Month: July 2020

YEREVAN. – In June, the sappers of the fifth group carrying out Armenia’s humanitarian mission in Syria have demined an area of 2,450 square meters, during which three landmines as well as homemade explosives were found. This was reported by the Center for Humanitarian Demining and Expertise of Armenia.

Thus, a total of 185,209 square meters have been demined since the first day of the mission, and 142,000 square meters of which were handed over to the Syrian authorities.

Under the conditions of coronavirus-related restrictions, the doctors from the fifth group provided medical assistance to 646 locals in June. Thus, from February 2019 until today, Armenia’s humanitarian mission to Syria has provided medical assistance to a total of 13,772 patients.

The President of the Republic considers the increase of the property tax premature, noting that he has no authority to send the law back to the parliament and had to sign it today. Mane Tandilyan, a member of the opposition Bright Armenia faction of the National Assembly, on Tuesday wrote about this on her Facebook page.

"The president is not sincere, at least, in his reasoning, since if he signed only one day later, the law would not come into force as January 1, 2021, which was the reason for the government's tax increase, once again at a special session [of parliament].

By the way, the same process took place last year, when the law envisioning raising taxes was signed by the president even from Switzerland.

P.S.: It seems that even the president does not save the halls of power, as the law has not been published in the official bulletin yet, so the law, which will be published already in July, cannot come into force as of January 1, 2021,” she added.