Author: Hagop Kamalian

 17:39, 15 November, 2021

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 15, ARMENPRESS. In the case of carrying out the demarcation and delimitation process, if it turns out that the Azerbaijani armed forces must withdraw from certain areas, they will definitely withdraw, ARMENPRESS reports President of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan told the reporters, answering the question based on what grounds some territories of Syunik Province have passed to Azerbaijan, if demarcation and delimitation works have not yet been carried out.  

“We note in our Security Council statement that delimitation and demarcation process must kick off. We must understand that what is happening today will have impact on all kinds of negotiations, because the activities that Azerbaijan is carrying out today do not meet the logic of the November 9 declaration.

This has been voiced by us and we have discussed and discuss this issue with all our international partners, including the Russian Federation”, Simonyan emphasized.

According to him, demarcation and delimitation process, clarification of borders is first of all necessary for the Republic of Armenia.

“We have to record where Armenia starts and where it ends to avoid speculations, not to leave room for domestic or external influences, which can be also used by our adversaries”, Simonyan said.

 14:46,

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS. Authorities are denying as fake news the report claiming that the new alternative road for Goris-Kapan has become impassable due to weather and that there is a large congestion of vehicles.

In a statement the national police said the Goris-Kapan alternative road is passable and police units are patrolling it.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 11:01,

PARIS, NOVEMBER 11, ARMENPRESS. The French foreign ministry released details from the meeting of Armenian FM Ararat Mirzoyan with Azerbaijani FM Jeyhun Bayramov under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs.

“One year after the end of the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, today received MM. Ararat Mirzoyan and Mr. Jeyhun Bayramov, Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, for separate bilateral talks during their trip to France on the occasion of the UNESCO General Assembly.

At the end of these bilateral talks, the Minister opened a joint meeting of the ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan under the aegis of the three French, American and Russian co-chairs of the Minsk Group, intended to continue the momentum started in New York on September 23.

In these various exchanges, the Minister reiterated France’s desire to contribute to the strengthening of dialogue between the parties, capable of promoting the establishment of a lasting peace in the South Caucasus region, for the benefit of the populations of the region. He underlined our determination to maintain a strong involvement of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group in order to achieve this objective and recalled his availability to continue exchanges at political level with the two parties,” the French foreign ministry said in a press release.

 17:23, 5 November, 2021

YEREVAN, 5 NOVEMBER, ARMENPRESS. The Central Bank of Armenia informs “Armenpress” that today, 5 November, USD exchange rate down by 0.31 drams to 475.91 drams. EUR exchange rate down by 0.83 drams to 549.25 drams. Russian Ruble exchange rate down by 0.01 drams to 6.64 drams. GBP exchange rate down by 9.75 drams to 639.29 drams.

The Central Bank has set the following prices for precious metals.

Gold price up by 482.76 drams to 27482.64 drams. Silver price up by 2.06 drams to 363.09 drams. Platinum price up by 311.15 drams to 15943.5 drams.

 16:23, 4 November, 2021

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS. Schools will re-open in Armenia and switch back to in-person learning, the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Vahram Dumanyan told reporters.

“The one-week autumn break in schools was extended, and we don’t consider extending it further, we will switch to in-person learning by strictly maintaining the coronavirus anti-epidemic measures. We had proposed universities to refrain from in-person learning until November 15, but we want them to switch to in-person learning from November 15,” he said.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 15:31,

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 28, ARMENPRESS. The European Commission adopted two new decisions today certifying that COVID-19 certificates issued by Armenia and the United Kingdom are equivalent to the EU Digital COVID Certificate.

“As a result, the two countries will be connected to the EU’s system and the COVID certificates they issue will be accepted in the EU under the same conditions as the EU Digital COVID Certificate. At the same time, the two countries agreed to accept the EU Digital COVID Certificate for travel from the EU to their countries”, the statement says.

The two decisions adopted today will enter into force as of tomorrow, 29 October.