BAKU / YEREVAN, 11 February 2018 - The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stephane Visconti of France, and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America), together with the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, met with President Ilham Aliyev in Baku on 7 February and President Serzh Sargsyan in Yerevan on 9 February.
Babloyan will attend the opening of an exhibit celebrating 25 years of Armenia-Russia diplomatic relations and the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the Armenian Apostolic Church Diocese of New Nakhijevan and Russia.
By the end of 2007, Armenia's total public debt (internal and external) totaled 1.7 billion US dollars.
Representatives of the Armenian National Congress (HAK), told Armen Sarkissian, the ruling Republican Party of Armenia’s candidate for the next president of the country, at a meeting today that Armenia faces several important challenges including the unresolved Karabakh conflict, which threatens the security of Armenia and Artsakh, emigration, systematic government corruption, economic monopolies, and the lack of free elections.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radav and his wife Desislava Radeva arrived in Armenia today, and were greeted by Armenian President Serzg Sargsyan and First Lady Rita Sargsyan
Several organizations in Armenia are calling for the two declared candidates for the Armenian presidency to hold public meetings with civil society representatives where people can grill them on a variety of foreign and domestic issues.
In February 2017, Armenian Environmental Front published information on philanthropists of Armenian origin who support opening a mine in Amulsar Mountain next to Jermuk.