ArmInfo.The delegation of the National Assembly to PACE takes part in the work of the Second part  of the Annual Session of the Assembly going on in Strasbourg, the press service of the RA NA reports.  At April 16 meeting the member of the NA delegation to PACE Armen Gevorgyan gave a speech during the  debate on the Application by Kosovo for membership to the Council of Europe.

ArmInfo.On April 9, the Chair of the RA NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Sargis  Khandanyan met with the Director of Political Affairs and External Relations in the Council of Europe Miroslav Papa.

ArmInfo.Secretary of Armenia's Security Council Armen Grigoryan will travel to Stockholm, Helsinki  and Vilnius.  

ArmInfo.Within the framework of defense cooperation between the Republic of Armenia and the United  Kingdom, discussions on combating corruption were held in London from March 28 to 29, the Armenian Defense Ministry said.

ArmInfo.. "There were no political overtones in my meeting with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya,"  President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan told reporters on March 27.

ArmInfo. On March 22, the President of the RA National Assembly Alen Simonyan met with the  Speaker of Parliament of Azerbaijan Sahiba Gafarova within the framework of the 148th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union being held in Geneva, the press service of the Armenian Parliament reports.  The meeting was organized on the initiative and mediation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

ArmInfo.Closer cooperation with Armenian parliamentarians was discussed at a meeting between the  leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan, the press service of the Belarusian politician reported. 

ArmInfo. Ambassador of France to Armenia Olivier Decottignies assessed the current level of  Armenian-French relations as unprecedented.

ArmInfo.Armenia will appoint defense attaches to NATO and the OSCE. The decision was made on  February 15 at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

ArmInfo. Below is a statement by Ambassador Mher Margaryan at the First session of the Preparatory Committee for the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries

ArmInfo.Bilateral documents were signed within the framework of the meeting of the intergovernmental  commission for economic cooperation between Armenia and Georgia held in Tbilisi, which was chaired by Prime Ministers of Armenia and Georgia Nikol Pashinyan and Irakli Garibashvili.

ArmInfo.On 18 January, the European Union and Armenia held their 13th Human Rights Dialogue in  Yerevan.

ArmInfo. Armenia can freely use the Iranian ports of Chabahar and Bandar Abbas. Iran's Ambassador to Armenia Mehdi Sobhani stated  in an interview with PTA, touching on the prospects of Armenia joining international transport routes passing through Iran.

ArmInfo. Armenian-French  bilateral military-political consultations took place in Paris on  Thursday, December 21, the Ministry of Defense reports.

ArmInfo. The Armenian delegation's absence from the meeting of the Collective Security  Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly (CSTO PA) will not have any impact on the decision to create a joint air defense system, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin told journalists.

ArmInfo. Armenia and Egypt discussed opportunities for cooperation in the military industry. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of High- Technological Industry of Armenia, referring to the results of the meeting of head of the relevant department Robert Khachatryan with  Minister of State for Military Production  of Egypt Mohamed Salah Eldin Mostafa, which took place as part of the working visit of the  Armenian delegation to Egypt.

ArmInfo. Russian senators regularly communicate with their Armenian partners directly, via  video channels, and through the embassy; there is no talk of freezing relations. This was announced by the head of the international committee of the Federation Council, Grigory Karasin, commenting on the information that the parliamentary delegation of Armenia will not participate in the upcoming meeting of the CSTO Parliamentary  Assembly in Moscow on December 19.

ArmInfo.On November 28, the sixth Armenian-British defence strategic consultations were held  in London. The Armenian delegation was led by the Head of the Defence Policy and International Cooperation of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Armenia, Levon Ayvazyan.  

ArmInfo.Armenia has been and remains an ally of the Collective Security Treaty Organization  (CSTO), there is no point in drawing categorical conclusions from Yerevan's absence at the session in Minsk. CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov stated to TASS.

ArmInfo.The 21st session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly continues its work in Yerevan.