During the three days of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's 84th Rose-Roth seminar in Baku the participants in the seminar were tired of the Azerbaijani demagogy representing Armenia as an "aggressor", the head of the Armenian delegation to the NATO PA Koryun Nahapetyan told journalists today.  

ArmSwissBank has developed and launched "Reliable and Income Investments", a unique investment saving product for the Armenian banking system. The main component of the product is the coupon mid-term and long-term high-yield government bonds. The press service of the Bank has told ArmInfo that unlike the classical deposits this type of saving is tax-exempt and enables the customers to manage their idle funds more flexibly and more efficiently. Persons with regular income can make use of this product. 

Astghik Aghekyan, an activist of the "SOS!  Save Afrikyans' Club Building!" public interest group was detained. She tore the poster "Better Yerevan". 

The European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE) expanded its partnership with Araratbank OJSC (Araratbank, the Bank) by issuing an additional USD 12 million senior loan to fund sub-loans destined for micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Armenia.  

The Karabakh conflict now constitutes the biggest risk of an escalation, Dennis Sammut, Director of LINKS Analysis, said at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's Seminar in Baku. For years now all have been waiting for a miraculous transformation of the Minsk principles into a road map for peace. "Not surprisingly this has not happened", he said. 

Unfortunately, it is very difficult today to answer the question where European integration will bring Georgia to, first of all because a very strong country’s government does not want us to go to the West, Soviet and Georgian pop singer, actor, scriptwriter Vakhtang Kikabidze says in his interview with ArmInfo.  

For civil servants accumulative pension will be made compulsory on July 1 2014 but for the private sector it will become compulsory within three years, says the amended law on accumulative pensions approved by the Armenian Government in compliance with the Constitution.

The Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex in Yerevan has been put up to auction again. 
Now the starting price of the lot is 15,673,500,000 AMD. In early June 2014 the starting price was 17,415,000,000 AMD, and in May 2014 - 19,350,000,000 AMD.

A dispute occurred between the Azerbaijani and Armenian MPs at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's Seminar in Baku, APA reports. The source says that Georgia's NATO membership was discussed at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's 86th Rose-Roth Seminar titled "South Caucasus: Challenges and Opportunities".

 Head of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun Faction Armen Rustamyan has told the media about some details of his meeting with PACE Co-Rapporteurs Axel Fischer and Alan Meale. Rustamyan says that they discussed the non-coalition parliamentary forces' demands addressed to the Government, as well as the constitutional reforms initiated by the authorities.     

A representative of Cronimet Mining, the principal shareholder of Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC), will become the Chief Executive Officer of ZCMC in Armenia. 

The experience of conflict settlement in Northern Ireland is hardly applicable to Karabakh, Manvel Sargsyan, Head of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies, said during a workshop on Tuesday.  

 Anelik Bank has launched a new "Summer" deposit at a high stable rate. The press service of the Bank has told ArmInfo that the rate of the deposit with a period ranging from 9 months to 1 year is 14.3% p.a. for AMD deposits, 8.1% - for USD deposits and 6.5% for EUR deposits. All depositors receive an opportunity to replenish their deposit account at any time and by any moment. The minimum amount of the deposit is 500 thsd AMD or $1000 or 1000 EUR. 

The world community must react to Azerbaijan's war threats, Nagorno-Karabakh MP, hero of the Nagorno-Karabakh war Vitaly Balasanyan said on Tuesday.

 The security of Kessab's Armenians is fully ensured within the short-term outlook, Ruben Safrastyan, Head of the Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, said at a press conference on Tuesday.     

During the 7th annual DigiTec Business Forum scheduled on 20-21 June in Yerevan, Converse Bank will offer new product of e:commerce - Visa Virtual Account. As press-service of the bank reported, through this product, one can avoid risks linked with cards when making e:commerce deals and payments. A client of the bank (an individual person) instead of getting a card, should open an on:line account with his card data, which are used when purchasing something at Internet-shops.  

On June 10, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the Hadrut direction near Horadiz settlement. 

The arms race, which Azerbaijan has launched, is a serious threat to the region.

U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Richard Morningstar hopes a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents will take place in Paris soon,.