The US House of Representatives adopted the Armenian Genocide recognition resolution based on today’s voting results. There will be no changes in the resolution any more.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has stressed that Armenia and Russia will reach an allied decision in the issue of the price of gas supplied by Russia.
Armenia doesn’t perceive the situation in a way that we must make a choice between Europe and Russia,” Pashinyan told the Russian Kommersant newspaper in an interview.
A meeting at the level of Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders is not planned at the moment, while a continuation of the foreign ministerial level meetings due in the coming months is under preparation, FM Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told reporters during a joint press conference with Bulgarian counterpart Ekaterina Zaharieva in Yerevan.
I’ve made a choice of my own, I’ve made a choice to move from diplomatic career to politics. That’s the major change. I took out the responsibility to share with the government, in which I am, and this is a major change. The government has received a huge mandate from the people, from the public, as a result of the Revolution we have reached.
The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has commented on OSCE Chairperson in Office, Slovakia’s FM Miroslav Lajčák’s statement on an upcoming meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers due in Bratislava.
A Yerevan court has ruled to jail former Deputy Chief of Staff of Parliament Arsen Babayan in pre-trial detention.
PM Nikol Pashinyan says immediately after taking office he has raised the issue of weapons supplies to Azerbaijan in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
“They took me out of the operating room and drove me to an interview at the Special Investigation Service, after which I returned to the operating room and continued performing the surgery,” Babloyan said.
The Special Investigations Service has charged ex-Deputy Chief of Staff of the Parliament Staff Arsen Babayan with Paragraph 1 Article 38-300 and Paragraph 1 Article 314 of the Criminal Code that in 2018 when he was serving as acting deputy chief of staff of parliament he “assisted the usurpation of powers of the Constitutional Court by a group of persons, as well as committed official falsification,” the SIS said in a news release.
