Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian visited the Yerevan State University on March 3, where he attended the meeting of the Scientific Council of the University, during which he was awarded the honorary title of professor by Academic Council of Yerevan State University.
The latest racist announcement made by Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu has become subject for broad discussions. Garo Paylan, Armenian member of the Turkish parliament from Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) severely criticized the Prime Minister during the discussion of the budgets of the ministries of Interior, Health, Culture and Tourism, the Turkish Demokrathaber.net informed about this.
“We often think in NATO that this leads to a cold war, especially when we combine a few components: Russia’s defence budget grows, utmost importance is given to the military component on state level, we don’t know how to respond to them, but we’re working on it. In any case, we are for the concept of collective security, we want to cooperate in air, sea and land. We consider to further respect our fundamental relations with Russia, we keep the dialogue open with Russia.
The overwhelming majority of Russian citizens intend to vote for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the upcoming presidential election.
Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairs Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Robert Dold (R-IL) have initiated a Congressional “Dear Colleague” letter, asking Members of the U.S. House to join them in supporting the inclusion of a series of pro-Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh assistance measures in the Fiscal Year 2017 foreign aid bill, reports the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). The letter Congressional colleagues are encouraged to co-sign supports the following foreign aid priorities:
As basis for this adoption was noted that there have been many genocides throughout history or events that led up to the genocide in April, and many genocide research institutions commemorate April as the month of fight against and prevention of genocides.
President Serzh Sargsyan received the head of Yerevan Office of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Ambassador Andrey Sorokin on March 3, who completes his mission in Armenia. As informed from the Department of Public Relations and Mass Media of Republic of Armenia President’s Office, the President thanked Ambassador Sorokin for his active efforts during his tenure and mentioned with satisfaction that the OSCE Office in Yerevan headed by him carried out productive works and implemented numerous projects in different spheres.
Actor Vardan Petrosyan signed a reconciliation agreement with the Hakobyan family affected in the car accident on March 3. Vardan Petrosyan’s lawyer Nikolay Baghdasaryan informed in a conversation with “Armenpress”.
Opening the meeting of the EEC Board, Tigran Sargsyan stressed that the Commission needed to take a more active position on the fostering of Eurasian integration. “Incomplete integration between partner countries in the Eurasian Economic Union is a challenge to the stability of the Union”, Chairman of the EEC Board announced.
State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan published a report regarding its 2015 financial activities. According to the report, the reserves of the fund decreased by $ 3.6 billion in one year, and currently amount to $ 33.5 billion.
