Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

ECONOMIE
Un rapport dénonce les sorties massives de capitaux d’Arménie

Plus de 6,2 milliards de dollars ont été illégalement sortis d’Arménie
de 2002 à 2011 en raison de la corruption du gouvernement, de
l’évasion fiscale et d’autres activités illégales, selon un groupe
anticorruption basé à Washington.

Ce « chien de garde » appelé Global Financial Integrity ( GFI ) a cité
ce chiffre, d’une valeur de près de deux fois la dette étrangère de
l’Arménie, dans un rapport sur les sorties illicites de capitaux à
travers le monde au cours de cette période. Il a fait valoir qu’il
s’en est suivi pour ces pays en développement une perte de près de 6
mille milliards de dollars en cash.

Le rapport publié par le GFI ne précise pas la source de ses
informations sur l’Arménie. Il affirme que les sorties de fonds du
pays ont considérablement augmenté en 2007 , avec une moyenne
d’environ 1 milliard de dollars par an jusqu’en 2011.

Le ministère des Finances arménien, le Comité des recettes d’Etat et
de la Banque centrale n’ont pas encore réagi à ces accusations. Ils
ont déclaré vendredi qu’ils commenteraient ce rapport après l’avoir
lu.

Les économistes critiques du gouvernement arménien considèrent que les
conclusions du rapport sont crédibles. Vahagn Khachatrian , membre du
Congrès national arménien ( HAK ), a suggéré que des sommes
importantes ont été évacuées du pays par des riches membres du
gouvernement et par l’évasion fiscale. Selon lui, leur réticence à
investir cet argent en Arménie met en évidence la corruption
généralisée et les problèmes afférant aux carences sur la primauté du
droit.

« Tout cela est à mettre en relation avec la situation politique
actuelle et le système politique », a déclaré Khachatrian au service
arménien de RFE / RL ( Azatutyun.am ). « Les gens ne savent pas s’ils
seront en mesure de conserver leur argent demain ».

Un autre économiste, Bagrat Asatrian , a noté que les sorties
illégales de la Géorgie voisine ont été estimées par le GFI à
seulement 4,5 milliards de dollars. « Au cours de la dernière
décennie, la Géorgie a fait des progrès considérables dans la lutte
contre le secteur informel de l’économie », a-t-il déclaré.

Asatrian a également affirmé que la Géorgie a perdu moins de capital
que l’Arménie en raison de ses liens financiers plus faibles avec la
Russie. ‘ En ce qui concerne les deux dernières décennies, la Russie a
été connue pour le haut niveau de son économie de l’ombre, ses
affaires financières et la fuite des capitaux, ` a-t-il dit. ‘ Une
petite partie de ces sorties sont passées par l’Arménie. »

Le rapport du GFI estime que Russie est le deuxième exportateur de
capitaux illicites du monde après la Chine. Il estime à plus de 880
000 000 000 $ le montant des sommes soustraitent illégalement au pays
de 2002 à 2011.

lundi 30 décembre 2013,
Ara ©armenews.com

From: Baghdasarian

TheChronicleHerald.ca, Halifax, NS
Dec 27 2013

Cheers to a good liver, an organ that takes a holiday beating

December 27, 2013 – 7:21am JOHN MCPHEE Health Reporter

As you raise a glass or three this holiday season, be sure to include
the liver in your celebratory toasts.

After all, this reddish brown, 11/2-kilogram lump of meat takes a lot
of punishment for our pleasure.

The liver filters out toxins such as the alcohol introduced into our
body by those celebratory drinks. It metabolizes the calories
associated with the fat-laden foods we happily scarf down at this time
of year.

This multi-tasking biological marvel also synthesizes crucial proteins
and amino acids, and plays a key role in coagulation so we don’t bleed
to death when we cut our finger.

As organs go, it is one tough customer. Halifax hepatologist Kevork
Peltekian uses words like damage and hits when he speaks of how it
deals with the stuff we put in our body.

`The liver can handle a lot of the short-term hits,’ said Peltekian,
acting head of gastroenterology at the Dalhousie medical school and
interim chief of digestive care and endoscopy for Capital Health.

`It’s an organ that’s resilient. You really don’t need more than a
quarter of it to do the job.’

But there is only so much an organ can take. Like any good manager, it
will be forced to prioritize in its busy schedule.

`If you keep on hitting that liver with toxin or injury, it’s trying
to regenerate,’ Peltekian said in a recent interview.

`But then it says, `This is taking too much work for me. I’ll stop
doing that, so instead of regenerating nice-looking liver cells, I’m
going to make scar tissue instead.”

That scarring is better known as cirrhosis.

`Unfortunately with that, the total volume and function of the liver
diminishes. You get to the point where your liver looks smaller and
the functional capacity is 20 per cent of what it originally was.’

An overtaxed liver also will dispense with the elimination of
bilirubin. This pigment is produced when the liver breaks down the
blood protein hemoglobin. The liver usually disposes of bilirubin in
bile. When it doesn’t, the pigment yellows the skin and eyes as
jaundice.

Eventually the liver will run out of things on its list to cross off
and it begins to close up shop.

`When the toxins get too high, you get confusion, and the final one
is, fluid can build up in the belly (and) you get ascites,’ Peltekian
said.

`The liver is supposed to send a message to the kidneys to get rid of
that extra sodium, but when the liver is too sick, it cannot send that
message, so the kidneys start retaining more sodium and your belly
fills up with fluid.’

So how much is too much for the liver? Like most things to do with how
our body deals with food and drink, it depends.

Women should limit themselves to 10 drinks per week and two drinks a
day, according to Health Canada guidelines on low-risk drinking. For
men, the limit is 15 drinks per week and three per day.

The definition of `a drink’ varies with your brand of booze. For beer
drinkers, it is 341 millilitres, assuming the beer is five per cent
alcohol. For wine, it is 142 millilitres based on 12 per cent alcohol.
And it is 11/2 ounces at 40 per cent for the hard liquor tipplers.

But Peltekian said these guidelines come with a big caveat. They
presume the imbiber has a normal liver, and for many of us, that is
simply not the case.

`Most people, especially in North America, have additional problems
that are affecting their liver that they don’t realize,’ he said.

`One of the most important is obesity. Unfortunately, it’s associated
with a fatty liver. About 20 to 40 per cent of the population has
fatty liver disease.’

There are other caveats. If you are over 65, you should be more
watchful about your intake than younger folks.

You should be even more careful if you take medication. The liver
works hard to deal with drugs of any kind and reduces its capacity to
deal with the alcohol you are putting into your system, Peltekian
said.

The bottom line is, if you have problems such as fatty liver or if you
take medications, cut the Health Canada limits in half, he advised.

But it is the holidays and, unless alcohol is a problem for you, there
is no reason to totally abstain.

In answering the obvious question, Peltekian responds: `Of course I
drink! But since I am constantly struggling with my excess weight, I
limit myself to five to seven drinks per week, and I avoid drinking
and driving.’

From: Baghdasarian

Not all invitees attended Tsarukian’s event because of sport ministry

Monday, December 30, 2013

Gagik Tsarukian, or, to be more precise, Armenia’s Olympic Committee
led by him presented awards to the top ten sportsmen of Armenia at
Pharaoh Restaurant yesterday, `Hraparak’ paper writes.

The chief of the Presidential Staff Vigen Sargsyan represented
President Serzh Sargsyan at the event. Former President Robert
Kocharian was also present.

`The event was overshadowed due to differences between the Sports and
Youth Affairs Ministry and Armenia’s Olympic Committee. The day before
ministry employees called heads of sports schools and various
sportsmen, urging them not to attend the awards ceremony. For this
reason some of the invitees, being afraid of consequences, did not
participate in the event,’ `Hraparak’ says.

28.12.2013, 13:25
Aysor.am

From: Baghdasarian

ARF Celebrates 123rd Anniversary in Aleppo

By Weekly Staff // December 29, 2013

ALEPPO, Syria – The 123rd anniversary of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation (ARF) was celebrated in Aleppo last week. The event, which
brought together hundreds of Aleppo-Armenians during one of the
bloodiest weeks in the city, stood as a symbol of the community’s
resilience, organizers said.

Among the dignitaries who attended the event were religious leaders,
representatives of Syrian-Armenian organizations, and members of
Armenia’s Consul in Aleppo.

The Hamazkayin Zvartnots Choir performed patriotic songs and a group
of youth recited poems by Aleppo-Armenian writers, with musical
accompaniment by graduates of the Hamazkayin Aleppo Parsegh Ganachian
Music School.

The keynote speaker, Nerses Sarkisian, provided an overview of the
ARF’s history and discussed the role that the Syrian-Armenian
community continues to play as an integral part of Syrian society. He
spoke in favor of democracy and dialogue, and against harmful external
interventions and attempts to tear the country apart.

In Armenian history, said Prelate Shahan Sarkisian, the community’s
recent experience will be referred to as `the red, bloody path of
Syrian Armenians.’ He noted that the ARF had stood for unity,
dedication, and inspired optimism during the Syrian crisis.

From: Baghdasarian

Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
December 29, 2013 Sunday

Babu, Awonder first to World Youth Chess titles

by Yasir Abbasher Senior Reporter

Al Ain: India’s Praggnanandhaa Ramesh Babu and Liang Awonder of the US
secured their titles at the 13th World Youth Chess Championship with a
round to spare on Friday, the penultimate day of the event. Babu
ensured he remained unchallenged in the Under-8 category after ten
rounds while Awonder also notched his tenth victory in as many rounds
to take the Under-10 title.

Babu and Awonder sealed their titles with 10 points apiece and the
results of the final round, which was played on Saturday, were
inconsequential to them since both players were already two points
clear of their nearest rivals.

Most of the titles in the other groups were to be decided in the 11th
round on Saturday. In the Girls’ competitions, six players shared the
lead of the Under-8 group and were due to face each other to arrive at
a winner. In the case of ties at the end of the competition, the Swiss
tiebreaking system will be applied to decide the winners.

India’s Saina Salonika was the closest to winning the Under-10 girls
group as she led with 8.5 points. Saina only needed a draw against
Motahara Asadi of Iran with 8 points to claim the title. The Iranian
player needs to win the match to win the title.

In the Under-12 category, Chinese player Zhao Shengxin shared the lead
with Gabriela Antova from Bulgaria. The last round was to decide
whether Zhao or Antova emerge champions with both players level on 8.5
points going into it.

Russian Anna Vasenina led the Under-14 category with only half-a-point
in the match against Bakhora Abdulsattorova of Uzbekistan separating
her from the title.

Iranian Sarasadat Khademalsharieh was in the lead of the Under-16
girls’ category with 8.5 points with her match against Spaniard Irene
Nicolas Zapata (7.5) becoming all-important in deciding the winner.

In the Under-18 category, Nastassia Ziaziulkina of Belarus and Russian
Lildia Tomnilkova were also looking to the results of their last round
matches with both players sharing the lead with eight points each.

Armenian Aram Hakobyan was in a more comfortable position in the
Under-12 Open with nine points and was due to face Robby Kevlishvili
of The Netherlands, who had tallied eight points, in the last match.

Chin’s Di Li had the lead in the Under-14 category with nine points
making his last match against Saparmyrat Atabayev of Turkmenistan with
8.5 points decisive for his title prospects.

Four players shared the lead in the Under-16 boys event and the
results of the final matches were awaited to decide the winner.

Iran’s Pouya Idani had the lead in the Under-18 event with eight
points, three competitors close behind on 7.5 points each.

From: Baghdasarian

HAUT KARABAGH
Un Loto national au profit du Haut Karabagh récolte 200 millions de
drams pour le repeuplement de l’Artsakh

Hier matin à 11 heures s’est déroulé à Erévan le ticage du Loto
national. Dus site Niklottery.com nous apprenons que les gagnants se
virent offerts un appartement à Stepanakert, 300 tapis décorés aux
motifs de l’Artsakh et 5 billets de séjour au Haut Karabagh. Nous
avions appris plus tôt par le site Panorama.m que plus de 250 000
billets de cette loterie avaient été vendus créant un fonds de 200
millions de drams (près de 500 000 euros). L’objectif de cette loterie
nationale était d’aider la République du Haut Karabagh dans son plan
de repeuplement.

Krikor Amirzayan

dimanche 29 décembre 2013,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

From: Baghdasarian

Karabakh president receives Armenian army chief

December 28, 2013 | 20:36

STEPANAKERT. – President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako
Sahakyan met with the head of the General Staff of Armenia’s Armed
Forces, colonel-general Yuri Khachaturov and discussed issues related
to army building and cooperation between the two Armenian states.

Artsakh Republic defense minister, lieutenant-general Movses Hakobyan
and other officials participated in the meeting.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

From: Baghdasarian

ARMENIAN STUDIES AS `CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE’

26.12.2013

Based on the address made at the Second Conference on Armenian Studies
and the Contemporary Challenges of (October 17-19, 2013, Yerevan)

Gagik Harutyunyan
Executive Director, Noravank Scientific Educational Foundation, Yerevan

Armenian studies are certainly not a purely academic/fundamental
science. Branches of Armenian studies ` history, literature,
architecture, etc., are manifestations of our civilizational identity,
which in turn had brought new content to our identity and system of
values (and continue doing so). The modern thinking suggests that
these concepts are the basis of the national security system. Thus,
Armenian studies are essentially a nation-forming and state-building
discipline.

Admittedly, such interpration of Armenian studies is not adequately
perceived by our society and the discipline’s concepts and results of
applied nature are rarely used in practical/political affairs1. There
are many reasons for this, among which is the circumstance that
Armenian studies are a part of our scientific/educational system that
currently is not in its best shape. It is obvious that such situation
inevitably impacts on development of the national political thought.
This cause-and-effect relationship explains the fact that to date
there are only few interdisciplinary researches juxtaposing and
combining the fields of Armenian studies (or for that matter, any
other scientific disciplines) and politics. Yet this would have
allowed not only uncovering the commonalities between the fields, but
also developing their complementation mechanisms and application
formats.

Given the challenges that our society has to face (both of our states
are in no war, no peace situation; our communities in the Middle East
are at the verge of extinction due to geopolitical developments; there
are many problems in diaspora, because the tactics of identity
preservation based solely on Genocide recognition by the international
community is no longer effective and does not guarantee national
development), such statement of problem appears quite critical. With
the mentioned realities in mind some observations of the said problems
are presented here below, with a prior brief deliberation on some of
the modern and significantly expanded views on national security.

In the area of security the highest priority is currently assigned to
the safety, effective setup and development of the society’s
spiritual/intellectual resources. In this context the traditional
approaches to and definitions of warfare have changed: presently the
politics and strategies are carried out mainly through the so-called
`soft power’ and `information warfare’ which is part of the former. It
has to be noted in this regard that spiritual/cultural issues are
encompassed in the information security, which in turn is a component
of the national security. In our society the information security is
often interpreted somewhat simplistically and sometimes is presented
as political/historical disputes in Armenian and Turkish/Azeri mass
media and social media, or reciprocal hacker attacks. Undoubtedly,
these activities are elements of the information warfare and are also
necessary, but they have limited tactical significance and impacts.

Meanwhile, it is known that the theory of information warfare and
methods employed in it have qualitatively evolved in the recent
period. The so-called `second generation’ network information warfare
is worth mentioning, which pursues the following main objectives.

to disintegrate the adversary’s social/moral bases and the system of values,
to impose own cultural code in the consciousness of the adversary’s
(or sometimes even the ally’s) society through manipulative
technologies.

Armenia and the Armeniancy are involved in such warfare for some
well-known reasons, and in these terms are in the risk zone. In such
conditions our intellectual and political elite must develop a
strategy adequate to the existing challenges, which should take into
account the following circumstances.

Security doctrines usually assign key importance to the protection of
so-called `critical infrastructures,’ construed as the most essential
military/political, socio-economic and information structures,
incapacitation of which leads to a failure of the whole security
system. We contend that the status of `critical infrastructure’ must
be assigned to the systems and structures that safeguard
spiritual/intellectual development, as their failure may lead to
demoralization of the society. Such approach is currently gaining
ground in the world, and for instance, in a relatively recently
published military doctrine of Israel, within the critical security
infrastructure top priorities were given to structures deemed as
national symbols, such as Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, religious
temples, etc.2 It appears, similar approach must be used in Armenia as
well, but without limiting it to physical structures. An attempt will
be made here to examine several problems from this perspective, in
particular those related to our system of values3 and public
interpretations of the modern history.

The system of values in the society is not a static category, since it
changes depending on the historical, military/political developments,
as well as evolutionary or revolutionary ones. Today the system of
values is substantially influenced by printed and electronic mass
media through widely spread, targeted and/or supposedly chaotic
information flows, which to a considerable extent form the global
community’s way of thinking, mindset and hence, also the system of
values.

Naturally, these realities are characteristic to the Armenian society.
Obviously, the Armenian system of values with its civilizational
traits is one of the cornerstones that ensured our national/historical
continuity. At the same time, it has to be noted that study of the
problems in this area requires consideration of certain peculiarities
of our history of the last hundred years.

The Genocide and loss of the Western Armenia have deeply impacted the
psychology and worldview of our society, especially the diaspora. The
diaspora part of the Armeniancy is also characterized by the fact that
they undergo not only intra-ethnic or global influences, but also
national/civilizational ones specific to their countries of residence.
Armenia’s society has its peculiarities, too. As a result of
geopolitical and revolutionary processes of the last two centuries `
the Persian rule, Russian Empire, the First, Second and finally the
Third republic to mention a few ` this part of the Armeniancy has
changed the socio-ideological environment of its social being several
times. This has led to considerable, sometimes controversial,
substantive transformations in the society’s system of values.

In particular, after the Bolshevik `terror’ in 1920-30s, the communist
concepts imposed on the society of the Second republic gradually
transformed over time and became as much coherent as it was possible
to the ideas of the national system of values. Yet currently, a
significant part of the society is at odds with the liberal ideology
concepts that were imposed this time through socio-economic terror
during the period, which can be called `an era of vulgar liberalism’,
still continuing today to a greater or lesser degree. This last period
left extremely negative effects on the national ideological worldviews
that were formed during the 1965 events related to the Armenian
Genocide commemoration and ensuing Karabakh movement. The combination
of these processes has introduced significant uncertainties in the
ideas that the society has about its values.

Interestingly, the study of the public’s system of values is currently
viewed as a crucial matter, and for example, World Values Survey
(WVS)4, an international organization, conducts extensive studies
around the world. The research outcomes are used in making both
economic and political decisions and particularly, the so-called
`color revolution’ technologies are anchored on knowledge of
socio-psychological characteristics of a given society. The research
conducted by the mentioned organization suggests that the population
of Armenia is in the cultural domain of the South Asian and
ex-Communist countries, where traditional and survival values prevail.

Currently studies of values system in Armenia are conducted by the
Chair of Psychology at the Yerevan State University (led by Narine
Khachatryan). Also, impacts of the information environment on the
system of values are studied at the Noravank Foundation5. However, it
is evident that the activities implemented in this area are not
sufficient and furthermore, are far from gaining applied significance.
It can be safely stated that any perceptions about the system of
values prevailing in Armenia, let alone in Armenian diaspora, are
general and emotional, and are far from being scientifically
substantiated. It is even more difficult, if not impossible to answer
the question what value direction the Armenian society has taken and
what transformations could be expected in future. Such situation often
causes controversial comments in the political-information arena,
which in no way contributes to the establishment of an effective
national security system and implementation of relevant political
strategies6.

It must be especially emphasized that a closer relationship between
Armenian studies and the policies, as well as their practical use seem
impossible without an appropriate information policy, and this is
applicable also to other problems unrelated to the system of values.

In particular, if the information coverage of our history’s Soviet
period were to be examined, it would become clear that there are
serious problems directly related to one of the fundamental laws of
the information security ` preservation of an unbroken history and
national memory. Societies that lose their historical base are most
prone to information/psychological influences, and in this regard it
is pertinent to quote a Chinese proverb: `Forgetting history means
betrayal.’

The views on the Second republic voiced in the information space bear
mainly `tragic’ or `sarcastic’ overtones and remind the Bolshevik
style, when anything related to the First republic had to be
condemned. Perhaps Carl Schmitt was right, contending that
`philosophical paradigms of Marxism and liberal ideological/economic
demonism are the same.’

As far as assessment of the Second republic is concerned, the
mentioned approaches constitute distortion of the objective history,
because in addition to its negative and tragic aspects, Soviet Armenia
created a powerful scientific, technological and industrial system,
experienced demographic growth, formed a creative society with high
educational and moral levels. For instance, in late 1980s there were
30,000 scientific personnel in Armenia, whereas now their number is
about 6000. In 1984 total 200 inventions were introduced for
application in economy7.

It has to be clearly realized that history of any country is not just
that of its political regime, but also the history of its society and
people. In this context it must be admitted that the Armenian society
took its share of political, military and revolutionary calamities
with high dignity. Boris Kagarlitsky, a prominent intellectual and
political scientist, who, incidentally, is a former prisoner of
Mordovian labor camps, has noticed felicitously that disparaging the
Soviet history is first of all a betrayal of the memory of the Soviet
regime’s victims.

No attempt is made here to idealize our not so distant past, as it
makes no sense to idealize or demonize any historical period. At the
same time it has to be understood that the First republic was the
basis of the Second one, which in its turn paved the way to the Third
republic, and this must be interpreted and dealt with accordingly. Any
other approaches only obstruct the system of national security,
inappropriately discredit our state/political institutions and make
them appear younger than they actually are. For example, some time ago
billboards appeared that read: `Armenian Army is 20 years old’, while
in fact our army has a history of many thousands of years.

The presented and numerous other issues, perhaps, require
establishment of joint political/governmental and academic/expert
commissions that would discuss and find solutions for these types of
problems.

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инÑ?ÑаÑ?Ñ?ÑÑ?кÑ?Ñ?ÑÑ? в гоÑ?Ñ?даÑÑ?Ñ?ве
Ð`зÑаилÑ?,

3 Recently this problem is much speculated about in the context of
Armenia’s integration preferences

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7 Ð?ÑÑ?Ñ?Ñ?нÑ?н Ð`., «ÐаÑ?пад Ñ?иÑ?Ñ?емÑ? и Ñ?оÑмиÑование бÑ?дÑ?Ñ?его», Ð’Ð?Ф
«Ð’оÑаванк», Ð-Ñеван, 2011.

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From: Baghdasarian

TIGRAN SARGSYAN: U.S. TO INVEST IN VOROTAN CASCADE

Saturday,
December
28

Decisions and laws adopted in our country should not endanger the
interests of investors, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said at the
concluding press conference today.

“The government should give investors stable guarantees, especially
in spheres regulated by the government. I want to make it clear that
the matter concerns not only Russian investments, but any foreign
investment. In this connection I would like to say that we recently
signed an agreement with our American partners who expressed their
willingness to implement investment programs in Vorotan Hydropower
Cascade. I consider it an extremely important investment program for
our country. We need to understand that these are vital spheres for
our country, especially the energy sector,” the prime minister stated.

In his words, any country intending to implement an investment project
in Armenia wants to get clear guarantees.

As regards the Armenian-Russian gas agreements’ provision, under
which “no future laws, decrees, decisions and other legal acts of
the Republic of Armenia shall change and/or cancel and/or otherwise
infringe upon the rights and interests of Gazprom OJSC, ArmRosGazprom
CJSC and their legal successors” and the concern that it may harm
the country’s sovereignty, the prime minister said:

“Armenia should create a reliable environment for investments. There
is no danger for our sovereignty here. There is a danger for
sovereignty when the authorities fail to create favorable conditions
for investment”.

According to him, the government managed to raise the index of
investment profitability, assuming an obligation to ensure a stable
environment for investments.

27.12.2013, 20:42

Aysor.am

From: Baghdasarian

VIETNAM: PRIME MINISTER TALKS COOPERATION WITH ARMENIA

Thai News Service
December 26, 2013 Thursday

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said the Vietnamese Government
supports activities by Armenian Ambassador Raisa Vardanyan to step
up links between the two countries, especially in trade and training.

In a December 25 reception for the newly-accredited ambassador,
PM Dung said the Government will consider opening the Vietnamese
Embassy in Armenia soon.

Vietnam attaches importance to stepping up the traditional and
mutually-beneficial collaboration with Armenia , he said, expressing
his hope that an intergovernmental committee will be established soon
to boost bilateral ties.

Sharing the Vietnamese leader’s views, the diplomat wowed to spare
no efforts to foster bilateral relations, especially in economics,
trade and investment.

She also affirmed Armenia ‘s consistent policy of attaching importance
to relations with Vietnam and said the opening of the embassy in the
Southeast Asian country is expected to strengthen the collaboration
between the two countries.-VNA

From: Baghdasarian