Armenian Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan today met with Baroness Caroline Cox, the Ombudsman’s Office said. Deputy Director of the HART charity organization and two journalists accompanied Baroness Cox. Ombudsman Tatoyan introduced the delegation on the war crimes committed by the Azerbaijani forces against the peaceful civilians of Armenia and Artsakh, which are based on the fact-finding …

Representatives of Artsakh’s Human Rights Defender’s Office visited a number of schools on September 15 and 16 in Askeran region and had meetings with teachers and students. During the visits, the basic rights of children were presented, special reference was made to the right of children to education, which was followed by discussions and questions. …

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov Yesterday received a delegation led by Frederic Mondoloni, Director of the Continental European Department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said, issues related to the current regional security, including the implementation of the trilateral statement and cooperation with international organizations were discussed during the meeting. It …

Russian parliamentary and local elections began on Friday and will last three days, BBC reported. For the first time since 1993, election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will not be present due to “limitations” imposed by Russian authorities. President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party is expected to win. Although …

The Republic of Armenia on September 16 instituted proceedings against the Republic of Azerbaijan before the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, with regard to alleged violations of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The Applicant contends that “[f]or decades, Azerbaijan has …

Some 5,413  COVID -19 tests were performed yesterday, revealing  759  new cases; 26  people died. As of September 17 Total number of tests performed in Armenia- 1,639,000 Confirmed positive cases – 252,082 Deaths – 5,101 Recovered – 235,030 Patients currently receiving treatment – 10,766

The leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara died of wounds from a drone strike that hit him on a motorcycle last month in southern Mali, in a French-led operation involving backup from U.S., EU, Malian and Nigerien military forces, French authorities said Thursday, AP reported. The French government did not disclose how …

Speaking today at the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Armenia is proposing its partners to focus on the joint consistent work aimed at dynamically developing the organization and raising the efficiency of its mechanisms. He emphasized the need for continuing the work on foreign policy …

For the second time this week, the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Baku Seyed Abbas Mousavi met with the Azerbaijani president aide, Head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Presidential Administration Hitmet Hajiyev. The Iranian ambassador made a note about this on his Twitter page. He said they discussed the current …