Tours of the Houses of Parliament have been cancelled and nobody without a pass will be allowed onto the estate today following the decision to increase the terror threat level to critical last night, the Telegraph reports.
Archbishop Aram Ateshyan has stepped down as Patriarchal Vicar of the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul, Bagrat Estukyan, editor of the Armenian department of Agos newspaper told.
The Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society New York Chapter Executive Committee recently announced that it will donate proceeds of its 50th anniversary festival – USD 15, 000 – to the Artsakh military, Armenian Weekly reported.
The President’s budget maintains military parity between Armenia and Azerbaijan, at $600,000 for International Military Education and Training (IMET), but does not recommend Foreign Military Financing (FMF) to either country.
“Who is guilty? For instance, I didn’t observe any prevention or opposing opinion, and Azerbaijan is against. A question rises here: who is interested in settlement through force? Naturally, the side, touching upon conflict settlement through force. It’s Azerbaijan.”
Senior Islamic State militants including the group’s “minister of war” have been killed in Syrian army operations to the east of Aleppo, Syrian state media cited a military source as saying on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
A meeting planned for May 25, 2017, between European Union leaders and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey should signal that discussion of upgraded economic cooperation is dependent on Ankara’s willingness to tackle its human rights and rule of law crisis, Human Rights Watch informed.
In the scope of a regional tour to the South Caucasus, a Foreign Affairs Committee delegation, led by its Chair David McAllister (EPP, DE), will be in Armenia on 24-25 May, the EU Delegation to Armenia informed.
Armenia’s economic activity index (EAI) in January-April 2017 compared with the same period of the previous year comprised 105.7%. Note, in January-March EAI rate was higher—6.6%.
During Cannes 70th Film Festival (May 18-26), for the first time Armenia was represented in the sector Village International/Pantiero under the number 226.
