A plenary session of the Georgian Parliament on Wednesday resumed deliberations on the bill on transparency of foreign influence, reintroduced by the ruling Georgian Dream party against public protests, in its second hearing, agenda.ge reports. The session will review the draft law, which calls for registration of non-commercial legal entities and media outlets in the country as “pursuing the interests of a foreign power” if they derive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad, “on an articl...
Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of Armenia Gnel Sanosyan on Tuesday received an Iranian delegation led Mohammad Mohammadi-Bakhsh, Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development, and Head of the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran. The latter's ambassador to Armenia, Mehdi Sobhani, also was part of the delegation. The parties discussed bilateral cooperation in the aviation sector, particularly regarding aircraft maintenance, preparation and training of respective specialists, increasing flights,...
On April 30, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting with Gert Jan Koopman, the Director-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission. The interlocutors discussed a number of issues of the Armenia-EU partnership agenda. Both the process of effective implementation of the Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement and the issues of cooperation beyond the Agreement, in new directions were touched upon. Views were exchanged on issu...
During the official visit to the State of Qatar on April 28-29, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan gave an interview to the leading news channel Al-Jazeera with around half a million audience. The interview was published in Arabic and English versions. During the interview Minister Mirzoyan spoke about the vision of Armenia on reaching lasting peace in the region, the process of normalization of relations with Azerbaijan, the “Crossroads of Peace” project, develo...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received the delegation led by the European Commission's Director-General for Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations, Gert-Jan Koopman. According to the readout issued by the Prime Minister's office, the Prime Minister welcomed Mr. Koopman's visit to Armenia and emphasized the importance of continuous development of Armenia-European Union relations. In this regard, Nikol Pashinyan considered the Armenia-EU-US high-level meeting held in Brussels on April 5 as key and emphasized the need ...
Hungary blocks the program of providing support to Armenia from the European Peace Facility of the European Union (EU)—and which was previously agreed upon in the bloc. A diplomatic source of the RFE/RL Armenian Service reports that Hungary demands that Azerbaijan be included in this program, which, according to the same source, is on the discussion table in order to break the deadlock regarding the matter. In mid-April, the RFE/RL Armenian Service had learned that a preliminary agreement was reached in Brussels to p...