Obama announces delegation for Genocide commemoration eventsApril 22, 2015 - 11:03 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - U.S. President Barack Obama has announced the designation of a presidential delegation to the Republic of Armenia to attend the Armenian Genocide centennial commemoration events on April 24. According to a press release from the U.S. embassy in Yerevan, Jacob J. Lew, Secretary of the Department of Treasury, will lead the delegation, which includes: Richard M. Mills, Jr., United States Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia, Department of State Jackie “Kanchelian” Speier, Member of the United States House of Representatives (CA-14) Frank Pallone, Jr., Member of the United States House of Representatives (NJ-6) Anna G. Eshoo, Member of the United States House of Representatives (CA-18) Dave Trott, Member of the United States House of Representatives (MI-11). Related links: Related issues: Top stories The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. London’s Armenian community has been left feeling “under attack” after the city’s Genocide monument was vandalised. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. Armenia to sing in 2nd semi-final of Eurovision The organizers of Eurovision 2024 have revealed the running order of the countries in the two semi-finals. |