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Pashinyan holds consultation in Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs

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 13:17,

YEREVAN, JANUARY 20, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan held a consultation in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs today.

During the consultation Pashinyan said the public administration system needs restart, adding that they should try to conduct that restart in practice.

“It means that we should revise the project which we implement in Armenia and answer to a very simple question – how viable and relevant are the projects which we had before the war and after that, what changes they should undergo?” the PM said.

According to him, from conceptual terms the policy adopted by them in Armenia doesn’t need to be revised.

“In general, what is the change of the social policy at the conceptual level which we are implementing after 2018? We are trying to replace the policy of adaptation with a policy of overcoming”, he said.

Pashinyan added that the services provided in the field of social insurance and assistance should be maximally dignified, highly effective and in high quality.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Armenpress: Armenia to submit complaint to ECHR against Azerbaijan

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Armenia to submit complaint to ECHR against Azerbaijan

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 20:58, 16 January, 2021

YEREVAN, JANUARY 16, ARMENPRESS. Armenia is planning to submit a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights against Azerbaijan, representative of Armenia to the ECHR Yeghishe Kirakosyan told ARMENPRESS.

”It’s quite a long time we have been carrying out preparatory works – evidence collection, evaluation, complaint preparation processes. In the nearest future we are planning to submit a complaint against Azerbaijan. It will cover a wide range, from the protecting the rights of victims, the wounded, the displaced, to the claims on lost or damaged property, which we think are quite numerous”, Kirakosyan said.

According to him, all the violations of the international law, including the international humanitarian law, will be addressed in the complaint.

Armenia’s highest flag raised in Syunik province

Badalian Vardan
Public Radio of Armenia
Jan 17 2021
– Public Radio of Armenia

The Armenian tricolor was raised today on the mound near the road leading to the village of Chakaten, on the initiative of the Mayor’s Sssistant Mher Avetisyan, Kapan municipality informs.

The flag 30 m high and 40 square meters in size was solemnly raised in Armenia by mayor Goevorg Parsyan.

Nakhijevan and Azerbaijan to tie with railway passing through Armenia’s Meghri

Badalian Vardan
Aysor, Armenia
Jan 12 2021
 
 
 
 
The cost of the construction of railway between Azerbaijan and Turkey are estimated 434 million USD, director of Azerbaijan’s economic reforms and communication analysis center Vusal Gasimli stated.
 
 He said he is speaking about the construction of Kars-Nakhijevan-Meghri-Zangelan-Baku railway which first of all must tie Nakhijevan with Azerbaijan.
 
 He said using Azerbaijan’s potential Armenia may establish transport communication with Russia in two directions – Gyumri-Nakhijevan-Meghri-Baku and Ijevan-Gazakh-Baku.
 
“Taking into consideration the possibility of construction of Kars-Gyumri branch of the railway, according to the assessments of foreign sources Kars-Gyumri-Nakhijevan-Meghri railway construction project will cost approximately 434 million USD,” Gasimli stated.
 

Russia’s COVID-19 cases pass 3,500,000

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Russia’s COVID-19 cases pass 3,500,000

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 13:22,

YEREVAN, JANUARY 15, ARMENPRESS. Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 24,715 to 3,520,531 in the past 24 hours, TASS reports citing the anti-coronavirus crisis center.

According to data from the crisis center, the coronavirus growth rate does not exceed 0.7%.

There are currently 546,356 active coronavirus cases in Russia.

Over 48,000 residents of Artsakh already back home

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 12:26, 9 January, 2021

YEREVAN, JANUARY 9, ARMENPRESS. 225 people, who have left their homes in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) due to the recent war, have returned to the homeland in one day accompanied by the Russian peacekeepers and the military police, the Russian defense ministry reports.

So far, a total of 48,059 people have returned to Artsakh.

Russian peacekeeping contingent has been deployed in Nagorno Karabakh according to the November 10, 2020 decree of the Russian President.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Russian envoy conveys Putin’s answer to the letter of Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem

Badalian Vardan
Public Radio of Armenia
Jan 4 2021

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On January 4, 2021, the Russian Ambassador to Israel His Excellency Mr. Anatoly Viktorov, visited the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem and met with His Beatitude Abp. Nourhan Manougian and conveyed him the answer of His Beatitude’s letter addressed to His Excellency Mr. Vladimir Putin, the President of Russian Federation, Chancellor at Armenian patriarchate of Jerusalem Fr. Koryoun Baghdasaryan informs.

“On behalf of the President, I express his gratitude for you message on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue of November 20, 2020. I would like to inform you that the considerations contained in your letter have been taken into account,” the Ambassador said.

Separately, he emphasized that the Russian leadership keeps under special control the issues of the safe return of refugees to their homes, the protection of cultural and religious monuments in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, as well as the regulations of the status of this territory when conditions are ripe for this.

Armenia bracing for third wave of coronavirus

Badalian Vardan
JAM News
Dec 30 2020

    JAMnews, Yerevan
 

In the second half of January, another uptick in coronavirus infections is expected in Armenia due to active contacts between people during the New Year holidays, Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan announced earlier today.

Now ‘there is a relative stabilization’ following the two previous peaks of infections in the summer and autumn. Moreover, the second aggravation was caused by the second Karabakh war.

For a long time, Armenia was tenth in the world in cases per million population, ahead of neighboring countries. Now the situation has changed. Armenia has dropped to the thirteenth line, while Georgia has rocketed up the list, becoming eighth.

On December 30, 582 new cases of infection were registered in Armenia. In total, 158,878 infected people have been infected in the country. 141,844 have recovered, and 2807 infected have died.

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The third wave, which, according to doctors’ forecasts, is expected in the second half of January, will be “softer” than the second, that is, the incidence rates will not be so high.

Health Minister Torosyan noted that because of the second Karabakh war, it was impossible to comply with sanitary standards, which led to thousands of cases a day. However, he noted, in the post-war period the situation is improving, with many hospitals returning to normal work, but are braced for a third wave:

Employees of the Armenian Ministry of Health, including Arsen Torosyan, were vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine

Sports commentator Karen Giloyan appointed deputy minister of education, science, culture and sport

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 10:33,

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 30, ARMENPRESS. Sports commentator Karen Giloyan has been appointed deputy minister of education, science, culture and sport of Armenia.

The respective decision has been signed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Karen Giloyan has long served as head of the sports department at the Public TV.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Artsakh search and rescue teams barred from entering Hadrut

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 16:22,

STEPANAKERT, DECEMBER 28, ARMENPRESS. The search and rescue teams of Artsakh’s State Service of Emergency Situations were barred from entering Hadrut.

“As planned, three teams were departing for search and rescue operations in the Hadrut direction,” State Service of Emergency Situations spokesperson Hunan Tadevosyan told ARMENPRESS. “We couldn’t contact the teams in the morning, however a short while ago we contacted them and it turned out that they weren’t allowed to go any further from the outskirts of the Shekher village. They are now returning.”

Several Azerbaijani news outlets reported earlier about alleged resumption of battles between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops near the village of Togh of the Hadrut region. The reports mention victims and wounded.

The Ministry of Defense of Armenia commented on the reports, noting:

“We remind that the village of Togh is under the complete control of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

The Artsakh Defense Army is strictly adhering to the ceasefire, no unit has taken part in any action in the given section, moreover, no emergency incident relating to the Artsakh Defense Army units was recorded.

Nevertheless, the Armenian side is attempting to find out additional information, not ruling out the possibility that we are dealing with an Azerbaijani information provocation.”

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan