ArmInfo. The second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan spoke for the need to develop new approaches to regional security issues, ensuring synchronization within the framework of global processes of escalation of relations between Russia and the West. Kocharyan expressed this idea at a meeting held yesterday with a number of political observers and analysts.
ArmInfo. David Hoffman has been appointed as new Mission Director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID)/Armenia. USAID Armenia Mission Director Deborah Grieser, who is completing her missionin Armenia, said this at a today's meeting with RA Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutyunyan.
ArmInfo.There is no need to talk about the unification of the opposition, and primarily the one that represents the old authorities, in the absence of a social demand. Political scientist, Director of the Yerevan-based Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskandaryan expressed a such opinion to journalists.
ArmInfo. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan today received Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Armenia Igor Nazaruk, who is completing his diplomatic mission.
ArmInfo.The parliament approved the deprivation of parliamentary immunity of Gagik Tsarukyan.
ArmInfo.Activists of "Adequate" movement attacked Deputy Speaker Alen Simonyan. It happened at about 5:30pm on Mashtots Avenue near the Seasons Restaurant.
ArmInfo. <No need to pass any laws in the parliaments, to engage in the recognition and non-recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Perhaps on such a day my point of view may be inappropriate, but this is not a position of denial, because it is unacceptable and immoral to deny a historical fact. I'm just a supporter of a different path>.