President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2011 (FY11) budget, released yesterday, calls for $40 million in assistance to Armenia -- $10 million more than his FY10 request, but still $1 million less than the total appropriated by Congress last year, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

Secretary of the National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan, head of the EU delegation to Armenia Raul de Lutzenberger and UNDP resident representative Dafina Gercheeva signed an agreement, which intends to involve young specialists in the EU consulting group in Armenia, Armenpress reports.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) February 1 issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of media killings, including 32 victims of a single massacre in Maguindanao, the Philippines, last November.

Armenia recorded no new A/H1N1 cases following January 13: the virus has withdrawn. According to the Assistant to Healthcare Minister Shushan Hunanyan, the rate of respiratory diseases has fallen as well.