Armenian military ties during a visit to Yerevan on Wednesday.
President Francois Hollande has reassured France’s influential Armenian community that he remains committed to enacting a new law criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide, effectively refuting a statement to the contrary made by his foreign minister.
Bowing to mounting pressure from opposition politicians, civic activists and media, an influential businessman close to the government stepped down as member of Armenia’s parliament late on Tuesday in connection with deadly violence at a Yerevan restaurant owned by him.
Armenia will again send peacekeeping troops to Kosovo this month in line with an agreement reached with the United States, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said in a newspaper interview published on Monday.
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