Serzh Sargsyan was out on the campaign hustings yesterday as activists from all nine parties and bloks contesting the 6 May elections intensify their activity in one of the most hotly contested elections in Armenia's history
17 April: Azerbaijan will chair the UN Security Council next month. President Ilham Aliyev announced this at a meeting of the Cabinet this morning. He noted that this was the first time that Azerbaijan will chair “ the biggest, most competent and importan
16 April: Armenia's Central Electoral Commission (CEC) registered 16,000 local observers and 31 NGOs to monitor the parliamentary elections, according to the Head of the Central Election Commission Tigran Mukuchyan. (agencies)
World governments have welcomed the discussions held in Istanbul over the weekend between Iran and six world powers. The meeting has defused some of the tension that had been building up for months on the Iran nuclear issue.
Expectations about the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Armenia are rising. A PACE delegation visited the country over the last days. In the meantime LINKS Analysis has issued its second brieifng on the elections.
14 April: A powerful blast hit a natural gas pipeline connecting Azerbaijan and Russia at around midnight on Friday, the country’s APA news agency said.The agency later reported that the fire had been extinguished. (APA and Ria-Novosti)