[ last updated 16:38 ] The Armenian government has asked official Ankara to provide detailed information about the outbreak of bird flu in eastern Turkey in the hope of averting a cross-border spread of the lethal virus, Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian revealed on Tuesday.
[ last updated 16:41 ] The opposition Artarutyun alliance will urge parliament to reinstate Larisa Alaverdian, an increasingly outspoken government critic, as Armenia’s first human rights ombudsperson, it emerged on Tuesday.
[ last updated 16:44 ] Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said Tuesday that he and his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov will hold talks next week to prepare for a meeting of their presidents that could yield a breakthrough in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
[ last updated 16:45 ] An opposition lawmaker representing Armenia in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) claimed on Tuesday that its position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is becoming more acceptable to the Armenian side.
[ last updated 16:37 ] “Aravot” believes that that if the sacked Culture Minister Hovik Hoveyan had been a wealthy “oligarch” with underworld connections he would not have been punished for assaulting utility workers in Yerevan.
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