Armen Sarkissian, who has been elected 4th President of Armenia by the Parliament on March 2, visited AGBU’s Central Office in New York on March 12 where he had a meeting with young professionals of the Armenian community.
World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, BBC reports. He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said.
On March 15, in accordance with the agreement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh, the OSCE Mission will conduct a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, to the south-east from Kuropatkino settlement of the Martuni region.
Speaker of Parliament of Armenia Ara Babloyan has nominated Hrayr Tovmasyan’s candidacy for President of the Constitutional Court.
The delegation led by President of the Republic of Artsakh Bako Sahakyan arrived in Washington D.C. on a working visit on March 12, the Artsakh Presidential Office reported.
At least 50 people were killed in a plane crash at the airport in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, officials said, Reuters reports.
Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said has congratulated Armen Sarkissian on being elected as President of Armenia, Times of Oman reports.
Azerbaijan has violated its commitments assumed before the OSCE by not informing the organization’s participating states about the ongoing military drills in that country, Tigran Balayan – Armenian foreign ministry spokesperson, said on Twitter.
Russian singer Yulia Samoilova will perform I Won’t Break! song at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, the Russian Channel One said, TASS reports.
Five people were killed in a helicopter crash on New York’s East River, TASS reports.
