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1 new COVID-19 case reported in Artsakh

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 20:47,

YEREVAN, MAY 19, ARMENPRESS. Artsakh has received the results of the 27 coronavirus tests sent to Armenia vor examination, according to which 26 are negative and 1 is positive, ARMENPRESS was informed from the Informational Center of Artsakh, quating the Healthcare Ministry.

The new case is a family member of an earlier recorded case and had been isolated.

By now 29 cases have been recorded in Artsakh, 8 of which have recovered. A total of 581 citizens have been tested and 69 have been isolated, while Armenia has recorded 5041 cases. 2164 have recovered, 2788 are active cases. Death toll is 64 in Armenia.

Reporting by Anna Grigoryan, Editing and translating by Tigran Sirekanyan

Plane from China carries new batch of medical supplies to Armenia

Jagharian Tania
Public Radio Armenia
May 15 2020


Today, a plane from Beijing, China, transported the latest batch of essential personal protective equipment purchased by the United Nations World Food Program for the Armenian Ministry of Health to equip Armenian medical facilities fighting COVID-19.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has worked with the Armenian government and its partners to transport 125,000 pieces of personal protective equipment to Armenia to protect health workers at the forefront, including 80,000 medical uniforms and protective equipment – glasses, face shields, etc.

WFP was able to purchase equipment worth $ 1 million thanks to donations from the My Step Foundation, the Izmirlian Foundation, the Galust Gulbenkian Foundation, the St. Sargis Humanitarian Foundation, and the Armenian General Benevolent Union, the support of Eduardo Eurnekian’s companies, as well as the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs in the Republic of Armenia.

The air transportation was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As long as the needs continue to grow, WFP continues to seek support from its partners so that it can provide support to the Armenian population and government during this difficult time.

All over the world, the United Nations is uniting its forces and working with governments to make medical equipment available to people in need. In Armenia, the UNHCR, in cooperation with the UN Resident Coordinator and the WTO, is in charge of the freight forwarding sector to assist the Government of Armenia and its partners in supplying medical equipment, food and non-food items. Thanks to the strong partnership with the national authorities, the aircraft will continue to transport medical equipment from Armenia and the world’s key hubs to Armenia.

Armenian healthcare minister addresses congratulatory message on International Nurses Day

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 11:31,

YEREVAN, MAY 12, ARMENPRESS. Healthcare Minister of Armenia Arsen Torosyan addressed a congratulatory message on the International Nurses Day.

Armenpress presents the message:

“Today the International Nurses Day is celebrated in several countries of the world. May 12 was chosen in honor of the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of the nursing service, and since 1974 this occasion is used to congratulate and again express words of gratitude to the persons holding this humanitarian profession.

Dear nurses, your mission is very important, especially these days, in such a difficult and responsible work. Accept my warm congratulations and be aware that you are appreciated. It’s difficult to imagine the work of doctors without nurses because you are the ones who directly work with the patients during the whole treatment process. This dedication saves lives.

Be sure that your care and smile are more than demanded during the whole recovery process of the patients.

Stay firm, and let optimism and patience always be with you during these difficult days.

I wish you good health, peaceful sky, family warmth and new achievements”.

 

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Iran’s coronavirus cases increase by 1,683

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 15:24,

YEREVAN, MAY 11, ARMENPRESS. According to the latest data, the number of people infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran has increased by 1,683 bringing the total number of cases to 109,286, the Armenian Embassy in Iran said on Facebook.

45 more deaths have been registered in the past one day. The death toll has reached 6,685.

2,703 coronavirus infected patients are in serious condition.

The number of recovered people increased by 1,279 raising the total number of recoveries to 87,422.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Central Bank of Armenia: exchange rates and prices of precious metals – 11-05-20

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 17:22,

YEREVAN, 11 MAY, ARMENPRESS. The Central Bank of Armenia informs “Armenpress” that today, 11 may, USD exchange rate up by 1.91 drams to 486.02 drams. EUR exchange rate up by 1.48 drams to 526.21 drams. Russian Ruble exchange rate up by 0.01 drams to 6.59 drams. GBP exchange rate up by 1.39 drams to 601.01 drams.

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

Gold price up by 104.64 drams to 26627.32 drams. Silver price up by 0.92 drams to 234.08 drams. Platinum price up by 46.55 drams to 11844.44 drams.

Asbarez: Sebouh Aslanian Appointed Director of UCLA’s Armenian Studies Center

Jagharian Tania
May 8, 2020

Professor Sebouh Aslanian

Professor Sebouh Aslanian was appointed the inaugural director of UCLA’s Armenian Studies Centers, which is housed within the UCLA Promise Armenian Institute.

The announcement was made Thursday by Prof. Cindy Fan, UCLA’s Vice Provost for International Studies & Global Engagement in a message to colleagues.

As the holder of the Richard Hovannisian Chair in Modern Armenian history, Professor Aslanian manages the academic activities of his chair and teaches courses in the department of history on such topics as the three-part “Armenia and Armenians in World History,” graduate seminars such as “Port Cities and Printers: An Introduction to Early Modern World and Armenian History,” and the survey class “The Middle East, 1100-1700: From the Crusades and Mamluks to the Age of the Gunpowder Empires.”

The Armenian Studies Center is housed within The Promise Armenian Institute (PAI), and Professor Aslanian will work closely with PAI inaugural director Professor Ann Karagozian.  PAI is a groundbreaking new entity within the UCLA International Institute.  Made possible with a $20 million gift from the estate of Kirk Kerkorian, the largest gift that the International Institute has received, The Promise Armenian Institute positions UCLA to build significantly upon its more than 50 years of history of Armenian Studies.

This new institute is the hub for world-class research and teaching on Armenian Studies including the Armenian Studies Center, and for coordinating new and ongoing research and public impact programs across UCLA, from social sciences to health sciences, from humanities to music, the arts, to engineering, and from public policy to management. The Promise Armenian Institute’s size, scope, and interdisciplinary approach make it the first of its kind in the world.

Professor Aslanian is author of the award-winning book From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa (University of California Press, 2011) as well as numerous scholarly articles on Armenian History and Armenian Studies.  His recent articles include “‘Many have come here and have deceived us’: Some Notes on Asateur Vardapet (1644-1728), An Itinerant Armenian Monk in Europe,” Handes Amsorya, Zeitschrift Fur Armenische Philologie (2019); “Une vie sur plusieurs continents Microhistoire globale d’un agent arménien de la Compagnie des Indes orientales, 1666-1688,” Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2018); “From ‘Autonomous’ to ‘Interactive’ Histories: World History’s Challenge to Armenian Studies,” An Armenian Mediterranean, Words and Worlds in Motion (2018); and “The Great Schism of 1773: Venice and the Founding of the Armenian Community of Trieste,” Reflections of Armenian Identity in History and Historiography (2018).  He is currently working on two book projects.  The first is a history of early modern global Armenian print culture and is provisionally titled Early Modernity and Mobility: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800. Under contract with Yale University Press, the book rethinks in novel and insightful ways both the role of mobility in the early modern period in global history and the rise and development in that history of Gutenberg print culture across the early modern diasporic Armenian communities in the port cities of the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean world.  The second book project is provisionally titled Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered: The Voyage of the Santa Catharina and a Global Microhistory of the Indian Ocean, c. 1738-1756.”  A narrative microhistory of trade and politics in the early modern Indian Ocean, the book relies on 2,000 pieces of mercantile and family correspondence, commercial contracts, and other papers stored on an Armenian-freighted ship, the Santa Catharina and seized by the British navy in 1748. The book unpacks these letters, now stored at the High Court of Admiralty, and probes them to understand economic, cultural, and political histories of Indian Ocean arena and emerging commercial and contractual isomorphism in the age of Empire.

Armenian government provides direct assistance to more than 1 million citizens

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 12:35, 6 May, 2020

YEREVAN, MAY 6, ARMENPRESS. More than 1 million people in Armenia received direct assistance from the government as part of the measures for eliminating the consequences of the coronavirus outbreak, PM Nikol Pashinyan said in parliament.

He reminded lawmakers that the government enacted 16 different anti-crisis measures.

“As a result of these we have already managed to provide concrete assistance to over 21,000 businesses by providing privileged loans. And more than 1 million people received direct assistance from the government,” he said.

Pashinyan said the first purpose of the anti-crisis action was to avoid panic, and to ensure the healthcare system’s capacity for treating coronavirus patients. The number of infectious diseases hospital beds were increased from 300 to 1500, and an additional 150 beds will be commissioned soon.

600 beds at hotel/hospitals have been prepared for asymptomatic cases.

“More than half of our cases are people who carry the coronavirus but don’t have any symptoms. And our policy for them is to simply isolate them in order to prevent transmission. We have prepared 2300 hotel beds for isolating direct contacts. Over 6000 people were isolated during this period,” Pashinyan said, adding that the authorities also prioritized safeguarding the dignity of citizens involved.

He also emphasized the rapid stabilization of the financial market, noting that unlike many other countries Armenia did not suffer a market collapse and inflation was effective managed.

Reporting by Anna Grigoryan; Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Armenpress: Canada has balanced position on NK conflict – Foreign Minister

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Canada has balanced position on NK conflict – Foreign Minister

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 19:28, 7 May, 2020

YEREVAN, MAY 7, ARMENPRESS. In a letter addressed to the Armenian National Committee of Canada (ANCC) on May 4th, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Hon. François-Philippe Champagne clarified Canada’s position on Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), reported the ANCC.

Contrary to the diplomatically irresponsible and one-sided tweet published by the Canadian Embassy in Ankara, following the General Election held in the Republic of Artsakh on March 31st, Minister Champagne clearly stated that Canada fully supports the OSCE Minsk Group Process, the peaceful resolution of the conflict and the principle of self-determination – amongst others – as outlined in the Helsinki Final Act.

“While I regret any concern that this tweet may have caused the Armenian National Committee of Canada and the Canadian-Armenian community, I would like to reassure you that there has not been any change to our long-standing position on Nagorno-Karabakh” said the minister in his letter.

“We are satisfied to see that the Minister has restored the balance vis-à-vis Canada’s position on this issue of paramount importance to Armenian-Canadians, effectively overriding the lopsided and foreign-influenced tweet published by the embassy in Ankara” said Hrag Tarakdjian and Shahen Mirakian, co-presidents of the ANCC.

“The position of Canada remains based on our strong and consistent support for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group’s work toward a negotiated solution, and our position does not prejudge the outcome of this process. Canada agrees with the Minsk Group that there can be no military solution to the conflict and that any resolution must take into account the Helsinki Final Act. We want peaceful societies, and we will support the solution, when achieved.” Concluded the minister in his letter addressed to the ANCC.

“There is still a lot more that needs to be done on this issue and the ANCC will continue to stand at the forefront and work with our government to ensure that the fundamental human rights of the people of Artsakh are protected and upheld” concluded Tarakdjian and Mirakian.

On April 3rd, the ANCC forwarded a letter to Minister Champagne, raising serious concerns regarding the tweet, asking for its retraction and for the Minister to recall the ambassador for his irresponsibility and inability to uphold Canada’s balanced foreign policy.

The Embassy of Cannada in Turkey, also accreditted in Azerbaijan, made a twitter post saying that Canada supports the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and doesn’t recognize the so-called “elections” held in Nagorno-Karabakh on 31/3. Such “elections” undermine efforts, including by the OSCE Mins kGroup, to achieve a peaceful settlement of the NK conflict.




30-year-old Armenian singer shares what he felt during performance at Armenian Genocide Memorial

Jagharian Tania
News.am, Armenia
April 27 2020

00:03, 28.04.2020


Soloist of Yerevan State Chamber Choir Andranik Malkhasyan, 30, couldn’t hold back his tears while performing Komitas’ song “Dzayn Toor, Ov Sokhak” at the peak of Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex on April 24th and shared what he felt at the commemoration event during a conversation with Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“I had never performed at such a concert. When I was there, I had totally different feelings and impressions and had a great sense of responsibility,” he said, adding that only after his performance did he realize that he had cried while singing the song.

Andranik Malkhasyan graduated from Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, has been performing as a soloist of Yerevan State Chamber Choir for three years and has been starring in plays at the National Academic Theater of Opera for eight years. He is also a member of the Komitas Choir at the Conservatory. He has participated in several concerts, won international competitions and received the Presidential Award of Armenia.

UAE sends medical aid to Armenia to fight coronavirus

Jagharian Tania
Middle East Online
Gulf state sends seven tonnes of medical supplies to Armenia as part of its ongoing international humanitarian efforts to help countries fight coronavirus pandemic.
Monday 27/04/2020
The medical supplies will cover 7,000 medical professionals combatting the COVID-19 outbreak

ABU DHABI – The United Arab Emirates sent Monday seven tonnes of medical supplies to Armenia as part of its ongoing international humanitarian efforts to help countries fight the coronavirus pandemic.

The medical supplies will cover 7,000 medical professionals combatting the COVID-19 outbreak.

UAE Ambassador to Armenia Mohammed Issa Al Qattam Al Zaabi said that “the UAE is honoured to carry out its commitments to aiding other nations in their respective fights against COVID-19.”

“The leadership and people of the UAE stand in solidarity with all those working together to put an end to this crisis, recognising that the international community can only defeat COVID-19 while unified in action and intention,” said Al Zaabi.

The UAE has so far sent over 314 tonnes of aid to more than 27 countries, including Iran and Syria.