17:49,
YEREVAN, JULY 14, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia signed a decree on concurrently appointing Hovhannes Igityan as Armenia’s Ambassador to Estonia, the Presidential Office said.
Hovhannes Igityan is also Armenia’s Ambassador to Lithuania.
The President signed the relevant decree based on the proposal of the Prime Minister.
17:09,
YEREVAN, JULY 11, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan received today Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Rwanda Vincent Biruta and his delegation, the PM’s Office said.
During the meeting PM Pashinyan highly valued the Armenia-Rwanda cooperation within the International Organization of La Francophonie, expressing hope that it will also contribute to developing the bilateral relations. Pashinyan warmly remembered his contacts with the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame during his visit in Armenia, as well as on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, reaffirming the readiness to deepen the partnership.
The Foreign Minister of Rwanda thanked the Armenian PM for the welcome and conveyed the warm greetings and wishes of the Rwandan President to Mr. Pashinyan. He assessed the discussions with the partners of the Armenian Foreign Ministry effective and stated that Rwanda is interested in the cooperation with Armenia both in bilateral and multilateral formats.
The sides exchanged ideas about the agenda of cooperation within the OIF, touched upon the prospects of developing the bilateral commercial ties. In this respect, they emphasized tourism sector as interesting.
PM Pashinyan asked to convey his greetings to the President of Rwanda.
17:27,
YEREVAN, JULY 11, ARMENPRESS. Chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, a session of the Police Reforms Coordinating Council was held, ARMENPRESS was informed from the Office of the Prime Minister.
The tasks to be done in the next 6 months in the sidelines of the police reform strategy were presented, including the process of introducing the Patrol Service in Shirak and Lori Provinces.
It was reported that in the second half of the year, it is planned to ensure the continuity of the introduction of the operational center for the management of the Patrol Service. Next, Patrol Service units will be formed in Kotayk, Gegharkunik, Tavush and Aragatsotn Provinces, and then throughout the country. The training processes of the future Patrol Service personnel in the above mentioned 4 Provinces will start in August. In total, 1,880 people applied for getting a job at the Patrol Service, of which only 718 are police officers. 1,332 people have received the right to participate in the examination process, of which 606 will join the service.
Next, the technical equipment of the Patrol Service, the reorganization of the Police forces, and the creation of the National Guard were discussed. The officials in charge assured that all the activities are carried out in accordance with the timeline.
Issues related to the activity of regional police departments and the new model of territorial divisions were also discussed.
Prime Minister Pashinyan emphasized the effective implementation of all the measures envisaged by the Police reforms and emphasized the need to carry out consistent work in the direction of expanding the involvement of women in the Patrol Service. In this regard, the Head of the Government gave specific instructions.
PanARMENIAN.Net – Lawmaker from the opposition Armenia bloc Artur Ghazinyan is resigning due to “current political arrangements”.
“I have decided to resign from parliament. I consider it the most accurate and justified decision in the current situation,” Ghazinyan said on social media Monday, July 4.
“I don’t want to talk about the reasons now. They are exclusively political and tactical in nature. I can only say that I can no longer imagine my future work with any agenda in the National Assembly.”
He noted, however, that the Resistance movement demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is the only platform that can prevent “treachery and concessions”.
Earlier, MP Armen Gevorgyan from Armenia bloc resigned as the chairman of the parliament’s Committee on Regional and Eurasian Integration, while the ruling Civil Contract party sacked parliament Vice Speaker Ishkhan Saghatelyan and Chairman of the Committee on Economic Affairs Vahe Hakobyan – both of them from Armenia bloc.
Armenia facilitates visa procedures for citizens of Egypt
20:47, 5 July 2022
YEREVAN, JULY 6, ARMENPRESS. The process of obtaining an Armenian visa is being facilitated for the citizens of Egypt.
The Armenian Embassy in Egypt said on social media that starting July 11th the visa regime for the citizens of Egypt is being simplified. In particular, the citizens of Egypt will no longer need invitation from the Police or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia. The Egyptian citizens can apply for a visa directly to the Embassy of Armenia in Egypt or any other diplomatic representation of Armenia.
The Egyptian nationals can apply for a visa via e-visa system ( https://evisa.mfa.am/ ).
In addition, the citizens of Egypt can obtain a visa upon arrival at any border-control point of the Republic of Armenia, if these citizens have a valid residency or a valid visa of one of the following countries:
1) EU member states
2) Schengen zone states
3) The United States of America
4) Australia
5) New Zealand
6) The Republic of Korea
7) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
8) Canada
9) Russia
10) Japan
11) Saudi Arabia
12) Kuwait
13) The United Arab Emirates
14) Qatar
15) Bahrain
16) Oman
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Promise Armenian Institute grants and fellowships are designed to support research across all academic fields, with an emphasis on or connection to Armenia or Armenians, and it is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 grant and fellowship recipients.
PAI POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Haley Tupper (M.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2020) “Post-Semashko Health Systems: The Comparative Successes and Failures of Universal Healthcare (UHC) in the Former Soviet Space”
Under the mentorship of Dr. Shant Shekherdimian of UCLA Division of General Surgery, Dr. Tupper will evaluate Armenia’s and other post-Soviet nations’ successes and failures in expanding access to healthcare according to the WHO framework of key health system building blocks, to help guide Armenia’s universal healthcare (UHC) development.
Helen Makhdoumian (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021) “A Map of This Place: Nested Memory and the Afterlives of Removal”
Under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Rothberg, chair of the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature, Dr. Makhdoumian’s research will involve a contrapuntal study of Armenian American, Palestinian American, and American Indian/First Nations novels and memoirs; specifically, using a rubric of “nested memory” to articulate the structure of the multigenerational transmission of memory in the face of the recursivity of collective trauma.
PAI ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESEARCH PROGRAM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
Anna Aleksanyan (Ph.D., Clark University, 2022) “Gendered Aspects of the Armenian Genocide in the Experiences of its Victimized Females”
Under the mentorship of Dr. Taner Akcam, director of the PAI Armenian Genocide Research Program, Dr. Aleksanyan will write a monograph based on her dissertation, examining the gendered aspects of the Armenian genocide, in particular, the ways the Ottoman Armenian females were targeted for physical destruction, sexual abuse, rape, sexual slavery, forced assimilation, forced marriages, and forced prostitution.
UCLA PAI DISSERTATION YEAR FELLOWSHIP
Jennifer Manoukian, (UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) “Purism and the Creation of the Western Armenian Written Standard (c. 1780-c. 1900)”
Under the mentorship of Dr. Peter Cowe, the UCLA Nareketsi Professor in Armenian Studies, Jennifer Manoukian will complete here dissertation which explores the emergence of the written standard known today as Western Armenian and examines the intellectual labor that led to its acceptance as the dominant medium for writing and education among Ottoman Armenians by 1900.
UCLA PAI COURSE DEVELOPMENT GRANT
Anne Gilliland, Ph.D. (Professor of Information Studies; Director, Center for Information as Evidence) “Through an Archival Lens: Armenia, the Genocide and Diaspora UCLA Information Studies”
This interdisciplinary undergraduate course centers the nature and role of “the archive” in understanding past events and future trajectories affecting the Armenian people. It will use case studies and community engagement activities to teach students how to identify, compile, and critically read and respond to the multilayered dispersal, fragmentation, deliberate erasure, distortion and withholding of the Armenian archival record. Course content will be drawn from the instructors’ research engagement with official, community and family archives and other forms of memory texts across the Diaspora, historical Western Armenia, the Republic of Armenia, and the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh.
The Azerbaijani military opened fire on Armenian combat positions in the western section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border near the village of Yelpin in Vayots Dzor Province on Thursday evening, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Shots were also fired at the road leading to the village, damaging a civilian car. The Azerbaijani troops also employed large-caliber firearms.
“The Azerbaijani fire was suppressed after Armenia’s retaliatory measures. There are no casualties on the Armenian side,” reads the statement.’
19:45, 4 July 2022
YEREVAN, JULY 4, ARMENPRESS. No bomb was found in the embassies of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China in Armenia, ARMENPRESS reports the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Armenia informs.
On July 4, at 5:15 p.m., the National Center for Crisis Management received information that an explosive device was placed in the embassies of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China in Armenia.
BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 29. The visit by Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha and representatives of the OIC member states to Azerbaijan’s liberated territories commenced within the 11th Conference of Ministers of Tourism of the OIC Member States on June 29, the State Tourism Agency told Trend.
Chairman of the State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan Fuad Naghiyev informed representatives of the OIC member states, visiting the Fuzuli International Airport, on the airport’s role in the socio-economic development of the Fuzuli district, as well as in regional tourism.
A delegation consisting of tourism ministers, deputy ministers of Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Iran, Gambia, Niger, Malaysia, Sudan, Uganda, Gabon, the president of the Arab Tourism Organization, and ambassadors will take a look at cultural monuments, mosques, and other cultural heritage sites subjected to the Armenian aggression.
Moreover, the delegation will pay a visit to Azerbaijan’s Shusha, and get acquainted with the ancient buildings of Islamic heritage and the tourism potential.
On June 28, the 11th Conference of Ministers of Tourism of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, organized by the State Tourism Agency, hosted the adoption of a Resolution on the tourism development, and the Baku Declaration.
The Resolution on tourism development condemns the illegal exploitation of natural resources, destruction of urban ecological infrastructure, cultural and historical heritage of Azerbaijan’s liberated territories, as well as the demolition of Islamic cultural and historical monuments in Armenia.
The document also reflects a decision regarding the involvement of the member states’ private sector in implementing infrastructure development projects in Azerbaijan’s liberated lands.
17:43, 29 June 2022
YEREVAN, 29 JUNE, ARMENPRESS. The Central Bank of Armenia informs “Armenpress” that today, 29 June, USD exchange rate down by 0.08 drams to 408.31 drams. EUR exchange rate down by 2.20 drams to 429.75 drams. Russian Ruble exchange rate up by 0.11 drams to 7.83 drams. GBP exchange rate down by 3.37 drams to 496.42 drams.
The Central Bank has set the following prices for precious metals.
Gold price down by 99.88 drams to 23879.52 drams. Silver price down by 3.01 drams to 278.76 drams. Platinum price stood at 16414.1 drams.