Rubio to visit Armenia on Tuesday

BREAKING: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to arrive in Armenia on Tuesday, May 26, Armenia’s Foreign Ministry announced, in a visit disclosed less than 24 hours before his expected arrival. The trip is expected to include meetings, press conferences, and the signing of bilateral documents. It comes amid expanding Armenia-U.S. strategic engagement, including talks around the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process and the U.S.-backed TRIPP regional transit framework. Rubio’s visit would mark the first trip to Armenia by a sitting U.S. secretary of state since Hillary Clinton traveled to Yerevan in 2010 and again in 2012. The timing is politically significant. The visit comes less than two weeks before Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections and was not publicly announced in advance, underscoring both the sensitivity and the high-level nature of the trip.