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From November 9 to 13, an operational gathering of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces was held at the administrative complex of Armenia's Ministry of Defense, led by Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Edvard Asryan.
Speaking at a discussion at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that in 20 years he sees Armenia as part of the European Union.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a meeting with experts in Dublin that he will visit Russia on December 3, 11 and 22 for negotiations.
Interior Minister Arpine Sargsyan stated that the claim made in court about former deputy police chief Vardan Vardanyan has nothing to do with reality, calling it absurd.
The US State Department said that more than 6,000 visas held by foreign nationals have been revoked over the past three months as part of efforts to combat "birth tourism." According to the department, the visas belonged to people who took part in or facilitated the practice, and the working group was set up in early August 2026.
At its November 14 session, the Central Electoral Commission assigned numbers by drawing lots to the 10 parties and alliances running in the December 13 local self-government elections.
According to the White House, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will meet in Shenzhen on November 19 on the sidelines of the APEC summit.
Former Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan spoke out in an interview against Armenia's agenda of joining the EU.
At the European Political Community summit in Dublin, Nikol Pashinyan met Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
The Eternity-2026 computer-assisted command and staff exercise has begun in Baku with more than 200 servicemembers from Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia taking part.
The new student council under the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport held its inaugural session, chaired by Minister Zhanna Andreasyan, with Deputy Minister Anna Babajanyan also taking part.
On November 13, the working group on implementing the Armenia-US Charter on Strategic Partnership met via video link, co-chaired by Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Vahan Kostanyan and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Peter Andreoli.
According to the Chess Federation of Armenia, grandmaster Haik Martirosyan defeated rating list leader Magnus Carlsen with the white pieces in the first game of the third round of the Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot 2026 tournament under way in Budapest.
EU Ambassador to Armenia Vassilis Maragos and Eduard Petrosyan, director of the Center for Humanitarian Demining and Expertise, presented the remote-controlled MV-4 machine provided by the EU.
A delegation led by Major General Gegham Pashikyan, head of the Defense Ministry's Military Medical Support Department, attended the 46th congress of the International Committee of Military Medicine in Abu Dhabi on November 9–13.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin, where he was welcomed by Director General Mark Redmond.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a video posted on his Facebook page on November 13 that he is returning to Yerevan for a short visit and will travel to Cambodia on November 14 to attend the summit of the International Organisation of La Francophonie.
According to the Investigative Committee, the preliminary investigation into the case of Nasimi Musayev, the Azerbaijani soldier who entered Shaki, has been completed, and the case has been sent to the prosecutor with an indictment.
Tigran Petrosyan, head of Armenia's Food Safety Inspection Body (FSIB), met in Tbilisi with Giorgi Iakobashvili, head of Georgia's National Food Agency.
Environment Minister Hambardzum Matevosyan met with Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Antalya on the sidelines of COP31 and presented Armenia's candidacy to host COP34 in 2029.
People's Artist of Armenia, ballet master and founder of the Barekamutyun State Ensemble Norayr Mehrabyan has died at the age of 85.
Milad M., a 36-year-old Iranian citizen detained on suspicion of drug smuggling, escaped from the administrative building of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) in Yerevan during investigative actions on November 6.
US presidential envoy Jared Kushner summed up on X three days of negotiations in Abu Dhabi, Moscow and Dublin, noting "meaningful progress".
