2021 in Armenia
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Incumbents
- President: Armen Sarkissian
- Prime Minister: Nikol Pashinyan
- Speaker: Ararat Mirzoyan (until 2 August), Alen Simonyan (from 2 August)
Events
Ongoing
January
- 18 January – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Armenia has returned all Azeri prisoners who were captured during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.[1]
- 20 January – The Ministry of Health says that Armenia plans to buy COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca for 3% of the country's population.[2]
- 22 January – The Armenian parliament installs Gagik Jahangirian and Davit Khachaturian in the Supreme Judicial Council, after being nominated to fill two vacant seats by the My Step Alliance.[3]
February
- 25 February – Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warns of an attempted military coup against him after the army demands that he and his government resign.[4][5]
March
- 1 March – The Armenia–EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement entered into force.
- 5 March – Armenia forcedly to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 due to lack of attention of Athena Manoukian to participate.[6][7][8]
April
- 24 April – US President Joe Biden officially recognized the Armenian genocide.[9]
- 25 April – Nikol Pashinyan announced his formal resignation to allow snap elections to be held in June, although he remained as acting prime minister in the leadup to the elections.[10]
May
- 19 May – The European Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of accession negotiations between the European Union and Turkey. The Parliament also urged Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide as soon as possible.[11][12]
June
- 20 June – 2021 Armenian parliamentary election: Acting PM Nikol Pashinyan wins the country's snap election, with his Civil Contract party gaining 54% of the vote.[13]
July
- 23 July-8 August – 17 athletes from Armenia competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan
September
- 21 September – Armenia celebrated its 30th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union.[14]
November
- 21 November – Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced that Armenia was ready to begin talks with Turkey on the normalization of relations without preconditions.[15]
December
- 19 December – Maléna wins the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Qami Qami".
Predicted and scheduled events
- 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group J
- 25 March – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Liechtenstein v. Armenia[16]
- 28 March – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Armenia v. Iceland[16]
- 31 March – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Armenia v. Romania[16]
- 2 September – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: North Macedonia v. Armenia[16]
- 5 September – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Germany v. Armenia[16]
- 8 September – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Armenia v. Liechtenstein[16]
- 8 October – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Iceland v. Armenia[16]
- 11 October – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Romania v. Armenia[16]
- 11 November – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Armenia v. North Macedonia[16]
- 14 November – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Armenia v. Germany[16]
Deaths
- 31 March – Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, military leader (b. 1939)
- 6 July – Djivan Gasparyan, musician and composer (b. 1928)
- 29 September – Hayko, singer and songwriter (b. 1973)