Yesterday evening, 85 Members of Congress joined in sending a letter to Ambassador James Warlick, U.S. Co-Chair of OSCE Minsk Group which is tasked with finding a resolution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The letter, spearheaded by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), urges Ambassador Warlick to “publicly condemn specific acts of aggression along the line of contact.
On October 15th, 2015, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights judged the case Perinçek v. Switzerland (application no. 27510/08), holding, by a majority, that there had been a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights.
This week, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert is expected to plead guilty to the charge of making secret payments to buy the silence of boys he had sexually abused when he was a high school wrestling coach. This plea deal with federal prosecutors would seal his court records, thus hiding from the public the details of the evidence against him.
The Opera House in Yerevan, St. Gregory Cathedral (Zvartnots) in Vagharshapat (5-7th centuries), Tufenkian Old Dilijan Complex in Dilijan (19-20th centuries) and the Monument “Mother Armenia” in Gyumriare among the list of over 200 iconic monuments, buildings, museums, bridges and other landmarks in nearly 60 countries around the world that were lit up blue on October 23-24.
On 24 October, more than 200 iconic monuments, buildings, museums, bridges and other landmarks in more than 60 countries around the world will be lit up blue – the official color of the United Nations, as part of a global campaign to commemorate UN Day and the 70th anniversary of the United Nations.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Ministry of Finance of Armenia and the Municipality of Yerevan city have signed an agreement to allocate a co-financing grant of €1.9 million to support the modernisation of street lighting in the city of Yerevan.
To accommodate the high demand for travel to the United States by Armenians during the winter holiday season, the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan will be open on Sunday, November 1, in order to provide additional visa interviews for Armenian citizens.
On October 3 Gyumri hosted the first dental implantation master class surgery for doctors to watch for the purpose of supporting the development of dental implantation practice in Gyumri.
Aviation, energy efficiency and environment will also be areas of joint work for the EU and Armenia. The EU will use the European Neighbourhood Investment Facility to provide loans from European financial institutions in particular to improve interconnections and market access.
The U.S. Embassy in Yerevan hosted a delegation of academics and policy experts, who specialize in clean energy development. The group of subject-matter experts, a Partnership Opportunity Delegation organized by the State Department’s Office of Global Partnerships, was in Armenia for a three-day exploratory session where they discussed issues around Armenia’s renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors.
