By Mark Dovich
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has left for a five-day working visit to Washington, ministry spokesman Vahan Hunanyan wrote on his official Facebook page Monday.
Mirzoyan is slated to meet with several high-level U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Samantha Power, who heads USAID, as well as members of Congress and the National Security Council. He is also scheduled to deliver remarks at the Atlantic Council, a well-known think tank.
Mirzoyan’s last visit to the United States was in September 2021, according to the foreign ministry website.
Following his week in Washington, Mirzoyan is planning on traveling to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, for a meeting next Friday with his Azerbaijani and Russian counterparts, Jeyhun Bayramov and Sergey Lavrov.
The meeting is scheduled to take place on the sidelines of a twice-yearly summit that brings together the foreign ministers of member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, an intergovernmental organization of nine post-Soviet countries. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan are CIS members.
Mirzoyan’s travels come amid an uptick in diplomatic activity in Armenia and the region.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili traveled to Yerevan last Friday and Saturday to meet with Mirzoyan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Alen Simonyan, the speaker of Armenia’s parliament.
“The development of special neighborly relations between our countries and the further deepening of multifaceted cooperation is one of the important priorities of Armenia’s foreign policy,” said Mirzoyan.
Darchiashvili and Mirzoyan also visited Tsitsernakaberd, the Armenian Genocide memorial complex overlooking Yerevan.
Meanwhile, Armenian and Turkish special envoys Ruben Rubinyan and Serdar Kılıç are set to meet on Tuesday in Vienna for their third round of talks on normalizing relations between the two countries.
The two envoys have met twice so far this year, in Moscow in January and in Vienna in February. The meetings were the first direct talks between Armenian and Turkish officials in over a decade.
Mirzoyan heads to Washington for talks before Dushanbe meeting
By Mark Dovich
Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has left for a five-day working visit to Washington, ministry spokesman Vahan Hunanyan wrote on his official Facebook page Monday.
Mirzoyan is slated to meet with several high-level U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Samantha Power, who heads USAID, as well as members of Congress and the National Security Council. He is also scheduled to deliver remarks at the Atlantic Council, a well-known think tank.
Mirzoyan’s last visit to the United States was in September 2021, according to the foreign ministry website.
Following his week in Washington, Mirzoyan is planning on traveling to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, for a meeting next Friday with his Azerbaijani and Russian counterparts, Jeyhun Bayramov and Sergey Lavrov.
The meeting is scheduled to take place on the sidelines of a twice-yearly summit that brings together the foreign ministers of member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, an intergovernmental organization of nine post-Soviet countries. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan are CIS members.
Mirzoyan’s travels come amid an uptick in diplomatic activity in Armenia and the region.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili traveled to Yerevan last Friday and Saturday to meet with Mirzoyan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Alen Simonyan, the speaker of Armenia’s parliament.
“The development of special neighborly relations between our countries and the further deepening of multifaceted cooperation is one of the important priorities of Armenia’s foreign policy,” said Mirzoyan.
Darchiashvili and Mirzoyan also visited Tsitsernakaberd, the Armenian Genocide memorial complex overlooking Yerevan.
Meanwhile, Armenian and Turkish special envoys Ruben Rubinyan and Serdar Kılıç are set to meet on Tuesday in Vienna for their third round of talks on normalizing relations between the two countries.
The two envoys have met twice so far this year, in Moscow in January and in Vienna in February. The meetings were the first direct talks between Armenian and Turkish officials in over a decade.