For the first time in Armenia a strategic foreign investor acquired an Armenian mining company through joint financing of three Armenian banks. AIM-listed Chaarat Gold Holdings Limited acquired 100% of shares of “Kapan Mining and Processing Enterprise” CJSC for USD 55M from a company listed on the same stock exchange which is a subsidiary of Russian Polymetal Group.
Prime Minister Pashinyan reaffirmed Armenia’s commitment to an exclusively peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmanship and presented Armenia’s approaches and principled position on this issue.
Armenian aviation authorities have banned Boeing B-737-MAX 8 and Boeing B-737-MAX 9 aircraft from its entering its airspace.
Towards the agricultural season, Converse Bank has launched a new loan type “Agro” offering affordable and competitive interest rates to start-up and growing agricultural businesses.
During their meeting in Yerevan today President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian and Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili discussed issues relating to the settlement of regional conflicts.
This is the first visit of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to the region over the past three years.
Any change in the negotiations format for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict must be acceptable for all sides, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Miroslav Lajčák, said in Yerevan, asked who should represent the people of Artsakh in the negotiations.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Miroslav Lajčák, expresses readiness to do everything to help finding a solution for settling the Nagorno Karabakh conlfict.
President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili has visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan to pay tribute to the Armenian Genocide victims.
Private Hamlet Avagyan of the Armenian Armed Forces has died after accidentally falling down a gorge around 17:00, March 12, while on his way from one military position to another.