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People of Nagorno Karabakh should have their representative in negotiation process-PM Pashinyan
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are working to arrange the possible meeting of the heads of the states, ARMENPRESS reports Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with Deutsche Welle Russian service. To the question of the journalist what were the results of the meetings with Aliyev, Pashinyan answered,...
Henrikh Mkhitaryan turns 30 years old
Henrikh Mkhitaryan, midfielder of the Armenian national football team and London’s Arsenal, today is celebrating his 30th birthday. Mkhitaryan is the best football player in the history of independent Armenia, currently the only footballer playing in the Premier League. Henrikh Mkhitaryan was born on 21 January 1989. At an early age he...
EU’s migration problems with other countries should not impact visa liberalization dialogue with Armenia – Armen Ashotyan
Armen Ashotyan, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the parliament, says it is important that between Armenia and the EU the terming about the NK conflict gets ratified under the same text by all EU member states. During parliamentary debates on ratifying CEPA with the EU, Ashotyan stressed that the resolution about the NK conflict...
Google Maps now available in Armenian language
Google Maps has added 39 new languages, including Armenian. “Fourteen years ago, Google Maps looked a lot different, and it was only in English. Fast forward to today, and now more than 1 billion people use Google Maps to discover new places, find the best driving, biking, and walking routes, and get things done in the real world. Today,...
Statement on inaccurate reports about U.S. budget spending
The budget agreement recently signed by U.S. President Donald J. Trump includes funding for foreign assistance programs, including those in Armenia. Recent reports that the funding plan eliminates all foreign assistance to Armenia are wrong and based on a misunderstanding of the U.S. budget process. Given the strong separation of powers in the...
Washington will be paying less attention to NK conflict, than it did: Paul A.Goble
After the U.S. presidential elections on November 8, the newly elected president, Republican, billionaire Trump, his possible administration and anticipated foreign policy, in which approaches of Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton and od Donald Trump were considerably different, are in the focus of attention of the world’s expert community....
“When Trump’s administration glances at Karabakh, it’s won’t be beneficial to Yerevan, Baku and Moscow”
Interview with Grigory Trofimchuk, foreign affairs, security and defense expert, Russian analyst. Mr. Trofimchuk, after the April war OSCE MG co-chairs worked actively, presidential summits have been recorded in Vienna, then in St. Petersburg, after which negotiations appeared at a deadlock again. Moreover, from November 10 the Azerbaijani side...
Legal status should be granted to the Russian Language in former USSR countries: RF MFA
The issue of granting the Russian Language a status of the second state language should be included in the agenda of Russia’s foreign policy, Eleonora Mitrofanova, Permanent Delegate of the Russian Federation to UNESCO, said. RIA Novosti reported about this. “After a generation we will come to the point, that people (in former USSR...
EU and Eastern Partnership countries stepping up cooperation on innovation with the EU4Innovation initiative
Commissioners Johannes Hahn and Carlos Moedas and EEAS Deputy Secretary General Jean-Christophe Belliard, launch the EU4Innovation initiative in Yerevan Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation and Jean-Christophe Belliard,...
Trump will be grateful to his predecessors for NK: Vadim Dubnov
Billionaire Donald Trump, member of Republican Party, who has won the U.S. presidential elections, appeared with contradicting statements during his campaign regarding domestic and foreign policies of the USA. Trump, who used to consider that the USA shouldn’t support Ukraine in conflict with Russia, recently insisted that the USA should...
