On November 22 ArmenTel CJSC (Beeline trademark) and "Center for Technology Development" Foundation held an AppCON 2013 international conference dedicated to the global and regional trends of development of mobile applications and mobile content.     

As many as 70% of Armenian citizens object to the authorities' decision to join the Customs Union, the leader of National Self-Determination Union Party Paruyr Hayrikyan told journalists on Friday.

 "Uruguay is always next to Armenia, and the friendly Armenian people are in our hearts and souls,"- the President of the Senate of Uruguay, Danilo Astori,  said. 
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 VTB Bank (Armenia) keeps on enlarging its branch network under its retail development strategy. Today the Bank held the official opening of the renovated Branch Number 2 at 41/74 Komitas Avenue, Yerevan. The press service of VTB Bank (Armenia) has told ArmInfo that several measures have been taken to optimize the procedures related to customer service, modernization and full technical re-equipment of workplaces and the servicing area. The Bank has also taken relevant measures to bring the interior in compliance with the brand and firm style of VTB Group. 

Foster children of the Yerevan Nubarashen boarding-school N 2 thanked "Rostelecom" company for free of charge Internet since June 2013. 

 The decision not to sign the association agreement with the European Union was made by President Yanukovich as long as a few months ago, President of the Center for European and Transatlantic Studies (Kyiv) Alexey Kolomets said in an interview to ArmInfo.

The Road Police must share the responsibility for the road accident involving artist Vardan Petrosyan, Anahit Bakhshyan, a member of Yerevan Elders Council, representative of Heritage Party, told reporters.

 No serious research has been held in Armenia on expediency of the country's joining the Customs Union, Doctor of Economics, director of the analytical center "Alternativa", Tatul Manaseryan, said at today's press-conference. 

The mandatory pension contributions scheme offered by the Armenian Government is a progressive instrument successfully applied in dozens of countries worldwide, Director of Alternative Analytical Center Tatul Manaseryan told journalists on Friday.

 For almost three centuries already the Armenian political science has been clarifying the Russian national interests to Russians, Vahan Hovhannisyan, MP, member of ARFD Bureau, told ArmInfo's correspondent in the lobby of the recent International Conference "The CSTO and the Modern Security Challenges". The MP thinks that it's time to stop doing that and to focus on elaboration of national priorities on the basis of our own interests and "to pursue these interests in any situation, to insist on them and not to try to naively correct the foreign political activity of Europeans, Russians or Americans, because Armenia's significance in the international arena is not big enough for the powers to give ear to Armenia".   

 Head of EU Delegation to Armenia Traian Hristea refrains from forecasting the results of the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius. 

 The Russian military base in Armenia will temporarily be given territories not used by the Armenian army, Spokesman of Armenia's Defense Ministry Artsrun Hovhannisyan said concerning the information that Erebuni airport has been given to the Russian military base in Armenia.

 A delegation from Armenia is taking part in the US Atlantic Council Energy & Economic Summit in Istanbul. 

Armenian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisyan on Friday received an Iranian delegation led by Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian. 

 "I believe that Russia and Turkey have obligations in the region from the standpoint of Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict, situation in Syria and development of the situation in Iraq," Erdogan said after his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 The European Union will continue cooperating with Armenia after the Vilnius summit, Head of European Union Delegation to Armenia Traian Hristea said during "From Warsaw to Vilnius: At the Crossroads - Armenia and Georgia" conference in Yerevan on Friday.

 I am confident that a document will be signed between Armenia and the EU at the Vilnius summit, Germany's Ambassador to Armenia, Rainer Morel, told Arminfo correspondent.  

The Electric Networks of Armenia CSJC (ENA) continues building a substation for the Teghut mine project in Lori region.

In 2014 Armenia will impose restrictions on casinos.

 Asked about the level of Armenia's participation in the Vilnius summit, Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian told journalists today that the details will be made public properly and in due time.