22 rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia have departed for Bosnia and Herzegovina on September 22 to participate in exercises organized by NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) called “Bosnia and Herzegovina – 2017”. As ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of the ME...

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh Republic) Karen Mirzoyan received today a group of intellectuals who had arrived in Stepanakert from Turkey on an acquaintance visit. As the press department at Artsakh Republic foreign ministry reported, during the meeting, Karen Mirzoyan briefed on the ...

Three members of the US House of Representatives have appeared in the so-called “black list” of Azerbaijan for their visit to the Republic of Artsakh, ARMENPRESS reports Azerbaijani azadliq.org informs. According to the announcement of Hikmet Hajiyev, head of the press-service of the ministry of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan, Fr...

People in Armenia are not well informed of the European Union, says Head of the EU delegation to Armenia, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Piotr Świtalski. “They do not know how the European Union functions and what influence the EU can have on its member states. At present, Armenia has no opportunity to join the EU ...

Armenia has established diplomatic ties with five states on the 26th anniversary of its independence. “Very symbolic! On its 26th birthday, Armenia established diplomatic relations with five countries,” foreign ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan wrote on Twitter. As the foreign ministry reports in a released statement, Armenia...

Famous Armenian American art dealer Larry Gagosianhas been named in Forbes’ special list of the world's ‘100 Greatest Living Business Minds’. To celebrate Forbes’ centennial, the magazine presented the collection of great ideas from 100 entrepreneurs. “To celebrate Forbes’ centennial, we amassed an A-to-Z encyclopedia of ideas ...

Ruling Republican Party of Armenia Deputy Chairman Armen Ashotyan, who is also chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on Foreign Relations and head of the NA delegation to the EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly (PA), on Friday delivered an address at the EuroNest PA conference in Baku, the capital city of Azerba...

Yerevan-At Heritage Party headquarters here today, Raffi K. Hovannisian, Armenia's first minister of foreign affairs and current Heritage chairman, hosted an official reception on the twin occasions of the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Party and the 26th of the Republic. Attended by the Ambassador of the Federal Republ...

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan held a meeting on September 22 with Garo Paylan, the ethnic Armenian Member of Parliament of Turkey, who arrived in Yerevan to participate in the Armenia-Diaspora forum. During the meeting the President attached importance to Paylan’s participation in the forum, which was dedicated to the discus...

Armenia’s economic activity has slightly weakened, with decrease recorded in industrial production volumes, an Armenian economist told a news conference on Friday. Summing up the economic indicators for 2016, economist Vilen Khachatryan also reported a 10 percent drop in the total volume of the gross agricultural output, which...