FM Mirzoyan reiterated Armenia’s stance aimed at the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict through the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship mandate – the only international format authorized by the UN Security Council.
Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Stanislav Zas has made a statement over the latest provocative actions of Azerbaijan in Nagorno Karabakh.
Armenia is ready to provide the connection of Azerbaijan’s western regions with Nakhijevan through its territory, but exclusively in accordance with Armenian legislation, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the Cabinet meeting.
Over the past several years, Armenia has received consistently respectable rankings in international indices that review country business environments and investment climates. Projects representing significant U.S. investment are present in Armenia, most notably ContourGlobal’s Vorotan Hydroelectric Cascade and Lydian’s efforts to develop a major gold mine. U.S. investors in the banking, energy, pharmaceutical, information technology, and mining sectors, among others, have entered or acquired assets in Armenia. Armenia presents a variety of opportunities for investors, and the country’s legal framework and government policy aim to attract investment, but the investment climate is not without challenges.
he United States Senate Committee on Appropriations released its Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations Bill today, which reaffirms Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act and recommend $2 million in demining assistance to Artsakh, along with humanitarian aid to help displaced Armenians, reported the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly).
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken had a telephone conversation with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the Office of the State Department Spokesperson said.
The Armenian delegation initiated 3 amendments in the reports submitted at the summer sitting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The amendments pertained also to the issue of the PoWs, preservation of cultural heritage, but the amendments were not adopted, the Head of the Armenian Parliamentary Delegation to the OSCE PA Eduard Aghajanyan said at a news conference.
What is a Community Liaison Volunteer (CLV)? A CLV, previously known as a warden, is a private U.S. citizen who volunteers to assist the American Citizen Services section in communicating with Americans in Armenia, preparing for disasters, and alerting Americans to emergency situations.
French Armenian community leader Mourad (Franck) Papazian and his wife were not allowed to enter Armenia last week after they arrived at the Yerevan Airport. Papazian is a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s worldwide leadership (Bureau) and the Co-President of the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations of France.
“It is too late to talk about international pressure to return the captives today. When the territories were returned after the signing of the November 9 declaration, but the confirmed prisoners were not repatriated, the human rights organizations, including local NGOs, began to make a fuss. Instead of supporting these efforts, the Armenian authorities criticized or spread false information to the families of the prisoners that the international publicization of the issue would harm the process, the interests of the captive men,” said the representative of the Armenian prisoners at the ECHR, adding that only two years later that there were no threats, moreover, the opposite actions of the Armenian authorities contributed to the longer delay of their repatriation process.
