Visiting US Vice President JD Vance pledges as much as $9bn in potential investment in Armenia, which seeks to reduce reliance on Russian energy. The United States and Armenia have struck an agreement on civil nuclear cooperation, amid a push by Washington to strengthen ties with the West Asian country that was once a close ally of Moscow. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US Vice President JD ⁠Vance, who is on a two-day visit to the country, signed the multibillion-dollar nuclear energy deal on Monday. The deal, known as a 123 Agreement, sees the US entering a sector previously dominated by Russia, which had supplied the technology for the only nuclear power plant in the republic. “This agreement will open a new chapter in the deepening energy partnership between Armenia and...