The week started with a ceremony of bestowing RA Defense Ministry’s medals on Armenian peacekeepers for an excellent service in Afghanistan and Kosovo. Head of RA Armed Forces General Staff, Colonel General Yuri Khachaturov congratulated the Armenian peacekeeping brigade on being conferred the military unit status and called on them to never forget the main task of protecting their native land. Commemorating the soldiers who died in Karabakh war, Colonel General Khachaturov said: “We love peace. We don’t want anything belonging to others. Karabakh is our land and we won’t cede an inch of it.”

1% inflation was registered in the Armenian consumer market in May 2010, prices for foodstuff rising by 1,8% and for nonfoods by 0,9%. The inflation is mostly being explained by the rise in prices for fruit and vegetables by 10,4-16,7%. According to statistical data, the consumer price index made 106,3% as compared to the same period of 2009.

On June 5, NKR Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Atajanyan received British delegation led by a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords, Baroness Caroline Cox.

During a two-day visit to Armenia, Russian doctors performed five surgeries, including removal of pituitary adenoma and intervertebral hernia.

Artur Hakobyan: endoscopic transnasal removal of pituitary adenoma was performed for the fist time in Armenia.

Special Envoy of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk also participated in the meeting.