YEREVAN

Azerbaijan's defense minister, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov met with the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria in Azerbaijan Nikolay Yankov, Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said in a message July 9.

A Romanian delegation headed by Secretary of State for Global Bilateral Affairs Monica Gheorghita, attended the 38th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (CMAE) of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation (BSEC) organisation held in Yerevan, where a symbolic ceremony was held to hand over the BSEC Chairmanship-in-Office Azerbaijan, according to the Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Turkey is ready to respond accordingly if Armenia wants to open new page in ties, but Yerevan first has to abandon its "hostile attitude" regarding the border issue, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said.

Armenia's prime minister, Serzh Sargsyan, has said he will resign after days of large street protests against him, according to a statement posted on his website.

"The street movement is against my tenure. I am fulfilling your demand," the statement said.

Police in the Armenian capital Yerevan detained dozens of anti-government demonstrators on April 19 - the seventh day of large-scale protests against ex-president Serzh Sargsyan's election as prime minister.

Ambassador of Armenia to Romania Sergey Minasyan states in an interview granted to AGERPRES that, in his opinion, the Armenian community in Romania enjoys a "privileged position" and is integrated within the society, the Romanian people's tolerance can set "a good example for many other countries."

YEREVAN -- Demonstrators and Armenian riot police clashed after lawmakers nominated Serzh Sarkisian to be the country's next prime minister amid a wave of protests accusing the longtime former president of a power grab.

Nine people have suffered a blast of an oxygen bottle in a restaurant in the center of Armenian capital Yerevan, Russian agency Interfax reports.
 
In a restaurant of a popular chain, explosion injured two Iranian citizens, three Russian citizens and four Armenian citizens.
 
Most of the victims are children aged 6-16.
 

As a Turkish court rejected an objection submitted by the lawyers of the two Greek soldiers currently in Edirne Prison against a decision to extend their detention, the rancorous verbal standoff between the two sides continued Thursday, with Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos responding to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent "Greater Turkey" comments, saying Ankara should not forget that

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos responded on Thursday to comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regarding the Ottoman Empire saying the neighboring country should not forget it was defeated in Greece in 1821.