Yerevan.
Tigran
Mkrtchyan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of
Armenia to Greece, on Tuesday held a meeting with deputy of the ruling
"New Democracy" party of Greece, chairperson of the Greek
Parliament’s Standing Committee of National
Defense and Foreign Affairs Dora Bakoyannis.
The
decision on Armenia’s possible withdrawal from the CSTO will be made taking
into account its state interests, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a
press conference today.
Nov 20, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Yerevan, represented by its representation in the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO), for the first time publicly refused the assistance
offered by this organization.
Yerevan.
Michigan
Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) led the unanimous U.S. Senate passage of the
“Armenian Protection Act of 2023” (S.3000) which aims to block all U.S.
military assistance to Azerbaijan by removing President Biden’s authority to
waive Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act for Fiscal Years 2024 and 2025,
the ANCA reports.
Nov 16,
2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Azerbaijan
on Thursday refused to participate in normalisation talks with arch-foe Armenia
that were planned in the United States this month over what it said was
Washington’s “biased” position.
Armenia
Italian delegation pays
official visit
On November 9, Suren Papikyan, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, received the delegation led by Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, the Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of
The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia, First Deputy Minister of Defense Lieutenant General Edward Asryan visited the U․S․ European Command Center in Stuttgart.
Germany
will not leave Armenia alone in the face of existing challenges, Foreign
Minister Annalena Baerbock said at a joint press conference with Armenian
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in Yerevan.
Nov 2, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Five people
have been arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack, the National
Security Service of Armenia says.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hopes the Armenia-Turkey border will be
opened for citizens of third countries in the near future.
The Minister of Defense of Greece, Nikos Dendias, received today Tigran
Mkrtchyan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of
Armenia to Greece.
Oct 22,
2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
The 2nd meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia,
Türkiye and Iran within the ‘3+3’ format (Russia, Iran and Türkiye, and 3 South
Caucasus countries - Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia) will be held in Tehran
on October 23, iranian media reports.
Mikheil
Saakashvili, the former Georgian President, addressed Armenian Prime
Minister Nikol Pashinyan with a post on social network X (former Twitter).
Oct 7, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the situation in and around
Nagorno-Karabakh with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev and Armenian
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in phone conversations, the Kremlin press
service said.
As the
Archbishop of Canterbury visits crisis-struck Armenia, the Catholic Bishops of
Europe call for action to address the growing humanitarian emergency in the
country, Vatican News reports.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a declaration following a
meeting in Granada in which he recognized the area of Azerbaijan at 86,600
square kilometers, which includes Garabagh, News.az reports.
Yerevan.
Since Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) President Samvel Shahramanyan signed a
decree on September 28, to dissolve the republic officially by January 1, 2024,
in effect, no Armenians remain in Artsakh anymore.
Yerevan.
Speaker of
Parliament Alen Simonyan has met with the delegation led by Harris Georgiades,
the chairman of the Foreign and European Affairs Committee of the Cypriot
Parliament and Chairman of the Cyprus-Armenia Interparliamentary commission for
cooperation.
French
Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on a visit to Armenia on
Tuesday that Paris agreed to deliver military equipment to the small South
Caucasus nation.
