The deployment of the EU mission in Armenia will play a crucial role in ensuring security there - Prime Minister Pashinyan

The deployment of the monitoring mission of the European Union in Armenia will play a crucial role in ensuring local security and stability in the region, as well as in timely and reliable reporting on the current situation to partners in the EU and its member states. RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced this in the opening speech of the discussion at the Council of Foreign Relations of Germany.

In his opening speech, the Prime Minister first expressed his gratitude and appreciation to Ralf Nickel, Vice President of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Director Guntram Wolf, and his team for organizing the event. He mentioned that today the world is living in a period when not only natural but also geopolitical tectonic shifts are taking place all over the world. The deepening geopolitical instability, growing tension, and unpredictability weaken the world order and the international security system, creating even greater challenges, especially for Armenia, making the country, which is a democracy in a complex region, more vulnerable.

"We hope to fully open our common border, which was unilaterally closed by Turkey in the early 90s. We have some small but encouraging signs of moving forward. In July 2022, the special representatives of our countries agreed to establish air cargo transportation and open interstate borders for citizens of third countries.

The ban on direct air cargo between Turkey and Armenia was lifted in January, and we hope that the border will soon be opened to third-country nationals. Also, I met with President Erdogan in 2022 within the framework of the European Political Community Summit in Prague, where we discussed the prospects for the normalization of relations.

After the last devastating earthquake, Armenia reacted quickly. I called President Erdogan to express my condolences and offered our support. After that, we sent humanitarian aid and a rescue team to the affected regions," Pashinyan stated.

The British ambassador highly appreciated Armenia's efforts in the direction of reforms in the justice sector

RA Minister of Justice Grigor Minasyan received John Gallagher, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Armenia.  

The Minister presented the reform agenda of the justice sector, in particular, he referred to the judicial reforms, the probation service, the creation of a new Arbitration Center, and the works aimed at the reforms of the mediation sector.

Grigor Minasyan emphasized that the reforms of the legal sphere are aimed at reforming the judicial system and easing the overburdening of the courts.

Speaking about public administration reforms, the minister noted that this reform is a benchmark for the country's development and is one of the Government's priorities.

Authorities allocate additional expansion of the Yerevan metro amid the development of the new station

The government of Armenia allocated 1,1 billion AMD for the blueprinting work of the new Ajapnyak metro station in Yerevan.

Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Gnel Sanosyan said at the Cabinet meeting that the blueprinting work consists of three stages, with the first one already completed.

The Yerevan City Hall already allocated 545,000,000 AMD for the work, while the total cost is over 1,8 billion. The remainder will be covered by the City Hall later on.

PM Pashinyan, together with his wife, arrived in Berlin on a working visit

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is in the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin, on a working visit with his wife, Anna Hakobyan.

As part of the visit, the Prime Minister will have a meeting with Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz today. After the negotiations, the Armenian Prime Minister and the German Chancellor will meet with the media representatives to summarize the results of the meeting.

On March 2, Nikol Pashinyan will visit the German Council on Foreign Relations.

Prime Minister Pashinyan is scheduled to meet with the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on March 3.

A number of other meetings will also take place within the framework of the visit.