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Armenia mulls talks with Brussels to launch EU bid https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/armenia-mulls-talks-with-brussels-to-launch-eu-bid/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Armenia #EUaccession #EUArmenia #NikolPashinyan

🇪🇺🇦🇲In her recent interview with #FactorTV @awiktorin talked about #EUArmenia relations, EU’s support to Armenia’s reform agenda, @EUmArmenia & many other topics. Watch the interview here 👉https://factor.am/666023.html

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Armenia/status/1679112722904956928

Ambassador @awiktorin gave interview to #AstghikSargsyan on ‘1 First Channel News’ of @ArmPublicTV & talked about the #EUArmenia relations, as well as the #EUMA. Watch it here https://bit.ly/3mIcHnH

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Armenia/status/1648977070414766081

Extracts of the roundtable at the #EUArmenia Partnership Council, taking place on 18 May 2022, in #Brussels.

https://newsroom.consilium.europa.eu/events/20220518-eu-armenia-partnership-council-may-2022/135085-roundtable-20220518

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUCouncilTVNews/status/1526970389271916548

Տասը հարց՝ Նիկոլ Փաշինյանին Էրիկ Հակոբյանից

Իր հեղինակային հաղորդման հերթական թողարկման շրջանակում քաղաքական մեկնաբան Էրիկ Հակոբյանը տասը հարց է ուղղում Հայաստանի վարչապետ Նիկոլ Փաշինյանին՝ Ադրբեջանի հետ բանակցային գործընթացի և Արցախի ապագայի վերաբերյալ։

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The issues with Pashinyan’s Karabakh negotiation style

CivilNet analyst Tigran Grigoryan in a conversation with Emilio Luciano Cricchio, discusses some of the issues with the Armenian government’s approach to the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiation process. Tigran also discusses the change in wording in the latest resolution regarding Armenia’s democratic progress out of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the latest findings by the new IRI poll.

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Armenian president holds talks with Emirati crown prince and Bahraini king

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has met with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and the Bahraini king in the UAE.
- Armenia will provide Artsakh with another interest free loan of $28 million.
- The European Union says it will recognize Armenia’s digital covid vaccination certificates.

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Lessons from the Lithuanian Experience for Armenia

Inga Stanytė-Toločkienė, the Lithuanian Ambassador to Armenia, speaks to CivilNet about how Lithuania supports Armenia’s democratization and reform processes, as well as the fight against Covid-19. Ambassador Stanytė-Toločkienė also discusses Armenia’s and Lithuania’s trajectory since the collapse of the USSR, Lithuania’s views on the situation in Armenia, and the Lithuanian Embassy’s upcoming plans in Armenia.

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Russia says the South Caucasus will be secure and stable by November 2021

Armenian forces down an Azerbaijani drone in the Gegharkunik region.
- The EU says Azerbaijani officials’ claims to Armenian lands are “irresponsible.”
- Russia’s foreign ministry says the country aims to create security and stability in the South Caucasus by November 2021.

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Azerbaijan sentences 13 Armenian POWs to 6 years in prison

Another 13 Armenian POWs have been sentenced to six years imprisonment in Azerbaijan.
- Masdar, the company which won the bid to construct a large solar plant in Armenia, said it plans to present plans for a second solar power plant in the country.
- Russia’s foreign ministry spokesman says Russia wants to move border demarcation talks to a constructive level.

Credits: Ruptly

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Russia says it’s ready to assist Armenia and Azerbaijan with border demarcation

The EU will provide Armenia with an additional €1 billion, on top of the original €1.6 billion announced last week.

Russia says it’s ready to assist Armenia and Azerbaijan with border demarcation.

Pashinyan holds a roundtable meeting with the leaders of about a dozen extra-parliamentary parties.

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EU fund negotiating investments worth $45 million in Armenia

Pashinyan and Putin hold talks in Moscow

**Yerevan’s municipality continues to dismantle illegally constructed structures. **

**Armenia’s government to invest $7 million in the Armenia-EU small and medium sized enterprises fund. **

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Armenia to Receive up to Almost $1.9 Billion from European Union

By Mark Dovich

The European Union will allocate up to 1.6 billion euros, or nearly $1.9 billion, in aid to Armenia over the next five years, according to a working document published by the European Commission on July 2. Under the plan, titled “Recovery, resilience and reform,” the EU will earmark billions of euros over the coming half-decade for Armenia and five other post-Soviet countries.

According to a European Commission press release, the plan is “underpinned by a €2.3 billion [about $2.7 billion] Economic and Investment plan…with a potential to mobilise up to €17 billion [roughly $20 billion] in public and private investments.”

The aid proposal comes from the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative, which brings together the EU and its 27 member states with six post-Soviet countries in an effort to “strengthen and deepen the political and economic relations” among the countries involved. The Eastern Partnership officially covers Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. Belarus, however, announced it would suspend its participation in the initiative last month, weeks after Brussels imposed harsh sanctions on Minsk.

Out of the total of up to $8.7 billion in aid slated for the Eastern Partnership countries under the plan, up to almost $1.9 billion is earmarked for five projects in Armenia. By far the most expensive Armenia initiative involves further work on the North-South Corridor, an incomplete highway project that aims to connect Georgia and Iran via Armenia, at an estimated cost of about $712 million.

The EU has also pledged up to about $593 million in direct support to 30,000 small and medium-sized enterprises in Armenia, with an eye toward rural and women-owned business ventures. According to the plan, the EU will also provide Armenia with up to roughly $356 million to invest in e-governance programs and tech start-ups and up to about $142 million to help make Yerevan a ‘smart city’ by boosting sustainable urban development practices.

Finally, Brussels has earmarked up to almost $95 million for Armenia’s southernmost province, Syunik, which has been particularly affected by Armenia’s disastrous defeat in last year’s war with Azerbaijan in and around Karabakh. Priority areas in Syunik include “housing, infrastructure, tourism, agriculture, education, health, renewable energy and support for local SMEs,” according to the aid proposal.

Were the EU to invest the maximum amount of almost $1.9 billion in Armenia evenly over five years, the annual aid alone would represent over 3% of Armenia’s yearly GDP, according to World Bank data.

Of all the countries in the Eastern Partnership, only Ukraine is expected to receive significantly more funding than Armenia: nearly $2.3 billion over five years. At the other end of the spectrum is Azerbaijan, which is slated to get only about $166 million from the EU over the next half-decade. Armenia’s other Eastern Partnership neighbor, Georgia, is set for about $1.4 billion in EU funding for the same period.

The EU’s Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, is scheduled to make his first official visit to all three countries of the South Caucasus this week, from July 6 to July 9. In Armenia, he is slated to meet with President Armen Sarkissian, Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Catholicos Karekin II, among other high-level officials. In a statement, Várhelyi hailed the aid plan, calling it an “ambitious Economic and Investment Plan that will help stimulate jobs and growth and bring prosperity” to the region.

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Armenia’s ex-education minister appointed as Pashinyan’s chief of staff

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says over $100 million has been spent on aid programs in Artsakh.
- Armenia’s 2021 economic growth forecast has been revised to 6%, according to Pashinyan.
- Armenia’s ex-education minister appointed as Pashinyan’s chief of staff.

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Pashinyan Holds Consultations With Opposition Figures, Calls for Dialogue with Church

The Armed Forces Chief has announced that a commission has been set up to look into the circumstances of the 44 day war.
- Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan holds consultations with opposition figures.
- The foreign ministers of Austria, Lithuania and Romania will travel to Armenia.

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EU Welcomes Release of 15 Armenian POWs by Azerbaijan

The EU welcomes the release of 15 Armenian POWs by Azerbaijan.
- The Mother See has responded to statements by the acting prime minister.
- Two villagers have been returned to Armenia after crossing the state border into Azerbaijan.

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