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STEPANAKERT, FEBRUARY 15, ARMENPRESS. During the period from February 9 to 15 the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact nearly 120 times by firing more than 1100 shots from various caliber weapons at the Armenian positions, the defense ministry of Artsakh told Armenpress.
The Artsakh Defense Army forces follow the ceasefire regime and continue confidently conducting their military service.
Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan
French President Emmanuel Macron attended and delivered extensive remarks at the annual gala hosted by the Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAF), which took place at l’Hôtel du Collectionneur in Paris on January 29.
The French leader addressed, among other things, the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict, stating that Armenia has found itself at the crossroads of a major crisis and France stands by it.
“The unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an obstacle to the progress of confidence and security in Europe,” Macron said.
The French president noted that next week’s elections in Azerbaijan could have a positive impact on the conflict settlement process, expressing hope that some progress could be achieved in spring.
“Contacts have been established between the leaders, and I see a way out here,” Macron said, stressing that the unresolved conflict is also a human drama which keeps the people living in Karabakh and its surrounding areas in instability and isolation.
Macron also touched upon the declarations of friendship signed between the cities of Karabakh and France, pointing to some legal issues with the documents.
“The problem with these declarations is that it puts France’s territorial community and a local self-government body not benefiting from international recognition at the same level,” Macron said, recalling that Armenia has not recognized Nagorno-Karabakh.
According to Macron, the French law, however, does not exclude dialogue and humanitarian assistance.
On January 30, at around 1:15 p.m., in one of the military units operating under the central authority of the Armed Forces, a soldier of the Armed Forces received a fatal gunshot wound under circumstances that have yet to be determined. born Vahram Mkrtichi Avagyan.
An investigation is underway to find out the details of the incident.
The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Artsakh shares the heavy grief of the loss and expresses its support to the family members, relatives and fellow soldiers of the deceased serviceman.
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YEREVAN, JANUARY 27, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian visited the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology on the sidelines of his working visit in Israel, the Presidential Office told Armenpress. The Technion is the oldest university of Israel, the only technological institute in the world to have a medical school.
The Armenian President met with the teaching staff and students of the Institute. President of the Technion Uri Sivan said it’s a great honor to host the Armenian President and a double honor to host him as a scientist-president.
President Sarkissian thanked for the reception and stated that he first time visited this Institute in early 90s of the 20th century when he was conducting research on astrophysics and gravity field. “Institutes like this one will become the base for the world development”, Armen Sarkissian said.
He said today most of the youth wants to create a startup, have a company of new technologies. “This world is a new startup, and each young man has an opportunity to create”, he said. “The world is becoming a place where innovation and idea are the most important. Even the large companies pay a great importance to innovation and startups. In the 21st century innovations and new ideas will be encouraged. This is a new world that is changing quite rapidly. We are at the crossroad of change. This change is impressing and will be more dramatic in the future”.
The Armenian President continued his remarks, adding that “today we live in a new world”. “Each of us is mutually connected like the elements. We are communicating with the pace of light and start showing the behavior of quantum subjects. Today we all are mutually connected, the global risks are becoming quantum risks”, he said, adding that this also relates to politics. “If 100 years ago the scientists discovered that nature is not classical, but quantum, now I am trying to convey the message that the human behavior today is a quantum behavior”, he said. “We need to change our logic on how we manage politics, foreign relations and how we look at the future. In the new world many things are unpredictable, and if we change our logic and philosophy, it would be possible to understand many things. The quantum world is attractive as it opens new prospects to operate a new logic”.
Speaking about the artificial intelligence and its impact on the world, the Armenian President said in the conditions of artificial intelligence development the most important person will be the man. “If we lose the simple human feelings, such as love, respect, honesty, moral values, we will create a hell on this planet. Thus, morality will remain one of the greatest human values”, he said.
Touching upon the cooperation with the Armenian universities, the President introduced one of the presidential initiatives ATOM (Advanced Tomorrow) on science and technology development. “It aims at gathering major international companies in the field of artificial intelligence and math modelling, as well as creating bridges with the famous universities. I would like to see this institute as well in the list of our partners”, President Sarkissian said.
He also met and talked to the Armenian students studying at the Technion.
Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan
“As a people who have survived genocide, we say no to genocide and to hate. We wish peace upon our Jewish friends and victims of World War II. We say no to Nazism,” member of the Executive Body of the Republican Party, Spokesman of the Republican Party, and former Vice Speaker of the National Assembly Eduard Sharmazanov said to journalists.
“We are here because this year marks the 75th anniversary of our victory in World War II, where the Armenian people played a large role in the Soviet Army. We had 6 divisions, 106 heroes, 4 marshals, over 100 generals, and over 100,0000 soldiers in the victory against fascism,” Sharmazanov said, speaking about how Ukrainian Marshal Konev liberated Auschwitz on January 27th, 1945. There were 546 Armenians who participated in this effort.
“There are always victims of hate speech and xenophobia. We are here to say no to hate speech, which has spread between nations and in foreign policy in different parts of the world, as well as in internal politics. The hate speech that we see in our own society is encouraged by the authorities, in my opinion.”
Nelly Grigoryan
ArmInfo. In the face of new political and social situation, we need a new police force. According to the press service of the Government, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated during the January 24 meeting on reforms in the Armenian Police.
Opening the meeting, Pashinyan noted: “It must be noted that after the non-violent, velvet, people’s revolution in Armenia in 2018, the police as a whole fuulfilled and continues to fulfill the tasks assigned to it. However, we note that in the context of new political and social realities, we need a new police force, in terms of the very content of the word>.
According to him, the most important goal of this process should be the establishment of new relations between the police and citizens. According to him, it is worth refraining from fragmentary steps, since they should be strategic in nature. As noted, the result of the reforms should be a new content that will lead to institutional changes not only in the law enforcement bodies themselves, but also changes in society and the atmosphere prevailing in the country, as well as in the protection of public order, prevention and the fight against crime.
During the meeting, in particular, issues of structural changes in the police, a new personnel policy, technical re-equipment, the introduction of new educational programs, training, the formation of the necessary stock of knowledge and skills were raised. The Prime Minister instructed those responsible to complete the development of the reform strategy in a short time and present them for discussion.
In the period of 2019 February 8 until 2020 January 16 the Armenian medics treated 13680 patients. The group’s de-miners have cleared 126000 square meters of territory.
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