Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) officially named Transportation and Communications Minister Binali Yıldırım as its candidate for the party chair position on May 19, reports Hurriyet.
Artur Javadyan, President of the Central Bank of Armenia says the levels of foreign debt of Armenia are not dangerous currently.
On May 19 Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault during his working visit to France, citing the Azerbaijani media.
Deputy Parliament Speaker of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov says the NKR National Assembly will make a statement condemning and recognizing the Greek Genocide (Pontic Genocide) on May 19.
The Armenian Embassy of Egypt confirms no Armenian citizen were aboard the crashed MS804 EgyptAir plane en route from Paris to Cairo.
Deputy Director of Ucom company Alexander Yesayan participated in the “Connectivity for Commerce and Investment” business conference under the Chairmanship of Germany in the OSCE.
Much of the money for Azerbaijan has been targeted toward naval forces, to reduce the risk that it could be used against Armenia (which is landlocked) and because of the U.S.’s interest in protecting Caspian energy infrastructure.
“Don’t they want to perceive that this is no more a security zone? And that this is the constitutional territory of Artsakh, and Armenia, as a security guarantor of Artsakh, was obliged to raise that issue in Vienna as well.”
“Assessments may be found in some media outlets, that Russia is losing the South Caucasus and etc. I consider, what happens now tactically can’t be qualified as success for Russian diplomacy, however, I wouldn’t consider this a complete failure, as the response of the Armenian society on armaments selling was rather sharp.”
On April 26, 2016, at a regular meeting of leaders of the factions represented in the City Hall of the Basque Country (Spain) Gipuskoa Province’s capital city of Donostia (San Sebastian), the following institutsoinal statement was issued, which was later approved by the Mayor on May 5.
