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ArmInfo. Edward Nalbandian summed up the results of 10 years of being on the post of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia.

ArmInfo.Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on May 12 submitted to the officers of the Defense Ministry newly appointed head of the department David Tonoyan. 

ArmInfo. David Tonoyan will be appointed Armenian Defense Minister, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated this during the conversation with journalists. 

ArmInfo.NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai congratulated Nikol Pashinyan on his election as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia.

ArmInfo.Armenian President Armen Sargsyan found it difficult to say whether a change of power in the country could influence the dialogue with Baku. 

ArmInfo. The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) sharply criticized the position of US President Donald Tramp on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman  Empire.

Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, turkologist, professor Ruben Safrastyan in an interview with ArmInfo discusses the foreign and domestic policies of Erdogan's Turkey. He shares his vision of the reasons for the perception of modern Turkey by the West, Russia and Iran, and its role in the Middle East. He also talks about Turkey's opportunities in the South Caucasus, assesses Armenia's ability to withstand the centuries-old threats from its western neighbor. He speaks about the role of Russia in these processes in the light of another aggravation of relations with the Western world. 

ArmInfo. The consistent and open  policy of Armenia on the development of the system of relations with  all the centers of the "polycentric world" gives its results. Just a  few weeks ago at the Munich Conference on Security, during the  meeting on the issues of relations between Europe and Russia, all  speakers - both from Russia and European structures - cited the  example of Armenia as the country that most effectively combined its  interaction formats. Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan stated  this during his speech at the 7th Moscow Conference on Security  Issues.

ArmInfo.The CSTO does not have the authority to intervene in hostilities that take place on the territory of Karabakh. On April 4, at a press conference, ex-Minister of Defense of Armenia Vagharshak Harutyunyan stated.

ArmInfo. The State University of  Artsakh signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Hungarian  Catholic University named after Pazmany Peter. The press service of  the State University of Artsakh reported to ArmInfo.

ArmInfo. Today, Armenians living in the north of Syria are not in danger. Head of Hay Dat central office and political issues of ARF Dashnaktsutyun Giro Manoyan said at a press conference in Yerevan on March 26.

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ArmInfo.On March 22, within the framework of the next visit to Armenia, a group of experts from the NATO Defense Education Improvement Program visited the National  Defense Research University of the Defense Ministry of the Republic  of Armenia. Guests were received by the chief-founder of the National  Defense Research University, lieutenant-general, doctor of political  sciences, professor Hayk Kotanjyan.

Former Defense Minister of Armenia,  Lieutenant-General Vagharshak Harutyunyan in his interview to ArmInfo shares his vision of the effectiveness of Armenia's national security architecture. He talks about ways to level out the challenges and threats of Armenian statehood,  comments on the latest impulses, the role of the US and Russia in the Middle East and global politics. 

ArmInfo.On March 14-16, the regular annual working meeting of the representatives of Armenia and NATO was held, during which the details of the program of individual  partnership actions for the assessment, planning and review of the partnership process were discussed.

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ArmInfo.A memorial service was held in the Armenian Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Brussels in memory of the victims of the Sumgait pogroms on February 27-29, 1988.

ArmInfo. In his interview with  ArmInfo news agency, Azerbaijani MP, lawmaker  RasimMousabekov discusses the latest internal  political flows in  Azerbaijan. He shares his vision of the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, the geopolitical situation around the South Caucasus, Iran, the possibilities of projections of  Middle East unsustainability  in our region.

ArmInfo. "The purpose of my visit to the region is not only to intensify the political dialogue at a high level, but also to stimulate mutually beneficial cooperation in a number of areas." On February 12, at a joint news conference with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in Yerevan, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, who is on a state visit to our country, stated. "We discussed our bilateral relations with our Armenian counterpart, expressed satisfaction with the trade and economic cooperation, which has been developing dynamically for the last 10 years, and we have mutually stated that not all the existing potential has been used and additional efforts should be made in this direction. meetings, including with representatives of the business environment, reached an agreement, tentatively in June this year in Burgas to hold an Armenian-Bulgarian business forum, which will be signed by a memorandum on cooperation, which will open up new opportunities for cooperation between our countries", said the President of Bulgaria. Radev expressed the conviction that both Armenia and Bulgaria are of strategic importance, which should be used to the full, including through multimodal transport through the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf. In this context, he considered important the proposal of the President of Armenia, organize a meeting of all interested parties to discuss the prospects for cooperation. "We stressed the importance of signing an agreement between Armenia and the EU on a comprehensive and expanded partnership, which, in turn, can stimulate the Armenian-Bulgarian economic relations," the Bulgarian leader said. Speaking about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Radev noted that the settlement of the conflict is important not only for Armenia, but for the whole region. "I presented the situation in the Western Balkans, the situation in the Black Sea region and the Transcaucasia among the priorities of Bulgaria's chairmanship in the EU Council." We also touched on security cooperation, Armenia is an active member of the Partnership for Peace program. to attend the NATO exercises in Bulgaria," the Bulgarian president said. Speaking about the opportunities to stimulate business contacts and find new ways of interaction, Radev noted that transport and communications play an important role in this matter. "Unfortunately, there is no direct air communication between Armenia and Bulgaria, which is largely due to the fact that we do not have our own national carriers, and we need to create favorable conditions for attracting private carriers, which in turn will stimulate our interaction," the president concluded. Bulgaria. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently announced at a press conference in Tbilisi that "in the case of a corridor building between the Persian Gulf and the Black Sea, great opportunities will open, the price of transportation will be very low." At the same time, he said that to implement this idea of Tehran "the cooperation of Georgia, Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan is necessary."