Month: June 2022

The Chinese Ambassador to Armenia attaches importance to cooperation with Shirak Province in various fields

Maral Takmazian

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YEREVAN, JUNE 24, ARMENPRESS. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China Fan Yong paid an official visit to the Shirak Province on June 24 and met with Governor Nazeli Baghdasaryan.

The Ambassador shared his first impressions of the Shirak Province with journalists, noting that he liked Gyumri very much, the local climate is cooler than in Yerevan.

“I think that when Chinese tourists come to the Shirak Province, they will have the same impressions as I do,” said Fan Yong.

In a conversation with ARMENPRESS, the Ambassador attached importance to the cooperation between the two countries in various spheres, particularly in the spheres of education, trade, tourism, agriculture.

“The most important thing is to be able to export the products of the Shirak Province to China, so that the Chinese people can better recognize the Armenian products and Armenia,” said the Ambassador, attaching importance to the cooperation between Gyumri and  Chinese cities.

During the meeting with the Governor of Shirak Nazeli Baghdasaryan, the prospects of future cooperation were touched upon.

“The delegation of Shirak Province signed a memorandum of cooperation and mutual understanding in China’s Hainan province in 2019, which is already a practical step in terms of establishing close relations between the two regions. Today we have the opportunity to further develop those relations,” said the Governor.

During the meeting, reference was made to the opening of the Chinese Confucius classroom in the Shirak Province, issues related to the teaching of the Chinese language. The Governor assured that she will be one of the first in terms of learning Chinese.

Ambassador Fan Yong thanked Nazeli Baghdasaryan for the warm reception, noting that the past 30 years of Armenian-Chinese diplomatic relations have been quite productive.

Within the framework of his first official visit to Shirak Province, Fan Yong also visited Gyumri Municipality, where he was received by Deputy Mayor David Arushanyan. The Ambassador then visited the Gyumri regional library, where in 2018, thanks to the efforts of the Ministry of Culture, the Chinese Embassy in Armenia, a mobile library was launched and “Smile” preschool, the building of which was renovated in 2019 with the help of the Chinese Embassy.

Armenia-Greece-Cyprus sign Trilateral Memorandum

Garnik Zakarian

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YEREVAN, JUNE 24, ARMENPRESS.  On June 24, a memorandum on trilateral cooperation on diaspora issues was signed between Armenia, Greece and Cyprus in Athens.

The memorandum was signed by High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs of Armenia Zareh Sinanyan, Greek Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Andreas Katsaniotis and the Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Issues and Overseas Cypriots, Fotis Fotiou.

As RAMENPRESS was informed from the Office of the High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs of Armenia, the signing ceremony was preceded by a face-to-face meeting between the two sides and a “2+1” meeting between the delegations.

Armenian Ambassador to Greece Tigran Mkrtchyan was also present at the meetings and the signing ceremony.

The Memorandum sets the directions of cooperation between the three countries in the Diaspora, including the exchange of experience, inter-community cooperation, joint educational and cultural events, youth initiatives and more.

During the press conference that followed the signing, Zareh Sinanyan stressed the importance of historical friendship and common values of the three countries.  “I would like to stress that our Diaspora communities in the different countries are cooperating with each other and it is our commitment to encourage them to more actively collaborate and exchange best practices and know-how and finally to take actions toward promoting common values and interests to the greatest extent possible.” said the High Commissioner.

During his working visit, Zareh Sinanyan also met with the Armenian community in Greece and presented the activities, programs and policies of our Office. Then, they discussed the repatriation process, integration programs, the establishment of the first Repatriation and Integration Center in Armenia, and investment policy.

During the meeting, Zareh Sinanyan also touched upon the domestic policy of the Republic of Armenia, external and internal challenges, and the development of the regions of Armenia.

Armenian, Russian Defense Ministers to meet in August

Chakrian Hovsep

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YEREVAN, JUNE 24, ARMENPRESS. Minister of Defense of Armenia Suren Papikyan participated in the regular sitting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS member states in Moscow on June 24.

As ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of the Defense Ministry of Armenia, over 20 issues on the agenda were discussed, including international military-political developments, growing dangers and challenges for the security environment of the CIS member states.

The participants of the meeting discussed a number of issues related to the establishment of a joint humanitarian demining engineering unit, the deepening of cooperation in the military education sphere, as well as the necessary legal and organizational work for the establishment of joint air defense systems.

Based on the results of the sitting, all the decisions of the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS member states were signed, as well as the joint statement dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the CIS Council of Defense Ministers.

Taking into account the rich agenda of the Armenian-Russian military cooperation, the allied nature of the relations, an additional agreement was reached to organize a meeting of Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan and Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu in Moscow in August.

Armenpress: Mirzoyan assures Armenia is consistent in its peace agenda

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Mirzoyan assures Armenia is consistent in its peace agenda

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YEREVAN, JUNE 24, ARMENPRESS. Armenia is consistent in its agenda of establishing peace, which it has repeatedly stated both publicly and in the international platforms, and during direct contacts with the Azerbaijani side. ARMENPRESS reports Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan gave an interview to RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.

Question: The President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev stated that their proposal to commence the works on the peace agreement has not received a response from the Armenian side yet. How would you comment on that? 

Answer:  Both publicly and in the international arena, as well as in the direct contacts with the Azerbaijani side, Armenia has repeatedly stated its consistency in the agenda of establishing peace on the highest levels, and that we do not consider anything unacceptable in the proposals of Azerbaijan regarding the future peace agreement, certainly, completing those proposals with our ideas. 

We have conveyed our proposal for the framework of the agenda of comprehensive peace negotiations to Azerbaijan through the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries, but so far we have not heard any official response. In other words, contrary to the statements of the President of Azerbaijan, Armenia not only did not reject but also responded positively to the proposal of peace talks, waiting for Azerbaijan’s response. At the same time, we have proposed Azerbaijan to launch consultations on the peace agreement between the Foreign Ministers, but so far we have not received any response. The Republic of Armenia reaffirms its readiness to launch consultations on a peace agreement at once.

Question: The President of Azerbaijan also noted that one and a half years later, the Trilateral Statement of November 9, 2020, is not fully implemented, referring, in particular, to the issue of unblocking regional transport communications. What can you say about that?

Answer: Indeed, the Trilateral Statement of November 9 has not been fully implemented yet. Azerbaijan, violating not only its obligations under the Trilateral Statement but also international humanitarian law, continues to illegally hold in captivity the Armenian prisoners of war and civilians, using them as hostages, bargaining and subjecting them to human trade.

Moreover, Azerbaijan denies one of the basic realities enshrined in the Trilateral Statement, stating that there is no Nagorno-Karabakh, and there is no Nagorno-Karabakh issue. Meanwhile, the President of Azerbaijan confirmed the existence of the Nagorno-Karabakh entity by signing a Trilateral Statement. And as long as there is the Trilateral Statement, the existence of that entity cannot be denied.

A gross violation of the Trilateral Statement of November 9 is also the fact that the Azerbaijani armed forces, violating the first provision of that statement, invaded the area of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh on March 24, 2022, and still remain there.

As for the unblocking of regional transport communications, we have repeatedly stated that Armenia is greatly interested in the success of this process.

The process would have been completed much faster if it were not for the continuous groundless statements of the Azerbaijani authorities on the exterritorial corridor, which have nothing to do with reality and the agreements reached in the presence of several international partners. Anyway, for the sake of justice, it should be noted that the discussion on the issue of unblocking is carried out in a constructive environment. I hope that it will not fail due to incomprehensible political intrigues and will be successfully completed soon.

Asbarez; Judicial Council Head Fired for Accusing Government of Blackmail

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YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—The nominal head of a state body overseeing Armenia’s courts was formally relieved of his duties on Thursday three days after publicizing what he sees as evidence of illegal government pressure exerted on him.

Ruben Vartazaryan was already suspended as chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) in April 2021 immediately after being charged with obstruction of justice amid rising tensions with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Pashinyan’s political allies accused him of encouraging courts to free arrested government critics.

Vartazaryan denied the charges and said that he was indicted as part of government efforts to replace him with Gagik Jhangiryan, a controversial former prosecutor widely seen as a figure loyal to Pashinyan.

Jhangiryan was named as acting head of the SJC pending the outcome of the criminal investigation into Vartazaryan, which is still going on.

The SJC launched disciplinary proceedings against Vartazaryan last month following a newspaper interview in which he claimed that Jhangiryan was appointed as a member of the judicial watchdog in breach of Armenian law.

In its decision read out by Jhangiryan, the SJC said Vartazaryan has been sacked as both chairman and member of the council as well as judge of a Yerevan court of first instance for a “significant disciplinary violation.” The decision was backed by eight of the nine other SJC members.

Jhangiryan claimed that the decision was made on June 16 and is only being made public now. He thus seemed to deny any connection between it and a scandalous audio of his February 2021 meeting with Vartazaryan which the latter secretly recorded and publicized on June 20.

The 14-minute recording suggests that Jhangiryan warned Vartazaryan to resign or face criminal charges. He also said he wants to help Pashinyan prevent former President Robert Kocharian from returning to power.

The audio caused uproar in Armenia, with opposition and civil society figures describing it as clear evidence of political orders executed by Jhangiryan and his illegal interference in the work of law-enforcement bodies. They said that he must be not only sacked but also prosecuted.

The country’s main opposition groups portray Vartazaryan’s revelation as further proof that Pashinyan’s administration has been trying to tighten control over the judiciary, rather than reform it.

The SJC discussed the scandal on Tuesday but did not move to take even disciplinary action against its acting head.

For their part, prosecutors ordered the Investigative Committee to look into the audio. The law-enforcement agency has still not opened a criminal case in connection with it.

Vartazaryan’s lawyer, Hovannes Khudoyan, said on Thursday that his client has been summoned to the Investigative Committee for questioning.

Asbarez: 8 Artists to be Featured in ‘Dreams in Deixis’ Exhibition at Tufenkian Gallery

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LOS ANGELES—Tufenkian Fine Arts announced “Dreams in Deixis,” a group exhibition curated by Ava Burnes featuring artworks by Claire Chambless, Sessa Englund, Lara Joy Evans, Rosemary Holliday Hall, Isabella Kressin, Amelia Lockwood, Carlotta Lücke, and Kira Scerbin. The exhibition will be on view from July 15 through August 20, with an opening reception to be held on Friday, July 15 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.  

The title of this exhibition takes inspiration from the theory of Deixis am Phantasma, which translates “to point at an empty space (or to the ghost).” Through a spectrum of idioms and lexicons, from folkloric mysticism and religious symbology to the metamorphosis and organization of natural and architectural forms, the artists in “Dreams in Deixis” re-examine the interpretations of femininity, identity, and the human experience. 

The sculptural objects of Claire Chambless are architecturally reimagined to create escape routes, preventing both containment or access for the physical body and psychic self. Chambless’ cultural symbols function as signs of physical/ideological containment, enclosure, or apparatuses of support for the physical body/psychic self. Rosemary Holliday Hall’s “Enclyclia imagosis” embraces the physical process of metamorphosis as a means of investigation in which we make sense of the world and relate to ourselves and others through imagination, metaphor, and material. Similarly, Isabella Kressin is interested in the process of metamorphosis and how it relates to the body and its immaterial forms. Her photographic and sculptural works are intimate, and draw on themes found in mythology, as well as memories of her adolescence with an emphasis on the female body, portraying it in various states of nudity, relief, ecstasy, and joy.

In addition to employing a broad range of material and conceptual approaches to their practice as a means of addressing socio-cultural ideals, expectations, constructs, and perceptions, the artists materialize their fears and desires by bridging the tangible world of reality with fantasy. The mud spires of Laura Joy Evans evoke termite mounds or stalagmites and delve into notions of techno-primitivism, religious symbology in nature, the digital dark age, and its implications on the collective conscious. Kira Scerbin’s humanoids are meditations on having a body and existing in a physical world that is built upon perverse and primal urges. These creatures, with their disquieting glares and unearthly presence, relate her interest in the perspicacity of strangeness. Enlisting inanimate objects as stand-ins for implied bodies, Sessa Englund’s work emphasizes the exchange between aggression and vulnerability; otherness and familiarity; expectations and failure. Her work blends a variety of references — from Northern European folklore to piercings and troll dolls — grounded in cultural semiotics: an exploration of the meanings we assign to materials and processes.

Amelia Lockwood’s artworks trace connections from geological formations, esoteric map systems, and the constructs of modern-day board games. The overlapping aesthetics of both create structures in which the mind and body are aligned towards achieving a resolution through navigational strategies. Lockwood’s practice aims to highlight both the utilitarian nature of ceramics and the cultivation of the human spirit. Carlotta Lücke’s practice centers on the illusion of authenticity and the representation of collected personal and shared experiences. Lücke’s silicon composites cull together cultural references, collective stories, and shared experiences that appear spontaneous and arbitrary, but are highly composed compositions where everyday tropes are collected, sampled, and reworked over time.   

Employing a broad array of styles and iconography, the artists in “Dreams in Deixis” use a variety of abstract vernaculars to meditate on the aesthetics of femininity, fantasy, and mythology. The images, objects, and forms brought together in this exhibition challenge our fabrications of identity and explore tensions between the intelligible and fantastical, raw and refined, primitive and contemporary.

RFE/RL Armenian Report – 06/24/2022

Garnik Tadevosian 
                                        Friday, 
Armenian ‘Coup Plotters’ Win European Court Case
        • Naira Bulghadarian
Armenia - An alleged 2015 photograph of members of an Armenian militant group 
arrested on coup charges.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Armenian investigators 
violated the rights of the leader and two members of a clandestine militant 
group that had allegedly plotted to overthrow former President Serzh Sarkisian.
The ringleader, Vartanian, and a dozen other individuals were arrested in 
November 2015 in a dawn raid on their hideout in Yerevan jointly conducted by 
Armenia’s police and National Security Service (NSS). The law-enforcement bodies 
found large quantities of weapons and explosives stashed there. They made more 
than 20 other arrests in the following weeks.
The NSS said afterwards that Vartanian set up a group called the Armenian Shield 
Regiment before drawing up with his associates detailed plans for the seizure of 
the presidential administration, government, parliament and state television 
buildings in Yerevan. It said they also explored the possibility of shooting 
down President Sarkisian’s plane.
Armenia - Security forces detain a man in a raid on a house in Yerevan's Nork 
district, 25Nov2015.
Vartanian admitted acquiring weapons and ammunition for the militant group when 
he and 19 other persons went on trial in December 2016. He insisted, however, 
that he never intended to seize power or assassinate Sarkisian.
Most of the other defendants, including an Armenian Catholic priest, also 
rejected the coup charges brought against them.
The judge presiding over the continuing trial agreed to free Vartanian on bail 
in September 2019. All other arrested suspects were released from custody 
earlier pending a court verdict in the case. Two of them had joined Vartanian in 
challenging their pre-trial arrest in the ECHR.
The Strasbourg-based court ruled this week that the detention period was too 
long and unjustified and violated a relevant article of the European Convention 
on Human Rights. It said that Vartanian and another plaintiff, Harutiun 
Saribekian, must each be paid 6,000 euros ($6,300) in damages.
Armenia - Artur Vartanian, the main defendant in the trial of 20 people accused 
of plotting a coup détat, at a courtroom in Yerevan, 17Mar2017.
Vartanian expressed his satisfaction with the ECRH ruling when he spoke to 
RFE/RL’s Armenian on Friday after the latest session of his protracted trial.
“The European Court found that justifications presented by prosecutors and 
investigators were unfounded,” he said.
Vartanian reportedly lived in Spain before returning to Armenia in April 2015 
and setting up the Armenian Shield Regiment.
According to the NSS, core members of the group underwent secret military 
training in Vartanian’s paternal village in August-September 2015. Investigators 
released in late 2016 a photograph, purportedly taken in a village house, of ten 
masked and armed persons standing under the group’s banner.
Armenia, Azerbaijan Trade Fresh Barbs
        • Aza Babayan
Azerbaijan - Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Russian Foreign 
Minister Sergei Lavrov meet in Baku, June24, 2022
Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of not honoring their Russian-brokered 
agreements during Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s latest visit to Baku 
concluded on Friday.
Meeting with Lavrov on Thursday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev complained 
that Armenia has still not open road and railway links connecting Azerbaijan to 
its Nakhichevan exclave. He said Moscow should press Yerevan to do that in line 
with the ceasefire agreement that stopped the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Aliyev also claimed that Yerevan has still not reacted to his proposals 
regarding an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty sought by Baku.
In March this year, Azerbaijan presented Armenia with five elements which it 
wants to be at the heart of the treaty. They include a mutual recognition of 
each other’s territorial integrity. The Armenian government said they should be 
complemented by other issues relating to the future of status of Karabakh and 
the security of its population.
In written comments to RFE/RL’s Armenian Service, Foreign Minister Ararat 
Mirzoyan pointed to those counterproposals and said Baku has still not 
officially responded to them.
“We see nothing unacceptable in Azerbaijan’s proposals regarding the future 
peace treaty while complementing those proposals with our ideas,” he said.
Mirzoyan also insisted that the Armenian side is interested in transport links 
between the two South Caucasus states. He said their opening has been hampered 
by “baseless” Azerbaijani demands for an exterritorial corridor for Nakhichevan.
Mirzoyan also said that Azerbaijan still holds dozens of Armenian prisoners in 
breach of the 2020 ceasefire.
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov echoed Aliyev’s claims after 
holding talks with Lavrov on Friday.
“The artificial dragging of the negotiating process carries very serious risks,” 
Bayramov warned at a joint news conference.
Lavrov said, for his part, that Russia will continue to help the two sides 
negotiate a comprehensive peace accord, demarcate the Armenian-Azerbaijani 
border and open it to travel and commerce.
Visiting Yerevan earlier this month, Lavrov said the Armenian, Azerbaijani and 
Russian governments are now finalizing a deal on a “simplified” border control 
regime for the planned road to Nakhichevan. The road will be under Armenian 
control, he said.
Armenia’s Chief Judicial Officer Refuses To Quit Over Audio Scandal
        • Naira Nalbandian
        • Karlen Aslanian
Armenia - Gagik Jahangirian, the acting chairman of the Supreme Judicial 
Council, at a news conference in Yerevan, August 2, 2021.
Gagik Jahangirian, the controversial acting head of Armenia’s judicial watchdog, 
has dismissed calls for his resignation sparked by leaked audio in which he 
appeared to blackmail his predecessor at loggerheads with the government.
“I have never been forced by any political force, alliance to tender 
resignation,” the former senior prosecutor told Armenian Public Television in an 
interview aired late on Thursday.
Ruben Vartazarian, the previous chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), 
publicized on Monday a 14-minute audio clip which he secretly recorded during a 
dinner meeting with Jahangirian in February 2021. The meeting took place two 
months before Vartazarian was controversially suspended as SJC chairman amid 
rising tensions with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
In the recording full of profanities uttered by him, Jahangirian can be heard 
seemingly warning Vartazarian to resign or face criminal charges. He says that 
he has already blocked the opening of one or two criminal cases against the 
latter.
Speaking to the state-controlled TV channel, Jahangirian claimed that he was not 
in a position to trigger or halt any criminal proceedings and simply tried to 
trick Vartazarian into resigning.
“Do you think that Mr. Vartazarian would write a resignation letter if he knew 
that there will be cases against him and no guarantees that he will not be 
punished later on?” he said, adding that he simply used “psychological ploys.”
Armenia - Gagik Jahangirian chairs a session of the Supreme Judicial Council, 
April 4, 2022
Opposition and civic groups are bound to brush aside this explanation. They have 
said that Jahangirian must be not only sacked but also prosecuted for what they 
see as blackmail and illegal interference in the work of law-enforcement 
agencies.
One of those agencies, the Investigative Committee, reportedly interrogated 
Vartazarian on Thursday in a preliminary inquiry into the audio scandal. It is 
not clear whether the committee will also question Jahangirian.
Despite the uproar, the SJC has refused to even start disciplinary proceedings 
against its acting chairman. The powerful body, which nominates Armenian judges 
and can also fire them, instead formally dismissed Vartazarian as its nominal 
chairman and member on Thursday.
Jahangirian also says in the leaked recording that a key motive behind his 
attempts to convince Vartazarian to quit is to prevent Robert Kocharian, a 
former president and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s leading political foe, 
from returning to power.
Jahangirian told Public Television, however, that he was solely motivated by the 
need for sweeping judicial reforms in Armenia. He claimed that implementation of 
such reforms has been his lifetime “mission.”
The 67-year-old was accused of grave human rights violations when he served as 
Armenia’s chief military prosecutor and deputy prosecutor-general in 1997-2006 
and 2006-2008 respectively. Local human rights activists say that official 
cover-ups of crimes committed in the armed forces were the norm during his 
tenure.
Armenia - Human rights activist Zhanna Aleksania, February 4, 2021.
“I know him as a bad military prosecutor who neglected people and covered up 
cases,” one such activist, Zhanna Aleksanian, told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service. 
“Putting him at the helm of the judiciary was absurd.”
“He should not have been appointed to such a position,” said Aleksanian. “He has 
a very bad biography.”
Jahangirian was appointed as a member of the SJC in January 2021 by the Armenian 
parliament controlled by Pashinian’s Civil Contract party. Lawmakers 
representing the party remained reluctant on Friday to comment on the audio 
scandal and the resulting calls for Jahangirian’s resignation.
Opposition leaders have portrayed the recording as further proof of their claims 
that Western-backed “judicial reforms” declared by Pashinian’s administration 
are in fact aimed at increasing government influence on Armenian courts.
In a statement issued earlier this week, the main opposition Hayastan alliance 
urged the U.S. and European Union ambassadors in Yerevan to comment on the 
scandal and say whether they still support the stated reforms.
Taguhi Tovmasian, the chairwoman of the Armenian parliament’s human rights 
committee affiliated with another opposition group, said on Friday that she has 
sent the transcript of the recording to international organizations for the same 
purpose.
Tovmasian said she asked them to answer the following question: “How can the 
Supreme Judicial Council interfere in any criminal case for political 
considerations in a country that has declared itself democratic?”
Reprinted on ANN/Armenian News with permission from RFE/RL
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Armenpress: Dutch-Armenian Chamber of Commerce to open in Yerevan

Kajoyan Gevork

Dutch-Armenian Chamber of Commerce to open in Yerevan

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YEREVAN, JUNE 23, ARMENPRESS. Dutch-Armenian Business Days will be held in Armenia on July 6-8.

The event is organized by the Embassy of the Netherlands to Armenia within a hybrid platform.

Larisa Harutyunyan, the Political and Economic Affairs Policy Officer of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Armenia, told Armenpress that a number of programs with the focus on agriculture and IT will be implemented on the sidelines of the Dutch-Armenian Business Days.

“As the Embassy in Armenia is new, is operating for one and a half a year, therefore, we will firstly present our economic priorities. It is of cognitive nature. Firstly, for the public to know that there is an Embassy of the Netherlands in Armenia and it has an economic section. Developing and deepening the economic cooperation is going to be our priority. We will talk about the funding mechanisms, the support tools will be presented. We have a very good support program for businesses, we provide experts to small and medium enterprises free of charge”, she said.

Dutch businessmen are expected to attend the event in Armenia. In addition to this, a group of businessmen will join online. The event will focus on sectors like agriculture, mainly focusing on green economy, and information technologies.

Within the framework of the event, the opening ceremony of the Dutch-Armenian Chamber of Commerce in Armenia is expected. Following the ceremony, the Dutch Embassy will sign a memorandum with the Dutch-Armenian Chamber of Commerce. The purpose is to boost the business ties, attract investments, develop bilateral commercial relations and provide multi-profile support to the members of the Chamber.

For registration, it is necessary to send an e-mail to [email protected], clearly mentioning the sector of interest and the date. The deadline is until July 1, 2022. The agenda will be provided after registration. Participation is free of charge.

 

Reporting by Anna Gziryan




Biden nominates Kristina A. Kvien for U.S. Ambassador to Armenia

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YEREVAN, JUNE 23, ARMENPRESS. U.S. President Joe Biden nominated Kristina A. Kvien for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Armenia, the White House said in a news release.

Kristina Kvien arrived at U.S. Embassy Kyiv in May 2019.  From 2016 – April 2019, she served as Acting DCM/Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs at U.S. Embassy Paris.    

Previously, Kristina served as Acting DCM and Economic Counselor at U.S. Embassy Bangkok, Thailand; Economic Counselor at U.S. Embassy London; and Director for European Union, Ukraine, and Belarus Affairs at the National Security Council in the Executive Office of the President.  Kristina has also served at U.S. Embassy Moscow, Russia; the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium; and the U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines.  At the Department of State in Washington, DC, Kristina worked on European Union issues and on bilateral relations with Slovenia.

Number of FLYONE Armenia passengers crosses 100,000

Manouk Vasilian

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YEREVAN, JUNE 23, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian airline FLYONE Armenia has announced today that it has already transported 100,000 passengers 6 months after entering the aviation market.

The airline said it confidently fulfills the mission of providing available aviation services to passengers.

FLYONE Armenia operated its first flight on December 18, 2021. The airline is already operating flights to the cities of Europe, Russia and Middle East, particularly Moscow, Sochi, Lyon, Paris, Istanbul, Beirut, Tbilisi and Chișinău.

The company is planning to increase the number of its planes and expand the map of its destinations, by providing services in accordance with the international standards.

About FLYONE Armenia

FLYONE Armenia (www.flyone.am) started its operations in 2021. On 27 October 2021, the Civil Aviation Authority of Armenia offered us the