On April 3 Armenia’s President-Elect, Prime Minister Serzh Sarkissian leaves for Romania to participate in the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

In response to numerous enquiries from the media and public regarding the case of detention of a staff member of the OSCE Office in Yerevan and in order to avoid speculations, the Office would like to state the following:

On March 31, NKR President Bako Sahakian met with RA President Robert Kocharian who had arrived for a working visit in Stepanakert the same day. At the meeting, which took place in warm and informal atmosphere, the interlocutors discussed issues concerning the future development and expansion of relations between the two Armenian republics, the socio-economic situation in Nagorno Karabakh, as well...

On March 31 the Ago group of monitoring of the CoE Committee of Ministers met with the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia.

On Armenia’s initiative, the UN Human Rights Council adopted the Resolution on “Prevention of Genocide” in Geneva on March 28. This was the first resolution on prevention of genocide ever adopted in the UN Human Rights system.

The AGO Monitoring Group of the Council of Europe will arrive in Armenia on a four-day visit on March 29. The delegation will have meetings with the Speaker of RA National Assembly Tigran Torossian, Prime Minister Serzh Sarkissian, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, Minister of Justice Gevorg Danielian, Chief of Police Hayk Harutiunian, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepian, Human Rights Defender Armen...

Due to preventive measures of the RA Police 21 people have been detained /21 in Yerevan and 9 in marzes/ since the lifting of the state of emergency.

Under a March 26 decree of President Robert Kocharian Vahan Ter-Ghevondian was dismissed from the position of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Republic of Lebanon.

On March 27 Armenia's Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian leaves for Moscow to participate in the sitting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers due on March 28.

Under a March 26 decree of President Robert Kocharyan the Commander of the motorized infantry battalion #1030 of the Police Troops of the Republic of Armenia, Mayor Hamlet Tadevosyan was posthumously awarded with an Order of the Combat Cross of the Second Degree for courage and self-sacrifice demonstrated while defending public order.

For notable contribution to the field of theatre and on the occasion of the International Theatre Day, on March 26 President Robert Kocharyan signed a decree on conferring Honorary Titles on a number of workers of culture and art.

Today under a decree of Armenia's Prime Minister Serzh Sarkissian Professor Hovhannes Saruhanian, Advisor of the Department of Surgery of Yerevan State Medical University and Doctor of Medicine, was awarded with a medal of honor after the RA Prime Minister on his 70th anniversary for his great contribution to the field of medicine.

Connected with the death of Academician Varazdat Harutiunian, Armenia's President Robert Kocharian sent a telegram of condolence to his family.

Serzh Sarkissian left for Russia’s capital Moscow on March 24, RA Government’s Information and Public Relations Department reports.

On March 2-6 the Secretary of State of Vatican His Holiness Cardinal Tarchizio Bertone arrives in Armenia upon the invitation of the Armenian Government and the Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II.

Today the Police of the Republic of Armenia released a statement according to which ex-head of the tax service, Smbat Aivazian, detained on February 24, is under arrest. He is charged with violence against a government representative (Article 316.1 of the Penal Code of Armenia).

Armenia’s Peacekeeping Battalion recently received over $3,000,000 worth of communication equipment through the United States’ Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) located in the U.S. Embassy.

Ambassador of the United States of Mexico Alfredo Peres Bravo (seat in Moscow) handed over his credentials to Armenia’s President Robert Kocharian on February 27.

Spokesman for the RA Defense Ministry Seyran Shahsuvarian made a statement today.

“The Department of Organized Crime of the RA Police received a report that the people in the black BMW X5 and silver VAZ 21010 cars were armed and intended to destabilize the situation in the capital.

On 22 February Robert Kocharyan will leave for Moscow to participate in the non-official Summit of the Heads of Governments of CIS Member States.

The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, will visit Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan on 25-28 February.

Before the Central Electoral Commission released the results of the RA Presidential Elections, Robert Kocharyan congratulated Serge Sargsyan.

On February 18 Armenia’s Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian received the EU Special representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby.