On December 2, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, who is in Stockholm on a working visit, met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian today signed a decree appointing Arman Khachatryan as the country’s Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe (residence in Strasbourg).
The Fund’s Board of Trustees says a working group it set up to investigate the matter, as well as a private auditor and Armenia’s Ministry of Finance, found no evidence that the money was used on other than humanitarian and infrastructure needs.
Minister Mirzoyan presented to his colleagues the latest developments regarding the insurance of regional security. In this regard, he stressed the need for the allies to make efforts aimed at de-escalating the situation in the region.
In closing, I would like to welcome Poland as an upcoming Chair of the OSCE and wish them every success.
Azerbaijani troops opened fire today across the line of contact near the village of Karmir Shouka in Artsakh’s Martuni region, this according to Artsakh Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan.
Several businessowner unions in Armenia have called on the government to extend the ban on Turkish imports another five years.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan, at a government cabinet session today, said that no one in Armenia has yet been diagnosed with the new omicron coronavirus variant.