President Biden’s nominee to serve as Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, confirmed that the incoming Administration will consult with Congress on the wording of its April 24th statement, ARMENPRESS reports, citing the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). In response to a written question from Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) ...

Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif plans to visit Yerevan, Moscow, Baku and Tbilisi next week. He will visit Baku on January 24. ''I plan to visit the countries that are able to work together to help overcome Karabakh crisis and establish peace and stability in the region'', Zarif had said earlier. ...

The Foreign Ministry of Artsakh commented on the European Parliament Resolutions - Annual Reports on the Implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Common Security and Defense Policy, expressing satisfaction over the position of the European Parliament on Azerbaijan-Karabakh war, ARMENPRESS was informed from th...

Voting on electing members of the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia has kicked off in the Parliament. The voting is taking place in a closed format. The voting will last until 18:30. The ruling My Step faction has nominated Gagik Jhangiryan’s and Davit Khachaturyan’s candidacies for the members of the Supreme Judicial Council....

US President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as Secretary of State, Antony Blinken – in written responses submitted following his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee – expressed support for U.S. funding to meet the security needs of Armenia and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in and around Nagorno-Kar...

The extraordinary session has kicked off in the Armenian Parliament. The election of members of the Supreme Judicial Council is on the agenda. The ruling My Step faction has nominated Gagik Jhangiryan’s and Davit Khachaturyan’s candidacies for the members of the Supreme Judicial Council. Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyun...

The CDC reports 183 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Armenia, bringing the cumulative total number of confirmed cases to 165,711. 2042 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours. 9 people died from COVID-19 complication, raising the death toll to 3030. This number doesn’t include the deaths of 744 other people (2 in the last 24...

Armenia attaches great importance to the fact that the European Parliament condemned that Turkey transferred foreign terrorist fighters from Syria and elsewhere to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anna Naghdalyan, in response to a question from ARMENPRESS, especially emphasized the European Parli...

A discussion on the war is scheduled in the monitoring commission, not during the plenary session, but Marukyan says they will raise these issues in their remarks at the plenary session as well. “I hope we will be able to do a good job there despite the fact that a curfew is in place in France and there are numerous problems du...

The European Parliament adopted resolutions on the implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy – annual report 2020 and on the implementation of the Common Security and Defence Policy annual report 2020 on January 20. ARMENPRESS reports the 24th Article of the resolution says that the European Parliament ''Takes goo...