The Armenia women’s football team suffered its third defeat during the qualifying tournament ahead of the World Cup.
In the third round of Group F, the Armenian footballers played against the Albanian team and were defeated 0-5.
Albania are in fourth place with 4 points, while Armenia’s team is at the bottom of the championship table.
During the first two rounds, the Armenia team lost to Norway 0-10 and then to Poland 0-1.
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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, ARMENPRESS. Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that the company will donate 3,000 vials of Veklury (remdesivir) to help patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Armenia and 100,000 vials of Veklury to help address the recent surge of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia, Businesswire reports.
“As cases of COVID-19 surge again around the world, and the pandemic continues to affect the lives of so many, we remain focused on ensuring that our medicines can reach patients that need them,” said Johanna Mercier, Chief Commercial Officer, Gilead Sciences. “These donations are the latest example of our ongoing commitment, and we will continue to work together with governments, health authorities and our voluntary licensing partners to ensure access to our medicines as quickly as possible.”
The Veklury donations will complement the supply of generic remdesivir provided through Gilead’s voluntary licensing program. Gilead is working closely with distributor partners and directly with the governments of Armenia and Indonesia to coordinate these donations.
Veklury (remdesivir) is a nucleotide analog invented by Gilead, building on more than a decade of the company’s antiviral research. Veklury is the antiviral standard of care for the treatment of hospitalized patients with COVID-19. At this time, more than half of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States are treated with Veklury. Veklury is approved or authorized for temporary use in approximately 50 countries worldwide.
BAKU, October 15. /TASS/. Baku has returned all Armenian prisoners of war to Yerevan, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev reported on Friday at a meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS in an online video conference.
“Baku had handed over all [Armenian] prisoners of war taken during the conflict earlier than Yerevan had given back Azerbaijani prisoners of war to us,” the head of state emphasized. He pointed out that two weeks after inking the trilateral statement on the complete cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh on November 9, 2020, members of a sabotage group that were sent behind the lines of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces and subsequently detained by Azerbaijani servicemen, “cannot, according to international conventions, be considered prisoners of war.”
Aliyev added that “members of a sabotage group consisting of 62 people” were sent from Armenia’s Shirak Province to Azerbaijan at the end of November 2020.
Intense clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia erupted on September 27, 2020, with fierce battles raging in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. On November 9, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on a complete ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh. According to the document, the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides maintained the positions that they had held, while several regions came under Baku’s control and Russian peacekeepers were deployed along the contact line and the Lachin corridor.
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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 14, ARMENPRESS. The Defense Army of Artsakh issued a statement about the ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side. ARMENPRESS reports the statement issued by MoD Armenia reads as follows,
“In the evening of October 14, the Azerbaijani armed forces opened fire at the positions of the Defense Army located in the eastern border section of the Republic of Artsakh, as a result of which 6 Armenian servicemen have received gunshot wounds. The Command of the Russian peacekeeping unit in Artsakh have immediarely been informed about the incident.
The Ministry of Defense of the Artsakh Republic states that it continues to adhere to the ceasefire regime and calls on the Azerbaijani side to refrain from destabilizing actions”.
An Azeri soldier and police officer talk as they stand guard at the Kalbajar district, Azerbaijan, Dec. 21, 2020. (Reuters File Photo)
Illegal Armenian armed groups attacked a civilian convoy of vehicles carrying non-military goods for building civil infrastructure near the Gözlükörpü settlement in the Kalbajar region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
The convoy, which was traveling from the Sugovushan settlement of the Tartar region to the Kalbajar region, was attacked around 2 p.m. local time (10 a.m. GMT), the ministry said in a statement.
As a result of the shooting, the car of the Military Automobile Inspectorate of the Military Police of the Azerbaijan Army, which was at the front of the convoy, was damaged, but no one was killed or wounded, the statement said.
The ministry emphasized that it is “inadmissible” for Armenian armed detachments to target a convoy of civilian vehicles accompanied by Russian peacekeepers in order to restore civilian infrastructure in the territories liberated from the nearly three-decade occupation by Armenian forces.
“The Command of the Russian peacekeeping forces temporarily stationed in a certain part of the Karabakh Economic Region of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian-Turkish Joint Monitoring Center were asked to investigate the incident,” it added.
Relations between the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent regions.
Fresh clashes erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan in late September, rekindling the Caucasus neighbors’ 30 year conflict over the region. During the conflict, Azerbaijan liberated several towns and nearly 300 settlements and villages from the Armenian occupation. Fierce fighting persisted for six weeks despite efforts by France, Russia and the United States to broker cease-fires, before Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a Moscow-brokered peace deal on Nov. 9.
The agreement was signed after Baku’s army overwhelmed separatist forces and threatened to advance on Karabakh’s main city Stepanakert (Khankendi).
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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 1, ARMENPRESS. The Premier of Australia’s New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian has resigned, after the state’s corruption watchdog revealed it was investigating her, ABC reports.
The ICAC will hold public hearings later this month to investigate whether there was a conflict between Ms Berejiklian’s public duties and private interests when she was in a personal relationship with then-MP Daryl Maguire.
Berejiklian conceded her shock announcement comes amid some of the “darkest days in the state’s history” — but it’s been praised as the “right decision” by the opposition, and some experts.
“I want to be clear, and all the decisions I have made as Minister or Premier of New South Wales, my first consideration has always been the well-being and welfare of the people of this state. I state categorically I have always acted with the highest level of integrity. History will demonstrate I have executed my duties again with the highest level of integrity for the benefit the people of New South Wales for who I have had the privilege to serve,” Berejiklian said. “As a leader of the New South Wales government, I have expected the high standards of myself and my colleagues and made it clear on numerous occasions that if any of my ministers were the subject of allegations being investigated by an integrity agency or law enforcement, then he or she should stand aside during the course of investigation until their name was cleared.The reason for my stance was not to have made any presumptions as to their conduct but rather to maintain the integrity of the public office which that person has held while the investigation was completed. That same standard must always apply to me also as Premier. However, standing aside is not an option for me as a Premier of New South Wales. The people of this state need certainty as to who the leader is of the state during the challenging time for the pandemic. I cannot predict how long it will take you ICAC to complete the investigation, let alone deliver a report in circumstances rather first called to give evidence nearly 12 months ago.”
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YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS. The UN Office in Armenia will continue to provide humanitarian and rehabilitation assistance to the persons displaced from Nagorno Karabakh and affected communities, ARMENPRESS reports reads the statement issued by the Office on the occasion of the 1st anniversary of the start of the 44-day war unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh.
It is noted that the team of the UN Office in Armenia, together with the entire Armenian people, commemorates all those who died in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, expresses its sincere condolences to all the families.
‘’Through the UN Interagency Response Plan, together with our partners, we will continue to provide humanitarian and rehabilitation assistance to the persons displaced from Nagorno Karabakh and its surrounding regions, who have found shelter in Armenia, as well as the affected communities’’, reads the statement.
On the part of Armenia, in the Karabakh war that began a year ago, a total of 3781 persons perished; 253 other persons are still listed as missing, the Armenian Investigating Committee (IC) has informed.
The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh were conducted from September 27 to November 9, 2020. Armenia lost 3773 persons perished; and other 243 regarded as missing, Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister, said on August 24. Relatives of the missing people have repeatedly demanded from the Armenian government to take measures to find them, and held protest actions – one of them was held on August 27.
Today is one year since the start of the 2020 Karabakh war.
The Armenia’s IC has published updated data on the country’s losses in the 2020 Karabakh war. According to the IC, as of September 27, 2021, a total of 3781 people perished during the hostilities; other 231 military servicemen and 22 civilians are regarded as missing, the “News-Armenia” has reported today.
The IC has added that by September 27, overall 108 servicemen and civilians had been returned from Azerbaijani captivity, the “News.am” informs.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on September 27, 2021 at 10:36 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
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ANKARA
The heads of state and government of the Turkic Council member nations will meet in Istanbul on Nov.12, Turkey’s foreign minister said Monday.
Historical steps will be taken for the council at this summit, Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a joint news conference he addressed with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov in Istanbul following the Extraordinary Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Turkic Council on Afghanistan.
On Afghanistan where the Taliban have seized control in August, Cavusoglu said that the Turkic Council has certain expectations and concerns about the war-weary country like the entire international community.
“These are the prevention of humanitarian crisis, protection of human rights including minority rights and women’s rights, prevention of irregular migrant flow, and resurgence of terrorism,” said Cavusoglu.
“For this, the establishment of an inclusive government in the country and the functioning of the state mechanism are important,” he added.
Cavusoglu said that the foreign ministers of the Turkic Council also discussed the ways to help Afghanistan’s neighbors that suffer from irregular immigration.
“We decided to exhibit solidarity with them. We also discussed what we could do in terms of counter-terrorism, and we are going to be announcing our joint declaration shortly,” he stated.
Cavusoglu also said that the Sept. 27 is a significant date for the Turkic world as it marks the 30th anniversary of Turkmenistan’s independence and the start of the latest conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which led to the liberation of Karabakh from occupation.
He congratulated Turkmenistan on the anniversary of its independence and said the country will attend the leaders summit scheduled for Nov. 12.
“Also, today is a day to commemorate the martyrs of Azerbaijan. Karabakh is no longer going to be remembered with instability in the region, but peace and development,” said Cavusoglu, adding that normalization and regional cooperation should be the focus.
“Our president (Recep Tayyip Erdogan) and (Azerbaijani) President Ilham Aliyev have expressed their commitment to peace and stability in the region,” the Turkish foreign minister added.
Patriotic War
Bayramov, for his part, said Sept. 27 is a “special day” in Azerbaijan’s history of independence as the country exactly one year ago responded to the military provocations of Armenia.
“The Azerbaijani Armed Forces upon the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief (President Aliyev) launched a counter-attack and ended the occupation which lasted for nearly 30 years,” he said.
Bayramov also thanked all countries and authorities, especially Turkey, which supported Azerbaijan’s “just stance” during the war.
Since the first day of Patriotic War, Turkey provided its “utmost support” to Azerbaijan and its people at the national level, especially at the level of president, parliament, political parties, ministries, and NGOs, he said.
“This political and moral support was very important to us,” Bayramov said, adding that this support boosted Azerbaijan’s power, and turned into a “symbol of unity and brotherhood” of the two countries.
He underlined that marking Azerbaijan’s Sept. 27 Remembrance Day together with “brothers and sisters” in Turkey has a “symbolic meaning.”
Speaking on the meeting on Afghanistan, Bayramov said the ministers representing the Turkic speaking countries put forward their views on the issue, adding that discussion was “very productive.”
“We will further continue our tireless efforts for the sake of the Afghan nation,” he pledged.
Bayramov said they also had a chance with Cavusoglu to discuss the latest regional developments, bilateral relations, and multiple projects between the two countries.
Liberation of Karabakh
Relations between the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia have been tense since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Upper Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent regions.
When new clashes erupted on Sept. 27, 2020, the Armenian army launched attacks on civilians and Azerbaijani forces and violated several humanitarian cease-fire agreements.
During the 44-day conflict, Azerbaijan liberated several cities and nearly 300 settlements and villages from the nearly three-decade occupation.
On Nov. 10, 2020, the two countries signed a Russian-brokered agreement to end the fighting and work toward a comprehensive resolution.
On Jan. 11, the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a pact to develop economic ties and infrastructure to benefit the entire region. It included the establishment of a trilateral working group on Karabakh.
The cease-fire is seen as a victory for Azerbaijan and a defeat for Armenia, whose armed forces withdrew in line with the agreement.
Prior to this victory, about 20% of Azerbaijan’s territory had been under illegal occupation for nearly 30 years.
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YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 21, ARMENPRESS. President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on the victory of the United Russia Party in the State Duma elections.
ARMENPRESS reports Harutyunyan stressed that the results of the voting clearly showed the high level of support and trust of the Russian society towards the strategic direction of the Russian leadership.
“Russia’s strategy is aimed at the further development of the country, strengthening its international reputation, increasing the welfare of its citizens. I am confident that the State Duma of the new convocation will continue to contribute to the expansion and deepening of traditional friendly ties between the Russian and Armenian peoples, as well as the strengthening of the security environment in our region and the establishment of lasting peace,” Harutyunyan said.