Under May 25 decree of RoA President Robert Kocharian, Lieutenant General Seyran Ohanyan, the chief of RA Armed Forces general staff, first Premier of the Defense Minister, was awarded a title of Colonel General.

The RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Vardan Oskanyan received Ambassador Boris Frlets, head of observation mission of OSCE/ODIHR. Ambassador Frlets presented the observations of the mission on the elections and procedures after election period. He pointed that Armenia registered progress in

The PACE Standing Committee, meeting in Belgrade today, deplored that, twelve years since the end of hostilities, the issue of the missing persons in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia remained unsolved. According to a report by Leo Platvoet (Netherlands, UEL), the number of

Today RoA Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan hosted the OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernard Fassier who are in Yerevan on a regional visit.

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly President (PACE) René van der Linden, currently on an official visit to Belgrade, strongly condemned the recent bomb attack in Ankara. “In our societies there is no place for those who put bombs in our streets to kill innocent people. Nothing can justify such attacks, which are an assault on the fundamental principles of our societies,” he said. Expressing...

The Armenian delegation headed by RoA Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan leaves for Ukraine on May 24 to take part in the session of the Council of Heads of Governments of CIS-member states.

Washington, DC - Speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, commended Armenia for holding free and fair Parliamentary elections on May 12.

May 23, 2007- RoA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian hosted Yuri Merzlyakov and Bernard Fassier, the OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs who are in Yerevan on a regional visit.

On 23-24 May the PACE Standing Committee holds a session in Belgrade. Tigran Torosyan, the RA NA Chairman and the Head of the Armenian Delegation to PACE will participate in the session.

“May 21 made history. We have assembled here to recall the glorious events of May 21 and our heroes' struggle for the liberation of Shushi and Lachin. They sacrificed their lives to connect Artsakh with Mother Armenia. No one is going to return Kashatagh to Azerbaijan. The rumors are fabricated. Do not believe them!

The Minsk group Co-Chairs are arriving in Yerevan on May 21. They will meet with RoA President Robert Kocharian and Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian on May 23. After the meeting the Co-Chairs will leave for Azerbaijan.

I am writing to you on behalf of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) to express our concern over the 12 May 2007 death of Mr. Levon Gulyan in policy custody, and to respectfully ask you to ensure that all the circumstances leading to his death be investigated thoroughly and independently.

During the week of May 14 through the 18th, three U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agents will conduct a Computer (Cyber) Crime Training Course at the Police Academy of the Republic of Armenia in Yerevan. The attendees include eight officials from the National Security Service, five from the RA Police and four from the National Bureau of Expertises.

The Armenian Assembly of America congratulates the people of the Republic of Armenia on the May 12th Parliamentary elections. These elections are an historic step toward a fully democratic Armenia, a goal to which Armenia has demonstrated its commitment and leadership in the region through democratic reforms. We encourage the people of Armenia to continue to remain actively involved in the country's political and civic life.

RoA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian hosted Marius Calligaris, the newly-appointed Ambassador of Austria to Armenia.

Nikol Pashinyan, the leader of the Impeachment Alliance announced at Freedom Square that over 400 000 passports had been issued to fake the May 12 elections.

Yerevan, 13 May 2007 – The International Election Observation Mission (IEOM) for the 12 May parliamentary elections in Armenia is a joint undertaking of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the European Parliament (EP).

Today RoA President Robert Kocharian congratulated the Armenian people on the parliamentary elections.

YEREVAN, 13 May 2007 - In a joint statement today, the International Election Observation Mission for the 12 May parliamentary elections in Armenia concluded that the elections demonstrated improvement from previous ones and were largely in accordance with international commitments, although some issues remain unaddressed.

May 13, 2007 – RoA President Robert Kocharian hosted Vladimir Rushaylo, CIS Executive Secretary, Chairman of CIS Executive Committee and the head of the CIS Election Observation Mission to Armenia.

Under May 11 decree of RoA President Robert Kocharian, Seyran Ohanyan, the ex Defence Minister of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the RoA Armed Forces for five years’ term.

Today morning RoA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian met with the OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs within the framework of the CoE Foreign Ministers' session in Strasbourg.

RoA President Robert Kocharian received EU Election Observation Mission at the head of Marie Anne Isler Beguin, the Co-chair of the EU-Armenia Parliamentary cooperation Committee.

MADRID, 10 May 2007 - The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, met the three Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group today and pledged Spain's full support for their intensive mediation efforts to assist the parties in finding a resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.