President Serzh Sarkisian’s Republican Party (HHK) on Friday ruled out the holding of snap elections in Armenia and praised opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrosian for not rushing to make a decisive push for power.
Armenia is immune to the kind of nuclear emergency that has struck Japan, despite being located in a seismically active zone and having a functioning Soviet-built nuclear power plant not considered safe enough by Western governments, officials in Yerevan insisted on Monday.
The Armenian authorities are still too slow to carry out reforms that are essential for ensuring faster and sustainable economic growth, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Wednesday.
Parliament deputies from the opposition Zharangutyun (Heritage) party said on Friday that they will take legal action against the Armenian police for using force against them during a protest outside the main government building in Yerevan.
About two dozen people, among them opposition members of Armenia’s parliament, clashed with riot police on Thursday as they protested against a controversial ban on street trade in Yerevan.
President Serzh Sarkisian will not be forced to call snap elections and make other concessions demanded by the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK), the spokesman for his Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) said on Wednesday.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg met with President Serzh Sarkisian late on Wednesday during a visit to Yerevan that apparently focused on the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Armenia and Georgian formalized on Wednesday plans to jointly operate Georgian-Armenian border crossings in an effort to facilitate and expand transport communication between the two neighboring states.
International mediators called for “decisive action” to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute late on Friday after ending a fresh tour of the conflict zone with talks in Baku with President Ilham Aliyev and other senior Azerbaijani officials.
The Armenian government is continuing to negotiate with Russia’s Gazprom monopoly in an effort to prevent a further rise in the price of natural gas imported by Armenia, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisian said on Thursday.
The U.S., Russian and French diplomats co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group met with Armenia’s leaders on Wednesday at the start of a fresh round of regional shuttle diplomacy aimed at brokering a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh.
Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasian crossed swords with the head of Armenia’s National Security Service (NSS) on Thursday over a bill regulating the crowd control powers of Armenian law-enforcement bodies.
Armenia’s first heavy snowfall of this year caused dozens of minor car accidents in Yerevan and briefly disrupted traffic in and outside the capital on Tuesday.
Armenia’s economy expanded by 2.6 percent last year following a sharp decline caused by the global financial crisis, according to official statistics released on Wednesday.
Finance Minister Vache Gabrielian downplayed on Monday a more than 13 percent rise in the Armenian government’s tax revenues, saying that more needs to be done to radically improve tax collection in the country.
The Armenian government gave on Thursday conditional approval to three parliamentarians’ proposal to increase from five to six days the length of a regular workweek in the country.
Yerevan’s new municipal administration faced on Wednesday angry streets protests against its decision to ban all forms of street trade in the Armenian capital.
Armenia’s Russian-owned national power distribution company, once a big drain on state finances, claims to have become increasingly profitable in recent years despite a sizable reduction in domestic electricity production shown by official statistics.
Economic growth in Armenia will reach to 4.6 percent this year and accelerate to almost 5 percent in 2012, the World Bank said in its annual global economic report released on Thursday.
The World Bank announced on Wednesday the disbursement of a $25 million loan to Armenia that will finance a part of its state budget deficit projected to reach 149 billion drams ($410 million) this year.
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