The head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom discussed with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian at length its proposal to build a new nuclear plant in Armenia during a visit to Yerevan on Tuesday.
Lawmakers representing the Council of Europe have criticized a controversial decision by Armenian authorities that may have prevented a major opposition party from having any seats in Armenia’s current parliament elected in June.
Armenia’s ambassador to Iran, Grigor Hakobian, met with Iranian Vice President Hamid Pourmohammadi at the weekend to discuss what his office described as “obstacles” to cargo shipments between the two neighboring countries.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Turkey for denying the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York late on Thursday.
Armenia has no viable alternatives to cheap natural gas supplied by Russia, a senior Russian official insisted on Friday, commenting on the Armenian government’s pledges to diversify energy imports.
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov met in New York late on Thursday the day after attending an event dedicated to the planned opening of a U.S.-run transit corridor through Armenia.
The European Union’s relations with Armenia are deepening faster than ever, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday after meeting with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York on Wednesday to discuss Turkish-Armenian relations and the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process.
Iran will not object to the opening of a U.S.-controlled corridor through Armenia if it upholds the country’s territorial integrity and does not lead to U.S. security presence along the Armenian-Iranian border, Tehran’s ambassador in Yerevan said on Wednesday.
