ArmInfo. Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan received Czech Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Jaromír Zuna.

ArmInfo. Hamlet Batikyan, Secretary General of the Armenian Ministry of Defense, and Piers Cazalet, Director of NATO's Directorate for Defense and Security Cooperation, discussed cooperation aimed at strengthening integrity in the defense sector at a meeting at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.

ArmInfo. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has traveled to Poland to participate in the Warsaw Security Forum. This was reported by the press service of the Armenian Foreign Ministry.

ArmInfo.  Attempts to intensify NATO cooperation with Armenia and Azerbaijan are failing due to the conflict between France and Turkey, while Russia is weakening its grip on the region, Politico reports.

ArmInfo. International courts and bodies that should have acted against those responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh have done absolutely nothing. This was stated by Narek Karapetyan, head of the Strong Armenia parliamentary faction, during his speech at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on October 2.

ArmInfo. The cliché that Armenia is moving toward the West should be avoided. Former Belgian Foreign Ministry official, Ambassador Raoul Delcorde, stated this at the ARPI forum.

ArmInfo. Without a Russian military base, it's not the state that will be left ownerless, since its owners are the people, but the security system. Samvel Karapetyan, leader of the Strong Armenia faction, expressed this opinion in an interview.

ArmInfo.  Secretary of the Security Council (SC) of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu called the treatment of enterprises in Armenia, into which Russia has invested billions, a “raider takeover.”

ArmInfo. The withdrawal of the 102nd Russian military base would be yet another adventure that would lead to new threats to Armenia’s security. This was stated by Ishkhan Saghatelian, a member of the Armenian parliament from the opposition “Armenia” faction and a representative of the Supreme Council of the ARF “Dashnaktsutyun” (ARFD), at a press conference in Yerevan on September 16.

ArmInfo. Armenia's transition to NATO standards will destroy the country, State Duma deputy and retired Lieutenant General Andrei Gurulev told RTVI. "To transition to NATO standards, someone needs to pay for it. And when they start paying, they will become even more dependent and slowly destroy their country," the parliamentarian reasoned.

Arminfo. In the elections to the Landtag (state parliament) of the eastern German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt held on September 6, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won a convincing victory, according to preliminary official results.

ArmInfo. The provocative law of the Republic of Armenia "On the Start of the EU Accession Process" has driven Armenia into a geopolitical trap fraught with irreversible consequences. Political scientist Stepan Danielyan writes about this on his Facebook page.

ArmInfo. The arrests of opposition leaders in Armenia are part of a "greater game," the  consequences of which will be felt by the Armenian people. Anna  Grigoryan, head of the "Armenia" parliamentary faction, stated this  at a press conference in Yerevan on August 31.

ArmInfo. The Armenian Embassy in Warsaw will establish a military attache position. The decision to establish this position was made at a meeting of the Armenian  government on August 27.

ArmInfo. On August 25, Sargis Khandanyan, Chairman of the RA National Assembly Committee on Foreign Relations, met with Alexander Vinnikov, Head of the NATO Delegation to Georgia.

ArmInfo.  Israel will not allow Turkey to turn Syria into a Turkish military bridgehead,  according to  Israeli political scientist Alexander Tsinker.

ArmInfo. The joint defense agreement signed yesterday by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan following the trilateral summit in Mecca, known as the "Mecca Joint Defense Agreement," could have a turning point for the Middle East.

ArmInfo. The socio-economic consequences of the country's "jump" into Europe are being concealed from the Armenian people, and current export difficulties are  being falsely portrayed as restrictions imposed by Moscow.

ArmInfo.NATO is seeking to "pull" Armenia away from its CSTO allies, as stated by Russian Permanent Representative to the CSTO, Viktor Vasilyev.

ArmInfo. A critical Israeli parliamentary vote on recognizing the violence against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as a genocide has  been suspended, as reported by JNS, citing an Israeli official familiar with the situation.