Author: Chatinian Lara

 15:13, 8 January, 2022

YEREVAN, JANUARY 8, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan held a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, discussing the proposal of Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to hold an online session of the CSTO Collective Security Council, the Kremlin press service reports.

“During the telephone conversations with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Kazakhstan, which is shifting towards settlement.

The sides expressed support to the proposal of Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to hold a meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council in a video conference mode in the nearest future. Nikol Pashinyan said that the Armenian side, as the current CSTO chair, will deal with the organization of that meeting”, the statement says.

 14:20, 5 January, 2022

YEREVAN, JANUARY 5, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian government ratified the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Union (and its member states) and Singapore.

The agreement aims at boosting trade of goods and services, enhancement of cooperation and ensuring modern standards for protecting capital investment and founding and activities of companies.

At the same time, the agreement stipulates the parties’ intent to sign agreements on free trade, investments and services in accordance to rules and jurisdiction defined by the parties.

The purpose of the agreement is to create a beneficial environment and conditions for the development of mutual trade relations and boosting economic cooperation in areas of mutual interest.

 12:04, 4 January, 2022

YEREVAN, JANUARY 4, ARMENPRESS. Georgia will again not participate in the 3+3 platform’s second meeting which is planned to be held in Turkey, Georgia’s Ambassador to Ankara George Janjgava told the Daily Sabah newspaper.

“Georgia will definitely not attend the 3+3 meeting,” Janjgava told Daily Sabah.

The first meeting of the 3+3 format – a regional cooperation platform brought forward after the 2020 Nagorno Karabakh war which was supposed to include Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Iran – was held in Russia in December 2021.

Georgia repeatedly refused to participate.

 15:10, 3 January, 2022

YEREVAN, JANUARY 3, ARMENPRESS. Armenia, Maldives and the Seychelles are the three top destinations for Russian tourists this winter, according to TASS news agency.

Domestically, Russians prefer spending their New Year holidays in Sochi, other seaside towns in Krasnodar Krai, St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad.

At the same time, demand for holiday destinations in nearby countries is increasing, and in this context Armenia became the top destination for Russians this winter.

Aside from Armenia, Maldives and Seychelles, Russians also travel to the Dominican Republic and the Carribean Islands, the UAE, Jordan and Morocco this year.

 19:57,

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 31, ARMENPRESS. Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Hambardzum Matevosyan issues a congratulatory message on the occasion of the New Year and Christmas. As ARMENPRESS was informed from the Office of the Deputy PM, the message runs as follows,

“Dear compatriots,

Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!

The passing year 2021, despite its controversies, was a year of overcoming the political crisis for Armenia. After the military aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh, the tension in the domestic political life of Armenia was possible to overcome through elections, a tool typical of accomplished democracies. In this regard, the political forces of Armenia showed will and civic collective maturity, turning to the people for settling internal political disputes and relying on their wisdom. The free _expression_ of the will of the people and the successful voting proved that the electoral institution in Armenia works effectively, exercising power exclusively by the vote of the citizen. The local elections, which completed the final stage of community enlargement reforms, were a testament to the institution’s integrity.

The coronavirus pandemic and the war in 2020 had a significant negative impact on the socio-economic situation of our country. This year, however, allowed to stabilize the situation, to bring back the socio-economic order of the country to the rails of development and growth. Thanks to the relative stability and the results of the measures taken by the Government, the current state of the economy creates real expectations for setting and achieving ambitious targets for the coming year.

Dear compatriots,

Hours later we will enter 2022, a year of both opportunities and challenges. Our task should be to adequately prepare and withstand the challenges, as well as to make use of the given opportunities consistently and in a well-calculatedly manner to ensure the security of Armenia, to increase the welfare of our people, to create the necessary environment for peaceful and creative work.

New Year has always been associated with family, warmth and caring. In this regard, I wish that the light of hope should always be bright in all your families, that the achievements should be tangible, and that the goals should always be achieved. I want your cherished dreams to come true next year, success to be your companion, difficulty to be easy to overcome. Finally, may 2022 be a year of peace, security, health and prosperity for our state and people.

Happy New Year!”.