[ last updated 16:46 ] Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian subjected Armenia’s law-enforcement agencies to harsh criticism on Friday, alleging widespread incompetence among police officers and questioning the credibility of official figures that show a major drop in crime last year.
[ last updated 16:48 ] The Armenian authorities will start negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on March 3 over the terms of receiving a fresh multimillion-dollar loan three months after completing a similar IMF lending scheme designed to bolster the country’s macroeconomic stability.
[ last updated 16:53 ] Armenia is close to agreeing with NATO a plan of actions which will upgrade its participation in the alliance’s Partnership for Peace (PfP) program, a senior Armenian diplomat said on Friday.
11 January 2005 -- Watch RFE/RL’s exclusive interview by Harry Tamrazian
with Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian, following his meeting with Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister in Prague to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh
[ last updated 16:45 ] “Aravot” calls a “terrible gaffe” Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian’s remark that his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov probably knows more about efforts to resolve the Karabakh conflict than he does.
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