Armenian defense minister off to China

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Armenia on May 20-21 on a working visit. According to the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry, his detailed talks with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan are planned, and conversations with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and President Vahagn Khachaturyan are expected.

The Armenian side proposed to raise relations with Cyprus to the level of strategic cooperation, said Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan in Yerevan at a press conference with the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Cyprus Anita Dimitriou.

The head of Yerevan's Nor Nork administrative district Tigran Ter-Margaryan resigned after a recent scandalous incident in the prefecture.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called the finalization of the peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan an important step forward.

In an open letter to the Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan, Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin referred to a statement made by Artsrun Hovhannisyan, the head of the Command and Staff Institute of the Military Academy of the Armenian Defense Ministry and former press secretary of the Armenian Defense Ministry, in a recent interview with the Public Television of Armenia.

The content of the text of the peace treaty with Azerbaijan is not disclosed and is withheld from the Armenian public, Secretary of the Armenian National Assembly opposition faction “I Have Honor” Tigran Abrahamyan said.