Acting Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian’s address and answers to questions at a joint press conference with Deputy Prime-Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia

I am very pleased to welcome my colleague, Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and the European Affairs of Slovakia, who is in Armenia on an official visit. It is not the first time that he is in Armenia. This is the fourth visit by Mr. Lajčák.\r\nI think that the visit of Mr. Lajčák will give a new impetus to the bilateral relations.\r\n

The statement and answers of Edward Nalbandian at the joint press conference with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius

I am pleased to welcome Linas Linkevičius in Yerevan.\r\nWe took the opportunity of this meeting to discuss a wide range of issues related to bilateral relations, including regional and global issues. During the recent three years only Foreign Ministers had six reciprocal visits and various visits took place as well.\r\n

The Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs participated in the EU and EaP Ministerial meeting

On July 23 in Brussels Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian participated in the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the European Union and Eastern Partnership. Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission and Štefan Füle, the Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy attended

Foreign Minister Nalbandian’s address and answers to questions during the press conference with Eamon Gilmore, OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of th

I am pleased to welcome the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore. Regardless of the geographical distance between our countries, centuries-old deep relations were established between our peoples.\r\nArmenia gives importance to the development, fostering and enlargement of relations with Ireland.\r\n

Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian's and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statements and answers during joint press conference

It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you again in Armenia. Your last visit to Yerevan coincided with July the 4th, the National Day of the United States of America. This visit coincides with the twentieth anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries. The coincidence contains a positive symbolism.

Statement by H.E. Mr. Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia at the Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Alignment Movement

Mr. Chairman,\r\n\r\nDistinguished colleagues,\r\n\r\nI am pleased to return to Egypt, a country, where I have lived and worked for fourteen years. I have fond and warm memories of that years, the country and its people.\r\nI am pleased to be here today to address the Ministerial Meeting of Non-Alignment Movement, a Family of Nations, which are associated by the shared values of Respect for fundam

The opening speech and the answers of the questions of Edward Nalbandian during the joint press conference with Finish Minister of Foreign Affairs Erkki Tuomioja

I would like to welcome everyone attending this press conference which these days became daily.\r\nI am pleased to welcome my counterpart, the Foreign Minister of Finland, who is in Armenia on an official visit. Here is another country with which we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.\r\n

The address and answers of Minister Nalbandian during the joint press conference with Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis

I am pleased to welcome the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus, who comes from a country with whom we are tied to age-old friendship and brotherly relations, which passed the test of time, from a country, the parliament of which was one of the first ones to recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide in 1982, demanding a restoration of historical justice.

The address and answer of the Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian during the joint press conference with the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Guido Westerwe

Good morning.\r\nIt is a great pleasure for me to welcome my German counterpart Guido Westerwelle in Armenia.\r\nIt’s a good opportunity to keep on our dialogue. We have regular meetings and I was in Germany recently. We use a variety of other opportunities at international conferences.\r\n

The answers of the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs voiced during the debates on the budget at the National Assembly

Question: Minister Nalbandian, I would like start from the denied bids. On the one side, we are saying that the Diplomatic Academy which was eventually established is needed for Armenia, the graduates of which after studying here and in Fletcher, come back, but the requirement of the law according to which they must be taken to a job at the Ministry, is not fulfilled. I am raising this issue not