The foreign ministers of Romania, Austria and Lithuania are set to visit Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia June 24-26, Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu wrote on Twitter. “EU support for the Eastern Partnership also means greater EU involvement, including in protracted conflicts. Under the mandate of EU High Representative Josep Borrell, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg …

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov told a briefing following a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart Mukhtar Tleuberdi today that some provisions of the November 9 trilateral ceasefire statement in Nagorno Karabakh are being implemented and some of them are being delayed, Azerbaijani media reported. “I have informed my Kazakh counterpart about the need for hundreds …

The Armenia bloc has issued a statement, which reads: The Armenia bloc expresses its gratitude to those citizens of the Republic of Armenia who supported the bloc in the June 20, 2010 National Assembly elections and voted for it. It inspires confidence that hundreds of thousands of our citizens concerned about the country not only …

The National-Democratic Axis has issued a statement saying it does not accept the election results. “The election held under the semi-colonial regime did not differ significantly from the previous ones by any criteria. The people had not yet healed from the catastrophic wounds of the Russian-Turkish-Azerbaijani war organized with the service of the incumbent and …

Equality and protection of women will be one of the main topics of the PACE summer session, which starts in Strasbourg today. As in the previous session early in the year, the discussions will again take place in a hybrid format, in the presence of a limited number of parliamentarians in the session hall, TASS …

The Central Electoral Commission has published the information on the voting results received from 2008 polling stations of Armenia. Fair Armenia party – 3912 votes, 0.31% Armenian National Congress party – 19, 647 votes, 1.54% Civil Contract party 687, 251 votes -53.92% Awakening National Christian Party – 4,623 votes – 0.36% Freedom party – 1,842 …

The United Nations announced that drought is at risk of becoming “the next pandemic” if urgent action isn’t taken to tackle climate change through water and land management. According to a report published on Thursday, about 1.5 billion people have suffered from the effects of droughts this century, with the land devastation, food insecurity and other …

A new strike drone has been tested in Turkey. The Alpagu drone was successfully tested in combat conditions, Ismail Demir, head of the Defense Industry Department under the Turkish President said, Anadolu news agency reported. It is also reported that the drone was developed by the engineers of the Turkish STM company. The tests were …

The Prosecutor’s Office has reported that based on the evidence it has acquired, a group of residents of Yerevan’s Kanaker-Zeytun administrative district have offered 20,000 AMD drams (about US $40) each to a group of voters in the same district in exchange for voting for their bloc in the upcoming parliamentary election. A criminal case …

Below is the Armenian Foreign Ministry’s statement on fabricated charges against Armenian prisoners of war and abducted persons. We strongly condemn the prosecution of Armenian prisoners of war and abducted civilians by Azerbaijan on fabricated charges. Under international law, prisoners of war cannot be held liable for taking part in hostilities. At the same time, …