A Bek Air plane with 93 passengers and five crew members on board crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday shortly after taking off, killing at least 14 people, authorities in the Central Asian country said, Reuters reported.
Days after an approval from the House of Representatives, the Senate of the Netherlands too ratified the Armenia-European Union Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA), the Embassy of Armenia in the Netherlands said.
The U.S. Senate struck a historic blow today against Turkey’s century-long obstruction of justice for the Armenian Genocide, unanimously adopting S.Res.150, an Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA)-backed measure that locks in ongoing U.S. recognition of this crime.
It had taken a long time before Alan visited Armenia for the first time in 2005. Since Alan was the grandson of a genocide survivor and involved in genocide studies, he had made multiple attempts to visit Armenia. After four unsuccessful attempts from the early 1960s to early 2000s, he finally visited Armenia for the first time in 2005. “That was a remarkable trip in terms of my expectations and experience,” says Alan about his first visit. It was the beginning of a decade of annual visits to Armenia. “Following that initial trip, I visited Armenia each year for five weeks. Each visit was like a new chapter of an epic book, as I got to know more people and I increasingly understood the great complexity and fascinating aspects of Armenian history and society”.
On the occasion of the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Bratislava, we, the Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries (Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, Secretary of State to the Minister for European and Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Phil Reeker) remain strongly committed to mediating a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan participated in the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Bishkek on November 28. The session was attended by the leaders of the CSTO member states – Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The narrow format session of the leaders was followed by an extended format session with the participation of the delegations.
Azerbaijan’s ruling New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) has decided to dissolve parliament and call early elections, according to Region Monitor news portal.
The session of the CSTO Collective Security Council kicked off today in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, chaired by Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan sent a letter of condolences to President of France Emmanuel Macron on the tragic incident in Mali as a result of which 13 French soldiers have been killed.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s official visit to Italy continues. Earlier today the Premier visited the Italian Institute for International Political Studies in Milan, the ISPI Brain Center and delivered a speech at the discussion, entitled “Dialogue on the Future.”
