Politics

Citizens of Armenia can now apply for an entry visa to Austria at the VFS Global center, the company said in a statement. "Citizens of Armenia can apply for an Austrian visa at the VFS Joint Visa Application Center in Yerevan, where they also get visas to enter Lithuania, the Netherlands, Croatia and Greece," the statement rea...

Henrik Hartenyan, a member of the Yerevan City council representing the ruling My Step faction, will resign, another My Step councilman Armen Yeghiazaryan told reporters on Monday following an emergency meeting of the faction. The announcement comes after Hartenyan posted a photo of Sara Tovmasyan, the alleged daughter of Cons...

President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian signed decrees on bestowing military titles of Major-General and Lieutenant-General to five servicemen on the occasion of the Army Day, the Presidential Office told Armenpress. The President signed the respective decrees based on the prime minister’s proposal. The Republic of Armenia and Arm...

The My Step faction of the Yerevan City Council urged its member Henrik Hartenyan to step down, faction head Suren Eyramjyan told reporters after the urgent session of the faction convened today. “During today’s discussion the faction members reaffirmed that it is against our value system and principles. Remained committed to th...

Iranians should not allow U.S. President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” approach to harm national unity ahead of parliamentary elections, President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech, according to Reuters. Iran’s clerical rulers face challenges in keeping the economy afloat under increasingly tough U.S. sanctions imposed by Wa...

President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian visited the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology on the sidelines of his working visit in Israel, the Presidential Office told Armenpress. The Technion is the oldest university of Israel, the only technological institute in the world to have a medical school. The Armenian President met ...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claims that he has an undeniable fact that Hrayr Tovmasyan has been elected President of the Constitutional Court in the Parliament through fraud. “When it was clear to the Constitutional Court President that the leadership is not going to hide the frauds made by him, at that period he sta...

January 27, 2020 - 12:15 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Elmar Mammadyarov will meet in Geneva on January 30. The Armenian foreign policy chief will first meet the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on January 29. Issues concerning the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Kar...

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan will hold a meeting with the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov with mediation and participation of the mediators in Geneva on January 29 and 30, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan said in a post on Facebook. The meeting will ...

Flight data recorders of a Ukrainian passenger plane Boeing 737 that crashed near Tehran earlier this month will remain in Tehran and will be decoded on Iranian soil, Farajollah Rajabi, a member of the Iranian parliament’s development commission, told Tasnim news agency, TASS reported. "Our policy is that the Ukrainian plane’...