Strasbourg, 10.06.2025 – Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset will visit Armenia on 11–12 June for a series of meetings. The Secretary General will meet with President Vahagn Khachaturyan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President of...
Strasbourg, 10.06.2025 – Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset will visit Armenia on 11–12 June for a series of meetings. The Secretary General will meet with President Vahagn Khachaturyan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan, and Minister of Justice Srbuhi Galyan. He will also deliver...
On Wednesday 28 May, the Government approved a new foreign policy framework, which updates the 2015 Framework and directly follows the 2023 Security Strategy. The aim of the concept is to set up the most stable foreign policy that Czechia needs to successfully promote its interests. “The main shift...
Tirana, 15.05.2025 – Against the backdrop of war, democratic backsliding, and accelerating disruption in Europe and the world, Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset will join over 40 European heads of state and government at the sixth European Political Community (EPC) Summit, hosted on 16 May in Tirana, Albania. Under the...
As if we didn’t already have enough disputes among Armenians, a new argument surfaced last week between Arman Babajanyan, head of a minor pro-Western political party that supports Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and former Foreign Minister of Armenia Vartan Oskanian. On April 8, 2025, Babajanyan wrote on his Facebook...
Statement by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) of the United Kingdom Parliament On Armenian Prisoners of War, the Forced Displacement of Armenians from Artsakh, Human Rights Violations by Baku, and Related Issues The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Armenia in the United Kingdom Parliament expresses its deep concern over...
The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF), funded by the European Union, and its Armenian National Platform welcomed the adoption by the Armenian National Assembly of the law launching the Republic of Armenia’s accession process to the European Union. The Armenian parliament passed a bill ‘On starting the...
The Armenian parliament adopted on Wednesday the bill on EU integration at second and final reading. It was adopted with 64 votes in favor and 7 against. The bill’s preamble was amended between the first and second readings. The bill was initiated by several civic organizations through a petition...
February 26, 2025 To the International Community: As major Armenian diasporan organizations worldwide and NGOs working in the Republic of Armenia, we the undersigned, are writing to urge you to take immediate action to end Azerbaijan’s political persecution of Ruben Vardanyan, a globally-respected Armenian philanthropist and native of Armenia. ...
Strasbourg, 24.02.2025 – To mark the third anniversary of the start of the Russian Federation’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the Ministers’ Deputies (ambassadors) have held an extraordinary meeting focusing on Ukrainian civilians held prisoner by the authorities of the Russian Federation. At this meeting, a Ukrainian woman who was...
On February 11, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom, First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and members of their team met with leadership from the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Western Region and the Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School (SMACS), along with other Armenian community figures. The purpose was to discuss...
