Author: Dabaghian Diana

 18:21,

YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS. On June 15, the representatives of the international diplomatic corps accredited in Armenia will visit the part of Yeraskh, in the direction of which the Azerbaijani side resorted to aggression, ARMENPRESS reports, Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan announced during the question-and-answer session with members of the government in the National Assembly.

The Foreign Minister considered it remarkable that the EU monitoring mission visited that place, that part of Yeraskh. “Tomorrow, at our invitation, representatives of the international diplomatic corps accredited in the Republic of Armenia will also be present there. We will certainly keep the issue in the center of their attention,” said Mirzoyan.

Earlier, it became known that on June 14, around 11:45, the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan opened fire in the direction of the metallurgical plant being built with foreign investments in Yeraskh, as a result of which 2 foreign citizens were injured.

 15:57, 7 June 2023

YEREVAN, JUNE 7, ARMENPRESS. German Bundestag member Michael Roth has visited the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan.

Roth, the Chairman of the German parliament’s foreign relations committee, who is on a visit to Armenia, was accompanied by Armenian MP Sargis Khandanyan – the Chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Armenian parliament – during the visit to Tsitsernakaberd.

“We must do everything so that no other neighbor attempts to violate Armenia’s territorial integrity and that the Armenian people are able to live peacefully, without war, violence and threats,” Roth said.

Roth and members of his delegation laid flowers at the Eternal Flame in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

 13:24, 5 June 2023

YEREVAN, JUNE 5, ARMENPRESS. UN National Expert on Energy Ara Marjanyan has said that building a new nuclear reactor at the Metsamor Nuclear Power Station (NPP) would take 10 to 12 years.

He said it is imperative for Armenia to constantly generate nuclear power, thus the NPP requires a new 1000-1200MW reactor by 2036.

The lifecycle of the Armenian NPP has been extended to 2026, with another 10-year extension planned.

Marjanyan highlighted that the new reactor must be completed before decommissioning the current one.

“As you know, Armenia and Russia signed an inter-state agreement last year envisaging the construction of a 1000-1200 megawatt reactor. By the agreement, a roadmap is to be developed within a year and a final decision is to be made on the type and other technical parameters of the reactor. The construction work will commence by yearend 2024 or early 2025. The construction of the atomic reactor will cost around three to five billion dollars. I think this is a reasonable expenditure, and it is imperative for Armenia to have constant nuclear generation on its territory. I think the construction will take ten to twelve years,” he said.

 11:20, 6 June 2023

YEREVAN, JUNE 6, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has signed a decree on setting up an inter-departmental working group charged with the construction of a new nuclear power reactor.

The task force will deal with conducting studies on the construction of a new nuclear power reactor, the expediency of small modular reactors and the selection of required technologies.

 13:25, 5 June 2023

YEREVAN, JUNE 5, ARMENPRESS. FLYONE ARMENIA announced Monday it will name one of its airplanes in honor of renowned composer Aram Khachatryan to mark the latter’s 120^th anniversary of birth.

June 6 will mark the composer’s 120^th anniversary of birth.

FLYONE Armenia Chairman of the Board Aram Ananyan said that the airline will commence Yerevan-Tehran flights also on June 6.

“We are in contact with the composer’s family, we have an agreement. I think that the soaring of the airplane bearing the name of Aram Khachatryan will make the Armenian culture visible to the world. As an airline, we pay attention to promoting our values,” Ananyan said.

FLYONE ARMENIA will operate Yerevan-Tehran roundtrip flights four times per week – on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

 14:07,

YEREVAN, MAY 20, ARMENPRESS. Workers renovating a school in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi have found remnants of gravestones with Armenian inscriptions, the Armenian Community of Georgia said in a statement.

The stairs of the entrance of #44 public school, located on Ritz Street in the Mtatsminda district, were found to have been made of the gravestones.

Some of the inscriptions are well preserved.

Levon Chidilyan, a public figure who’s been studying the remnants for several days since their discovery, said he believes that the gravestones come from Khojivank, the main Armenian cemetery in the capital of the Soviet Georgia, known as Tiflis back then, which was destroyed during the communist “Red Terror” campaign, and later used as construction material.