Region/Armenia

December 9, 2023 - 13:39 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - France will provide emergency aid in the amount of 15 million euros for Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh refugees, according to a decision approved by the country’s parliament in late November. The additional mobilization will support NGOs, the ICRC, the Armenian Red Cross and Unit...

December 9, 2023 - 12:24 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the joint statement issued by Armenia and Azerbaijan announcing a series of confidence-building measures and reaffirming their commitment to normalize bilateral relations, Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, t...

December 8, 2023 - 16:49 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The United States welcomes the announcement by Armenia and Azerbaijan of the release of two Azerbaijani and thirty-two Armenian detainees, the Department of State said in a statement on Thursday, December 7. “This commitment represents an important confidence building measure as th...

December 8, 2023 - 16:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - President of the European Council Charles Michel has said he is “delighted” to welcome a joint Armenia-Azerbaijan statement as a “major breakthrough” in relations between the two countries. “Welcome in particular release of detainees and unprecedented opening in political dialogue,...

December 8, 2023 - 12:34 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Renowned thinker and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has raised awareness about the detention and arrest of Ruben Vardanyan – a businessman and millionaire who at one point served as the State Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) – by Azerbaijan. “Armenia needs help,” Taleb sai...

December 8, 2023 - 12:06 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The European Union welcomes the joint statement by Armenia and Azerbaijan announcing the mutual release of detainees and other confidence building measures, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said Friday, December 9. Borrell described the m...

December 7, 2023 - 15:47 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien has said that Secretary of State Antony Blinken “looks forward” to hosting Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov. O’Brien made the remarks after holding “positive a...

December 6, 2023 - 15:49 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The United States has never said it is not going to continue to engage with Azerbaijan, Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State Matthew Miller told a briefing on Tuesday, December 5. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs James C. O’Brien will travel to Baku, t...

December 6, 2023 - 12:19 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili has urged Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to run away from Russia in order to save himself and the Armenian statehood. In a Facebook post published on Tuesday, December 5, Saakashvili said the Russia’s “ban” on the import of A...

December 5, 2023 - 15:00 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - An Armenian soldier was shot dead by Azerbaijan on Monday, December 4 in what the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, Toivo Klaar, described as “worrying report of shootings”. Armenia’s Defense Ministry identified the soldier as Gerasim Arakelyan. He was killed in sni...