[ last updated 15:40 ] A key committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to ban any U.S. government funding for plans by Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey to build a regional railway that would bypass Armenia and add to its economic isolation.
[ last updated 15:47 ] A delegation of senior Armenian diplomats will fly to Moscow on June 29 to discuss with their Russian counterparts ways of stopping racially motivated killings of Armenians in Russia, Deputy Foreign Minister Gegham Gharibjanian said on Thursday.
[ last updated 15:49 ] President Robert Kocharian will likely travel to Iran next month for his first face-to-face talks with the Islamic Republic’s controversial President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his spokesman said on Thursday.
[ last updated 15:50 ] Hrant Vartanian, a wealthy businessman who owns Armenia’s two main tobacco companies, warned on Thursday that he will close down his factories and move them abroad if the Armenian dram continues to appreciate against the dollar.
[ last updated 15:39 ] “Information coming from various sources is increasingly exposing the fact that the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group expect from the parties to the Karabakh conflict an agreement on the principles of a settlement before the G8 summit in Saint Petersburg scheduled for July 15-17,” writes “Hayots Ashkhar.”
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