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Armenia Women’s national football team lost to Poland

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 10:24, 8 April, 2022

YEREVAN, APRIL 8, ARMENPRESS. Poland-Armenia Women’s World Cup 2023 qualifying round match took place in Polish city Gdinya on April 7, the Football Federation of Armenia reports.

Poland won with a score of 12:0.

Armenia

1. Anastasia Klimova (12. Mariam Tsolakyan, 37), 3. Liana Ghazaryan, 4. Maria Sakhinova (10. Armine Khachatryan, 70), 5. Ani Karapetyan (9. Oksanna Pizlova, 70), 7. Nancy Avesyan (18. Veronika Asatryan, 60), 8. Maral Artin (c), 13. Sydney Vermillion, 14. Claudia Cholakian, 17. Nora Yeghyan, 20. Anna Dallakyan, 22. Ani Ghukasyan.

Georgia’s Speaker of Parliament visits Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan

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 15:34, 5 April, 2022

YEREVAN, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS. At the invitation of the Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan the delegation led by the Speaker of Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili is in Armenia. They visited Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex accompanied by the RA NA Vice President, the Head of Armenia-Georgia Friendship Group Ruben Rubinyan, the parliament’s press service said.

The members of the delegation laid a wreath and flowers at the eternal fire perpetuating the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims. Afterwards, they got acquainted with the exhibits documenting the massacre of the 20th century in the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

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Artsakh government to help evacuated families of Khramort and Parukh

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 14:52, 29 March, 2022

STEPANAKERT, MARCH 29, ARMENPRESS. State Minister of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan tasked government agencies to swiftly assess the needs of the 200 women and children and elderly who were evacuated from the villages of Khramort and Parukh when Azerbaijani troops launched an invasion into the communities.

Beglaryan said in a statement that relevant government agencies were tasked with providing essential aid immediately.

He said the International Committee of the Red Cross is also providing support, including financial assistance, and noted that the Artsakh government will also provide financial aid to the evacuees.

The evacuated families will be provided with temporary accommodation until their return to their homes.

Armenia seeks Russian action over Azerbaijani ‘incursion’

Babken Chilingarian
March 30 2022


AFP 30 Mar, 2022

YEREVAN: Armenia on Monday called on Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh to take “concrete steps” after Azerbaijani forces seized control of a strategic village in the breakaway region.

In a new flare-up of tensions in the region amid Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, Azerbaijani troops on Thursday captured the village of Farukh in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The area is under the responsibility of Russian peacekeepers, who deployed in Karabakh under a Moscow-brokered ceasefire that ended weeks of fighting over the region by Armenia and Azerbaijan in late 2020.

Russia’s defence ministry said Sunday that Azerbaijan had pulled back its forces from the village, but Baku said its forces remained in control of the area.

Armenia’s foreign ministry in a statement on Monday demanded an “investigation into the Russian peacekeeping contingent’s actions during the Azerbaijani incursion,” confirming that Azerbaijani troops remained in the area.

“We expect Russia’s peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh to take concrete steps to put an end to Azerbaijani units’ incursion into the zone of responsibility of peacekeepers,” the statement said.

Later on Monday, the country’s security council accused Azerbaijan of “preparing the ground for fresh provocations and an offensive on Nagorno-Karabakh.”

It called on Baku to “immediately start talks on a comprehensive peace treaty.”

“International mechanisms of deterrence must be activated to avoid a fresh military escalation in the region and ethnic cleansing,” it said in a statement.

A major flare-up in Karabakh could pose a challenge for Russia with its forces deeply engaged in Ukraine.

Moscow deployed some 2,000 peacekeepers in the region after the 2020 war over the long-contested enclave which claimed more than 6,500 lives.

Ethnic Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and the ensuing conflict claimed around 30,000 lives.

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Armenian President receives Chargé d’Affaires of Embassy of Iraq

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Armenian President receives Chargé d’Affaires of Embassy of Iraq

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 12:21, 31 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 31, ARMENPRESS. President of the Republic Vahagn Khachaturyan received Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Armenia Suhailan M. Khaleel Al-Joubouri, the Presidential Office reports.

Chargé d’Affaires Suhailan M. Khaleel Al-Joubouri congratulated Vahagn Khachaturyan on assuming office and wished him fruitful work.

President Khachaturyan attached importance to developing economic relations with Iraq and activating interaction in various fields.

They highly appreciated the role of the Armenian community in Iraq in the development and expansion of relations between the two countries.

Artsakh Foreign Ministry thanks int’l community for efforts to make Azerbaijan restore gas supply

Babken Chilingarian
Panorama
Armenia,

The Artsakh Foreign Ministry issued the following statement on the restoration of gas supply to the country:

“On March 28, the gas supply to the Republic of Artsakh was restored through the only gas pipeline entering Artsakh from the Republic of Armenia. This month, Azerbaijan has twice disrupted the supply of natural gas to Artsakh for a lengthy period, causing a humanitarian crisis.

The humanitarian terrorism carried out by Azerbaijan has been strongly condemned by the international community, numerous calls have been made for the restoration of gas supply, and adequate political and diplomatic steps have been taken. The role of the Russian peacekeeping mission in the matter is also great.

We are grateful to all the countries and international organizations, political and public figures who, adhering to the principles of international humanitarian law and moral norms, gave an adequate assessment to Azerbaijan’s actions and took relevant steps to eliminate this humanitarian crisis.

Politicization of humanitarian issues is inadmissible and immoral, and any attempt of the kind is a challenge to the entire civilized world.”

Asbarez: A Letter to Armenia

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Mt. Ararat

Dear Armenia

I love you. I love you deeply and intimately. You were always integral to who I was. Growing up learning about your past, learning your language and admiring your beauty from afar. Your importance was instilled upon me at a very young age. Yet it all seemed superficial and fairytale-like, unaware of your true reality. Closed off to your struggles and hardships, your poverty and inequalities. Only the beautiful lay within my vision.

Yet, as I grew older, I learned the reality of your situation and further understood your depth. Starting off as a 13-year-old boy, on a fairy-tail trip with my family, catching a glimpse of the inequality right next to your center. However, feeling like that story once told to me was actually a tangible object. Then coming again and enjoying you in a different light with my friends as a near adult. Then coming back and engaging with your youth and your people, getting a tiny taste of your reality and everyday life. Wanting to know and understand more, and placing the thought into my mind that I would be back soon in order to get a real taste.

A real taste I got. Traveling far and wide to the farthest your arms could stretch. Living in several different places, I understood how different and unique every part of you is. How sacred you are and how all those stories once told to me in the past were distant from your daily reality. I walked, talked, learned your language, understood your people, understood your struggle (external and internal), and gained invaluable insight into myself and to your soul. Peace, unlike no other, found within your mountains and in the houses of your warm people so willing to give everything, even if they were at the risk of losing everything. Sadly, that risk became a reality shortly after.

From going from an all time high and seeing what a beautiful future lay before you, to living out your darkest days. I could not wait any longer in my comfortable and safe life as you suffered. I came to be where I needed to be. Right by your side, ready for whatever I would be called upon. No fear, just clear minded and ever so calm. I knew then I needed to be there for you. Our darkest of days followed after so much loss and tragedy struck so close to our hearts. I did not know what to do. I could not leave you. I wanted to find a way to mend our wounds, to find love on a deeper and more profound level, to grow with one another and seek out a way that is best for us. And found a way, I did.

You have changed me forever. You have taught me how to love, how to explore, how to be fearless, how to learn, how to process pain, how to place importance on things that matter, how to be there for others, how to take pride in who I am, how to work hard, how to create powerful bonds, how to help others, how to take action once called upon and how to find purpose in my life. Thank you for making me the human I am today. I love you deeply and profoundly, my Armenia.

I Love You,
Varak Ghazarian

Varak Ghazarian is a young Armenian-American who grew up in Los Angeles, but has relocated to Armenia to live in the country that he loves.




Court does not allow Armenia ex-deputy PM, now lawmaker Gevorgyan to attend PACE subcommittee session

Babken Chilingarian
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The Yerevan court once again did not allow former deputy prime minister Armen Gevorgyan, who is now an MP of the opposition “Armenia” Faction in the National Assembly of Armenia, to attend the session of a subcommittee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

At the start of Tuesday’s court hearing on the criminal case against second President Robert Kocharyan and Gevorgyan, Presiding Judge Anna Danibekyan stated that Gevorgyan had submitted a petition, which his lawyer Lusine Sahakyan presented.

The petition asked the court to grant Armen Gevorgyan permission to travel to Rome to participate in the sitting of a PACE subcommittee.

The defense joined this petition.

But the prosecution objected to it, making reference to previous similar discussions.

The court denied the petition, arguing that Gevorgyan’s behavior—in particular, his “disrespectful” absence from the previous court hearing and the decision to subpoena him—raises fears that he would not return.

Stepan Danielyan: Secret border delimitation and demarcation process underway

Babken Chilingarian
Panorama, Armenia
March 17 2022

A secret process of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border delimitation and demarcation is underway, Armenian political analyst Stepan Danielyan claims.

His comments came after the Azerbaijani military reportedly advanced further into sovereign Armenian territory, taking control of an area within the administrative territory of the village of Nerkin Hand in Armenia’s Syunik Province.

“I would like to explain to those who do not understand the advancement of the Azerbaijani positions and the meaning of the statement of the Defense Ministry: a process of delimitation and demarcation is underway, which the government is afraid to publicly announce, but is carrying out secretly,” Danielyan wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.

“Don’t be surprised either when a number of villages are ceded [to Azerbaijan],” he added.

Turkish, Armenian FMs discuss ways to end decades-old hostilities

Babken Chilingarian
Global Times, China
By XinhuaPublished: Mar 13, 2022

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu met his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan on Saturday in Antalya, a southwestern resort city of Turkey, to discuss ways of ending decades-old hostilities.

The two ministers attended a joint press conference after they met on the sidelines of the ongoing Antalya Diplomacy Forum, which has gathered around 2,000 politicians, diplomats, journalists, and scholars from more than 70 countries since its opening on Friday.

The Turkish minister told the press that said his meeting with Mirzoyan was “very productive and constructive,” noting special representatives of the two neighbors have conducted two rounds of talks trying to normalize their ties.

Turkey strives for stability and peace in the South Caucasus, said Cavusoglu, adding “Azerbaijan also supports this process.”

“Stability and peace in the region are for the benefit of all of us,” he noted.

Mirzoyan, for his part, said the Armenian side will continue to normalize ties with Turkey “without preconditions.”

“Armenia has a decision for peace and harmony in our region,” the Armenian minister said.

Turkey and Armenia severed the diplomatic ties in 1993 after Turkey chose to support Azerbaijan when the Caspian country was fighting a war with Armenia over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

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