ArmInfo.Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan held a meeting with EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar, who is  in Yerevan. The meeting was also attended by head of the EU  Delegation to the Republic of Armenia Andrea Wiktorin.

ArmInfo.Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan received EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar. 

ArmInfo. Thanks to the "Shusha Declaration", the level of relations between friendly  Azerbaijan and Turkey has reached a qualitatively new level of  strategic cooperation. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu  stated on the air of the TRT Haber TV channel.

ArmInfo.OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau will visit  Moscow on February 15, where he will meet with Russian Foreign  Minister Sergei Lavrov.

ArmInfo.Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Stanislav Zas pointed to the stabilization of the situation in the Caucasus region of the  responsibility of the CSTO.

ArmInfo.Regrettably, over the last 30 years, the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict has not only been a cause of serious crisis and instability in the South Caucasus, but  has also affected the development of the region and neighboring  territories, as well as the interregional cooperation, reads a  complimentary message by Iranian FM Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on the  occasion of the 30th anniversary of Armenian-Iranian diplomatic  relations.

ArmInfo.NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs & Security Policy and Special Representative for the Caucasus & Central Asia Javier  Colomina commented on the transfer of 8 Armenian prisoners of war by  Azerbaijan to Armenia.

ArmInfo.The overwhelming majority of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia consider the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict important for the future  of Armenia. This is evidenced by the results of a sociological study  conducted by the American International Republican Institute (IRI),  which was conducted in Armenia from November 22 to December 5, 2021.  The level of statistical error of the study, which covered 1512  respondents across the country, is +/- 2.5%.

ArmInfo.On January 19, the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the U.S House of Representatives  Nancy Pelosi, the RA NA's press office reports. 

ArmInfo.At the moment, meetings of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan in the format of the co-chairs of the OSCE  Minsk Group are not planned. However, a visit of the Co-Chairs of the  Minsk Group to the region is planned. Armenian Foreign Minister  Ararat Mirzoyan stated this on January 19 during the government hour  in the parliament.

ArmInfo.No one can guarantee that there will be no new war in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. This cannot be guaranteed. Artsakh Foreign Minister David Babayan  stated this on January 19 during a press conference in Stepanakert  when asked to assess the threats of Azerbaijani President Ilham  Aliyev to unleash a third war. But, the chief diplomat of Artsakh  continued, there is a possibility of a war, but in this context, it  is very small.

ArmInfo.The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group should take tougher measures both on the issue of visiting Nagorno-Karabakh and on the final settlement of the  conflict, since they are endowed with an appropriate international  mandate. Artsakh State Minister Artak Beglaryan expressed a similar  opinion at a press conference in Stepanakert on January 18, referring  to the disrespectful attitude of the Azerbaijani President towards  the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, including during the last interview.

ArmInfo. Nathalie Loiseau, a member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, harshly responded to a Twitter message by Azerbaijani Ambassador to France Rahman Mustafayev, who posted a statement by  Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that Baku will not "allow" the  OSCE Minsk Group to deal with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. 

ArmInfo.The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) calls on Azerbaijan and Armenia to refrain from the use of force and engage in a meaningful  dialogue to settle the dispute around Nagorno Karabakh. Bartosz  Kempinski, Second Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Poland to the  OSCE, spokesperson to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, said , when  asked to present the OSCE Chairmanship's assessment of the January 11  deadly Azerbaijani attack on Armenian military positions.

ArmInfo.Over the past year, the efficiency of the work of the bodies of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia has significantly increased. Armenian Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this on December 20, congratulating  the NSS employees on the National Security Officer's Day.

ArmInfo.Ensuring direct communication between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan is a priority the format of the meeting is secondary. James Warlick, the  former co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group from the United States,  expressed a similar point of view in an interview with the Voice of  America.

ArmInfo. On December 14, the RA NA Vice President Ishkhan Saghatelyan received the Director for Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus and Central Asia Countries of  FRG Federal Foreign Office Matthias LЃttenberg and the Ambassador  Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany to Armenia Viktor  Richter.

ArmInfo.Against the background of the lack of a special desire in the collective West to resolve the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, I believe that the  Pashinyan- Aliyev meeting scheduled for December 15 on the sidelines  of the Eastern Partnership will end in futile discussions. A similar  opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by Alexander Skakov, Deputy Director  of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of  Sciences.

ArmInfo. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, and French Minister for Europe and Foreign  Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, representing the OSCE Minsk Group  Co-Chair countries, express support for the resumption of direct  dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan under the auspices of the  Minsk Group Co- Chairs.  

ArmInfo.The ruling "Civil Contract" faction on December 7 refused to include a statement proposed by the opposition on delimitation and demarcation of the  border in the agenda of the plenary session. According to head of the  "Hayastan" opposition faction, former Minister of Defense of Armenia  Seyran Ohanyan, the country's authorities are doing everything to  avoid public discussion of such a sensitive issue, as a result, the  public will learn about the agreements after the fact.