Earlier on October 6 Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan held a meeting with the Co-Chairs in Yerevan.
The ANCA reported that Secretary Tillerson expressed his support in response to Congressional inquiries from Representatives Brad Sherman (D-CA) and David Cicilline (D-RI). His written responses were made public this week.
The military exercises will be held in the territories of 4 countries – Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. They will be attended by all member states of the CSTO. The goal is to improve CSTO’s leadership system.
He added that the functions of the contract have been fully realized. Zakaryan mentioned that by yearend Russia will complete the supply process of weapons to Armenia within the framework of the loan agreement.
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russia), Stephane Visconti (France) and Andrew Schofer (USA) will visit the region this week, Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov said during a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart, APA reports.
The President said despite the geographical distance the Armenian people have warm attitude towards the countries of Latin America, including Colombia, which is linked with the fact that those countries provided shelters and opportunity to develop to some part of the Armenian people who survived the Genocide. According to the President, the existence of a city named Armenia in Colombia is one of the proofs of ties existing between the two peoples.
More than 1,000 servicemen are involved in the drills. The multinational command and headquarters will plan a joint operation to localize an armed conflict on the territory of the “enemy” – a CSTO member state – at an automated control post in the Rostov Region.
“Did you calculate the damages if we were to leave the EEU? The gas price alone for Armenia’s industries dropped by more than 30 dollars. Armenia’s economic benefit from the gas price decrease alone is greater than it would be if we were to sign the free trade agreement with the EU. And this is stated by European experts”, he said.
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The Islamic State captured valuable oil producing regions, including the Bayji refinery in Iraq and the oil-rich Deir al-Zour region in eastern Syria, when the militants rose to prominence in 2014.
