Author: Kalashian Nyrie

Government to start working directly with SMEs, says Economy Minister

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 12:25,

YEREVAN, MARCH 26, ARMENPRESS. Armenia is grateful to all the organizations which had their investment in the country’s development process, Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan said during the 2nd annual forum of the Coordination Platform of Donor Organizations for Tavush on March 26.

“All know how cooperative is our government with all international organizations, we are trying to make our cooperation with the international organizations maximally effective, and so that ordinary people will feel major difference in their life. And this forum is obviously directed to his”, he said, adding that the government has many programs aimed at improving the investment climate, strengthening the economic activity in rural communities and developing the rural communities in general.

According to the minister, there are many subvention programs which will launch soon.

“The government will start to work directly with small and medium enterprises so that the capital and knowledge will be more available to the ordinary people”, he said.

 

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Armenian Commission for UNESCO condemns ISIS-style destruction of monuments by Azerbaijan

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Public Radio of Armenia

Armenian National Commission for UNESCO has strongly condemned yet another act of cultural crime by Azerbaijan.

“Armenian monuments of Artsakh under Azerbaijani occupation are vandalized and destroyed in ISIS-style,” the Commission said on social media.

The comments come after the BBC found out the Armenian Holy Mother of God church disappeared after Azerbaijani got control over it. Destruction was complete. The same church was vandalized during the recent Azerbaijani aggression.

“The disappeared Armenian Church became a victim of an act of vandalism in the first place,” the Commission said. 

IDream: new program for students by IDBank

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IDBanklaunches a new program for the students – IDream. The program gives an opportunity to the students of final grades of bachelor’s degree, as well as master’s degree, to do their first step in the banking sector and start a new phase in their profession. The participants will gain basic knowledge in banking, as well as sales and customer service skills.

As Mariana Edilyan, the director of Human Capital Management of IDBank said, as a result of previouseducationalprogramsthe IDBank team was replenished with about thirty young professionals who have taken their first steps at IDBank, established in the field, and now continue their career with IDBank. “IDream is our new program for the students, the initial stage of which will be carried out with an innovative approach, in accordance with our strategy and the chosen path: to take part in IDream program, we suggest to the students to send their CVs in a brand-new format – a video with a maximum of 1 minute. So, we wait for digital CVs: the brightest, most motivated and interested students will be invited for further interview and testing, and after completing the training phase the best participants will join the IDBank team”, said Mariana Edilyan.

IDream program provides a wonderful opportunity to the newly graduated students or those who still continue their education to gain working experience and build their career with IDBank.

Armenia, Lebanon interested in expanding the bilateral agenda

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Public Radio of Armenia

Minister of Foreign Affairs Ara Aivazian had a telephone conversation with the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants of the Republic of Lebanon Charbel Wehbe.

The sides hailed the level of mutual trust, the Armenian-Lebanese relations based on close friendship, and stressed the readiness of the two countries to take steps to further expand and enrich the bilateral agenda.

In this context, the Foreign Ministers stressed the important role of the Lebanese-Armenian community in all spheres of Lebanese public life and the significant contribution to the strengthening of friendship between the two countries.

Mutual support and closer cooperation within the framework of international structures was emphasized.

Foreign Ministers Aivazian and Wehbe spoke in detail about regional security and stability. Minister Aivazian drew his counterpart’s attention to the consequences of the large-scale war waged by Azerbaijan against Artsakh with the direct participation of Turkey, expressing special concern over Turkey’s transfer of mercenaries and armed terrorists from Syria and Libya, to the zone of military operations.

French intellectuals call on their government to mediate in releasing Armenian POWs

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YEREVAN, MARCH 15, ARMENPRESS. 4 months after the statement on the ceasefire signed by Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan on 2020 November 9, official Baku is still refusing to implement one of the humanitarian points of the document, concerning the release of the Armenian prisoners of war, a group of French intellectuals said in a statement, Le Point reports.

The French intellectuals have noted that Azerbaijan in this way is grossly violating its commitments. “Such a disrespectful attitude towards the signed document shatters the Armenian people’s hope to return to normal life in the land of their ancestors 100 years after the 1915 Genocide”, they said, calling this as a clear manifestation of hatred.

They reminded that Azerbaijan, whose armed forces have committed military crimes against Armenians during the recent war by killing and torturing both the Armenian soldiers and civilians, has the worst indicators in democracy, human rights and freedoms in the world as confirmed by international human rights organizations such as Freedom House and Reporters Without Borders.

“The people, who have signed this call, ask Minsk Group Co-Chair France, which is engaged in the conflict’s peaceful settlement negotiations, to use its entire authority for the release of the Armenian POWs. If this group, which has a mandate by the OSCE, has not managed to prevent the war or protect the people who have been killed, at least it should ensure the observance of this humanitarian point of the ceasefire regime”, the statement, which has been signed by nearly 100 French intellectuals, said.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

UN chief’s spox: Spying allegations against UNICEF representative in Armenia ‘baseless’

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Panorama, Armenia
March 10 2021
See also Armenia’s foreign ministry suspends duties of UNICEF Representative

Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, believes the spying allegations against UNICEF’s Representative in Armenia Marianne Clark-Hattingh are “baseless”.

The Armenian government has terminated the mandate of the UNICEF representative in the country due to “failures in implementing her mandate and uncooperative conduct.”

However, some media outlets reported that Clark-Hattingh was allegedly engaged in espionage in favor of Azerbaijan and UK, and the Armenian authorities declared her persona non grata.

“The allegations against…  the spying allegations against her are baseless, and I would defend her strongly,” Dujarric told a daily press briefing on Tuesday, when asked to comment on the matter.

“What I can tell you and what my colleagues of UNICEF have told me is that UNICEF and the Government of Armenia have agreed that Marianne Clark Hattingh will complete her assignment as UNICEF Representative in Armenia this month, and she’ll be redeployed to another duty station.

“She is a highly qualified, extremely experienced and committed development professional, who has previously served with UNICEF at Headquarters, as well as being the Representative in Malaysia and other posts in places such as Somalia, Guinea, Benin and Madagascar.

“UNICEF has been working for the children in Armenia since 1993 and has had a close and effective partnership with the Government,” the spokesman said. 

Armenpress: Central Bank of Armenia: exchange rates and prices of precious metals – 10-03-21

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Central Bank of Armenia: exchange rates and prices of precious metals – 10-03-21

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YEREVAN, 10 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. The Central Bank of Armenia informs “Armenpress” that today, 10 March, USD exchange rate up by 0.64 drams to 525.93 drams. EUR exchange rate up by 0.55 drams to 625.91 drams. Russian Ruble exchange rate up by 0.01 drams to 7.11 drams. GBP exchange rate up by 1.73 drams to 731.67 drams.

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

Gold price up by 539.45 drams to 29031.13 drams. Silver price up by 10.66 drams to 435.49 drams. Platinum price up by 496.87 drams to 19715.94 drams.

Turkish press: Turkey commemorates slain diplomat Galip Balkar

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 ISTANBUL WAR ON TERROR 
MAR 09, 2021 11:46 PM GMT+3
A portrait and the passport of the slain diplomat Galip Balkar are seen next to the flags of Turkey and Yugoslavia in this photo taken at the Turkish Embassy in Serbia’s Belgrade on March 9, 2017 (AA File Photo)

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday commemorated a senior Turkish diplomat who was martyred by an Armenian terrorist group in the early 1980s.

“We remember with respect our martyr Galip Balkar, Ambassador of Turkey in Belgrade, who lost his life following a heinous attack perpetrated by the terrorist organization JCAG [Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide] on 9 March 1983,” the ministry said on Twitter.

Two members of the terrorist group attacked Balkar with automatic weapons near the Turkish Embassy 38 years ago.

The ambassador was seriously injured in the attack and died two days later.

A Yugoslav student, who was hit by a bullet during the attack, also died.

Kirkor Levonyan and Raffi Aleksandr were arrested on March 9, 1984, and each was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Armenian terror groups killed 31 Turkish diplomats and family members across the globe between 1973 and 1986, including Balkar.

The vast majority of the attacks were conducted by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and the JCAG.

Since the 1970s, Armenian terror groups have killed 31 Turkish diplomats and their family members, according to data compiled by Anadolu Agency (AA).

Founded in 1975 in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War, ASALA is responsible for hundreds of bloody terrorist acts. According to “Armenian Terror,” a 2006 study by Ömer Engin Lütem, a former Turkish diplomat, the killings spanned continents, taking place in the U.S., Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Lebanon, Greece, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada, Portugal, Iran and the U.K.

While the Marxist-Leninist ASALA not only targeted Turkey but also other countries and became infamous for a 1975 bombing on the Beirut office of the World Council of Churches, the nationalistic JCAG only targeted Turkey because it believed that attacking other countries would damage the so-called “Armenian struggle.”

Armenian terrorist attacks intensified from 1980 to 1983, when 580 of the 699 attacks – over 80% – occurred.

Armenpress: Netherlands recognizes all Armenian detainees in Azeri custody as PoWs – Ambassador

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Netherlands recognizes all Armenian detainees in Azeri custody as PoWs – Ambassador

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YEREVAN, MARCH 8, ARMENPRESS. The Dutch government considers as PoWs all captive Armenians who are held by Azerbaijan, the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Armenia Nico Schermers told ARMENPRESS.

“All Armenians held in Azerbaijan are recognized by the Netherlands as prisoners of war. The Netherlands has a very small role in the issue of the NK conflict settlement, and we are making our efforts through Brussels or the OSCE Minsk Group format,” the ambassador said.

Schermers expressed hope that a lasting solution to the conflict will be found.

Meanwhile, the Azeri government continues violating the 2020 November 9 ceasefire terms regarding the exchange of PoWs and other detainees. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev announced that they have returned all PoWs, and even claimed that the remaining Armenians in custody are not classified as such and are “criminals”. 

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Union of Armenians of Russia: Criminal case launched against Azerbaijanis who beat Armenians in Tomsk under 2 articles

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News.am, Armenia
March 8 2021
15:33, 08.03.2021

During a conversation with Armenian News-NEWS.am, Vice-President of the Union of Armenians of Russia Herman Ananyants said a criminal case has been launched against the Azerbaijanis who attacked Armenians at a bar in Tomsk under two articles of the Criminal Code of Russia (incitement of inter-ethnic division and battery).

According to him, the incident, the scenes of which were recently shown, took place at least two weeks ago.

According to Herman Ananyants, after the Azerbaijanis’ attack, three Armenians were transferred to the hospital and are now at home.

“During the fight, the Azerbaijanis made anti-Armenian comments and demanded that the Armenians leave the bar. One of the Azerbaijanis is under arrest and is giving testimony to the investigative body, and another one is wanted, and I’m certain that he will be found. All the participants of the fight are citizens of Russia,” Herman Ananyants said, adding that the situation is under the control of not only the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, but also the head of the regional unit of the Union of Armenians of Russia in Tomsk who used to be a colonel of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.