The measures restrict oil imports and ban textile exports – an attempt to starve the North of fuel and income for its weapons programs.
Russia and Armenia are friends, and this friendship must be whole-heartedly, rather than against anybody, Russia’s Ambassador to Armenia Ivan Volynkin said asked whether the Armenian-Chinese military-technical cooperation can affect the Armenian-Russian allied relations.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on September 11 hosted Georgia’s Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikheil Janelidze who arrived in Armenia on a working visit.
Over the years we have assisted a number of programs for different groups to meet and jointly discuss the paths to reach lasting peace. We have concentrated on another equally important direction – inter-state debate in Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh on peace preparation.
Armenia’s foreign minister Edward Nalbandian held a meeting on September 11 in Yerevan with Georgia’s foreign minister and Vice PM Mikheil Janelidze.
Ashotyan told reporters that he recently participated in the political forum of the European People’s Party and the large representative gathering organized by the Council of Europe during which he raised those issues and received a reaction from the European partners.
Earlier Syria’s first deputy minister of foreign affairs announced that the US presence in the country is ‘illegal and unacceptable’ since it has not been approved by the Syrian government. The deputy minister added that the US should withdraw its troops from Syria.
The opposition Yelk bloc’s suggestion on Armenia leaving the Eurasian Economic Union doesn’t comply with the country’s foreign policy and foreign economic interests, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Armenian parliament Armen Ashotyan said.
The EU-Armenia agreement will open a new chapter in bilateral relations, EU Ambassador to Armenia H.E. Piotr Switalski told a press conference on the sidelines of the Assistance Initiative for Organic Agriculture program in Yerevan.
Mehman Aliyev was facing up to 7 years in prison.
