The increase of allocations to the defense field in the 2018 state budget is aimed at ensuring people’s security and increase of investments, Gagik Minasyan, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on financial-credit and budgetary affairs, told reporters.
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov sees possibility of progress in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, RIA Novosti reports.
Armenia’s Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan has become a grandfather of twins – his daughter gave birth to a boy and a girl.
Cooperation between Russia and the US on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement was not damaged by the current state of relations between the two countries, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said at the Azerbaijani Diplomatic Academy on November 18, TASS reports.
The position of the European Union on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement has always been the same in support of the efforts and approaches of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries, Armenian foreign minister Edward Nalbandian said at a press conference commenting on the provision of the Declaration of the upcoming Eastern Partnership summit relating to conflicts.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on November 17 signed a decree on appointing Sergey Minasyan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to Romania (residence in Bucharest),
Coming up with an invention in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement process is quite difficult. If Azerbaijan gets a bit watchful to those calls which the Co-Chairing countries present as settlement of the conflict, then greater opportunities will be opened for advancing this process and having results, Armenia’s FM Edward Nalbandian told a press conference.
The meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will be held in Vienna in December, Armenian foreign minister Edward Nalbandian said at a press conference, adding that the exact date and hour of the meeting is not clarified yet.
The Armenian Parliament adopted the bill on exempting the import of military equipment from VAT at the second reading.
The Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) announces the 14th Annual Holiday Gala which will be held at Cipriani in New York City on December 16, the COAF reported.
