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EU ‘to approve’ €10 million non-lethal military aid for Armenia

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

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Armenia will receive €10 million ($11 million) in non-lethal military aid from the EU after Hungary withdrew its objections, reportedly in exchange for providing equal funds to Azerbaijan for demining. On Thursday, RFE/RL reported that the EU was expected to approve the package on 22 July. ‘All the member states of the Union are now ready to give the green light’, they cited a diplomatic source in the EU as saying. Hungary reportedly agreed to lift its veto after agreeing to a compromise

Armenia

Armenia and Hungary restore diplomatic relations 10 years after Safarov freed

by Tata Shoshiashvili

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Armenia and Hungary have agreed to restore diplomatic relations, having severed them in 2012 following the release of axe murderer Ramil Safarov. Armenian and Hungarian foreign ministers Ararat Mirzoyan and Péter Szijjártó reached the agreement at a meeting on Thursday, on the sidelines of the OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers in Poland. Armenia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that they had ‘agreed to restore full diplomatic relations, expressing their intention to open a new chapter

Education

Anti-Orbán demonstrators face off with far-right in Tbilisi

by OC Media

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Both supporters and opponents of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán greeted the controversial politician with simultaneous demonstrations on 21 April, during an official two-day visit to Tbilisi. Anti-Orbán protesters whistled over Orbán and his attendants, while counter-demonstrators greeted him with excitement, as Orbán and Georgia’s PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili arrived at Courtyard Marriott Hotel for a Georgia–Hungary business forum. The demonstrators were protesting the Hungarian govern