The United States – as an OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair – remains committed to engaging towards a lasting political settlement to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, and is certain that only a comprehensive resolution can normalize the relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the US Embassy in Armenia told ARMENPRESS when asked to comment the Azerbaijani foreign …

At its September 14 meeting, the Central Board of Armenia Board decided to increase the refinancing rate by 0.25 percentage points, setting it at 7.25%, the Chairman of the Central Bank, Martin Galstyan, said at a news conference. “In August 2021, the Inflation stood at 0.4%, compared to 0.1% deflation in the same month of …

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs has commented on the reports of the installation of cameras on the Azerbaijani-controlled section of the Goris-Kapan road, saying that the police checkpoints, which are “installed in the territories liberated from occupation, are equipped in accordance with the requirements of the service and the performance of certain tasks.” The …

French President Emanuel Macron made a note in Armenian, which reads: “As I promised in August last year, the first batch of 25,000 doses of vaccine will reach our Armenian friends tonight. Solidarity in action in the fight against COVID-19.” The plane from France, which delivered the above-mentioned batch of vaccine to Armenia, landed at …

Russian President Vladimir Putin is self-isolating after members of his entourage fell ill with COVID-19 and will therefore not travel to Tajikistan this week for planned regional security meetings, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, CNBC reported. Putin, 68, was due to travel to Tajikistan for high-level meetings of the CSTO and SCO regional alliances with …

An appeal has been filed against detention of former Armenian Prosecutor General and former Chairperson of the Investigative Committee Aghvan Hovsepyan at the Criminal Court of Appeals, Gagik Khachikyan, Hovsepyan’s attorney, told Factor.am.  He said the selected preventive measure is groundless and does not correspond with factual circumstances. According to the Special Investigative Service, Aghvan …

The official visit of Slovakian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Korcok to Yerevan has begun, MFA said, Accompanied by the Armenian Foreign Minister, he visited today the Armenian Genocide Memorial to pay tribute to the memory of the Genocide victims.

Reserve Sergeant Mkrtich Hovakimyan, 43, serving in a military position in south-eastern Armenia, received a lethal gunshot wound on September 13 as a result of a violation of military service the rules, Ministry of Defense said today in a statement. An investigation is underway to find out the circumstances of the incident.

The National Assembly’s ruling party and opposition factions have agreed to hold discussions on the situation in Syunik with the participation of the director of the National Security Service, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Prosecutor General, the chairman of the State Revenue Committee and other relevant bodies, Artsvik Minasyan, a member of the Armenia …

Being neglected for more than 30 years, the main collection area of the Botanical Garden of Yerevan that preserved green trees, which covers about 15 hectares territory, from now on can be irrigated anytime of year. For that purpose, with the financing by benefactor Karen Vardanyan, a 5 km long irrigation system has been constructed, …