The founders of the Network for Armenian Genocide Research with supporters and attendees of the launch. Photo: ANC-U.K.
OXFORD, England—Oxford University has officially launched its Network for Armenian Genocide Research. A concert featuring the Chilingirian quartet, one of the world’s most celebrated ensembles marked the launch of the network at the Pembroke College, one of the constituent colleges of the University.
The Network for Armenian Genocide Research hopes to foster new research directions in the study of the Armenian genocide. It seeks to create a thriving community of researchers at Oxford who study the Armenian genocide in a global context, rather than merely in its local Ottoman setting, and whose chronological focus is not confined to the period between 1915 and the end of World War I.
Oxford University’s Pembroke College
As one of the first genocides carried out in the 20th century, the Armenian genocide provides a unique way of understanding the connective histories of state-sponsored human rights abuses in recent history. A central aim of the network therefore, is to make the Armenian genocide part of global conversations about human rights, witness, and genocide prevention. The founders hope to collaborate with scholars in Oxford, and across the world, whose research focuses on the Armenian Genocide, human rights, and/or historical dialogue.
The Oxford Network for Armenian Genocide Research was founded by Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalaycı and Professor Theo Maarten van Lint and is based at Pembroke College and TORCH at the University of Oxford.
13:54,
YEREVAN, MARCH 14, ARMENPRESS. The Yerevan-Tbilisi-Yerevan passenger trains are suspended from March 14th until March 24 as a preventive measure against the novel coronavirus spread, the operator of the train – the Southcaucasian Railway – said in a statement.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan
10:59,
YEREVAN, MARCH 10, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his wife Anna Hakobyan have traveled to Agarak, the southernmost point of Armenia in the province of Syunik, to launch the YES campaigning for the constitutional referendum due on April 5.
“The campaigning is going to be very active, very interesting, there are important things to be said,” Pashinyan said in a live Facebook broadcast video from the helicopter. “It will be a very important conversation. I hope I will give the answers to numerous questions,” Pashinyan said.
Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Suren Papikyan and Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutyunyan are accompanying the Prime Minister. Parliament Majority Leader Lilit Makunts is also with the government officials.
The Prime Minister, as well as the two Cabinet ministers, are officially on leave from March 10, a move which by law enables them to campaign.
Voters are expected to decide in the April 5 referendum whether or not the incumbent Chairman of the Constitutional Court Hrayr Tovmasyan, as well as most other justices appointed under the previous constitution, should remain in office. The referendum was initiated by the ruling party.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan
Medical professionals believe that this will help prevent the progression of various diseases and, in the long run, help the country overcome its demographic crisis
In Armenia, girls will be tested for infertility starting in their teens, and given treatment when necessary.
On March 5, Minister of Health Arsen Torosyan proposed an intermediate program to support reproductive health. Torosyan says that early diagnosis and treatment can help prevent the development of certain diseases associated with infertility.
The infertility rate in Armenia is 14.8%, a relatively high number for a small country.
“The World Health Organization says that if the country’s infertility rate reaches 15%, the situation would be considered critical, as it affects birth rate and population. Therefore, we are doing everything we can to lower this number,” says Gayane Avakyan, head of the Department of Maternal and Reproductive Health at the Ministry of Health.
There is a proposal to increase the number of prenatal checkups, as well as health check ups for couples.
These measures are expected to increase the 2020 birth rate in Armenia by several hundred children, and by 2021, to increase it by more than a thousand.
These measures are necessary because Armenia is experiencing a demographic crisis. The UN forecast shows that the country is gradually approaching depopulation, when the mortality rate exceeds the birth rate.
ArmInfo. Armenian military will take part in the multinational NATO exercises in Georgia. Minister of Defense of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili announced at a joint press conference in the negotiations with Minister of Defense of Armenia David Tonoyan on February 27 in Yerevan.
“I should be pleased to note that Armenian troops will take part in the NATO Noble Partner 2020 multinational exercises in Georgia. I also hope that Armenia will continue to be actively involved in such events in the future,” Garibashvili summed up.
It should be noted that in 2020 Georgia will host the Noble Partner multinational exercises for the fifth time.
International exercises are planned to be held at various training grounds in Vaziani in September. As part of Noble Partner 2020, for the first time, team-based exercises at the level of multinational brigades will be held in parallel with real-time exercises, which include new approaches, such as cybersecurity, elements of information operations and elements of countering electronic wars, reports with reference to the Ministry defense of Georgia.
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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 24, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan appointed today Armenia’s Ambassador to Vietnam Vahram Kazhoyan to concurrently serve as Ambassador to Laos.
The appointment was formalized by President Armen Sarkissian’s decree.
Kazhoyan is also concurrently serving as Armenia’s Ambassador to Cambodia.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan