Consumer price inflation in Armenia has remained below the government’s maximum target rate so far this year after steadily decreasing in the second half of 2011, according to official statistics.
Two pro-Armenian members of the U.S. Senate formally introduced on Tuesday a new draft resolution that refers to the 1915 Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey as genocide and urges President Barack Obama to act accordingly.
The head of a coalition of Europe’s leading conservative parties has voiced strong support for the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) and predicted its victory in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
A Russian company exploiting Armenia’s largest gold mines has reported a sharp rise in output last year and pledged to raise production levels further after modernizing its gold smelter in the southern town of Ararat.
Armenia has significantly increased acquisitions of new and sophisticated weapons in the last few years in response to a massive military buildup in Azerbaijan, according to Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian.
Armenia’s political leadership is committed to holding free and fair elections and carrying out broader democratic reforms, the European Union’s two top officials said after talks with President Serzh Sarkisian in Brussels late on Tuesday.
The United States deserves its share of the blame for the failure of recent years’ efforts to normalize Armenia’s relations with Turkey, according to a renowned U.S. scholar who has been actively involved in Turkish-Armenian dialogue in the past.
Opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian again reached out to Armenia’s second largest governing party on Thursday, downplaying its alleged links with former President Robert Kocharian and reacting positively to former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian’s decision to join it.
In a ruling welcomed by Turkey, France’s highest court on Tuesday rejected as unconstitutional a French bill that would make it a crime to deny that the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide. (UPDATED)
The European Union has given the final green light for the launch of official negotiations with Armenia on a far-reaching free trade agreement that should significantly deepen the country’s integration with the 27-nation bloc.
The United States and Armenia have finalized plans to hold in April first-ever joint military exercises that will be primarily aimed at improving the interoperability of their forces deployed in Afghanistan, the Defense Ministry in Yerevan announced on Wednesday.
Armenia will have trouble servicing its increased external debt in the next few years unless its government changes the existing “crony capitalist” system and embarks on genuine democratic reforms, a Washington-based Armenian advocacy group said on Monday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was briefed on the results of the latest Armenian-Azerbaijani summit in Russia during separate talks with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian held over the weekend.
Vartan Oskanian, Armenia’s former longtime foreign minister, on Monday hinted at the possibility of running for parliament on the Prosperous Armenia Party’s ticket and called for a broad-based “civic movement” for the freedom and fairness of the May elections.
A senior U.S. State Department official met with President Serzh Sarkisian on Friday at the end of a two-day visit to Armenia that reportedly focused on bilateral relations, regional security and the upcoming Armenian parliamentary elections.
Official Yerevan announced on Thursday the impending start of formal negotiations that should lead to a far-reaching free-trade deal and a more liberal visa regime between Armenia and the European Union.
France’s upper house of parliament approved late on Monday a government-backed bill that makes it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide, despite Turkey’s threats to impose more sanctions on Paris. (UPDATED)
In what has been touted as a major anti-corruption measure, the Armenian police will start operating next Monday the first surveillance cameras in Yerevan designed to detect and punish traffic violations.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is expected to host this month fresh talks between his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts in an effort to kick-start the stalled Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
President Serzh Sarkisian has assured Armenians that he does not regard forthcoming parliamentary elections primarily as a means of clinging to power and said he needs popular support for their proper conduct.
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