Armenia’s defense budget increased by 66 billion drams since 2018, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in the Parliament during the debate of the 2020 state budget draft.
On the occasion of the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Bratislava, we, the Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries (Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, Secretary of State to the Minister for European and Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Phil Reeker) remain strongly committed to mediating a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs held a meeting on December 4 in Bratislava, the foreign ministry said in a news release.
The meeting of foreign minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and foreign minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov was held in Bratislava on December 4 on the sidelines of the 26th OSCE ministerial conference. The meeting was held under the mediation and with the participation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stéphane Visconti of France, and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America, as well as Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.
Serzh Sargsyan does not consider himself guilty under charge brought against him In response to the inquiry of 168.am, the Office of the third President of the Republic of Armenia reported the following: “Third President of the Republic of Armenia, President of the Republican Party of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan does not consider himself guilty under the phony and nonsensical charge brought against him by the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Armenia, considering it political persecution.”
The Executive Body of the Republican Party of Armenia has issued a statement on the charge brought up against President of the Republican Party of Armenia, third President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan. The statement reads as follows:
Spouse of the Armenian prime minister Anna Hakobyan invited wife of the Azerbaijani president Mehriban Aliyeva to Artsakh.
An Azerbaijani woman frustrated with the local government has publicly threatened President Ilham Aliyev that she will emigrate to Armenia.
On December 4, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the border of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, in the north-east of the Hadrut region.
President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda thinks that the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey is a matter of time and one day it will happen.