On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I want to extend my congratulations to the people of Armenia as you celebrate the 25th anniversary of your nation’s independence on September 21.
A Yerevan judge today extended the pre-trial detention of Garo Yegnukian, a member of the opposition Founding Parliament who has already spent two months in detention on charges of aiding and abetting in the July seizure of a Yerevan police station and the taking of hostages, by another two months.A Yerevan judge today extended the pre-trial detention of Garo Yegnukian, a member of the opposition Founding Parliament who has already spent two...
Yesterday, 27-year-old Tovmas Shahverdyan was elected mayor of Ashtarak, a town of 18,000 about a 30-minute drive northwest of Yerevan.
ARF member Nairi Kirakosyan was elected mayor of Udjan, a village in Armenia’s Aragatzotn Province, yesterday by a vote of 869 to 622.
Karen Grigoryan, running on the Republican Party of Armenia ticket, was reelected mayor of Etchmiadzin yesterday, beating his closest rival, Artur Toumanyan, by a vote of 10,587 to 3,651.
On September 18, political consultations between the Foreign Ministries of the Republic of Armenia and the Islamic Republic of Iran were held in Tehran. The Armenian and Iranian delegations were headed by Shavarsh Kocharyan, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia, and Ebrahim Rahimpour, Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia-Pacific Affairs Ebrahim Rahimpour of Iran, respectively.
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