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Friday, 14 February 2025

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Armenia * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Defence Minister Suren Papikyan have left for Munich to participate in the Munich Security Conference, where they are scheduled to have bilateral meetings with their counterparts. * Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan has disagreed that the peace talks with Azerbaijan have entered a deadlock, noting that a session of the delimitation commissions took place, and that there is an agreement that a new session will take place soon

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Thursday, 13 February 2025

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Armenia * The Armenian Parliament has adopted a draft law launching Armenia’s prospective EU membership bid passed its first reading in the Armenian Parliament. The final version of the law, which was approved by the European Integration Parliamentary Committee, states that ‘the Republic of Armenia, expressing the will of the people of the Republic of Armenia, setting the task of making the Republic of Armenia a safe, secure, developed, and prosperous country, announces the start of the proces

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Wednesday, 12 February 2025

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Armenia * Defence Minister Suren Papikyan has met with his Indian counterpart. According to the Defence Ministry, Papikyan said the two ‘explored avenues for further expanding defence cooperation’. * On Monday, the first EU expert mission arrived in Armenia as part of developing the visa liberalisation action plan. The operational phase Visa Liberalisation Dialogue was launched last December. * On Tuesday, the Armenian National Security Service announced that it revealed a case of organising

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Tuesday, 11 February 2025

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Armenia * The employees of the Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine have stopped their strike, noting that an agreement had been reached with the management to resolve all the issues raised, as well as the exclusion of prosecutions against strikers and a review of the dismissal orders of eight employees. The employees of Armenia’s largest taxpayer launched their strike on 31 January in demand of better pay and working conditions. * Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with French Presiden

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Monday, 10 February 2025

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Regional * In an interview published on Monday with the government-controlled media outlet Izvestia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said that, unlike the West, Russia was against the ‘conclusion of any hasty documents’ between Armenia and Azerbaijan, instead they wanted a peace treaty which would bring a ‘sustainable long-term settlement of relations, and would not lay a “mine” for future generations’. He also claimed that the EU ‘without making any promises or taking any seri

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Friday, 7 February 2025

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Armenia * Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with US Vice President JD Vance at the White House yesterday. Pashinyan's office reported that they discussed ties between their countries as well as regional issues. * Pashinyan also met with representatives of the American Heritage Foundation for Strategic Studies, International Republican Institute President Daniel Twining, and delivered a lecture at Georgetown University. * Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan wrote on X that Washington a

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Thursday, 6 February 2025

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Armenia * The authorities have detained four Yerevan City Hall officials as a ‘preventive measure’. Armenia’s Anti-Corruption Committee confirmed reports of the detentions to CivilNet, but did not reveal why they were detained. Those detained are Robert Darbinyan, the former head of the Yerevan Department of Urban Development and Land Control, Mikael Ghimoyan, another official from the same department, Aram Gyulzadyan, the head of the Public Order Protection Service. Azerbaijan * Sevinj Va

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