Deputy Foreign Minister Ashot Hovakimian participated in the Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement

From September 17 to 18, Ashot Hovakimian, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia, participated in the 17th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and in the preceding meeting, as an observer.\r\n

Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian’s meeting with the Prime Minister of Georgia

Interlocuteurs discussed in a detail manner numerous issues of the Armenian-Georgian cooperation agenda, namely the realization of agreements reached on high level, economic and trade cooperation, diversification of transport roots, cooperation in energy sector, promotion of cultural exchanges, development of tourism. In this regard, the importance of activation of the Armenian-Georgian inter-gove

Statement by Ambassador Arman Kirakossian on the violations of the International Humanitarian Law by Azerbaijan

On April 14, 2016, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Armenia to OSCE Ambassador Arman Kirakossian delivered a statement to the 1096th Meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, touching upon recent violations of the International Humanitarian Law by the Republic of Azerbaijan.\r\n

Deputy Foreign Minister Hovakimian delivered speech at the High-level conference Preventing Violent Extremism – The Way Forward

Ashot Hovakimian stressed, that unresolved conflicts may indeed create breeding ground for violent extremism particularly when state authorities use unresolved conflicts to suppress human rights both within and beyond their jurisdiction and propagate hatred against parties to the conflict at all levels of their society.

Statement of Ambassador Kirakossian at the Special Meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on the escalation of situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict-zone

Under these circumstances the Republic of Armenia as a party to the trilateral ceasefire agreement of 1994 will take necessary actions. People of Nagorno-Karabakh have the right to self-defence and Armenia as a guarantor of their physical security will stand by them. The President of Armenia instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia to prepare the draft treaty on the mutual military as

Third International Forum of the MGIMO Alumni held in Yerevan

On October 23, the 3rd International Forum of Alumni of the MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) was held in the Sports and Concerts Complex named after Karen Demirchyan.\r\n

Exhibition dedicated to the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide in Minsk

On April 16, an exhibition dedicated to the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide was organized by the Embassy of Armenia in Belarus, in cooperation with Armenian community, at Friendship House of Minsk, Belarus.

Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic passed a resolution on the occasion of the Armenian Genocide Centenary

On April 14, Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic unanimously passed a resolution on the occasion of the Armenian Genocide Centenary.

The Address and Answers of Edward Nalbandian to the Questions at the Joint Press Conference with the EU Commissioner Hahn

We believe that we have reached considerable achievements over the recent years, namely the two very important Agreements that were signed with the EU on Visa Facilitation and Readmission that entered into force in January, 2014.

Conference entitled “Legacy of the Armenian Genocide 100 years on” held in The Hague

From March 6 to March 7, a conference, entitled “Legacy of the Armenian Genocide 100 years on” was held at the Institute for Global Justice in The Hague. The conference was organized by the National Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) of the Netherlands, Institute for Armenian Studies at the University of South California and Centennial Project Foundation.