No documents, including in the field of energy, can be signed with Armenia in the current situation, Foreign Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu said in response to the question by Sezgin Tanr?kulu, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman, according to Ermenihaber.

Goris Court has brought charges against Artak Budaghyan over the shootings near the house of now ex-governor of Syunik Surik Khachatryan.  Budaghyan is charged with threatening Khachatryan and his family, as the Court claims that on 1 June 2013 approximately at 10:00pm Budaghyan, who learnt that his brother Avetik Budaghyan was beaten up in Surik Khachatryan's car, drove to the house of the ex-governor in David Bek Street by his VAZ 2106 (30 SU 994) and threatened the ex-governor and his family with the hunter's gun.  The trial over the case will be chaired by Napoleon Ohanyan.  

To recall, Khachatryan resigned from the post of the Syunik Governor following shootouts in front of his house on June 2 2013 when the former candidate for Goris mayor Avo Budaghyan was killed and his brother Artak Budaghyan, a commander at a military unit in the NKR was wounded.  There was another wounded, Nikolay Arustamyan, a relative and bodyguard of Governor Suren Khachartyan.  

A criminal case was initiated on the basis of Article 103.1 (murder) and Article 235 (illegal use, storage and bearing weapons) of the Criminal Code of Armenia. Syunik Governor Suren Khachatryan's son, Tigran Khachatryan, was arrested over the shootouts. Earlier, the governor's bodyguard Zarzand Nikoghosyan was arrested over the case.  On June 3 Suren Khachatryan sent in his resignation declaring that everyone must answer for their mistakes.  He regretted for failing to prevent the tragic incident near his house.

On July 9, the brother of Avetik Budaghyan was charged with Article 137.1 of the Criminal Code.  On 7 September the Investigation Service Department for Special Cases at the Defense Ministry of Armenia set free Khachatryan's son and bodyguard claiming that they acted for self- defense.  Afterwards, Artak Budaghyan was charged with attack on Khachatryan's house. Then he was falling under amnesty, but refused from it.

The Louisiana State Senate unanimously adopted a resolution, yesterday, condemning Azerbaijani pogroms against its Armenian citizens and called on the 
U.S. government to press Baku to bring the perpetrators to justice, according to the Armenian National Committee of America - Eastern Region (ANCA-ER).

The measure was introduced by Senator Edwin Murray, who just last year spearheaded State Senate recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic's independence and urged US support the self- determination and democratic independence of this developing democratic state.

This year's resolution, Senate Resolution 166, expresses "sympathy in support of the families of victims of massacres and atrocities perpetrated against the Armenian people in Azerbaijan." The measure goes on to call on the "President of the United States and the Congress [to] exert all available influence on the government of Azerbaijan to cease the falsification of the historical facts and bring those in Azerbaijan who are responsible for the Armenian massacres [to justice]."

Read the complete text of the resolution. Vazken Kaltakdjian, Louisiana Chairman of the Armenian Council of America, worked closely with Senator Murray, Secretary of the Senate Glenn Koepp, Attorney John Seago and the broader Louisiana Armenian American community in moving this issue forward.

"The Louisiana State Senate once again spoke out for truth and justice by condemning Azerbaijan's vicious attacks against Artsakh and the Armenian populations in Baku, Sumgait and throughout the country," said Kaltakdjian. "Resolutions such as these are particularly important in the face of an unrepentant Aliyev regime, which regularly violates the fragile Nagorno Karabakh ceasefire."

ANCA Eastern Region Board Chairman Steve Mesrobian welcomed the initiative, stating, "We join with Armenians in Louisiana and across America in thanking Senator Edwin Murray and the Louisiana State Senate for condemning the Azerbaijan's anti-Armenian attacks and calling on the U.S. government to take concrete steps to bring the perpetrators to justice."

The U.S. has served as safe haven to tens of thousands of Armenian-Americans who are refugees of pogroms against Armenians in Sumgait (1988), Kirovabad (1988), and Baku (1990), and the ethnic- cleansing of the Armenian population of Azerbaijan. These pogroms set the stage for two decades of aggression by Azerbaijan, during which it launched and lost a war against Nagorno Karabakh, and later used its oil wealth to buy a massive military arsenal that its leaders, to this day, vow to use to renew their attempts to conquer a Christian people that have lived on these lands for thousands of years and, 
after great challenges, have flourished in freedom from Soviet oppression for more than 20 years.

The 204th anniversary of Argentina's 25 May 1810 revolution has been commemorated in Yerevan.  

 Banking and Insurance specialty will be introduced in the French University in Armenia (UFAR). On May 29, Samvel Chzmachyan, President of the Union of Banks of Armenia, Hakob Andreasyan, CEO at ACBA-Credit Agricole Bank, and UFAR Rector Jean-Jacques Montois gave a press conference timed to the opening of the Banking and Insurance specialty at the UFAR. 

 Armenia's vote on Crimea at UN was not aimed against Ukraine. It reflected Armenia's stance on the principle of the people's right to self-determination, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Sergey Manasaryan told reporters, Thursday. 

The relations between Armenia and the USA are at the high level, and simplification of the visa regime between the countries is evidence of it, Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergey Manasaryan, said during today's parliamentary discussion on fulfillment of the state budget 2013. 

The electronic auction for the sale of the property of the Yerevan Sport and Concert Complex has not taken place because no bids have been made, Spokesperson of the Judicial Acts Compulsory Enforcement Service Rima Yeganyan told ArmInfo on Thursday.

 Armenia has displayed high flexibility and constructivism in participation in Eurasian integration project, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said during the enlarged meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Astana. The heads of the member states of the Council, namely, Russian President Vladimir Putin, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, as well as the heads of the observer states, namely, the Presidents of Armenia and Kyrgyzstan attended the meeting.       
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 "ArmSwissBank" LLC has introduced Microsoft Dynamics CRM with the support of "Bever Computers" LLC, the Bank's press service has told ArmInfo.   

 Armenia has taken a very assertive and confident stance in the integration issues,  Head of the Eurasian Economic Commission College Viktor Khristenko said at a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, Thursday, according to Kazinform. 

Defense Minister of Armenia does not think that the sale of Russian weapons to Azerbaijan was a politically motivated step. The minister made such statement talking to reporters, on 29 May.

"The Karabakh conflict settlement is prevented by the unconstructive position of Armenia and the continued occupation of the Azerbaijani territories," President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said at the reception on the occasion of the Republic Day on 27 May, according to Turan.

 The conceptual issues of Armenia's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union have already been coordinated, with some technical moments are yet to be discussed, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Sergey Manasaryan told reporters, Thursday.

Despite the rush of the Armenian authorities, the agreement on Armenia's joining the Eurasian Economic Union will not be signed in the near future, claims Stepan Safaryan, Heritage Party Secretary General, told ArmInfo.

 What are the prospects of the final formation of the Customs Union and Eurasian Economic Union against the background of the latest events in Ukraine? The power change in Ukraine seems to  delay the Eurasian projects of Moscow…

  Sale of Russian weapons to Azerbaijan is just business, Russian Ambassador to Armenia Ivan Volynkin told reporters.

Tbilisi. Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has delegated the one- use right to sign an Association Agreement to the Prime Minister, President's Parliamentary Secretary Davit Pertaia has said at a press conference today, InterPressNews agency reports. 

Tbilisi. Georgian leadership greeted presidential elections in Ukraine, conducted on May 25. According to the early data, Petr Poroshenko wins the first round of the elections.

Tbilisi. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that Moscow did not need a mediator like ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili in a dialogue with Ukraine, RIA Novosti agency reports.