Visits by Western leaders to Armenia, once rare, have become commonplace in recent months
YEREVAN – Last Thursday, Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, became the latest high flier to visit Yerevan, Armenia’s capital.
Joined by EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos, she met with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to announce major new support for Armenia
The announced package centred around two themes.
The first, and most acute, related to Armenia’s export sector, currently struggling under a wide-ranging import ban from Russia, Armenia’s primary trading partner.
