Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan on August 27 met with Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopirkin. Mirzoyan said Armenia would continue to deepen and expand allied relations with Russia in all directions of the interstate agenda. He expressed satisfaction with Russia’s efforts aimed at the implementation of the November 9, 2020 trilateral statement. Speaking about …

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has once again distorted the historical facts and once again voiced a territorial claim against Armenia. Speaking at a ceremony of giving apartments and cars to the families of “martyrs” and war handicapped, Aliyev said that the Soviet government had taken Zangezur from Azerbaijan and gave it to Armenia. “Unfortunately, our …

Iran hopes that the latest disputes in the Syunik Province border zones and especially in the Kapan-Goris road section will be resolved in a way that the implementation of the goal of reopening the transportation routes and unblocking won’t be disrupted, the Iranian Embassy in Armenia said in response to an inquiry from ARMENPRESS. The …

President Armen Sargsyan has expressed his condolences on the occasion of the terrorist attacks at Kabul International Airport, the President’s Office said. The message says: “We strongly condemn the terrorist attacks at Kabul international airport, which killed scores of innocent civilians, including the military. Armenia has always spoken out against any terrorist act against humanity, …

UNHCR officials, who visited Latvia, say 83 refugees have disappeared from the Latvia-Belarus border, LETA reported, citing the “I want to help refugees” volunteer organization, EADaily writes. Egil Grassmanis, a spokesman for the organization, expressed concern that 83 people had disappeared from the border on the night of August 23-24, the day the refugee agency …

Armenian Defense Minister Arshak Karapetyan on August 27 met with a delegation headed by First Deputy Chief of CSTO Joint Staff in Armenia, Lt. Gen. Hasan Kaloyev, Ministry of Defense said in a statement. Minister Karapetyan briefed them on the security environment around Armenia. Lt. Gen. Kaloyev spoke about the issues of planning the joint …

Kabul may become a battleground between the Islamic State terrorist group and the Taliban, which has taken control of Afghanistan,  a NATO representative and former Italian Ambassador to Pakistan Stefano Pontecorvo, who coordinates the civilian evacuation of people from Afghanistan, has said in an interview with Messaggero newspaper, TASS reported. He said the terrorist attacks …

Armenian National Security Service has said that Armenian border guards and the border guards of the Russian Federal Security Service are holding talks with the Azerbaijani side on reopening the Goris-Vorotan and Shurnukh-Karmrakar sections of the Goris-Kapan interstate road closed since August 26. NSS says the State Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan has told the …

It is the second day that Azerbaijani troops keep the Armenian interstate road from Goris to Kapan blocked. The movement of trucks transporting various goods from Iran to Armenia and vice versa has been severely restricted. In other words, the free movement on the Armenia-Iran road has been paralyzed, wrote Armenian Human Rights Defender Arman …

Currently, we have 14 expanded medical centers that serve COVID patients, Minister of Health Anahit Avanesyan said at the government meeting. “We have 1500 beds, of which 1143 are currently taken. About 700 patients are in critical condition, the number of general hospitalized patients is quite worrying. Both in Armenia and in other countries, the …