Frank Pallone, a member of the House of Representatives of the US Congress and Co-Chair of the Congressional Armenian Caucus, has considered the agreement reached between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the release of detainees to be a step forward. Pallone wrote on X that he is happy to see that Armenia and Azerbaijan were able to reach an agreement on the release of 32 Armenian captives. He added that this is an important step forward, but the United States must assist Armenia in the security sector to ensure susta...

The World Bank announced Friday that Armenia has been selected to receive a new grant from the State and Peacebuilding Umbrella Trust Fund to support the mental health and wellbeing of displaced children and adolescents from Nagorno-Karabakh region in over 200 schools across the country, the World Bank informed in a statement. The grant will finance an upcoming project to be implemented jointly by the World Bank and the Teach for Armenia Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Spo...

The V Eurasian Research on Modern China and Eurasia Conference, organized by the China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research foundation, started Friday in Armenia’s capital of Yerevan. The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of Armenia, Narek Mkrtchyan, made opening remarks, stating as follows: "This conference is unique in terms of geopolitical and economic developments occurring in the Eurasian region. Today, the discourse about China revolves around the One Belt One Road [(Belt and Road)] Initiative. ...

I will avoid mentioning any names. First, I am not familiar with the details. Besides, it is a very sensitive topic, and I would advise the media as well not to circulate names until the captives cross the state border of Armenia because you understand how difficult this can be for the relatives of the captives. Sargis Khandanyan, Chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, told this to reporters in the NA Friday, referring to the joint statement issued Thursday even...

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia had a telephonic conversation with President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan. They discussed the agenda of Armenia-Kazakhstan bilateral relations, the Armenian PM’s office informs.The mutual interest in developing relations between the two countries, as well as the need to realize the potential of cooperation in economic and other domains was emphasized.Also, PM Pashinyan invited President Tokayev to Armenia on an official visit; the president of Kazakhstan accepted this inv...

During his working visit to London, Armen Grigoryan, Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, met with Sir Tim Barrow, National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK), informs the Office of the Security Council of Armenia. The interlocutors emphasized the stable dynamics of the development of Armenian-UK relations based on democratic values, the official start of the Armenia-UK strategic dialogue, and stressed that the abovementioned is proof of the readiness of both countries to fully realize ...