ArmInfo. High-ranking foreign guests are arriving in Armenia to participate in COP17. This was reported by the government press service.

ArmInfo. Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan held a meeting with the leadership of the Military Police.

ArmInfo. The guilty verdict ignored all exculpatory evidence. This was stated by Yerem Sargsyan, the lawyer for the leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party and well-known businessman Gagik Tsarukyan, in a conversation with journalists after the court hearing.

ArmInfo. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received Louise Mushikiwabo, Secretary General of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF), who arrived in Armenia to participate in the COP17 conference.

ArmInfo. Minister of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports (MESCS) Zhanna Andreasyan met with French Ambassador to Armenia Florian Escudier to discuss prospects for bilateral cooperation.

ArmInfo. Deputy Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Hayk Konjoryan signed a memorandum of cooperation in parliamentary development for 2026-2031 at a meeting with UN Under-Secretary-General and First Deputy Administrator of the UN Development Program (UNDP) Haoliang Xu.

ArmInfo. The Hovhannes Sharambeyan Folk Art Museum in Yerevan and its branch in Dilijan will host a scientific conference entitled "Armenian Folk and Decorative-Applied Arts" on October 17-18.

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who arrived in Armenia to participate in the leaders' summit of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17), which will be held from October 19 to 30.

ArmInfo. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev welcomed the emerging reconciliation process between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

ArmInfo. Russia has repeatedly welcomed the normalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations at various levels and is ready to participate in regional infrastructure projects. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated this in a conversation with journalists in Baku on October 15.

ArmInfo. On October 15, 2026, in Baku, on the sidelines of the 7th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA), a meeting was held between Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov.

Arminfo.  On the sidelines of the 7th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Baku, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan.  The interlocutors exchanged views on current tasks aimed at intensifying trade, economic and energy cooperation, with a focus on the progress of implementing key bilateral projects.

ArmInfo.  As part of his working visit to Washington on October 14, Armenian Deputy Defense Minister Karen Brutyan met with Mary Beth Morgan, Director of the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).

ArmInfo. Armenia, led by Nikol Pashinyan, is trying to present itself to the world with a "green" agenda, while the opening of the Amulsar mine near the resort town of Jermuk just days earlier is literally the beginning of an environmental disaster. This was written by Lilit Galstyan, a member of the Armenian parliament from the opposition "Armenia" faction, on her Facebook page.

ArmInfo. The Artsakh People's Rights Protection Council held a protest in front of the Armenian government building ahead of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17).

ArmInfo. Today, October 15 at 2:00 PM, an open court hearing will begin in the case of Gagik Tsarukyan, leader of the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP). The prosecution accuses him of organizing fraud and legalizing (laundering) money on an especially large scale. The case will be heard by Judge Manvel Shahverdyan of the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction.

ArmInfo. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan did not rule out an exchange of enclaves with Azerbaijan.

ArmInfo. Former First Deputy Commander of the Defense Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh), Major General David Manukyan, is celebrating his birthday in Azerbaijani prison for the fourth year in a row. He was born on October 15, 1965.

ArmInfo. Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan welcomed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at Zvartnots International Airport. This was reported by the Armenian government's press service.

ArmInfo. With the support of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports of Armenia, a gala concert dedicated to the 75th anniversary of world-renowned tenor and opera artist Gegham Grigoryan will be held at the Alexander Spendiaryan National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.