Author: Karapet Navasardian

 15:13, 8 February, 2022

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS. Member of Parliament Sona Ghazaryan (Civil Contract Party) is sounding the alarm to the international community regarding Azeri Minister of Culture Anar Kerimov’s statement on launching a task force that would destroy and change the identity of Armenian religious and historical-cultural monuments that have gone under Azeri control.

“I’d like to once again address the international community and say that this Azerbaijani policy is a challenge to the United Nations International Court of Justice 2021 December 7 decision on provisional measures, as well as to remind our colleagues, especially our colleagues from the European Union, that they are directing 2,3 billion dollars to a country that stands out not only with its authoritarian regime, but also with its policy of vandalism and destruction of historical-cultural monuments against its neighbors,” Ghazaryan said.

The lawmaker mentioned that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted resolutions which have recorded the Azeri attempts to replace the Armenian monuments with fake Albanian monuments.

“I’d also like to remind our colleagues, that it turns out that when our cultural monuments were being bombarded during the war, factually the double-strike bombing of Shushi’s Ghazanchetsots Cathedral wasn’t an accident after all contrary to the authoritarian leader’s claims, but rather a clear strategy of erasing Armenian traces. I am addressing this question to our international partners: whom are you giving that billions and for what?”

 18:17, 8 February, 2022

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS. Today the placement and buyback auctions of government bonds totalling AMD 28 billion have taken place on Armenian Securities .

In particular, the volume of auction allocation of government bonds (ISIN AMGN60294268) amounted to AMD 25 billion, with the demand surpassing AMD  64 billion. The maturity period of bonds is 5 years. The weighted average yield of the auction is 9.84%, and the annual yield of the coupon is 7%. This testifies to the stability of the financial market, its attractiveness, and the confidence in the bonds of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, ARMENPRESS was infomred from the Armenia Securities .

The Armenia Securities informs that the primary auctions of government bonds through primary dealers, the list of which is published on the website of the Ministry of Finance of Armenia. To buy government bonds from the secondary market, you should connect  members or market participants.

 17:14, 3 February, 2022

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 3, ARMENPRESS. Armenia has repeatedly announced that it is interested in the demarcation process of the state border with Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan told reporters today, recalling the agreement approved with a statement by the leaders of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan about that matter.

On November 26, 2021, the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia adopted a trilateral statement in Sochi, according to which they agreed to take steps to increase the level of security and stability on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and move the process to creating a bilateral commission dealing with the border delimitation and demarcation between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

“We are committed by 100% to that statement and to this principle, this commitment which we have assumed”, the FM said.

Mirzoyan also said that Yerevan is now discussing with Moscow and Baku the security measures, which, according to the Armenian side, will create security and stability mechanisms on the border. The Armenian side has presented different proposals about the issue, to which Baku negatively reacted, however, this is a continuous process, according to the minister.

 20:10,

YEREVAN, JANUARY 31, ARMENPRESS. The United Nations Security Council convened a meeting today to discuss the current situation around Ukraine, TASS reports.

The United States has asked the UN for holding a meeting over the Ukrainian crisis, which was approved by the Security Council in a voting. 10 countries voted in favor of, only Russia and China voted against. 3 countries abstained. A minimum of nine votes were needed to proceed with a meeting.

 20:58, 26 January, 2022

YEREVAN, 26 JANUARY, ARMENPRESS. US Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan arrived at the Russian Foreign Ministry on January 26 at 19:30 local time, ARMENPRESS reports the correspondent of TASS said.

The diplomat entered the Foreign Ministry without detailing on the purpose of the visit.

Earlier, CNN had reported that the USA intends to send a written response to Russia’s proposals on security guarantees on January 26.

 16:07,

YEREVAN, JANUARY 21, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Parliament is debating the issue of electing a new Human Rights Defender.

The parliamentary standing committee on protection of human rights and public affairs proposed Kristine Grigoryan’s candidacy for the position of the Ombudsman.

Mrs Grigoryan has been nominated by the ruling Civil Contract faction.

Introducing the candidate for the Ombudsman, lawmaker from the Civil Contract faction Vladimir Vardanyan said that Kristine Grigoryan has a higher education in two specialties – Oriental studies and Law. She has an experience of professional work for more than 12 years, mainly in the public administration system, such as the justice ministry, the parliament’s staff and the office of the first deputy prime minister. In July 2019 she was appointed deputy minister of justice, and since April 2021 she has been serving as the first deputy minister of justice. Grigoryan was relieved from the position of the first deputy justice minister on .