On April 25, the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Armenia, Suren Papikyan, welcomed a delegation led by the Head of the Council of Europe Office in Yerevan, Maxime Longangué. The Minister of Defence of the Republic of Armenia congratulated Mr. Longangué on assuming his new position and expressed his best wishes for success in his mission, the ministry said. Issues related to the implementation of the "Strengthening of Human Rights in the Armed Forces of Armenia" program by the CE office in Yerevan were di...
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal delivered an address on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. "In this memorable moment, even if it's difficult, even if sometimes it seems that everything pushes us to stop believing, I want to see hope. Hope because Armenia has endured, it is writing the future of itself and its people. Hope for peace and solidarity because we work towards it and, despite the losses, we never give up. Hope that our values—the shared values of democracy, tolerance, and freedom—will pr...
The National Assembly (NA) of Armenia has not received any letter from Russia, NA speaker Alen Simonyan's press secretary, Nelly Ghulyan, told Armenian News-NEWS.am on Thursday. Grigory Karasin, Chair of the Russian Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, on Wednesday sent a letter to the NA of Armenia, asking to clarify the position of the Armenian MPs regarding the statements made by NA speaker Alen Simonyan at the Spain Conference of Speakers of the European Union Parliaments on Monday. "We have received numero...
The Kirants village section of the Armenia-Georgia interstate motorway remains closed. Along with that, the residents of the border villages of Armenia’s Tavush Province have closed off the Kirants bridge because according to the rumors, demining work will be carried in that area today. One of these protesters told about this in an interview with Armenian News-NEWS.am Thursday. As reported earlier, on April 19, the Armenian and Azerbaijani border delimitation commissions agreed to start border delimitation from Tavus...
Today, on the occasion of the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Armenia's Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan visited the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide memorial complex with Armenia's leadership to pay tribute to the memory of 1.5 million victims. As reported by Armenia's Foreign Ministry, Minister Mirzoyan and the leadership of the Foreign Ministry laid a wreath at the memorial, laid flowers at the eternal flame of the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
United States President Joe Biden issued a statement on Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day, April 24. Below is the full statement released by the White House. “Today, we pause to remember the lives lost during the Meds Yeghern—the Armenian genocide—and renew our pledge to never forget. The campaign of cruelty began on April 24, 1915, when Ottoman authorities arrested Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. In the days, months, and years that followed, one and a half million Armenia...