ArmInfo. Armenian Human Rights Defender Anahit Manasyan, at a meeting with the Director for European and Eurasian Affairs of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and  Labor of the US State Department, Christopher Anderson, presented the  scope of powers of the Human Rights Defender as a constitutional  body.

ArmInfo. Armenia recalled its ambassador from Belarus for consultations. This was reported by the press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Ani Badalyan.

ArmInfo. The OSCE Minsk Group de facto does not exist. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  stated, answering questions from parliamentarians during the government hour on June 12. He noted that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have not communicated with each other since February 2022  (since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, ed. note).

ArmInfo.Until the completion of an independent investigation, Washington does not have a clear  assessment of whether what happened in Nagorno-Karabakh was immigration or ethnic cleansing. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James O'Brien told RFE/RL's Armenian Service.

ArmInfo.Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey called on the U.S. and the international community to use  every available diplomatic tool - including the upcoming COP29 Climate Summit planned for Baku - to secure the release of Armenian hostages being illegally detained and tortured by Azerbaijan's dictatorial Aliyev regime, reported the Armenian National Committee  of America (ANCA).  

ArmInfo.Russia closely monitors the development of the internal political situation in Armenia, but does not interfere with it. This was stated on June 12 in Yerevan at the international round table "Foreign policy  priorities of Russia and Armenia in the post-Soviet space: CIS, EAEU and CSTO", organized by the Analytical Center for Strategic Research and Initiatives (ACSSI), said the professor and scientific director of the Institute of Military Economics and Strategy of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Dmitry Trenin.

ArmInfo.The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the Republic  of Armenia and United States of America on the occasion of the Armenia- U.S. Strategic Dialogue Capstone meeting.

ArmInfo. Iran said no to Baku and Ankara's plans to change the demographic appearance of the South  Caucasus. This point of view was expressed by orientalist Sergei Melkonyan.

ArmInfo.The ruling parliamentary majority in Armenia will reject any attempt to declare a vote of no confidence in the RA government. Chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan stated  this on June 10 in a conversation with journalists.

ArmInfo. Chairman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Alen Simonyan does not  intend to comment on the statement of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, who called on Armenian parliamentarians to show the Russian authorities the list of citizens  killed during the provocation in Bucha.

ArmInfo.Georgia is a kind of guarantor of stability in the South Caucasus. If provocations start here, they become active, then with a domino effect everything can spread throughout the Caucasus, and the consequences will be  irreversible.

ArmInfo.The European Commission and Europa Nostra announced the 2024 winners of the European Heritage  Awards / Europa Nostra Awards, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. This year, Europe's most prestigious awards for heritage go to 26 winners from 18 countries across the continent, including from Armenia and Georgia.

ArmInfo.The Artsakh Union has launched an advertisement campaign challenging COP29 host Azerbaijan  to fulfill its alleged vision of a "COP of Peace" by releasing its political prisoners.

ArmInfo.The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issues a statement on the Genocidal State  of Azerbaijan Hosting COP29. 

ArmInfo. In the context of the climate change conference taking place in Bonn, German civil society  activists and human rights defenders demanded that Azerbaijan and President Ilham Aliyev release Armenian prisoners. As part of this Bonn conference, experts will determine the agenda for the COP29  meetings, which will be held in Baku in November.

ArmInfo.Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan does not share the opposition's point of  view about the failure of the RA government program for 2021-2026.

ArmInfo. In the coming years, Armenia will face a demographic problem caused by the aging of  society. This was stated by the RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Narek Mkrtchyan during the discussions of the 2023 budget execution report on June 3.

ArmInfo."We, representatives of civil societies of Armenia and Russia, are deeply concerned about what is happening in the Caucasus and in Russian-Armenian relations, which have a centuries-old history." This is stated in the statement adopted following the 6th meeting of the International Russian-Armenian Lazarev Club.

ArmInfo. The All-Armenian Congress of the Hay Dat Commission and Offices of the Armenian  Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun (ARF) took place in Armenia on May 25-28. Representatives of the Organization from about twenty countries gathered in Yerevan for the event.

ArmInfo. Leading national organizations representing Hellenic, Armenian, and Christian Americans today called upon Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) of the U.S.  House Foreign Affairs Committee to allow his panel to consider two pending bipartisan bills - H.R.7288, the Armenian Protection Act, and H.R.8141, the Azerbaijan Sanctions Review Act, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), the Hellenic American  Leadership Council (HALC), and In Defense of Christians (IDC).