Senator Robert Menendez raised the matter of Armenian Genocide recognition during Thursday’s hearings at the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

The senator posed several questions to David Michael Satterfield, who has been nominated as the next US Ambassador to Turkey, during the Senate hearings on the approval of his respective candidacy.

In response to the questions, Satterfield said he was aware of that brutality which was one of the most horrible atrocities of the 20th century.

Eighteen servicemen were taken to hospital after a truck of a military unit of Armenia's Defense Ministry had an accident Thursday.

It was found out that the military truck had gone off road, crashed into a rock, and turned over.

Four conscripts are currently being treated at the medical center, and, in all likelihood, one of them will be transferred to another hospital for surgery.

The physicians said the injured are in satisfactory condition, and their injuries are not life-threatening.

April 12th marked the end of the Armenian-Russian battalion tactical drills at Baghramyan military training ground in Armenia.

The military drills involved 1,500 people and 400 units of equipment. Military attaches of about one-and-a-half dozen countries were following the course of the military drills.

The participants used artillery, armored vehicles, aviation and, for the first time in Armenia, elements of a radio-electrical defense measure.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects 4.6 percent economic growth in Armenia in 2019.

According to World Economic Outlook, Growth Slowdown, Precarious Recovery report, inflation will make 2.1 percent this year.

The report suggests that economic growth will make 4.5 percent next year with inflation standing at 3 percent.

Armenian weightlifter Hakob Mkrtchyan, 89kg,  won gold medal of the  European Weightlifting Championship in Batumi, Georgia.

The Armenian athlete’s result was 371 kilos in two exercises.

As the National Olympic Committee reports, another Armenian weightlifter Davit Hovhannisyan, competing in the same weight class took bronze.