During his visit to China Armenia's Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has met with the managers of a number of Chinese companies, who have expressed readiness to enter the Armenian market.

 Human rights defenders Arthur Sakunts and Zhanna Aleksanyan have left the Commission for Non-Combat Deaths. 

 Telecommunications, medicine, biotechnologies, nanotechnologies and tourism - such are the prior fields of cooperation for businessmen of Armenia and Tomsk region, Russia, said Alexander Gumilevskiy, Head of the Business Development Center at the Tomsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), at the meeting of Armenian-Russian businessmen in Yerevan on Tuesday. The meeting was organized jointly with the CCI of Yerevan.

The restoration of the Yerevan indoor market depends only on the will of the Armenian government, the head of the Armenian Union of Architects, Mkrtich Minasyan, said at today's press-conference.

 Armenia wants to become an observer at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and needs China's assistance in the matter, Armenia's Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan told Premier of the State Council of China Li Keqiang on Tuesday.
The press service of the Armenian Government quotes Keqiang as saying that China understands Armenia's wish to take part in regional processes and is inclined to actively cooperate with the Customs Union. 

 Following a visit to the Amulsar site on September 3, 2013, an EBRD environmental specialist concluded that Lydian has made tremendous progress in restoring the land that was disturbed by mine exploration activities, including roads and drill pads that are no longer needed, the company said in a press release.

 Armenia's accession to the Customs Union will not affect the Armenian-Georgian relations, Joni Melikyan, Head of the Center for Political and Legal Studies, expert on Georgia, told media, Tuesday.   

 Initialing of Association Agreement with Armenia is off the table, Swedish FM Carl Bildt said on his Twitter.

European Union is ready to continue the dialogue with Armenia, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian told media in the Parliament, Tuesday.

 The Police detained several activists, protesting in front of the Yerevan Mayor's Office. The activists were attempting to enter the building, to attend the session of the Yerevan Council of Elders that kicked off on 10 September.   

Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has nothing to reply to deputies' questions about the decision on Armenia's joining the Customs Union, a member of the parliament from the opposition Armenian National Congress, Nikol Pashinyan, told journalists today. 

 It is time to put an end to sufferings and haltered, make bold moves and concessions to each other to achieve durable peace. OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair of the USA James Warlick said in a statement in Baku, Novosti-Azerbaijan reported.

 The Embassy will also continue to support and encourage the development of Armenia's relations with the EU, UK Ambassador Jonathan Aves says in a statement issued after assuming his position as a UK Ambassador to Armenia and rotating with his wife Kathy Leach.

 Armenia and China have agreed to expand cooperation in the field of military education, the Defense Ministry press-service told ArmInfo. A Chinese delegation led by Deputy Rector of the National Liberation Army Institute of the People's Republic of China, Major General Guo Xiangdong, who is on a visit to Armenia on September 7-10, and First Deputy Minister of Defense of Armenia David Tonoyan made a relevant agreement, Monday. 

Tbilisi. The Georgian-Estonian Agreement on Mutual Assistance in the Sphere of Tourism  was signed during the first official visit of the head of the Georgian government Bidzina Ivanishvili to Estonia, the government's press-service reports on Monday, September 9.

Tbilisi. On September 6 Special Representative of the Georgian Prime Minister for settlement relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze stated that the Georgian side was not negotiating with Russian Federation on the issue of opening of the railway's Abkhaz section.

Tbilisi. By the present time 13 Georgian nationals managed to return to the Motherland from Syria, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia David Zalkaliani stated at the briefing on Monday, September 9.

Tbilisi. Georgia's accession to NATO in 2014 is not realistic, Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Alasania stated in the interview to the magazine Commersant Vlast, which was published on Monday.

Tbilisi. Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili considers that there is a positive dynamic in relations with RF after the new authorities came to power.

 Brandy sales of the Yerevan Brandy Company (YBC) may total 4.8 mln liters in FY 2013/2014 (1 July 2013 - 1 June 2014), up 14% than in the previous fiscal year, Ara Grigoryan, YBC Managing Director, told journalists on Monday.