In response of MP Armenuhi Kyureghyan’s question regarding enlargement of communities, Minister of Territorial Administration said that outflow  from border settlement has been going on for a really long time, especially from smaller and remote border settlements. “It is a serious issue, even a national security issue,” he said. He said the enlargement process has …

Minister of Defense Arshak Karapetyan օn November 5 received French Ambassador to Armenia  Anne Louyot. The sides discussed the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, regional security, reforms in the armed forces, and in this context, the Armenian-French bilateral cooperation in the field of defense.

ARF  member and NA Armenia faction MP Lilit Galstyan made a speech at the OSCE autumn session. Below is the text of the speech: Dear colleagues, Although our main focus is Afghanistan, and it requires urgent actions to prevent the region from new confrontations and to reach long-lasting solutions, the security challenges within the South …

Turkish army and opposition forces renewed their mortar attacks on civilian’s houses in villages surrounding Abu Rasin and Tal Tamer towns in Hasaka northwestern countryside, SANA reported. Local sources said that the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries targeted with a number of heavy artillery shells the villages surrounding Abu Rasin town and Dardara in the …

Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi said the country’s stockpile of uranium enriched to a purity level of 20 percent has surpassed 210 kilograms. According to Kamalvandi, the Iranian Parliament’s ‘Strategic Action’ on lifting the sanctions and safeguarding national interests has allowed the AEOI to enhance its peaceful nuclear activities. …

“I have not yet noticed any progress in the investigation,” Armenian Minister of Environment Romanos Petrosyan told reporters in parliament when asked if the Amulsar mine will be exploited. “I don’t have any mandate to intervene in or influence the processes at the moment, until the criminal case is resolved and the objective reality is …

Turkey and Azerbaijan have not been invited to US President Joe Biden’s Democracy Summit, according to a Politico report. The report said President Biden’s summit for democracy is a few weeks away. Biden’s aides are still working on the agenda for the December 9-10 online summit, and much of their work is kept secret. The …

Armenian Ambassador to UK Varuzhan Nersesyan met with the UK’s Minister for European Affairs Wendy Morton, Armenian Embassy in the UK has said. Varuzhan Nersesyan and Wendy Morton discussed the possibility of a formal signing of the Armenia-UK bilateral agreement, which will replace the Armenia-EU Comprehensive Extended Partnership Agreement (WIPO), in the near future, taking …

At a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, the presidents of Russia and Belarus Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko approved all 28 union programs and signed the corresponding document, broadcast by RBC. As Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin specified, the union programs cover the macroeconomic, industrial and agricultural policies of the …

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced a powerful amendment that would end U.S. presidential waiver authority of Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act, an Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) -backed measure that would effectively block U.S. military aid to Azerbaijan. The amendment (#4177) is one of three amendments to the …