Vardan Minasyan will once again be the boss of the Armenian national football team, the Football Federation of Armenia said. Minasyan was the head coach of the team earlier in 2009-2014 also. His term as coach ended in 2013 but he remained in office as acting coach through 2014.
La Stampa Italian newspaper interviewed Serzh Sargsyan who paid an official visit to the Holy See and working visit to Italy as President of Armenia on April 4-6 (his tenure ended on April 9).
Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan will continue playing role in the country’s administration system, but the leader will be the head of the ruling political force Serzh Sargsyan, Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Sharmazanov told reporters.
New President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian says in order to attract foreign investments it is necessary to provide a transparent legal field and successful business examples for investors.
Acting PM of Armenia Karen Karapetyan appointed Michael Harutyunyan to serve as acting chief military superintendent.
Armen Ashotyan, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the parliament, says it is important that between Armenia and the EU the terming about the NK conflict gets ratified under the same text by all EU member states.
The European Union will increase financial assistance for Armenia for ensuring the effective implementation of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA), deputy foreign minister Karen Nazaryan said during parliamentary debates on ratifying CEPA.
The relations of Armenia and Russia are distinguished by allied and strategic character bearing on them a dynamic political dialogue at the highest level, productive cooperation in economic, military, military-technical and humanitarian spheres, new President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian said in an interview to the Russian TASS news agency.
Armenia hopes that the EU will soon provide the action program of launching the visa liberalization, deputy FM Karen Nazaryan said during parliamentary debates on ratifying the CEPA with the EU in response to a question from opposition Yelk faction.
Armenia has assurances that the EU will maintain the common stance over the NK conflict settlement issue in the framework agreement with Azerbaijan, which is under negotiations, Armenia’s deputy FM Karen Nazaryan said during parliamentary debates on ratifying the Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement in response to a question from the opposition Yelk bloc.