Section: Aravot (Armenia)
PACE monitors compliment Armenian people on peaceful change of power
The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Armenia, Giuseppe Galati (Italy, EPP/CD) and Yuliya Lovochkina (Ukraine, SOC), have congratulated all political forces, and above all the Armenian people, on the restraint … …read more Source:...
Ukraine extends ban on Russian news agencies, journalists
Ukrainian authorities today published a presidential decree that extends for three years sanctions imposed in 2017 against Russian state-funded news outlets and their journalists, as well as other foreign entities and individuals, and added the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti-Ukraine to the sanctions list, according to media reports. …...
Eastern Partnership: Panel on security, defence policy and civil protection meets in Brussels
On 15 May, Brussels hosted the Eastern Partnership (EaP) Panel on Security, Common Security and Defence Policy and Civil Protection. The event gathered over 60 representatives from the EU’s Eastern Partner countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine), … …read more Source:...
Ukraine authorities search Russian news agency, detain director
The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed concern over the Ukraine Security Service’s (SBU) search of the Kiev office of the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti and detention of the office director, Kirill Vyshynsky. The Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted … …read more Source:...
In meetings with President Poroshenko and other senior Ukrainian representatives in Kyiv, OSCE PA delegation discusses ways to end fighting and reduce suffering
Following meetings with governmental and parliamentary leaders in Kyiv, a high-level delegation from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly led by President George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) stressed the need for a UN peace-keeping mission to help end the fighting in eastern Ukraine … …read more Source:...
OSCE parliamentarians, visiting Donbas, call for urgent steps to ease humanitarian situation
Following a two-day visit to areas close to the frontline in eastern Ukraine, a delegation of senior OSCE parliamentarians led by Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) called for urgent steps to alleviate the humanitarian situation of people impacted … …read more Source:...
Monitors react to developments in Yerevan
The PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, Giuseppe Galati (Italy, EPP/CD) and Yuliya Lovochkina (Ukraine, SOC), have reacted to the recent developments in Yerevan. “We welcome the courageous decision of Prime Minister Sargsyan to resign from his post in … …read more Source:...
EU NEIGHBOURS presents new online tool to aggregate news on cooperation between EU and its Eastern Partners
A new tool which aggregates news and articles about EU cooperation with its Eastern Partner countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine) is now available through the EU NEIGHBOURS website. The ‘EU NEIGHBOURS News’ aggregates news and articles published … …read more Source:...
Not case of Ukraine
Representatives from 14 countries, including Armenia, who took part in the session of the Executive Board for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Organization on the “Skripal case”, joined the statement made by Russia, which stressed the need to “make sure … …read more Source:...
Prosecutor in Ukraine flouts court, refuses to return journalist’s passport
The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Ukrainian prosecutors to return the passport of Fikret Huseynli, a Dutch national of Azerbaijani origin, and to respect a district court’s April 2 ruling that the journalist should not be extradited to … …read more Source:...
