ArmInfo. On September 17, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received Fabio Vaz Pitaluga, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Brazil to Armenia, who is concluding his diplomatic mission in our country.

ArmInfo. On September 16, in Montreal, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of Armenia Robert Abisogomonyan, as part of the delegation of the Armenian Presidency at the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-17), participated in working meetings organized in the run-up to the Conference with the Executive Secretary of the Convention and other representatives of the Secretariat. The delegation of the Republic of Armenia included representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of Armenia and the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the Minister of Environment of the Republic of Armenia Hambardzum Matevosyan. The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Republic of Armenia reported this on September 17.

ArmInfo. If today the "victory" over Artsakh is considered the pride of the entire Turkic world, then tomorrow this world may strive for greater "pride and victories." Artak Zakaryan, a member of the board of the Republican Party, writes about this in his article.

ArmInfo. Armenian public figures from Javakhk have published an open letter in response to Nikol Pashinyan's statements that the stronger the Diaspora, the weaker Armenia.

ArmInfo. More than a dozen members of the US Congress demanded that Azerbaijan release the Armenian hostages illegally held in Baku and allow the indigenous people of Artsakh to safely return to their homeland. Members of Congress joined clergy and international legal experts at the event "Accountability 202: Artsakh. Justice. Freedom." "Right of Return," organized by the Armenian National Committee of America.

ArmInfo. The European office of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Dashnaktsutyun party sent an open letter to the European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus, Magdalena Grono, expressing "deep disappointment" regarding her participation in a trip to Nagorno-Karabakh organized by the Azerbaijani government.

ArmInfo. Armenia's Anti-Corruption Court has extended the pre-trial detention of former National Assembly member Martun Grigoryan for another three months. This was reported by the politician's associate, Liza Gasparyan, head of the "Our City" opposition faction in the Gyumri City Hall.

ArmInfo. Azerbaijan has every right to tell its own national history, but it has no right to claim that Armenian history never existed. This was stated by Dr. Paul Murray, CEO of the human rights initiative Save Armenia and a Christian leader working on global religious freedom, as reported by the online newspaper The Christian Post.

Arminfo. The participation of only one candidate in local self-government (LSG) elections in certain communities of Armenia indicates the undermining of democracy in the country. Secretary of the parliamentary faction “Strong Armenia” Tigran Abrahamyan said this on the 17th in a conversation with journalists, responding to a question about why only one candidate—and that candidate from the “Civil Contract” party—is participating in the electoral process in the Tumanyan community of Lori Province.

ArmInfo. Opposition leaders will leave prison, while the person who should be there will end up there. Strong Armenia bloc leader Samvel Karapetyan stated this on September 17 in a conversation with journalists before a court hearing.

ArmInfo.  Today, the Civil Aviation Committee has a structure that meets international requirements, a developed professional capacity, as well as a management, quality assurance and oversight system based on international standards and requirements. This is stated in a statement by Mihran Khachatryan on the occasion of completing his work as chairman of the Civil Aviation Committee.

ArmInfo.  The director and chief accountant of the Stepanavan Medical Center have been suspended from their positions. The preliminary investigation into a criminal case involving the embezzlement of 25 million drams has been completed. This is stated in a report by the Investigative Committee.

ArmInfo.  The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) has presented a new analytical report, «The Architecture of Industrial Transformation in Developing Economies», analyzing how developing countries can transition to the high-income category and establish themselves sustainably in this group. Based on a study of the historical experience of industrialization, modern theories of industrial policy, and the approaches of the World Bank and the IMF, EDB analysts propose a three-stage architecture of industrial transformation that enables external technologies and investments to be converted into domestic production capabilities, human capital, and innovation.

ArmInfo.  The number of agreements between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the transfer of any territories within the framework of delimitation is zero. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this during a briefing, answering a question about whether a referendum would be held on the village of Tigranashen (Ararat Province).

Arminfo.  Ruben Mkhitaryan, a member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia from the opposition “Strong Armenia” faction, has been elected chairman of the NA Committee on Territorial Administration and Environmental Protection.

Arminfo.  Armenia has received 16 "Polaris ProStar S4 Titan" snowmobiles from Germany to meet the needs of the country’s armed forces.  At its meeting on September 17, the RA Government accepted the donation.

ArmInfo. A group of Artsakh residents held a protest rally in front of the building of the National Assembly of Armenia on September 17. They demanded that the authorities take concrete steps to address their pressing  problems.

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.  Armenia has never raised the issue of withdrawing the 102nd Russian military base from its territory for discussion; it was Russia that raised this issue, while we merely built our position around it. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this to journalists during a briefing on September 17.

ArmInfo. Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopirkin, together with representatives of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), visited beneficiaries of the “Nexus” project during a visit to Syunik Province. The project is being implemented in the region with Russian funding במסגרת the “Sustainable Communities” Programme.