ArmInfo. The current opportunity for peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia should not be missed.  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated at the "High Level  Observer Day" of EFES - 2024 exercise in Izmir.

ArmInfo. All security challenges and alarming trends in the South Caucasus are mainly caused by the  destructive activity of the "Westerners." This was stated on May 30 during a weekly briefing by official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.  

ArmInfo. Considering the request of many traders working in the Komitas Avenue market, it was  decided to postpone the repair works in the market for at least 3-5  months, through the mediation of Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan.

ArmInfo. Moscow saw a positive reaction from the Armenian side to the assistance offered by Russia  in connection with the flooding in northern Armenia. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated on May 30 during a weekly briefing in response to a corresponding  question.

ArmInfo. Artsakh Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan accused the Armenian authorities of ignoring the  fundamental rights of Artsakh residents against the backdrop of  recent legislative initiatives regarding the distribution of funded  pensions for refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh.  Stepanyan noted that  after forced deportation from Artsakh, many Artsakh residents are  seeking clear information about the fate of the money they have  accumulated through the funded pension system.

ArmInfo.Markus Ritter, the head of the European Union's monitoring mission in Armenia, told CivilNet  last week his observers are not currently patrolling sections of the border with Azerbaijan that are under delimitation, but plan to do so in the future. They also intend to go to areas they did not  previously have access to, in light of this month's withdrawal of Russian troops from Armenia's border with Azerbaijan.  

ArmInfo. The head of the commission on financial, credit and budgetary issues of the National Assembly of  Armenia, Tsovinar Vardanyan, believes that currently the police forces ensuring the safety of the country's citizens are under direct attack from the protest movement led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan. 

ArmInfo. Armenia and the United States will cooperate in the field of customs regulations. At a  meeting on May 30, the RA government approved a draft agreement between the two states for signing.

ArmInfo.A meeting of the RA government began on May 30 with an expression of condolences to all  the families of those killed in the severe flood that occurred on May 25- 26 in the Lori and Tavush regions of Armenia.

ArmInfo. The initiator of the massacre of Azerbaijanis in Ivanyan (Khojaly - Az.) was the Popular  Front of Azerbaijan, stated political scientist Stepan Hasan-Jalalyan.

ArmInfo. Near the building of the Armenian government, where the next meeting is currently taking  place, an action of the movement "Tavush for the Motherland" started, led by the leader of the protest movement, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan.

ArmInfo. The Prosperous Armenia party denied rumors that its leader Gagik Tsarukyan rejected Bagrat  Galstanyan's offer to join the Tavush for the Motherland movement.

ArmInfo. The version that the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed due to an  explosion caused by sabotage has ruled out. As Rosbalt reports, this is stated in the report of the Supreme Committee to Investigate the Dimensions and Causes of the Disaster, published on the website of  the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).

ArmInfo. The " Tavush for the Motherland " movement intends to drive up to the Republic Square in  cars from all sides tomorrow during the government meeting (at 11:00) and bring to the attention of the authorities what has been discussed over the past 3 days. This was announced on the evening of May 29 by head of the movement, candidate for Prime Minister, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan in the courtyard of the Church of St. Anne.

ArmInfo.Head of Armenia's Foreign Intelligence Service, Kristine Grigoryan, refused to comment on Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan's statement that he knows "at least two CSTO countries that participated in preparing a war against Armenia."

ArmInfo.Deputy Director of the National Security Service of Armenia Aram Hakobyan is not familiar  with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's statement that two CSTO member countries participated in preparing a war against Armenia.

ArmInfo.The border guard troops serve in the Kirants section, and the Armed Forces perform their  tasks in designated areas. This was stated by Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Edvard Asryan on May 29 in a conversation with journalists in parliament, refraining from answering the question why Azerbaijani troops have not yet left the occupied territories of sovereign Armenia.

ArmInfo. 2,075 forcibly displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh applied for Armenian citizenship, of  which 1,437 received citizenship. Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Arpine Sargsyan stated on May 29 at a hearing on budget implementation in parliament.

ArmInfo.On May 29th, on the sidelines of the Schuman Security and Defence Forum, the Minister of  Defence of the Republic of Armenia, Suren Papikyan, held a meeting with the Chairman of the EUMC, General Robert Brieger, the press service of the RA MoD reports.  

ArmInfo.Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Nourhan Manougian , issued a statement  condemning the shameful behavior of the police against the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II, in Sardarapat.