ArmInfo. As part of his state visit to Azerbaijan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, together with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, visited the occupied territories of Artsakh on May 17.

ArmInfo.While Yerevan was content with formal documents, Baku actively worked to ensure that  Armenia's allies supported Azerbaijan, and at least took a neutral position. This is how political scientist Sergei Melkonyan commented on the visit of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to Baku and  what was done during the visit.

ArmInfo.Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan gave a manipulative answer to the question whether the Armenian side asked Moscow for Russian border guards to continue guarding the Armenian-Iranian and Armenian-Turkish borders, as stated by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.

ArmInfo. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Thursday met with Recep Tayyip Erdogan,  President of the Republic of Turkey.

ArmInfo. The Azerbaijani puppet court extended the illegal arrest of Ruben Vardanyan for another 5  months. Vardanyan's defense report notes that this decision is illegal and  unfounded.

ArmInfo. External forces are trying to stage a coup in Georgia.  This was stated by Kakha Kaladze,  the Mayor of Tbilisi and the Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream party on the Rustavi 2 TV channel.

ArmInfo. Regarding the events in Turkey: this does not look like a coup. This, rather, looks like an  internal showdown, a kind of "cleansing" within the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Thus, Russian political scientist, historian, expert on the problems of the Middle East, Semyon Bagdasarov, commented on reports of an attempt to carry out another coup in Turkey.

ArmInfo.President of the Christian Solidarity International (CSI), Dr. John Eibner, wrote a  letter of solidarity to Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, the informal leader of the Tavush for Motherland movement.

ArmInfo. Armenia and Azerbaijan need tools to learn to live peacefully.  On May 15, speaking at the  Annual Meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said.

ArmInfo. In Armenia, 30.6% of respondents considered Nikol Pashinyan's resignation from the post of  prime minister of the country the only way to remove him from power, according to the results of the "Leadership" survey of MPG consulting company.

ArmInfo.Moscow sees a lot of speculation regarding the meeting of the leaders of Armenia and  Russia in Moscow on May 8. This was stated on May 15 during a weekly briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in response to clarification as to whether it could be assumed that Moscow offered Pashinyan to completely withdraw Russian troops from the Republic of Armenia.

ArmInfo.By decree of Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan, Samvel Minasyan was appointed  commander of the territorial defense forces. This is reported on the website of the President of the Republic.

ArmInfo.On May 14, the delegation led by the RA NA Vice President Hakob Arshakyan met with  the Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Slovakia Mari n Kery. The RA NA deputies Hasmik Hakobyan and Taguhi Ghazaryan are in the delegation.

ArmInfo.  While we are arguing on the streets and in government corridors about the conditions under which the Armenian state should be restored within the borders of the former USSR,  Azerbaijan has decided to take a detour and question the very  legitimacy of the Republic of Armenia.  Famous Armenian political  analyst Manvel Sargsyan expressed such an opinion on his Facebook  page.

ArmInfo. Yerevan requested to withdraw  the temporary operative forces of the Russian border  guards. This was announced on May 14 by Alexander Bortnikov, a candidate for the post of director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia. "Such a decision has been made," noted the head of the FSB.

ArmInfo. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received OSCE Chair-in-Office, Minister for Foreign and  European Affairs and Trade of Malta Ian Borg, and his accompanying delegation.

ArmInfo. The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) has published findings on the implementation of the  Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by Austria, Azerbaijan, Finland, Honduras, Liechtenstein and North Macedonia.

ArmInfo.Russian border guards are leaving the territory adjacent to the village of Nerkin Hand,  Syunik region. The head of the village of Nerkin Hand Khachatur Baghdasaryan reported to the Armenian media representatives.

ArmInfo.Azerbaijan takes the processes taking place in Armenia very seriously. Baku saw something  in them that couldn't help but bother it. Both Turkiye and Azerbaijan are beginning to understand that the environment that has prevailed in the country for the last 3.5 years has already changed. This  opinion was expressed in a video interview with Analitika.ua by the famous Armenian political scientist Manvel Sargsyan.

ArmInfo. Alain-Richard Donwahi, the President of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the  United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) arrived in Armenia.