USAID presented its 2013-2018 assistance strategy for Armenia at a public event in Yerevan on December 11. Dr. Karen Hilliard, Director of USAID/Armenia, introduced the main strategic directions of bilateral cooperation in the areas of economic growth, governance, health care and social reform.
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian met with Eric Rubin, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs who has arrived to confer with U.S. ambassadors in the South Caucasus.
Armenia will have access to the EU world leading programs in the fields of culture, education, environment, and science. Armenian civil servants will be integrated into EU agencies such as aviation security, medicine and environment, and this on all levels.
Elita Gavele, Latvia’s newly appointed ambassador to Armenia, presented her credentials today to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
After a November plane crash that killed 50 people, Russian authorities are investigating whether some pilots received fake licenses from centers certified by the federal aviation agency, reports RT. According to RT, the pilot involved in the November 17th crash that sparked the probe sent his plane into a nosedive in the Russian city of Kazan. The botched landing killed 44 passengers and six crewmembers.
In response to a recently released special report by Armenia’s Human Rights Defender on corruption within the country’s judicial system, Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan today called on the official to offer at least one confirmed case of bribe taking by a judge in order to launch a criminal case.
Anna Aghadjanyan has been appointed Armenia’s ambassador to Indonesia.
Armenia’s Union of Judges has lambasted a recent report by the country’s Human Rights Defender on corruption in the courts.
The body of Vanichka Hovakimyan, a private in the Armenian Army, was found on December 10 on the grounds of a military base.
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