During his state visit to Armenia, French President Francois Hollande visited on Tuesday the construction site of Carrefour, which will open within Yerevan Mall. Hollande was accompanied by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.   

Despite Armenia's signing the Association Agreement or not, it has always been and still remains a fully-fledged member of the Council of Europe, the head of the Council of Europe office in Yerevan, Oleksandr Pavlyuk, said at today's press-conference when replying to the question, what place will Armenia occupy in the CU after its joining the Customs Union. 

This year the Museums at Night campaign will take place in Armenia for the tenth time. A total of 100 museums of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh have joined the campaign.  

ArmenTel Company (brand Beeline) announces expansion of its 3G network coverage into Armavir and Kotayk regions. 

As of 1 April 2014, Armenia's population totaled 3 mln 12 thsd 900 people, having dropped by 0.5% or 15.1 thsd people as compared with the same period of 2013, the National Statistical Service of Armenia reports.

 Members of the European Parliament Eleni Theocharous, Frank Engel, Tatjana Zdanoka, Ewald Stadler, Inaki Irazabalbeitia, Michele Rivasi, as well as Deputy of the Spanish Parliament Jon Inarritu issued a statement on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the ceasefire agreement. 

 The Armenian police have detained seven people who gathered in Mashtots Park on Tuesday to protest against the decision to rename the park into Missak Manouchian Park, says a press statement by the Preparliament.

VTB Bank (Armenia) has presented the results of the Closer to Relatives campaign held from Dec 10, 2013 to March 31, 2014. Under the campaign, the customers-individuals sending or receiving money transfers through all the systems in the Bank were given an opportunity to win a prize and visit their relatives abroad.     

This autumn Prosperous Armenia and ARFD will again change their political orientation and will move from opposition into new coalition with the currently ruling Republican Party (RPA), sources from Prosperous Armenia and RPA told ArmInfo on Tuesday.

 In the framework of its open skies policy Armenia is actively negotiating to attract state- funded air companies, Armenian Economy Minister Karen Tchshmarityan told journalists on Tuesday.

At its today's extraordinary session, the Armenian parliament voted for the draft law suggesting amendments to the law on pensions that was submitted by the government. If earlier the government offered to stop functioning of the 76th clause of the above mentioned law, that supposes payment of fines  for abandoning to transfer the relevant pension payments, now another three points were added to the draft law. 

 An Armenian-Swiss business forum took place in Zurich on May 7. 

 The talks for Armenia's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union are still underway, with just a few unresolved questions left, Armenia's Economy Minister Karen Tchshmarityan told journalists on Tuesday.

 The OSCE MG co-chairmen said many times written or oral about their approach to settlement of the Karabakh conflict through referendum and on the basis of free expression of the will of the people of Karabakh, and this way has no alternative, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said at today's joint press-conference with his French counterpart, Francois Hollande, in Yerevan. 

France wants Armenia's full association with the European Union, but this does not mean a breakup with Russia, French President Francois Hollande said during a joint press-conference with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in Yerevan on Tuesday.

 It would be well if in his statement Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Erdogan qualified the massacre of the Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey at the beginning of the 20th century as a genocide, President of France Francois Hollande said at the joint press-conference with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan in Yerevan, 13 May, when commenting on Erdogan's statement on the eve of the 99th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. 

 Forum of the Armenian Associations of Europe (FAAE) urges the NKR authorities to immediately launch a process of reunification with Armenia, FAAE says in a statement.

 As a result of a draw on May 12 two of Ameriabank's customers holding VISA cards have won tickets to 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil.
Anna Gharibyan will go to Fortaleza, while Artur Torosyan will go to Salvador. 

 During his state visit to Armenia, French President Francois Hollande visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex dedicated to the Armenian Genocide victims and paid a tribute to the memory of the innocent victims of the Genocide committed in the Ottoman Empire. Francois Hollande was accompanied by his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan.      

 Orange's investments in Armenia have amounted to 270mln EUR, CEO of Orange Armenia Francis Gelibter said at an Armenian-French economic forum in Yerevan on Monday.