Zohrab Mnatsakanyan participated in the meeting of Foreign Ministers of CSTO member states

In his remarks Minister Mnatsakanyan highlighted the importance of that traditional format of Ministerial meeting as an effective platform for foreign policy coordination.  

The joint press conference of Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, the Foreign Minister of Armenia and Michaëlle Jean, the Secretary General of the International Organization of La Francophonie

We also pay great attention to the youth and the future, which is reflected both in the goals included in the text, as well as our activities. Indeed, we attach great importance and we wish for practical results regarding the issues of entrepreneurship and economic cooperation within the framework of La Francophonie, emphasizing the issue of innovation. In that regard, we are organizing a special

Statement by Edward Nalbandian, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, at the 2017 OSCE Mediterranean Conference in Palermo

From Syria alone Armenia has harbored about 22.000 refugees, on per capita basis making our country the third largest recipient of Syrian refugees in Europe. This has caused a number of challenges for a country of just 3 million which has in the recent past already received hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing from Azerbaijan.

Edward Nalbandian had a meeting with the OSCE Secretary General

The sides mutually commended the activity of the OSCE’s Yerevan Office and attached an importance to the operation of the only OSCE office in the South Caucasus region.

Statement by Edward Nalbandian at the High-Level Event: “Open Government Partnership 5 Year Celebration”

In Armenia, we have vibrant civil society, which is an indicator of our growing democracy, and an integral part of Armenia’s public life with increasing participation in and contribution to effective governance.\r\n\r\n

Newly-appointed Ambassador of South Africa handed over copies of his credentials to Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia

On May 18, the newly-appointed Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa Christian Albertus Basson (residence in Kiev) handed over copies of his credentials to Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia Sergey Manassarian.

Discussion, entitled “Women and Diaspora: From Past to Post-2015” held at the UN

On March 9, the Permanent Missions of Armenia and Cyprus to the United Nations, in partnership with the Armenian Relief Society (ARS), University of the Highlands and Islands, and Diaspora African Women’s Network (DAWN), held a side event on the margins of UN CSW 59th session to discuss the role of diaspora women.

Minister for Foreign Affairs received NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia

The sides attached significance to the continuation of NATO-Armenia political dialogue, effective participation in international peacekeeping operations, the reform process in the RA Armed Forces, cooperation in the field of emergency prevention.

The start of Edward Nalbandian’s official visit to Moscow was launched. The Armenian and Russian Foreign Ministers discussed the allied relations

On April 25, by laying a wreath at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier next to the Eternal Flame and by paying tribute to the families of the victims of the Great Patriotic War, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian’s official visit to Russia was launched.

The newly appointed Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa presented the copies of his credentials to the Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs

On September 10 Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian received Chupu Stanley Mathabatha, the newly appointed Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa (residence in Kiev) on the occasion of presenting the copies of his credentials.