President Serzh Sarkisian officially confirmed on Friday that he wants a former Armenian prime minister currently serving as Armenia’s ambassador to Britain to succeed him as head of state in April.
Armenia’s next president must be a renowned but politically inexperienced individual who speaks foreign languages, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Tuesday.
After three years of rapid reduction, multimillion-dollar remittances from Armenians working abroad grew strongly in 2017, contributing to faster economic growth in Armenia.
The lingering uncertainty over who will govern Armenia after President Serzh Sarkisian completes his final term in April is adversely affecting the country’s economy, Prime Minister Karen Karapetian said in an interview published on Wednesday.
Armenia’s economy will grow by more than 6 percent this year after stagnating in 2016, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday.
Turkey has again made clear that it will not implement Western-backed agreements to normalize its relations with Armenia without a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict acceptable to Azerbaijan.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan held late on Wednesday what they both described as “positive” negotiations on the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Law-enforcement authorities in Armenia have dropped criminal charges against a 32-year-old woman who has admitted killing her reportedly violent husband in May.
A senior representative of Russia’s ruling party reportedly voiced support late on Monday for Armenia’s efforts to forge closer links with the European Union while maintaining its political and military alliance with Russia.
Armenia has held “very open and positive” discussions with Israel regarding large-scale sales of Israeli-made weapons to Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said during a rare official visit to Jerusalem this week.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to improve Israel’s uneasy relationship with Armenia after holding talks with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
The Armenian customs service said on Wednesday that it has found and confiscated more than 100 kilograms of heroin from a Turkish-owned truck that crossed into Armenia from Iran.
A U.S. company announced on Wednesday its intention to participate in the planned construction of a major hydroelectric plant in Armenia initiated by Samvel Karapetian, a Russian-Armenian billionaire businessman.
President Serzh Sarkisian on Tuesday pledged to “modernize” Armenia’s army through a seven-year plan of actions which he said will be launched less than three months before he completes his final presidential term in April.
Armenia’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday paid tribute to an ethnic Armenian businessman and philanthropist who died overnight while serving a controversial prison sentence in Russia.
The European Union has publicized an extensive agreement to deepen its political and economic relations with Armenia which is expected to be signed during an EU summit next month.
The former commander of Russian troops in Syria on Thursday briefed Armenia’s Defense Minister Vigen Sargsian and top army generals on Russian military operations conducted in the war-torn nation.
The Armenian government pledged on Thursday to significantly increase public spending on infrastructure projects and defense while ensuring a corresponding rise in its tax revenue next year.
Garo Paylan, an ethnic Armenian opposition member of the Turkish parliament, pledged on Friday to try to “build bridges” between Turkey and Armenia, while reiterating that Ankara is unlikely to normalize relations with Yerevan anytime soon.
President Serzh Sarkisian indicated late on Tuesday his intention to formally annul the U.S.-brokered 2009 agreements to normalize Armenia’s relations with Turkey, citing Ankara’s continuing refusal to implement them unconditionally.
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