No biography, no experience. Iveta Tonoyan’s answer to Pashinyan

In response to the requests of my colleagues from various mass media, I will briefly respond to today’s statements of the head of the authorities.

The vast majority of the members of the political team that came to power in 2018 did not even have a work book and their first job was to occupy a minister, deputy or other high-ranking government positions. We are all facing the painful consequences of running the country with lack of biography and experience.

Perhaps this is the reason why the head of today’s political force has a pronounced antagonism towards those figures who built, not destroyed, created good, not destroyed values ​​in Armenia and Artsakh throughout their lives.


Iveta Tonoyan




German foreign minister says US-Israeli aims need clarity

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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Monday it will be important for the U.S. and Israel to define “when they consider the military aims of their deployment to have been reached,” The Associated Press reports.

Before meeting EU colleagues in Brussels, Wadephul said he told his U.S. and Israeli counterparts “we need more clarity here.”

He also said the Iranian government poses a significant danger to the region, the freedom of shipping and the global economy and “this danger definitely must not continue.”

Wadephul said without elaborating that he would back sanctions against those responsible for blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

He said once there is clarity on the U.S.-Israeli aims it will be time for a phase when “a security architecture for this whole region” is defined, which will entail speaking to Iran.

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The principle of cooperation with us is very simple: “the position is not important, the country is

Statements of public units, political forces and figures with professional and public authority about joining the “Offer to Armenia” program initiated by Gagik Tsarukyan continue. In the near future, this process will continue with greater momentum. I am happy to report that the public support is really great and we treat every such initiative with deep respect.

“Proposal to Armenia” rightfully becomes a popular program. We are sure that it is possible to get the country out of the difficult situation only by united forces, by uniting around the initiative with a public, cross-party approach. And that way is possible only thanks to the broad support of society.

At the core of the idea of ​​the “Offer to Armenia” program is a broad consolidation of all capable, compassionate and professional forces and individuals, and it is open to all decent, compassionate, professional and responsible people.

It is also noteworthy that sometimes our team learns about such announcements from the media. This proves once again that this support is honest and spontaneous. In such cases, sometimes we hear: “Did this have to happen?” and other expressions.

We will not put it in a division. We are not judges and we do not pretend to be such. Who is good, who is better, who is worthy or not?

I am happy to note that at this moment, no force, no individual, who has joined our great team, has set a prerequisite for a list or a position. We appreciate it.

The principle of cooperation with us was formulated very simply by Gagik Tsarukyan: “the position is not important, the country is important, the mandate is not important, the result of the work is important.”

And also, all capable forces and individuals, decent, capable, hardworking people will have their rightful place in our great team and in the restoration of Armenia.


Iveta Tonoyan




EU visa liberalization dialogue: Commissioner Magnus Brunner praises Armenia’s

Armenia16:15, 12 March 2026
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EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner, praised Armenia’s progress in the visa liberalization dialogue.

“Today, I held meetings with the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia, discussing the remarkable progress Armenia has made in the visa liberalization process. This is very important: since the dialogue began in 2024, progress has been steady, and the EU provided Armenia with the visa liberalization action plan in November 2025. Significant advances have been made regarding document security, migration management, and biometric passports and ID cards, which Armenian citizens will soon be able to obtain,” said Brunner, adding that one of the purposes of his visit is to encourage Armenia to continue implementing these reforms.

According to Brunner, the next phase of the process will be a report on the progress of implementing the visa liberalization action plan, which is scheduled to be presented in May of this year during the EU–Armenia summit.

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EU commissioner says steady progress made towards visa liberalisation with Arm

Armenia19:24, 12 March 2026
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EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner said on Thursday in Yerevan that Armenia and the European Union have been making steady progress towards visa liberalisation since the launch of the Visa Liberalisation Action Plan (VLAP).

He noted that Armenia is currently the only country in the world with which the EU has a visa liberalisation dialogue, calling it an impressive development that demonstrates the priority given to strengthening EU-Armenia ties.

Brunner said the sides have been moving forward at a steady pace since the opening of the Action Plan last year and have taken additional constructive steps.

According to him, both sides expressed political will to implement the plan. He said Armenian authorities are responding to the first benchmarks outlined in the roadmap, including in the areas of document security and migration management.

Brunner noted that biometric passports and new identification cards will soon become available to Armenians, describing them as a prerequisite for visa-free travel within the EU. He added that the country continues to advance other reforms, many of which are already underway.

He said the EU would support Armenia at every stage of the process and noted that Frontex is ready to assist the Armenian Border Guard Service.

Brunner expressed gratitude to the Armenian authorities for their commitment, saying the progress would not have been possible without it.

He also referred to technical assistance provided by several countries, including Lithuania, Finland, Latvia and Sweden, saying this demonstrates the willingness at all levels to bring Armenia closer to the EU.

At the same time, Brunner said further work is still needed and there is always room for improvement.

He added that the EU aims to see a large number of high-quality applications for Schengen visas, stressing that the quality of applications is important.

Brunner said that there are currently backlogs in visa processing, with some applicants waiting longer and some consulates in Yerevan taking too much time to process applications.

He said the EU takes the issue seriously and is working to improve the situation, adding that improvements are already becoming visible.

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Armenia can become a transit country thanks to peace with Azerbaijan. Al:

The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has stated that thanks to the peace with Azerbaijan, Armenia can become a transit country for the first time in its independent history, although it is not yet such a country.


“Thanks to that, we will be able to establish a direct connection between the main part of Azerbaijan and our exclave, the Autonomous Republic of Nakhichevan,” Aliyev said.


According to him, after the establishment of peace with Armenia, “we are closely working towards the expansion of the “Middle Corridor”, which also passes through the territory of Armenia.”


Aliyev noted that the demand for cargo transportation through the territory of Azerbaijan is growing. He emphasized that the disruption of transport connections as a result of conflicts creates an extremely difficult situation for most of the international community.


According to the leader of Azerbaijan, Baku and Yerevan achieved peace not only on paper. “the borders are calm, trade ties are established” and “long-term peace is sealed for centuries”.

168: Karen Demirchyan said: “That road will pass only over your dead body”… Pashi

March: 12, 2026

Satik Seyranyan in the “Pressing” program the guest It is Vardan Hakobyan, extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of RA, political analyst։

The main theses of the interview are below.

  • Pashinyan fulfills the instructions he received from the West, and Azerbaijan controls their implementation. All the steps of that person show that he is consistently doing what he was brought for: the Artsakh issue, the depopulation of Artsakh, the issue of the Genocide, the rejection of the symbol of Mount Ararat… Turkey managed to prevent Armenia from accepting the fact of the Genocide, when many advanced countries of the world accepted this fact until 2018. If something like this had happened 10-20 years ago, I can’t imagine what would have happened, but now some Armenians look at it calmly. Pashinyan’s steps will change the national mentality.

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  • What do Yerevan, Tbilisi and Baku warn about in the war against Iran?
  • Why is Trump starting to talk about ending the war against Iran soon?
  • The current government of RA is intensively doing what Turkey has done for decades, even falsifying their own history. After all, when Atatürk came to power, even he condemned the fact of Genocide.
  • The claim is not about demanding land, it is a question of your national self-awareness, history, and culture. If you erase that, you have to erase your literature, history, memory, everything… All our classic literature is based on the reality of the Genocide. Genocide is condemned all over the world denial, here they condemn those who remember it
  • When I was in school, most of my classmates did not know what the Armenian Genocide was. The Bolsheviks managed to erase that memory. From the 60s, that topic found its place among us again. Now they are doing the same, and if this continues, a moment will come when today’s generation will not remember the Armenian Genocide. This is what our enemies want. 
  • Anyone who tries to erase the memories of the Holocaust, the genocide of the Jews in Israel, breaks or distorts the facts, what will be done to them…
  • When the leadership of the European Union changed, they were replaced by liberal-globalists, and the entire ideology of the EU changed. This is what they were prepared for. Pashinyan told the European Parliament yesterday what they wanted to hear, not what Armenia and the Armenian people need.:
  • The Armenian Church, with its presence, its saints and its history, is anti-globalist. For that, they should sculpt the church, national self-awareness, culture… This is not a new phenomenon. Poroshenko did the same in Ukraine:

  • I will not be surprised if Pashinyan does a gay parade before the elections, to tell some foreign centers: I am one of you, I am yours… All this will disappear sooner or later, the real state interests will come forward. China, Iran, and to some extent, Russia maintain the national.
  • The moment of retribution will inevitably come. You can get excited, build a tower of Babel, but that tower will be destroyed, you will be punished. Aliyev’s turn to answer will come.
  • I am sure that TRIPP was interesting to Trump only in the context of the attack on Iran, and when Iran ceased to be a priority for the United States, they would no longer be interested in that Corridor and would hand over its management to someone else. The US is not interested in that Corridor, Turkey and Azerbaijan are interested. Pashinyan fulfilled their dream. The USA will never want and will not allow that after solving the Iran issue, another monster will come instead, in the form of some Turkish conglomerate. The US will not allow the formation of a new Ottoman Empire:

To remind: today, Nikol Pashinyan stated in a briefing that the “Trump’s Way” project is not among the priorities for the US administration at the moment against the background of the events taking place around Iran.

“You see what is happening and what they are busy with now. Unfortunately, there is a high probability that processes will be affected in terms of time. Now the US government is focused on another problem, of course, if it turns out that it won’t affect it, even better,” he said.

  • Aliyev won this state, demanded to sign an ultimatum. Aliyev is furious and hates the Russians because they stopped the 2020 elections. war by bringing in troops. Their plan for 2020 was to solve the Corridor issue, and the Russians thwarted the plan agreed between Aliyev and Pashinyan. 
  • The situation around Iran is also dangerous because tomorrow Aliyev can say: Iran is entering Armenia, I, as a “big brother”, should send troops to Meghri to protect it, and he will. And if Azerbaijan brings in troops, it will not withdraw again.

  • Humanitarian dust is blowing in people’s eyes, but one should think politically, not guided by emotions. there is interest and the pursuit of that interest. All states pursue their own interests, and we are the only ones who say: give everything, no matter what…
  • These authorities do not decide anything, they do what they are told. The plan to turn our Syunik into a NATO corridor is being implemented. 

Nikol Pashinyan In his speech at the European Parliament, he announced the approval of Aliyev’s “Western Azerbaijan” project and promised to make it a reality at all costs. He declared. 

“Now I also want to say that the Republic of Armenia is ready to provide the automobile connection between the Western regions of Azerbaijan and the Autonomous Republic of Nakhjevan with the Kornidzor-Goris-Yeghegnadzor-Yeraskh route with the infrastructures that are in operation today. 

This proposal of ours is not intended to delay, disrupt, forget the Washington agreements in any way, and I say this officially. We make this offer because, as I mentioned above, we use the Azerbaijani railway in a slightly alternative way. As Azerbaijan is waiting for the establishment of the connection to Nakhjevan through the territory of Armenia, so we are waiting for the establishment of the railway connection between the south and the north of Armenia through the territory of Nakhjevan. this railway route has no alternative for Armenia, because the mountainous relief of our country does not allow to have a railway connection between the south and the north of the country in any other way. As you can see, the expectations of Armenia and Azerbaijan do not contradict each other in this regard.”

  • Pashinyan’s plan to bring Azerbaijanis to Armenia via the same road route was planned by Heydar Aliyev, as far as I remember, in 1982. At that time, the relevant official responsible for our road construction is called to Moscow to carry it out, and when he returns, Karen Demirchyan tells him: “That road will only pass over your dead body.” Later, Karen Demirchyan and her team were able to remove that issue from the agenda. Now Pashinyan presents it as a humanitarian program to help Azerbaijan:

  • Dear citizens, how much dust can be blown in your eyes and you believe it too…
  • When one compromises, one loses one’s self and becomes a sacrificial lamb. Հիմա մեր ժողովուրդը գնում է այդ ճանապարհով: Այն, ինչ հիմա անում է Իրանը, էպիկական բան է: Ես չգիտեմ այսօր մի ժողովուրդ, որը պատրաստ է տանել այն, ինչ տանում է Իրանը: Էդ տեսակ ազգերին հաղթել չի լինում: Իրանցիներն իրենց պահում են՝ որպես 3000-ամյա ազգ: Իրանը կյանքի գնով իրենը պահում է: This is something unique. Սա էքզիստենցիալ՝ գոյաբանական կռիվ է:
  • Ruling Iran means ruling the infrastructure of energy systems. That’s a huge thing. If Iran is defeated, what the Russians stand to lose is incomparable to their gains from today’s oil prices. It’s funny when I hear some Russian analysts say how much money Russia will make from oil sales as a result of this war… Oil prices will settle tomorrow, but if Iran is resolved, it’s the Russians’ turn tomorrow.:

  • Iran issue has no solution. The USA and Israel do not have a solution, nor does Iran. To win this war is to destroy it, because Israel has made this issue ontological. For Iran, this problem is a civilizational one, as well as a religious one, just as it is a religious one for Israel and the United States:
  • The largest denominations are in the US. Let’s not forget Epstein. Everyone in the US political elite is from Epstein’s HR department.
  • Launching a ground operation means hundreds to thousands of casualties, and it is still a question of who will take responsibility for it. The US will not send troops to Iran, and perhaps the issue will once again be temporarily resolved. In any case, this issue will have serious consequences for Kaya Kalas and others like her.
  • Connect the territories as much as you want, you will not restore the USSR. Time has passed.
  • For the West, there is no Russian-Ukrainian difference. For Boris Johnson, the former prime minister of Great Britain, it doesn’t matter who is who among the Slavs, he doesn’t even distinguish between a Russian and a Ukrainian, for him it doesn’t matter, the important thing is to kill each other and eliminate them. That is why he did not allow the war in Ukraine to stop, he said that until the last Ukrainian should fight, die… 

The Ukrainian nation, the state created by the Bolsheviks, was the most powerful republic. Even after the collapse of the USSR, even Russia did not have the potential of Ukraine. Through oligarchs, they started destroying the army, the economy, worsened relations with Russia… today they have already killed 1.5 million people according to US data.:

  • Bringing Pashinyan to power does not characterize the Armenian people. It is another thing that the plebs want to remove our national self-awareness from our brains. What they are doing with our education and history is white genocide. Of course, it won’t stay like this, it will pass, the muddy water will be cleaned, the spring will remain. Everything will pass, this problem will also pass, but the sad thing is that we will lack material for reproduction.
  • Saakashvili, Pashinyan, the wretch of Moldova were brought up in the same kindergarten.

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Cargo ship hit by projectile in Strait of Hormuz, crew evacuates

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A projectile hit a cargo ship Wednesday in the Strait of Hormuz, setting the vessel ablaze after the United States targeted Iranian minelaying vessels, The Associated Press reported citing the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) center.

According to the report the vessel had been hit just north of Oman in the strait.

It said the crew was evacuating the ship.

Iran did not immediately claim the attack.

The UKMTO earlier reported on another attack targeting a vessel off Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.

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Yerevan Still ‘Assessing Proposals’ On New Nuclear Plant

March 10, 2026


France – Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian addresses the Nuclear Energy Summit in Paris, March 10, 2026.

Echoing statements by other Armenian officials, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian indicated on Tuesday that his government has still not decided which foreign country or company should build a new nuclear plant in Armenia.

Pashinian made no mention of a U.S.-Armenian nuclear agreement finalized last month when he addressed the global Nuclear Energy Summit in Paris organized by the French government and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

“Armenia has made a decision to pursue small modular reactor technology,” he said in a speech. “Currently, we are carefully examining technologies and assessing proposals from international partners. The selection process is guided by the consideration of reliability, long-term sustainability and our commitment to the highest standards of nuclear safety, security and non-proliferation.”

Pashinian and U.S. Vice President JD Vance signed a joint statement on the “completion of negotiations” on the agreement after their talks in Yerevan on February 9. It was widely construed as a further indication that the Armenian government wants to rely on the United States in its ambitious plans to replace Metsamor nuclear plant with a modern facility equipped with small modular reactors (SMRs), a new and relatively untested technology.

“American technology is going to be coming to this country,” Vance told reporters after the talks.

“That means up to $5 billion in initial U.S. exports, plus an additional $4 billion in long-term support through fuel and maintenance contracts,” he said, clearly alluding to the construction of the new Armenian nuclear plant.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian hold a joint press conference, in Yerevan, February 9, 2026.

Russian officials expressed concern at such a prospect in the following days. Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, argued on February 13 that the U.S. itself does not yet have a functioning SMR plant. He claimed that the possible construction of such a facility in Armenia would therefore pose an environmental threat to not only the South Caucasus country but also Russia.

Narek Apitonian, Armenia’s deputy minister of territorial administration and infrastructures, told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on February 16 that Yerevan is still weighing up various options for implementing its nuclear project. Pashinian similarly downplayed the nuclear agreement with the U.S. when he spoke to reporters on February 13. He said it will only give Armenia access to “complete information about the modular reactor technologies that the United States has.”

The $9 billion in total funding cited by Vance nearly matches Armenia’s entire state budget for this year. Pashinian’s domestic critics say a U.S.-led nuclear project is therefore too expensive for the country. Some of them claim that Pashinian is using the issue for geopolitical purposes.

The Metsamor plant’s sole functioning reactor produces around one-third of the country’s electricity. It is due to be decommissioned in 2036.

Armenia dismisses Azerbaijani claims of border shelling

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Feb 24 2024

The Armenian Defense Ministry on Saturday dismissed a statement from Azerbaijan regarding alleged shelling, labeling it as disinformation.

The ministry's press service refuted claims about a reported incident on February 24, where Armenian Armed Forces allegedly fired upon Azerbaijani positions, as untrue. The defense department clarified that on the said date, at approximately 12:30 pm local time, units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces initiated the attack on Armenian positions in the Verin Shorzha region of Gegharkunik, refuting Azerbaijan's version of events.

Notably, the Armenian side did not report any casualties from the incident.