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Armenian President congratulates Turkmen counterpart on birthday

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YEREVAN, JUNE 29, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian sent a congratulatory letter to President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on the occasion of his birthday, the Armenian President’s Office told Armenpress.

“I highly appreciate the traditional friendly relations between our nations. I am convinced that we will manage to ensure the further development of mutually beneficial cooperation between Armenia and Turkmenistan with joint efforts”, the Armenian President said in his letter.

 

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Turkey, Azerbaijan Begin Joint Military Drills

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Tanks from the Turkish Armed Forces were deployed during joint military drills in Baku on June 28

The armed forces of Turkey and Azerbaijan kicked off joint military drills in Baku on Monday, deploying tanks, helicopters and drones in an effort to improve the two countries’ combat interoperability, Azerbaijan’s defense ministry said in a statement.

Photographs released by the Azerbaijani defense ministry showed a column of armored personnel carriers and tanks from the two countries advancing on flat arid terrain, Reuters reports.

“The main purpose of the exercises is to improve interaction between the two countries’ army units during combat operations, to develop the commanders’ military decision-making skills and their ability to manage military units,” the Azerbaijani defense ministry said in a statement.

The drills, called “Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – 2021,” will last until Wednesday, involving up to 600 personnel, around 40 tanks and armored vehicles, and seven helicopters.

‘June 20 elections must turn into public solidarity’ – caretaker deputy PM Avinyan

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 17:46, 21 June, 2021

YEREVAN, JUNE 21, ARMENPRESS. Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Avinyan says the snap parliamentary elections held on June 20 should turn into public solidarity.

“Dear compatriots,

With the 2018 Revolution the power was returned to the people, and after that we have always promised that we would not allow to deprive the people of the right to election. With the free, fair and transparent elections held on Sunday, Armenia made another big step towards democracy, by expressing its decisive will that the power in our country belongs to the people and this is an irreversible reality.

The elections, which were held by the people’s _expression_ of free will, symbolize the brilliant victory of democracy and embody the practical success of the 2018 Revolution. At the same time these elections must turn into public solidarity, on which we must build the superstructure of our free and democratic state”, Avinyan said in a statement on Facebook.

 

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Russia’s Civic Chamber members take part in observing elections in Armenia

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RAPSI – Russian Legal Information Agency
June 22 2021
15:19 22/06/2021

MOSCOW, June 22 (RAPSI) — A delegation of Russia’s Civic Chamber has participated in the monitoring of the process of _expression_ of the will of citizens during the recent parliamentary elections held in Armenia.

Chairman of the Civic Chamber Commission on security and cooperation with public supervisory commissions Alexander Vorontsov said that together with member of the Chamber’s Commission on accessible environment and inclusive practices development Vladimir Zhuravlev, he visited more than 20 polling stations in different districts of Yerevan. 

It could be declared that the work of election commissions was organized professionally, efficiently and responsibly, according to Vorontsov. The delegation carefully followed what was happening at each polling station, communicated with the chairpersons and members of precinct commissions, paid attention to observers from parliamentary parties and public associations, he added. “I would like to note that at each site that we visited, there were from five to 15 observers,“ the Commission Chair stressed.

Vorontsov added that after visiting the polling stations, the delegation of the Russian Civic Chamber visited the Armenian Central Election Commission, where they met with its secretary.

Zhuravlev noted that the main aspects of the elections in Armenia were transparency and control by observers, both local and foreign ones, adherence to the electoral code, which provides for the openness of the voting procedure and the impossibility of distorting the will of the country’s residents. 

The Chamber’s commission chair stressed that the work in Armenia was yet another successful experience of international observation carried out by members of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation. 

Members of the Chamber took part in monitoring the elections in Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Syria, USA, Ukraine, South Ossetia and other countries. 

Razminfo: Azerbaijan deploys Bayraktars in Nakhchivan (PHOTOS)

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News.am, Armenia
June 23 2021

23:54, 23.06.2021

Today the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan showed photos of the tactical exercises that the all-powerful army of Nakhchivan and the Armed Forces of Turkey are conducting from June 21 to 23. The photos show that Azerbaijan has deployed Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles at the aerodrome that was officially opened in Nakhchivan recently, Razminfo reported.

The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reports that during the exercises, President of the Supreme Majlis of Nakhchivan Vasif Talibov met with the officers and subalterns who have taken courses for use of Bayraktar TB2 UAVs in Turkey.

Razminfo had already reported that, judging from the analysis of open sources and satellite photos, the aerodrome deployed near Nakhchivan International Airport was already operating and was ready for use before the war [in Nagorno-Karabakh] in 2020.

Overall, 8 hangars, parking spaces, auxiliary constructions have been built for maintenance of helicopters and planes, one runway has been rebuilt, and the opening ceremony of the aerodrome on May 10, 2021 was conditioned by the visit of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

Although it’s not safe to claim that the four Bayraktar UAVs seen during the exercises will remain in Nakhchivan, let us state that, taking into consideration the enhanced network of air bases and springboards in Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani army may use these UAVs from different parts of the country, upon necessity.

Armenia’s Pashinyan congratulates Luxembourg’s PM on National Day

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 10:21, 23 June, 2021

YEREVAN, JUNE 23, ARMENPRESS. Caretaker Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan sent a congratulatory letter to Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel on the country’s national day, Pashinyan’s Office told Armenpress.

The message reads:

“Your Excellency,

On behalf of the Armenian government and myself personally I want to address my warm congratulations and best wishes of welfare and development to you and the members of the government on the National Day of Luxembourg.

Armenia attaches great importance to the further development and expansion of multi-layered relations with Luxemburg in all areas of mutual interest. I want to reaffirm the readiness of the Armenian side to make efforts to maximally ensure the exercise of the huge cooperation potential existing between the two countries.

By using this chance, I want to express my deep gratitude for the Luxembourg government’s decisive principled stance demonstrated during the recent Azerbaijani-Turkish aggression against Artsakh and the Azerbaijani encroachments against Armenia’s sovereign territory, as well as for raising this position from different platforms.

I am confident that the constructive dialogue between our states will continue to develop and expand for the benefit and welfare of our two friendly nations.

I wish you and the government of Luxembourg new achievements.

 

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Acting economy minister: There is trend of emigration from Armenia

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News.am, Armenia
15:30, 24.06.2021

YEREVAN. – I agree that there is emigration because people are different. Acting Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan stated this at a briefing with reporters after Thursday’s Cabinet meeting of the interim government of Armenia.

To the remark that First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan had stated that 70 thousand people had left the country in four months of this year, acting minister responded as follows: “We have to get the seasonal leavers, who will be back at the end of the [migrant work] season, out of there. Emigration must be counted annually to get the right picture. I do not deny that there is that trend. Of course, some are disappointed with the outcome of the 44-day [Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)] war. Maybe there are also those who are dissatisfied with the work of the government; I do not deny. We need to create an environment where that frustration does not become an occasion to leave, but turns into an energy that they return.”

As for the assertion that many people want to leave the homeland because of the “reproduction” of the ruling party as a result the recent snap parliamentary elections, the acting minister of economy responded: “Our biggest achievement was holding free, fair elections, not who won and who lost. We cemented, made concrete our democratic path. I interact a lot with international organizations; Armenia’s most competitive advantage is the free economy in the region.

Yes, there was a trend before the elections that they were emigrating. Our task is to quickly dissipate those worries, to restore the security and investment environment, so that people return and create in the homeland.”

Armenian Assembly of America’s Statement on Presidents Biden & Erdogan’s NATO Meeting

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EIN PressWire
June 15 2021

Armenian Assembly of America’s Statement on Presidents Biden & Erdogan’s NATO Meeting

WASHINGTON, D.C., DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, June 15, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — During President Joe Biden’s press conference today at the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium, the President stated that he had a “productive” conversation with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the Biden Administration’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide was not discussed during the presidents’ bilateral meeting.

In the lead-up to today’s meeting between Presidents Biden and Erdoğan, it was widely reported that Erdoğan was going to “blast [Biden] for his recent recognition of the Armenian Genocide,” with national security advisor Jake Sullivan indicating that President Biden was prepared to talk about the Armenian Genocide.

The Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) applauds President Biden’s commitment to America’s values and U.S. affirmation of the Armenian Genocide. President Biden’s affirmation of the Armenian Genocide this April showed America at its best.

The Assembly remains deeply concerned about the destructive role that Turkey played during the 44-day war last Fall, launched by Azerbaijan against the Armenian people amid a pandemic, and the ethnic cleansing of Armenians from their historic homeland of Artsakh (Nagorno- Karabakh). The Assembly recalls President Biden’s “demand” from last year that Turkey stay out of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and work “to prevent interference by third parties, including nation-states like Turkey.”

President Erdoğan needs to be judged by his actions and not his words. He continues to inflame tensions in Artsakh. He is scheduled to travel to Shushi on June 16, home of the historic Ghazanchetsots Cathedral – deliberately targeted by Azerbaijani shelling in last Fall’s war – for the groundbreaking of a Grey Wolves school, led by the Turkish Grey Wolves organization, recently banned in France, and which is known to be an ultranationalist terrorist group.

Throughout the G7 and NATO summits, President Biden made it plain that the defense of democracy demands the attention of America and its allies and partners around the world. It is clear through its actions domestically and internationally – in Artsakh, Cyprus, Libya, Syria, and in the Mediterranean Sea – that the authoritarian Erdoğan regime is diametrically opposed to democratic values and the rule of law. As Secretary Blinken emphasized during his nomination hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S. should be clear-eyed in its current relationship with Turkey and the Assembly urges the Administration to remain vigilant in this regard.

Established in 1972, the Armenian Assembly of America is the largest Washington-based nationwide organization promoting public understanding and awareness of Armenian issues. The Assembly is a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt membership organization.

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Armenian Assembly of America
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