Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London, Professor Ara Darzi expressed his concerns over the fact that the United Kingdom didn’t follow the example of the US House of Representatives on recognizing the Armenian Genocide, The Guardian reported.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s spokesperson Vladimir Karapetyan has told ARMENPRESS that all media reports claiming that Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutyunyan was relieved of duties are false.
The Trump administration opposes Turkey sanctions adopted by the House last week as well as a resolution condemning the Armenian genocide, arguing that the two initiatives risk further straining relations with a key NATO ally, a senior State Department official said.
Russia is selling the kinds of weapons to Armenia which it hasn’t sold to any other country before, senior Russian lawmaker Leonid Kalashnikov told reporters when asked about Russia’s arms supply to Azerbaijan, the adversary of CSTO member Armenia.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) mechanism will be launched in the event of Armenia coming under attack, Russian State Duma lawmaker Konstantin Zatulin told reporters.
At the invitation of President Armen Sarkissian, President of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos has arrived in Armenia on a two-day official visit.
Chairman of the State Duma (lower house) of the Russian Parliament Vyacheslav Volodin was re-elected as Chairman of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Parliamentary Assembly during the organization’s 12th plenary session in Yerevan.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is of strategic significance for Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during a meeting with heads of parliaments of CSTO countries who are currently in Armenia to participate in the organization’s Parliamentary Assembly session.
. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has appointed Major General Vrezh Gabrielyan to serve as Director of the Rescue Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
The Armenian military will buy new, modern arms from different countries in both during the current year and in 2020, Defense Minister David Tonoyan told reporters.
