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Gazprom CEO discussed gas supplies to Armenia in 2019 with Acting Deputy PM

Lilit Nahapetian
ITAR-TASS, Russia
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Gazprom CEO discussed gas supplies to Armenia in 2019 with Acting Deputy PM
 
MOSCOW December 28
 
Chief Executive Officer of Gazprom Alexei Miller and Acting Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mger Grigoryan discussed natural gas supplies to Armenia in 2019, the Russian gas holding says on Friday.
 
MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Chief Executive Officer of Gazprom Alexei Miller and Acting Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mger Grigoryan discussed natural gas supplies to Armenia in 2019, the Russian gas holding says on Friday.
 
The meeting took place in St. Petersburg.
 
“Progress and further development of bilateral cooperation were discussed at the meeting. In particular, supplies of natural gas to Armenia in 2019 were noted,” the company said.
 
The parties also reviewed issues related to gas supply for Armenia and underground storage of gas in the territory of the republic. It was noted that UGS facilities are ready for operation during the fall and winter season of 2018-2019.
 
Gazprom Armenia, a subsidiary of the Russian holding, is carrying natural gas deliveries to Armenia. The contract for supply of up to 2.5 bln cubic meters of natural gas is effective until 2019 year-end.

Armenian police officers succeeded in neutralizing Iranian who burst into the bank with a knife and electroshock weapon

Lilit Nahapetian
Arminfo, Armenia
Dec 24 2018
Ani Mshetsyan

ArmInfo. The police managed to neutralize an Iranian citizen who broke into Mellat Bank this morning with a knife and an electroshock weapon, the press service of the  police informs.

According to the source, on December 24, at 10:15am local time, a  young man penetrated into “Mellat” bank on Tumanyan Street in  Yerevan, who began to make some demands on Iranian, then began to  threaten people with a knife and an electroshock weapon. Then the  young man tried to use a stun gun. Police officers on duty at the  bank quickly responded and defused the offender, and then they were  taken to the central police station.

At the central police station, it was found that the driven person is  a citizen of Iran, his name is Morteza Ghorban Joshoar, born in 1982,  and in Farsi he demanded money from a bank employee. In fact, a  criminal case was initiated under Article 175 of the RA Criminal  Code.

It was also found that on December 21, Joshoa entered one of the  pharmacies and demanded money, threatening with an electroshock  weapon. However, he failed to commit a crime. 

The ANCA and the Baroness Cox Rehabilitation Center in Artsakh

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Therapists at the Baroness Cox Rehabilitation Center in Artsakh work with this young girl, teaching her how to walk on crutches, giving her hope of one day playing with friends in the neighborhood.

In an email interview last week with Asbarez, Armenian National Committee of America’s Communications Director Elizabeth Chouldjian discussed the work the organization is doing to promote the work of the Baroness Cox Rehabilitation Center in Artsakh. Below is the interview.

Asbarez: The ANCA has backed direct U.S. funding for Artsakh for over 20 years, securing aid for everything from clean water, maternal health and, currently, de-mining. What is the ANCA’s new initiative with the Baroness Cox Rehabilitation Center in Stepanakert all about?

Elizabeth Chouldjian: The short answer to your question is that we are seeking funding – for the 2019 federal fiscal year – from Congress for the U.S. Agency for International Development to continue de-mining efforts through HALO Trust and expand its support to the Baroness Cox Rehabilitation Center.

Asbarez: Why the focus on the Baroness Cox Rehabilitation Center?

E.C.: Without a doubt, among the most urgent humanitarian priorities in Artsakh today is the need to help children and adults with disabilities. In the face of rapidly growing local and regional demands for rehabilitation services, the Center lacks sufficient infrastructure and modern facilities to meet its pressing humanitarian mission.

Asbarez: And what is the quick 411 on the Baroness Cox Rehabilitation Center?

E.C.: The Baroness Cox Rehabilitation Center was first established in 1998 through a partnership of local health officials and then-Speaker of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, Baroness Caroline Cox. A nurse by training, Lady Cox is respected for her leadership on rehabilitation efforts around the world.

More than 15,000 patients have received treatment from the Baroness Cox Rehabilitation Center since it first opened. It’s currently treating over 1,000 patients in-house and offering an additional 24,000 out-patient treatments annually. Despite that, the Center only meets 20% of the needs of the local population, leaving as many as 60,000 regional patients without adequate rehabilitation services.

Asbarez: Who are the people who receive treatment at the Center?

E.C.: Among those receiving treatment include patients – from Artsakh, Armenia, Russia, and Georgia – with spinal cord injuries, elderly stroke victims, and infants and children born with disabilities, such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida. They are also doing cutting-edge work with children with autism and other cognitive disabilities, helping them integrate into local schools.

Asbarez: What is the ANCA doing on Capitol Hill and with the Executive Branch on this issue?

E.C.: Specifically, we are lobbying the House and Senate and speaking to officials at the U.S. Department of State to ensure that federal funds are allocated to the Baroness Cox Rehabilitation this federal fiscal year. This involves a lot of teamwork – from our ANCA office here in Washington, DC, our ANCA Regional Offices in the Eastern and Western regions, and with over 50 local ANCA chapters – all working together towards this same worthwhile goal.

Asbarez: When is Congress going to finalize their Fiscal Year 2019 budget and priorities?

E.C.: While much work has already been done on this score, including by Senator Van Hollen and other legislators committed to prioritizing Artsakh rehabilitation programs in the Senate foreign aid measure, the decisions are being made right now and in the upcoming weeks.

Manvel Grigoryan’s attorney: Judge Marine Melkonyan has become a SIS branch

Lilit Nahapetian
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The Yerevan court has extended the pre-trial detention of MP Manvel Grigoryan for another two months.

“The court made a decision to approve the investigator’s motion and reject that of the defending side,” the attorney said.

Manvel Grigoryan’s attorney Arsen Mkrtchyan responded to the court’s decision: “Judge Marine Melkonyan has become a SIS branch.”

Index: Armenia is the first country in Europe by the number of believers

Lilit Nahapetian
Arminfo, Armenia
Dec 7 2018

ArmInfo. The American Analytical Center Pew Research Center has published data from studies conducted in Europe on the subject of religiosity of the population.

According to the results, 79% of the population of Armenia said that  they believe in God. According to this indicator, Armenia became the  first in Europe. 45% (2nd place) of Armenians said they pray daily,  and 53% (3rd place) that religion is important in their lives.  Moreover, only 34% (12th place) of Armenians attend churches at least  once a month. Based on all the criteria, Romania became the most  religious country in Europe, Armenia ranked second in terms of  overall performance, and Georgia was third.

ANCC Statement on the 85th Anniversary of the Holodomor

Lilit Nahapetian

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National Committee of Canada

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National Arménien du Canada

 

Tel./Tél. (613) 235-2622

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November 26, 2018                                                                        Contact: Sevag Belian (613) 235-2622

 

 

ANCC
Statement on the 85th Anniversary of the Holodomor

 

 

OTTAWA.- Last week, Canadians from
coast to coast commemorated the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor, culminating
in major nationwide commemoration events during the weekend. Standing in
solidarity with Ukrainians in Canada and around the world, the Armenian
National Committee of Canada was honoured to join the Ukrainian Canadian
Congress during last weeks solemn commemoration event on Parliament Hill.

 

Between 1932-33, at the hands of
the repressive Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin, innocent Ukrainians were
subjected to forced starvation and famine which resulted in the mass murder of
millions of innocent men, women and children and what became to be known as one
of the most gruesome acts of genocide of the 20th century. 

 

On April 24, 2015, the Canadian
House of Commons unanimously passed a historic motion (M-587) designating the
month of April as Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month. With
support from all major parties represented in the Canadian Parliament, the
motion recalled the genocides recognized by Canada, the Jewish Holocaust, the
Ukrainian Holodomor, the Rwandan
Tutsi Genocide and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and sent a strong message that
only by acknowledging the mistakes of the past, we prevent future atrocities
from taking place. 

 

The passage of Motion 587 was the
realization of a joint effort between the Ukrainian, Armenian, Jewish and
Rwandan communities that sought to bring the issue of recognizing, condemning
and preventing future genocides to the attention of the international
community.

 

As we stand in solidarity with the
Ukrainian community, we once again recommit ourselves to working together in
upholding our shared values of respect, tolerance and human rights and in
promoting justice and democracy in Canada and around the world.

 

 

 

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The ANCC is the largest and the most influential Canadian-Armenian
grassroots human rights organization. Working in coordination with a network of
offices, chapters, and supporters throughout Canada and affiliated
organizations around the world, the ANCC actively advances the concerns of the Canadian-Armenian
community on a broad range of issues and works to eliminate abuses of human
rights throughout Canada and the world.

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Sevag Belian – Executive Director
Armenian National Committee of Canada
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Verelq: “Sasna Tsrer” party demands an explanation from Nikol Pashinyan

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The “Sasna Trees” party demanded an explanation from the Acting Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, regarding the latter’s statement yesterday.


“On November 26, within the framework of the RA NA election campaign, during the rally held in Artik city, Acting Prime Minister of the RA, candidate for the RA NA, leader of the “My Step” bloc, Nikol Pashinyan, in his statement addressed to the representatives of the “Sasna Trees” pan-Armenian party, made baseless claims, used threats and expressions with offensive connotations.


Such a statement by Mr. Pashinyan is very puzzling to us, so we hope that he will clarify his words at the first opportunity.


Until then, we reaffirm our support for the revolution and its goals and continue to assert that, in our belief, the conditions of the current elections, the challenges facing our nation and the state, and the trends of socio-political developments caused by them will lead to the need for new extraordinary elections in approximately one and a half to two years.


Based on that belief, we have proposed an appropriate pre-election program, which also contains a proposal to adopt a new Constitution and a new Electoral Code and a new law on Parties, in order to reach the new special elections in a prepared and ready state and, in parallel, to solve the problems that are still standing in the way of our nation and state.


At the same time, we express our loyalty to the absolute truth that the mission of political forces is to propose ideas and views, but the people decide and the people will decide what we all do.


Using this opportunity, we urge the representatives of the force that led the revolution, as well as all the forces that contributed to the revolution and did not act against the people, to refrain from the tactics of attacking each other and to have as a common goal the imperative of forming a National Assembly that was part of the former criminal regime and free from the criminal oligarchy.”


To remind, yesterday Nikol Pashinyan, in response to Varuzhan Avetisyan’s statement that this National Assembly is transitional and there will be new extraordinary elections, said:


“Have you really decided that you are given the right to decide the size of the parliament and sometimes even people’s lives? I tell you, don’t suddenly get upset, this is not the weak and feeble government of Serzh Sargsyan for you.”

Zakharova: Azerbaijani complaints over Artsakh president’s Moscow visit ‘groundless’

Lilit Nahapetian
Panorama, Armenia
Nov 30 2018

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has commented on the recent visit of Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan to Moscow during a weekly briefing broadcast by RT.

She stressed that Sahakyan’s visit does not constitute a violation of the Russian law.

“That visit cannot be viewed other than a private one. The status of the visit is obvious. And it doesn’t contradict the Russian legislation in the very context of a private visit which has nothing to do with the international agreements or the Russian mediation mission in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement,” the top official said, commenting on an Azerbaijani reporter’s observation.

“The Azerbaijani side’s complaints addressed to Russia are groundless,” she said.

President Sahakyan visited Moscow on 24 November.

The Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry released a statement on 25 November claiming that issuing an entry permit to Russia for Bako Sahakyan ‘is undermining the Karabakh conflict settlement efforts and Russia’s mediation mission.’

32 nurses rescued from ‘human trafficker’ at Bengaluru airport

Lilit Nahapetian
Times of India
Nov 28 2018
32 nurses rescued from ‘human trafficker’ at Bengaluru airport


Thirty-two women nursing graduates from Kerala, suspected to be victims of a trafficking racket, were on Tuesday rescued at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) when they were on their way to pursue a short-term course to learn German at the University of Traditional Medicine of Armenia (UTMA).

Kala Krishnaswamy, deputy commissioner of police (northeast division), said police registered a case of attempted human trafficking based on a complaint from KIA immigration officials and arrested Tony Tom, who was taking the women to Armenia. Most of the women had studied in Mangaluru.

The DCP said Tom runs an education consultancy in Mangaluru and offered to facilitate the study at UTMA. Tom was accompanying the women who came to the airport on Monday to catch a flight for Armenia around 4am Tuesday. Immigration officials suspected foul play as they doubted the existence of such a course in the university. They handed over the accused and the women to airport police for investigation.

Police said the women found a newspaper advertisement about the course and contacted Tony Tom’s Hopesyn Education International in Mangaluru. The institute assured nursing students jobs in reputed hospitals abroad if they could speak German and they signed up for the German course at UTMA.

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Possible gas price cut may disrupt system – Gazprom Armenia chief

Lilit Nahapetian
Panorama, Armenia
Nov 8 2018

A possible reduction in the gas tariff is problematic, since it may undermine the system, Gazprom Armenia CEO Hrant Tadevosyan said at the National Assembly on Thursday.

“If we don’t want to reduce the gas price through disrupting the system, we should discuss the issue,” he said, adding a final conclusion on the issue will be drawn at the end of 2016, when all discussions are completed.

At the sitting of a parliamentary commission on gas and electricity tariffs earlier on Thursday, Tadevosyan said that the gas sales price is 255 dollars, while the average entry price is 150 dollars “Gazprom Armenia’s margin is 62 dollars. Our spending is greater than revenues, while the issue of finding additional reserves is controversial,” he said.

Tadevosyan did not agree with the claims that the gas contract concluded with Russia features ‘humiliating’ points, stressing all the points of the contract are in the best interests of Armenia.

Meantime, he didn’t rule out possible overspending inside the company.