The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is not aimed against anyone. The Treaty signatories were concerned with security in the area of the organization, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said in an interview to MIR TV.
“It’s one thing when groups are wanted, when a visible enemy exists, it’s another thing when under the mask of refugees people who have a very different task can enter any country,” Sargsyan said.
From the beginning of the week abundance of Iranian tourists was observed in the capital. Novruz Bayram—New Year of Iranians has brought them to Armenia, which starts from the fourth week of March and lasts for 13 days. In the period of those two weeks Armenia welcomes 20-25 thousand Iranians.
“It is no wonder that there is so much aggression in the air when diplomacy is seen to have achieved so little. A vacuum has been created which will be filled either by negotiations or by threats and potential military action. Another problem is that the other two Minsk Group co-chairs, France and the United States, have been seen to be too passive recently and that therefore the impression is created that Russia—and in particular foreign minister Sergei Lavrov—is the sole negotiator.”
“It may sound strange, but this has psychological reasons. The EU actively prepared for signing the association agreements with four EaP countries in Vilnius, it was touched upon for months, however, on the threshold of Vilnius there was a surprise in case of two countries, which was a blow to the EU, a bigger one was Ukrainian war, after which the EU basically doesn’t intend to give great importance to signing of the agreement.”
Vahram Baghdasaryan, head of RPA faction, candidate for the MP nominated by preferential voting system, has declared rather modest incomes compared with his colleagues.
Currently the motivations for acquiring the parts of the antiaircraft missile complex, possible goals for its application, as well as funding sources are being clarified. Preliminary investigation is underway.
Today at around 13:20 correspondent of 168.am edified how from Yerevan’s Nalbandyan-Tumanyan intersection (near Samvel Babayan’s house), a few persons, also in uniforms, took the citizen into the car. There was black Mercedes nearby, registration plate of which ended by 444, which are considered to be those of Samvel Babayan. Based on information under our disposal, Samvel Babayan has a few cars, and one of them with 44UU444 registration plate.
“On the level of Russia’s president, Foreign Minister and Armenia’s Ambassador to Russia it doesn’t miss the chance to insist that Russia acts jointly with other OSCE MG Co-Chairs, issue of whose at the moment is preventing conflict escalation,” Tarasov said.”
Based on result of the first two months of ongoing year economic activity index (EAI) comprised 6.2% (compared with January-February of the previous year). On monthly basis February 2017 compared with February 2017 economic activity grew by 6%.
