After Nalbandian said that Armenia viewed good relations with China as a prime objective of its foreign policy, Ambassador Huilai added that the high level of relations between the two countries was based on sincerity and mutual respect.
During a visit to the Martakert district of Artsakh, Prime Minister Arayik Haroutyunyan told farmers that the government would assist individuals who plant pomegranates and use the drip irrigation system.
The vast majority of the recent emigrants have been deghatsiner (from long-established native families), not akhbarner. Most of them have left capitalist Armenia because of unemployment, poverty, and lack of opportunity, and most have settled not in the opulent West but in Russia.