Author: Jalatian Sonya

 11:12,

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 15, ARMENPRESS. 1482 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in Armenia in the past one day, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 117,337, the ministry of healthcare said today.

879 more patients have recovered in one day. The total number of recoveries has reached 74,984.

3395 tests were conducted in the past one day.

25 more patients have died, raising the death toll to 1763.

The number of active cases is 40,140.

The number of patients who had a coronavirus but died from other disease has reached 450 (2 new such cases).

Reporting by Lilit Demuryan; Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 21:42, 10 November, 2020

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 10, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan held a telephone conversation with the Georgian PM Giorgi Gakharia.

As ARMENPRESS was informed from the Office of the PM, the Prime Ministers discussed the situation in the region. Nikol Pashinyan informed his colleague about the recent developments. The Georgian side saluted the establishment of ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh.

 12:58,

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 11, ARMENPRESS. Dozens of protesters are detained amid an anti-government rally in central Yerevan.

The rally was organized by 17 political parties demanding the resignation of the Pashinyan administration over the conditions of the Karabakh armistice.

“Dear citizens, during the active martial law in Armenia, organizing or participating in rallies and strikes is banned,” police said, demanding the demonstrators to stop the rally and disperse.

The parties who called for the rally include the Republican Party of Armenia, Prosperous Armenia Party, the ARF, Fatherland, National Security, Freedom, National Agenda, National Democratic Union, National Consent, Alliance Progressive Centrists, Democratic Alternative, Yerkir Tsirani, Solidarity, Democratic Liberal Union of Armenia, Christian-Democratic Union, One Armenia, and Constitutional Rights Union.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 16:00, 8 November, 2020

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has submitted a proposal to President Armen Sarkissian on dismissing acting Director of the National Security Service, Colonel Mikayel Hambardzumyan, Assistant to the President of Armenia Hasmik Petrosyan told Armenpress.

Colonel Mikayel Hambardzumyan has been appointed deputy director of the NSS on August 11, 2020 according to the presidential decree, but according to another decree he was appointed acting director of the NSS on October 8, 2020.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 18:24, 5 November, 2020

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS. The UN is the only organization that has a right to directly interfere in Artsakh war by the decision of the Security Council, but recently one of the Security Council permanent members thwarted an important statement that was expected to be made based on the behind-doors session, ARMENPRESS reports Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan said at the National Assembly.

‘’No international organization, with the exception of the UN, is authorized to directly interfere. It’s only the UN that can do that, for which a decision of the UNSC is required. The interference can be in different forms, they can be economic sanctions or even use of force’’, Kocharyan said.

According to Kocharyan, it’s necessary that none of the Security Council permanent members use the right to veto and that the decision is passed at the UN Security Council, where there are another 9 none permanent members.

Shavarsh Kocharyan noted that Russia, France and the USA, which are UNSC permanent members and OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair countries, presented a very balanced approach. It was about cessation of hostilities, non-intervention of the 3^rd parties in the conflict and that the presence of terrorists in this conflict is inadmissible. ‘’There was one UNSC permanent members that thwarted this statement’’, the Deputy FM said, adding that the result was that we heard a very strange formulation which just called for a ceasefire and nothing more.

Shavarsh Kocharyan did not clarify which of the UNSC permanent members thwarted the statement.

 13:37, 4 November, 2020

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS. Around 180 investigators from the Committee of Investigations of Armenia have signed up for the military as volunteers and the Director of the Committee of Investigations Hayk Grigoryan has personnaly led the company to the frontline, his deputy Artur Melikyan told reporters.

“Grigoryan is personally leading the work of the committee’s volunteers on the ground,” Melikyan said.

He said that another company of volunteers from their agency will head to the frontline this week.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 23:34, 1 November, 2020

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS. The Foreign Ministry of Artsakh issued a statement, condemning the use internationally banned methods and weapons in the war unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh. As ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of the Foreign Mistry of Artsakh, the statement runs as follows,

‘’We strongly and resolutely condemn the continued employment by Azerbaijan of prohibited means and methods of warfare under international law in the course of armed aggression waged against the Republic of Artsakh on 27 September 2020. In particular, the Azerbaijani armed forces, in addition to cluster munitions, began to use phosphorus-containing incendiary ammunition in wooded areas close to the settlements of the Republic of Artsakh, where part of the civilians from nearby villages have been temporarily sheltering from the actions of Azerbaijani subversive groups.

Contrary to its claims that the Azerbaijani armed forces as if are targeting only military objectives, official Baku is actually resorting to terror tactics against the civilian population of Artsakh. First of all, in this context, it is necessary to consider the consistent refusal of the Azerbaijani side to observe the humanitarian truce, since the continuation of hostilities allows the Baku authorities to further terrorize the civilian population of Artsakh. It is for this purposes that the Azerbaijani side resorts to the use of prohibited weapons, deliberate attacks on the civilian population and civilian objects, including medical units, setting itself the main task of exterminating and forcibly deporting the entire population of Artsakh.

In such cases, as an effective measure to prevent mass violations of the collective and individual rights of an entire people and protect them from physical destruction, the international community has developed a practice of recognizing the rights of these peoples to remedial secession and to enter international relations as an independent state.

30 years ago, the people of Artsakh chose the path of independence as a means of protection against Azerbaijan’s deliberate policy of exterminating the Armenian population. We are convinced, that under the circumstances of the ongoing attempts of the Baku authorities to complete their criminal plan, international recognition of the de facto independence of the Republic of Artsakh is an urgent and mature measure of the international community to fulfil its generally accepted obligations to prevent crimes against humanity”.

 09:07,

STEPANAKERT, OCTOBER 29, ARMENPRESS. The Air Defense forces of the Defense Army of Artsakh have shot down another Bayraktar combat drone, the Defense Ministry of Artsakh said in the morning of October 29.

The “stable-tense tactical situation” at the Artsakh-Azerbaijan conflict zone wasn’t significantly changed overnight October 28-29.

The Azerbaijani armed forces again began bombarding residential areas of Artsakh’s towns and cities after midnight and early morning October 29. “In particular, the Azerbaijani forces bombarded Stepanakert, Shushi and nearby peaceful settlements with Smerch multiple rocket launchers,” the defense ministry said.

The Defense Army said it maintains control over the tactical situation and confidently continues its mission.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan