ArmInfo. On December 14,  Armenian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Tigran Seyranyan met with  Speaker of the Czech parliament (lower house) Radek Vondrachek, the  press service of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia reports.

ArmInfo.The Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (PA CSTO) at a meeting on October 30 adopted recommendations on the harmonization  of the national legislation of the CSTO member states regarding the  recognition of organizations as terrorist, reports TASS.

ArmInfo.American helicopters acquired by Azerbaijan have a civilian purpose; they cannot be used for military purposes. Armenian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Anna  Naghdalyan said this on October 24 at a briefing commenting on the  acquisition by Azerbaijan of American helicopters.

ArmInfo. The Romanian Parliament unanimously ratified the Agreement on Comprehensive and Enlarged Partnership concluded by Armenia and the European Union on  November 24, 2017 in Brussels. The post about it on his Facebook page  was left by the Ambassador of Armenia in Romania Sergey Minasyan.

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ArmInfo. MPs of the National  Assembly of Armenia at the October 3 meeting in the second and final  reading amended the Law on the Audit Chamber. 

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ArmInfo. The Armenian government decided at the meeting on September 6 on the members to represent the government in the Public Council: this time the local government bodies, the self-governing and creative unions, student and youth organizations, veteran unions will participate in the work of the council.

ArmInfo. An Armenian delegation  headed by the Chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia Ara  Babloyan, who is on an official visit to the Czech Republic, held a  meeting with the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Andrei Babish,  on August 24.

ArmInfo. During his official visit to the Czech Republic, the President of the Armenian Parliament Ara Babloyan met with the President of the Senate of the Czech Republic  Milan Stech on August 22.

ArmInfo. The United Kingdom  House of Commons approved the Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced  Partnership Agreement (CEPA) today and transferred it to the House of  Lords for final ratification, Tigran Balayan, Spokesman of the  Armenian Foreign Ministry, said this with reference to the Armenian  Embassy in London.

ArmInfo.The lower house of the Romanian Parliament unanimously ratified the agreement on a comprehensive and expanded Armenia-EU partnership (CEPA) on June 27. Armenian Ambassador to Romania Sergey Minasyan wrote about this on his Facebook page.

ArmInfo. The House of Representatives of the American State of Rhode Island unanimously adopted a resolution in connection with the 30th anniversary of the  pogroms of the Armenian population of the city of Sumgait. 

ArmInfo. "For several days the Chamber of Advocates of Armenia has been following with great concern the events taking place in the country, which, unfortunately, today  began to be accompanied by violence. This dangerous trend suggests  that peaceful rallies held for political purposes can have  irreversible consequences, "the statement of the chairman of the  Armenian Bar Association Ara Zohrabyan says in connection with the  situation created in recent days in Yerevan.

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ArmInfo.On 14 March Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan visited the U.S. Congress.  The President met with a group of members of the foreign affairs  committee, discussed issues related to the Artsakh-US relations, the  Azerbaijani-Karabagh conflict settlement and regional trends.  

ArmInfo. The order of appointment of members of the Public Council will change in Armenia. The draft law "On Public Council" was approved at the meeting of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on March 7 in the second and final reading.

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ArmInfo. A majority in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, approved two motions regarding the Armenian genocide of 1915 on Thursday. According to NLTimes Dutch edition, Both motions were submitted by ChristenUnie parliamentarian Joel Voordewind. All four coalition parties supported the motions. One states that the Tweede Kamer "recognizes the Armenian genocide", the other that a Dutch Minister or State Secretary should attend the commemoration of this genocide in Armenia in April. This decision is expected to further sour the relationship between Turkey and the Netherlands, ANP reports. At the same time, the edition reports that this decision of the Dutch parliament will most likely lead to a deterioration in relations between the Netherlands and Turkey. It should be noted that this decision of the Netherlands was quite expected against the background of the deepening crisis in the Turkish-Dutch relations. The crisis between the two countries arose last year, after the Netherlands on 11 March 2017 banned the landing in Rotterdam of an airplane with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on board. Soon the Minister for Family and Social Policy of Turkey Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya, who arrived in the Netherlands from Germany by car to participate in a meeting with the Turkish diaspora, collided with pressure. Police of the Netherlands first detained Fatma security officers Betul Sayan Kaya. The minister tried to get him to leave the car, and after her refusal they threatened to evacuate the car. As a result, Kaya was forced to leave the car, and escorted by police officers she was expelled to Germany. At the same time, police officers of the Netherlands dispersed with the use of dogs and equestrian clothes thousands of ethnic Turks gathered at the walls of the Consulate General in Rotterdam in support of the Turkish minister. It is noteworthy that the Netherlands warned the Turkish authorities in advance that they would not allow Turkish officials to take part in the actions. The Turkish Foreign Ministry demanded that the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Ankara, Cornelis van Rij, who was on vacation abroad at the time, did not return some time to fulfill his duties. Turkey after the crisis has put forward to the Netherlands side a number of conditions, the implementation of which would normalize relations between the two countries. However, Amsterdam refused to take counter steps. After it became clear that the problem between the two countries would not be resolved, the Dutch government decided to recall the ambassador to Ankara. The diplomat was recalled from Turkey on February 5. Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zilistra said that recent talks to resolve diplomatic problems between Turkey and the Netherlands have not yielded results. According to him, the negotiations are currently suspended.

ArmInfo.A member of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Samvel Farmanyan, delivered a speech at the January session  of the organization dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the movement for the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, during which he presented factual evidence of the international community's assistance to the struggle of the Karabakh people for self-determination.