President Serzh Sarkisian called for the deepening of Armenia’s low-key relationship with Israel as he met with a visiting senior Israeli official on Tuesday.
Armenia publicized on Friday a recently revised version of its Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) with NATO that reaffirms its government’s intention to “draw closer” to the alliance and calls for a more far-reaching reform of its armed forces.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have again accused each other of torpedoing the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process ahead of a new round of peace negotiations which international mediators hope will bring them closer to a settlement.
Azerbaijan has denied Armenian claims that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev presented his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts with a new international plan to end the Nagorno-Karabakh at their meeting in Saint Petersburg last month.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heaped praise on Armenian pro-democracy groups and pledged continued U.S. support for their activities as she ended a landmark visit to Yerevan on Monday.
The International Monetary Fund announced on Tuesday plans to provide Armenia with almost $395 million in fresh loans in the next three years under two new programs that will replace its anti-crisis lending to Yerevan.
Official Yerevan welcomed on Sunday the United States’s, Russia’s and France’s latest calls for Armenia and Azerbaijan to finalize a framework peace accord on Nagorno-Karabakh proposed by them.
President Serzh Sarkisian and Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian paid apparently urgent visits to Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday almost one week after deadly fighting on the Armenian-Azerbaijani Line of Contact around the disputed territory.
President Serzh Sarkisian heaped praise on Germany and called for the expansion of its relations with Armenia after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on an official visit to Berlin on Tuesday.
The Armenian community in the United States is looking to capitalize on Turkey’s reluctance to unconditionally normalize relations with Armenia and castigation of Israel in what appears to be a fresh push for U.S. recognition of the Armenian genocide.
Armenian authorities are still not doing enough to combat human trafficking despite significantly increasing the number of people imprisoned for the illegal practice, the U.S. State Department said in an annual report released late on Monday.
A younger brother of President Serzh Sarkisian has been embroiled in fresh public controversy after apparently hurling abuse at several dozen protesters outside the Armenian parliament.
Azerbaijan could refuse further negotiations with Armenia and try to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by force if the long-running peace process yields no breakthrough soon, President Ilham Aliyev warned in remarks reported on Wednesday.
The U.S., French and Russian co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group could again modify their basic principles of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov indicated over the weekend.
The presidents of Russia and Armenia discussed the future of Turkish-Armenian relations during fresh talks held in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Tuesday. They made no public statements afterwards.
Armenia will intensify its efforts to integrate into Europe after President Serzh Sarkisian’s latest visit to the European Union headquarters in Brussels, a senior pro-government parliamentarian said on Sunday.
When the European Union formally launched the Eastern Partnership program one year ago it signaled a significant upgrading of its political and economic engagement in six former Soviet republics covered by the scheme. It also fuelled hopes for a more aggressive EU push for democratic change there.
Samvel Babayan, a former military leader of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Monday confirmed a recent visit to Iran but insisted that it is not a sign of his renewed active involvement in Armenian politics.
A law-enforcement body investigating the recent suspicious death of a man in Armenian police custody on Friday appeared to have moved closer to endorsing police claims that it was the result of a suicide, rather than torture.
NATO’s top governing body reviewed growing cooperation with Armenia during an annual meeting with key members of the Armenian government that was held at the NATO headquarters in Brussels late on Wednesday.
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