Armenia's Foreign Ministry has declared that Yerevan and Ankara will hold no further major negotiations until their parliaments ratify bilateral agreements on closer relations, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.

Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisian says that despite complaints by Iranian officials Yerevan is fully complying with an agreement to import natural gas from Iran, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.

Armenian Health officials have urged people not to "panic" after the first cases of swine flu were reported in the country, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.

A senior NATO official says Armenia will soon send a small contingent of troops to Afghanistan to assist the United States and its NATO allies against the Taliban insurgency, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reports.

Armenia's President Serzh Sarkisian has told visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Tina Kaidanow expressed gratitude on behalf of the Armenian nation to the U.S. leadership for its contribution to the normalization of relations with Turkey, RFE/RL's Armenian ...

The accord should be signed in Zurich on 10 October. Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian genocide remain sticky points, but ordinary people, especially young people, have overcome these old festering obstacles.

The European Broadcasting Union, which organizes the song contest, said in a September 17 statement that its ruling body acknowledges that some Azerbaijanis who voted for the Armenian entry were called to the National Security Ministry

Pledges not to upset Azerbaijan

The European Union will provide Armenia with $48 million