Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan received the delegation of “National Bureau of Expertise” of the Republic of Armenia National Academy of Sciences headed by structure’s director Artashes Javadyan.

President Serzh Sargsyan sent a congratulatory telegram to the Distinguished Artist of Republic of Armenia Ara Yernjakyan on the occasion of his 65th birthday, wishing him health, new creative achievements and all the best.

By the decree of Armenia’s Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan, the entire staff of the “Mashtots” division of the Passport and Visa Department was dismissed.

Newly-elected Federal Member for North Sydney, Trent Zimmerman gave his maiden speech in the Australia’s House of Representatives on March 2, calling on Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Reports Armenian National Committee of Austrialia.

On the contact line of the Karabakh-Azerbaijan opposing armies the rival fired more than 900 shots from different caliber weapons at Armenian positions on March 1 and early morning of March 2.

“By and large the cessation of hostilities is holding, even though we have experienced some incidents,” Ban told reporters in Geneva before a meeting of the International Syria Support Group.

Only citizens of Syrian have the right to decide who their President will be. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told German ARD Corporation.

Over the past year, 6 women billionaires passed away and the fortunes of 31 fell below $1 billion. But 27 women joined the ranks of the billionaires for the first time and another 3 returned to billionaire status after falling off in previous years.

“McDonald’s has a special way of production. It links its production with sales system: if the issue is settled, it should come either from Russia or Turkey, logistics needs to be worked out, and in this case, some variation in price is possible, and decision will be made in McDonald’s head office, then they’ll make an offer. However, I think, there is an issue with royalty as well. Those, who should enter into a contractual relationship here through franchising, as McDonald’s organizers, they should also gain enough benefit, and upon some marketing surveys, there are some problems in this sector, volumes are not that big. I’m conscious that in the coming 1-2 years McDonald’s won’t appear in Armenia, if not policy decision,” Sukiasyan said.

The two sides agreed that the 4th summit of the Eastern Partnership in May 2015, in Riga was an important milestone in the relations between Armenia and the EU, and based on this, the parties continue to cooperate. The sides noted the importance of the fact that in Riga mutual understanding between Armenia and the EU on the framework for future agreements was confirmed.