The Armenian government approved the 2017 summer conscription procedure. Deputy minister of defense Ara Nazaryan said during the Cabinet meeting that organizational works will be carried out jointly with relevant authorities. The procedure will regulate the MayJuly 2017 summer draft process.

The cuts are likely to be shared again by a dozen non-members led by top oil producer Russia, which reduced output in tandem with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries from January.

Astana-Yerevan rst direct ight will operate on May 31, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Armenia H.E. Timur Urazayev said at the meeting with the teaching staff of the Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences.

The meeting was closed for the press. Later Erdogan also had a meeting with President of the European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission JeanClaude Juncker.

The operation of new flight became possible thanks to the meeting between Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Armenia H.E Timur Urazayev and Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies Vahan Martirosyan. At the meeting the sides announced opening Astana-Yerevan direct flights.

“The past ten years passed either good or bad, perhaps the time without a Patriarch should’ve passed in that way. Ateshyan shouldn’t be blamed much either. A man, who isn’t the Patriarch, could’ve done only that much,” Mashalyan told Agos newspaper.

From the opposite side of the Line of Contact, the monitoring was conducted by Field Assistant to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Ofce Ghenadie Petrica (Moldova) and staff member of the Ofce of the OSCE CiO Personal Representative Martin Schuster (Germany).

“Unfortunately, escalation is possible at any moment. The point is that inside Azerbaijani elite sharp struggle is ongoing for existence under current serious economic crisis. Many realize Azerbaijan needs no Karabakh.”

The escalating standoff between Russia and the west, on the increase since the 2014 Russian military incursion into Ukraine, inherently led to a fundamental transformation of Eastern Europe’s security environment. A revised strategic reality in Europe, coupled with rising challenges from the Middle East, has affected an already shaky security context in the South Caucasus.

Through the PURE Water program USAID will also promote the design of small-scale water infrastructure projects to support the water needs of impacted communities.