President Sarkisian accused Turkey of reversing its rapprochement with Armenia and voiced strong opposition to Ankara’s perceived efforts to take on a leadership role in the region as he paid a state visit to Cyprus on Monday.
Authorities in Yerevan on Monday dismissed Iranian state media claims that a U.S. woman reportedly freed by Iran after a four-day detention has traveled to Armenia.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have described their country’s relations with both Armenia and Azerbaijan as “strategic partnership” and called for their further expansion.
The dramatic collapse of the Turkish-Armenian normalization agreements has vindicated Armenian critics of President Serzh Sarkisian’s policy of rapprochement with Turkey, according to a think-tank led by former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian.
Bypassing the U.S. Senate and ignoring strong objections from its pro-Armenian members, President Barack Obama has appointed Matthew Bryza, his former chief Nagorno-Karabakh negotiator, as U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan.
Armenia has modernized its armed forces and stepped up military cooperation with both Russia and NATO over the past year, Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian said on Wednesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Tuesday urged the Armenian media not to spread false and slanderous reports and insisted that his government is open to “fair” criticism of its policies.
President Serzh Sarkisian predicted on Friday that Armenia will fully emerge from recession next year, saying that his government has “stabilized” the economic situation and learned the right lessons from the global financial crisis.
The U.S. House of Representatives failed to adopt a resolution terming the World War I-era killings of more than 1 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey a genocide as it wrapped up its final session late on Wednesday.
Armenian-American advocacy groups were making last-ditch attempts to push a resolution recognizing the 1915 Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey as genocide through the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, despite what appeared to be slim chances of success.
The World Bank has approved a new $19 million loan for Armenia that will be used for upgrading more hospitals and smaller medical centers outside Yerevan.
The Armenian government announced on Tuesday the impending end of the two-decade-long construction of a new major thermal-power plant located in the central town of Hrazdan.
Armenia officially acknowledged on Monday that its armed forces are equipped with Russian-made surface-to-air missiles widely regarded as one of the world’s most potent anti-aircraft weapons.
President Serzh Sarkisian has pledged to democratize Armenia’s political system and called for a “civilized dialogue” in the country while accusing some of his critics of “discrediting the Armenian people.” (UPDATED)
Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian insisted on Wednesday that he did not discuss the high-profile arrests in the United States of Armenian-born individuals accused of large-scale medical insurance fraud during a visit to Washington last week.
President Serzh Sarkisian and his National Security Council approved at the weekend a five-year plan to modernize Armenia’s armed forces which envisages the acquisition of long-range precision-guided weapons.
The chief of President Serzh Sarkisian’s staff on Friday dismissed as “disinformation” media reports that he is under growing pressure to step down for allegedly facilitating the beating of one of his subordinates by Yerevan’s Mayor Gagik Beglarian.
The International Monetary Fund praised Armenia’s macroeconomic performance but stressed the need for “bolder and deeper reforms” as it announced $57.6 million in fresh loans to Yerevan on Thursday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sounded on Tuesday a cautious note on chances of decisive progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process at this week’s summit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The chief of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s staff visited Armenia on Monday just two days before the start of the OSCE’s summit in Kazakhstan which Moscow hopes will see decisive progress towards the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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