The European Union will provide Armenia with 176 million euros ($208 million) in fresh assistance over the next three years as a result of a landmark agreement signed late last month, Deputy Prime Minister Vache Gabrielian said on Wednesday.
The upcoming adoption by Armenia of higher import duties set by the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will not significantly push up the prices of some key foodstuffs, a senior government official insisted on Friday.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian defended on Thursday the Armenian military’s plans to draft more university students when he met with several organizers of continuing street protests against the measure.
A fourth person jailed in connection with a deadly 1999 attack on the Armenian parliament, which plunged the country into a serious political crisis, has died in prison.
The European Union and Armenia will almost certainly sign next month an agreement aimed at significantly deepening their relations, a senior EU official said late on Thursday.
A planned agreement on Armenia’s “enhanced partnership” with the European Union is not as significant as it is portrayed by some pro-Western elements in the county, a deputy chairman of President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party said on Thursday.
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said on Friday that Armenia will not avoid further peace talks with Azerbaijan despite continuing ceasefire violations in Nagorno-Karabakh that left an Armenian soldier dead.
Russia will provide Armenia with a fresh $100 million loan that will be spent on the purchase of more Russian weapons for the Armenian military, it was announced on Thursday.
President Serzh Sarkisian has pardoned a former head of Armenia’s state pension fund who was arrested five years ago and subsequently sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption.
A senior European Union diplomat urged Armenia’s government on Tuesday to start “internal preparations” for the eventual lifting of the EU’s stringent visa requirements for Armenian nationals.
Armenian law-enforcement authorities have dropped corruption charges against a high-ranking Defense Ministry official who was arrested last year, it emerged on Wednesday.
Bako Sahakian, Nagorno-Karabakh’s president, was sworn for in for another term on Thursday almost two months after local lawmakers voted to extend his decade-long rule.
The European Union is making final preparations to sign a landmark treaty with Armenia in November, the head of the EU Delegation in Yerevan, Piotr Switalski, said on Wednesday.
Armenian opposition groups are unlikely to join forces in a bid to prevent President Serzh Sarkisian from extending his rule next April, a leading member of Raffi Hovannisian’s Zharangutyun (Heritage) party said on Tuesday.
The top religious leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are due to meet in Moscow next week to discuss ways of facilitating a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Armenian Apostolic Church said on Thursday.
Azerbaijan does not accept peace proposals made by the United States, Russia and France despite its calls for “substantive" negotiations on resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian insisted on Wednesday.
Yerevan’s municipal administration announced on Friday that it plans to replace hundreds of battered minibuses by modern buses next year as part of a radical overhaul of the city’s outdated public transport system.
Yerevan’s Mayor Taron Markarian said on Wednesday that he is ready to consider an opposition demand to rename streets and public schools in the Armenian capital still bearing the names of controversial Soviet-era figures.
An aide to opposition leader Raffi Hovannisian said on Tuesday that he, former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian and former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian will continue to jointly challenge the government despite their alliance’s poor showing in Armenia’s recent parliamentary elections.
Armenia’s human rights ombudsman, Arman Tatoyan, on Tuesday described as “unacceptable” the prison conditions of a jailed opposition activist who has been kept in solitary confinement for the past three weeks.
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