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Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan Meets With U.S. Vice President Joe Biden At White House13.12.2012

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan Meets With U.S. Vice President Joe Biden At White House

On December 13, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan called at the White House as part of his working visit to the United States where he met with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to discuss prospects of U.S. – Armenian relations. The parties took the opportunity to refer to the reform program of the Armenian government. Later today, Tigran Sargsyan met with Millennium Challenge Corporation Program Chief Executive Officer Daniel Yohannes to discuss the possibility of Armenia’s future... more →

Tigran Sargsyan Visits Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Meets With Armenian Community In Boston13.12.2012

Tigran Sargsyan Visits Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Meets With Armenian Community In Boston

On working visit to the U.S.A., Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The head of government toured the Institute getting acquainted with the technological innovations implemented in the educational institution. Tigran Sargsyan met with Istanbul-born Armenian economist Daron Ajemoghlu who is considered to be one of the modern world’s ten best economists. Discussed were the challenges faced in the global economy, as well as the past, the... more →

Biometric Diplomatic Passports To Be Printed13.12.2012

Biometric Diplomatic Passports To Be Printed

Chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan, the Cabinet met in a regular sitting in the Office of Government. The government allocated AMD7.5m to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to modify the program of biometric diplomatic passports, which will be used to print biometric diplomatic passports. In this connection, the government approved a bill on amendments to the State duty law establishing that 65 thousand and 30 thousand drams should be charged to issue electronic passports... more →

Tigran Sargsyan Delivers Lecture In Harvard University13.12.2012

Tigran Sargsyan Delivers Lecture In Harvard University

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan called at Harvard University in the frame of his working visit to the United States. The head of government had a meeting-lecture in one of the world’s leading universities - Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University). After making a note in the guestbook of top-ranking officials, the Prime Minister met with the faculty and students of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Tufts University. The meeting was... more →

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan Meets With Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick 13.12.2012

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan Meets With Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick

On December 12, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with Governor of the U.S. state of Massachusetts Deval Patrick. On behalf of President Serzh Sargsyan, the Prime Minister handed Mkhitar Gosh medal to the Governor and thanked the Governor for assistance in the construction of a monument commemorating the victims of the Armenian Genocide. Deval Patrick asked Tigran Sargsyan to forward his gratitude to the President of the Republic of Armenia for the medal. The parties went on to... more →

President Serzh Sargsyan attended the opening of the When the Book finds the Artist exhibition12.12.2012

President Serzh Sargsyan attended the opening of the When the Book finds the Artist exhibition

Today, at the Hovahannes Toumanian Museum, President Serzh Sargsyan attended the opening of the Exhibition entitled When the Book Finds the Artist, which is concluding a series of events launched in the end of the last year and dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Armenian book printing. The exhibition is dedicated to the history of the Armenian book reading and different stages of the artistic decoration of books, starting from the end of the 19th till the 1970-s of the 20th... more →