President Serzh Sargsyan responds to Turkish President’s invitation letter

Your Excellency, a few months ago I invited you to join us in commemoration of memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide in Yerevan on the 24th of April. It is not a common practice for us to be hosted at the invitee’s, without receiving a response to our invitation.

Comment by MFA Spokesman Tigran Balayan to a question by News.am website

Question: The Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan claims that during the meeting last week in Paris the Armenian side has supposedly rejected some proposals made by Azerbaijan. Could you clarify?

Edward Nalbandian’s statement and answers at the joint press conference with Jean Asselborn, the Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister

I am pleased to welcome my counterpart, Jean Asselborn, the Luxembourg Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.

The Foreign Minister received the Kuwaiti Ambassador Bassam Muhammad Alqabandi

On December 26, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received the Kuwaiti Ambassador Bassam Muhammad Alqabandi on the occasion of handing the copies of credentials.

The letter from the President of the French Republic Nicolas Sarkozy

I would like to express my personal gratitude to you for your participation in the preparation and in the course of my State visit, which I had the honor and the pleasure to pay to Armenia on 6-7 October.

Speech by H.E. Mr. Edward Nalbandian, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia Institute of International and European Affairs

It is my pleasure to be in the friendly Ireland and deliver a speech at the esteemed Institute of International and European Affairs. It is not so often that we have mutual visits to Dublin and Yerevan, but this does not decrease the warmth and friendly feelings both Armenians and Irish people emanate towards one another. The Irish proverb “what is seldom is wonderful" (An rud is annamh

The Address of the Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandyan at the Annual Press Conference, Summarizing the Foreign Policy

Based on the guidelines given by the President of the Republic, the activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2010 were aimed at ensuring favourable external conditions for the development of the state, strengthen its image, raise the efficiency of the protection of Armenian and its citizens’ interests abroad, present Armenian approaches in the international arena, deepening the invol

The opening speech by H.E. Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia during an international conference “The Crime of Genocide: Prevention, condemnation and elimination

The prehistory of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted by the UN on December 9, 1948 is related to the most tragic page in the history of the Armenian people. It was the absence of condemnation and elimination of consequences of the Armenian Genocide that made the young philologist Rafael Lemkin in 1921 ask his professor why the Armenians did not have th

Interview of Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian to "Politique Internationale" Journal

ARMENIA AND THE WORLD \r\nAn interview with editorial staff of Politique Internationale\r\n\r\nPolitique Internationale — Mr Nalbandian, you were appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in April 2008, after spending thirty years working abroad. How do you view the world today from the perspective of Yerevan? And what is Armenia’s place in the world?

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Received the Civilitas 2007 award from the Dama Castellana organization

In Conegliano Italy on December 9, 2007, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian received the Civilitas 2007 award from the Dama Castellana organization. The award, established in 1992 by the Dama Castellana organization, the town of Conegliano, the Province of Treviso, the Region of Veneto, and the European Community, is intended for those individuals who personify human v