Author: Tambiyan Samvel

Sports: World Boxing Championships: Armenia’s Davit Chaloyan begins with victory 4-1

Tambiyan Samvel
News.am, Armenia
Oct 28 2021


Armenia’s superheavyweight Davit Chaloyan started competing on the fourth day of the tournaments of the 2021 AIBA World Boxing Championships in Serbia.

In the 1/16 final of boxers in the +92 kg category, he competed with Ukraine’s Tsonte Rovaga and defeated the latter 4-1.

The ring’s referees declared Chaloyan the winner in all three rounds. Chaloyan is participating in a world championship with the adult team for the first time.

In the 1/8 final, Chaloyan’s opponent will be Colombian boxer Christian Salcedo.

Armenia parliament new inquiry committee’s work will be productive without majority faction, says opposition MP

Tambiyan Samvel
News.am, Armenia
Oct 29 2021
17:26, 29.10.2021

The work of the new National Assembly (NA) inquiry committee will be productive without the participation of the majority "Civil Contract" Faction. Opposition "Armenia" Faction MP—and a lawyer by profession—Aram Vardevanyan, who plans to head this committee, noted about this Friday during the traditional briefings at the NA.

The lawmaker reiterated that this committee was set up by the virtue of law, which means that in any case it will work, summon representatives of relevant organizations, ask them questions, and study all the processes that have ever taken place.

"As a result of the work, the committee will issue a report. I believe it is even good that they [i.e., the majority faction MPs] will not be [in this committee]. Thus, they will not put pressure on the officials we intend to summon [for questioning]. They can speak undisturbedly and openly," Vardevanyan said.

He added that the committee’s report will be publicized and sent to international organizations.

Turkish president presents Azerbaijani counterpart with Anadolu Agency book on Karabakh victory

Tambiyan Samvel
Middle East Monitor
Oct 26 2021
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) presents the book "Karabakh Victory" prepared by Anadolu Agency, to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (L2) in Zangilan, Azerbaijan on [Resul Rehimov/Anadolu Agencyy]

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Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Tuesday, presented his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, a landmark new Anadolu Agency book on last fall's liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Using the agency's award-winning photography, the book recounts last year's Second Karabakh War between Azerbaijan and Armenia, and how the former was victorious.

The first part of the book explores the war's historic roots, while the second part presents Anadolu Agency news and photos documenting the 44-day conflict.

The third part features articles on the repercussions of the Karabakh victory, both regionally and internationally.

The book's introduction was written by Erdogan and its preface by Serdar Karagoz, the agency's chairman and director-general.

"The hallowed Karabakh Victory is a badge of honor that proves to the whole world that Turkey and Azerbaijan's understanding of 'one nation, two states' is still alive in the 21st century," wrote Erdogan in his introduction.

"On 27 September 2020, the Turkish nation and state stood by their Azerbaijani brothers and sisters against the attacks of the occupying forces of Armenia with all their means, and will continue to do so," he continued.

The Turkish president also commemorated "all the martyrs who sacrificed their lives to liberate Karabakh and the occupied Azerbaijani lands" and wished recovery to veterans of the conflict.

"I once again congratulate the President of Azerbaijan, my brother, Ilham Aliyev, for his military, political and diplomatic success, and sincerely congratulate the Azerbaijani people for their honorable stance," he added.

Congratulating Anadolu Agency on the book, he said it "leaves a mark on the future."

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"I would like to express my gratitude to Anadolu Agency's management and employees who made this work possible," he wrote.

In the book's preface, Karagoz stressed the agency's hard work, with self-sacrifice, courage, and professionalism, to tell the world about the Karabakh conflict, day by day, with unforgettable photos, even as many global news outlets neglected the war.

"We hope that this work will remain for future generations as a glorious document of the Azerbaijan-Turkey friendship and brotherhood. Karabakh is Azerbaijan," he noted.

Karagoz also commemorated Azerbaijani soldiers who lost their lives during the liberation of occupied lands.

Among the Turkish officials accompanying Erdogan on his one-day working visit to Azerbaijan at Aliyev's invitation, were Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, National Defense Minister, Hulusi Akar, Environment and Urbanization Minister, Murat Kurum, Transport and Infrastructure Minister, Adil Karaismailoglu, Communications Director, Fahrettin Altun, and presidential spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin.

Erdogan also attended the inauguration of the Fuzuli International Airport and the groundbreaking ceremony of a highway in the same city.

Relations between the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia have been tense since 1991 when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as Upper Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan and seven adjacent regions.

New clashes erupted on 27 September 2020, with the Armenian army launching repeated attacks on civilians and Azerbaijani forces and also violating several humanitarian cease-fire agreements.

During the 44-day conflict, Azerbaijan liberated several cities and some 300 settlements and villages that were occupied by Armenia for nearly three decades.

The fighting ended on 10 November 2020, after the two countries signed an agreement brokered by Russia.

RFE/RL Armenian Report – 10/25/2021

Tambiyan Samvel 
                                        Monday, 


Armenian Students Sent Home Amid COVID-19 Resurgence


Armenia - Children play basketball at a school in the town of Gavar, March 9, 
2021.


The Armenian Ministry of Education ordered universities to revert to online 
classes and extended school holidays on Monday as health authorities struggled 
to contain a new wave of coronavirus infections in the country.

The order, effective from Tuesday, requires all universities and colleges to 
offer their students only distance courses until November 15. It also means that 
a one-week autumn break in Armenia’s primary, secondary high schools, which 
began on Monday, will be extended until November 7.

The Armenian educational institutions will thus be effectively closed for the 
first time since October 2020. The authorities began reopening them in December 
after coronavirus cases peaked during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The authorities have reported similarly large numbers of cases and resulting 
deaths in recent weeks. According to the Ministry of Health, over 13,000 people 
in the country of about 3 million have tested positive for COVID-19 and at least 
250 of them have died in the past week. Forty-two of those deaths were recorded 
on Sunday.

Health Minister Anahit Avanesian warned that Armenian hospitals are “on the 
verge” of running out of vacant beds for COVID-19 patients.

Her ministry already reported a shortage of beds more than a week ago. It said 
hundreds of infected people in need of urgent care are awaiting hospitalization 
because of that.

In a Facebook post, Avanesian urged Armenians to “put on masks everywhere” and 
get vaccinated.

The minister faced criticism on social media on Monday after it emerged that she 
and other senior government officials did not wear masks during an indoor 
reception hosted by President Armen Sarkissian and attended by more than 100 
people.

Most ordinary Armenians also do not wear mandatory masks indoors, including in 
overcrowded public buses. Authorities essentially stopped fining them more than 
a year ago.

Also, Armenia continues to have the lowest vaccination rate in the region. 
Ministry of Health data shows that 466,785 people received at least one dose of 
a coronavirus vaccine and only about 210,250 of them were fully vaccinated as of 
October 24.

Vaccinations have accelerated over the past month after the authorities began 
requiring all public and private sector employees to get inoculated or take 
coronavirus tests twice a month at their own expense.



Gyumri Election Winner Still Mum On New Mayor

        • Satenik Kaghzvantsian

Armenia -An election campaign poster of the Balasanian Bloc and its mayoral 
candidate Vardges Samsonian in Gyumri, .


The political force that won the October 17 municipal election in Gyumri has yet 
to clarify whether it will team up with the ruling Civil Contract party or an 
opposition group to install the new mayor of Armenia’s second largest city.

Gyumri has been run by Samvel Balasanian, a local businessman, for the last nine 
years. He used to be allied to the former Armenian government that helped him 
win reelection in 2016.

Although Balasanian decided not to seek another term in office, a newly created 
bloc bearing his name joined the mayoral race.

The Balasanian Bloc garnered 36.6 percent of the vote, earning it 14 seats in 
the 33-member city council empowered to elect the mayor. In what is widely seen 
as a serious setback for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, Civil Contract finished 
second with 11 seats.

The remaining eight seats will be distributed among three opposition parties. 
One of them, Zartonk (Awakening), will be represented in the local council by 
four members.

Zartonk proposed last week a coalition deal to the Balasanian Bloc which would 
allow the latter’s top election candidate, Vardges Samsonian, to become mayor. 
The bloc has still not responded to the offer.

“We don’t have a decision at the moment,” a spokesman for the Balasanian Bloc, 
Arman Shaboyan, told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Monday. “We are holding 
discussions within our team.”

The new city council is scheduled to hold its inaugural session on November 4.

According to some media reports, the Balasanian Bloc is facing strong pressure 
from the central government to reach a power-sharing deal with Pashinian’s party 
and even cede the post of mayor to it. The bloc has not officially reacted to 
those reports.

Civil Contract has not commented on its post-election plans in Gyumri. Its 
mayoral candidate, Hovannes Harutiunian, is the governor of surrounding Shirak 
province.

Samvel Balasanian, the outgoing mayor, has made no public statements on the 
outcome of the local election. Balasanian has avoided openly challenging the 
current Armenian government ever since he took office in 2018.



Pashinian Stands By Ambitious Growth Target

        • Robert Zargarian

Armenia - Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is about to present his government's 
draft 2022 budget to members of the Armenian parliament, Yerevan, October 25, 
2021.


Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Monday that his government expects the 
Armenian economy to continue its recovery from a coronavirus-related recession 
and grow by 7 percent next year.

The economy shrunk by 7.6 percent last year due to negative effects of the 
coronavirus pandemic compounded by Armenia’s war with Azerbaijan. It returned to 
growth this spring and is now projected to expand by at least 6 percent in 2021.

Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund anticipate slower growth 
in 2022. The bank forecast a 4.8 percent growth rate for the South Caucasus 
nation in a report released earlier this month.

A senior IMF official similarly predicted last month that Armenian growth will 
slow down to 4.5 percent in 2022. “Downside risks remain elevated, including 
from geopolitical tensions, a slowdown in external demand, and heightened global 
financial market volatility,” he said.

The Armenian government’s five-year policy program approved by the parliament in 
August says that GDP should increase by 7 percent annually. Pashinian stood by 
this ambitious target when he presented the government’s draft 2022 budget to 
lawmakers.

“Although most of the current year was marked by an unstable political and 
security environment, our economy is now exceeding all growth forecasts made for 
2021,” he said. “On the other hand, based on this year’s results, the government 
hopes for more.”

The draft budget commits Armenian tax authorities to increasing state revenue by 
as much as 25 percent next year. This would not only finance a 15 percent rise 
in public spending but also cut the country’s budget deficit that widened 
significantly during the recession.

The bill does not envisage major pay rises for public sector employees and would 
keep the national minimum wage unchanged at 68,000 drams ($143) per month. The 
government is only planning to raise the minimum pension by 2,100 drams.

Consumer price inflation in Armenia has risen significantly this year, reaching 
an annual rate of about 9 percent in August on the back of increased food prices.



Yerevan Comments On ‘Fresh Deals’ With Baku

        • Artak Khulian
        • Naira Nalbandian

RUSSIA -- Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Azerbaijani President 
Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian in the Krelmin, January 
11, 2021.


The Armenian government reacted over the weekend to reports that the leaders of 
Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet in Moscow next month to sign two more 
far-reaching agreements.

Aliqmedia.am said that Russian President Vladimir Putin will host on November 9 
fresh talks between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and Azerbaijani 
President Ilham Aliyev that will be timed to coincide with the first anniversary 
of a Russian-brokered deal that stopped the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Citing unnamed Armenian diplomatic sources, the publication claimed that Aliyev 
and Pashinian will sign two agreements envisaging the demarcation of the 
Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the opening of transport links between the two 
South Caucasus states. It said one of those documents will also commit Baku and 
Yerevan to recognizing each other’s territorial integrity.

The Russian news agency RIA Novosti likewise reported afterwards that Aliyev and 
Pashinian could meet in Moscow in early November. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry 
Peskov did not confirm that report. He said that the Kremlin will make an 
official statement on the Armenian-Azerbaijani summit if an agreement on its 
date and agenda is reached by the sides.

The Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Vahan Hunanian, said, for his part, 
that “for the time being no meeting between the prime minister of Armenia and 
the president of Azerbaijan is planned.”

“There are proposals for various meetings in different formats, which are being 
discussed,” Hunanian said in written comments posted on Facebook.

“I would also like to underline that the ‘news’ spread on this topic by some 
circles are clearly of provocative nature and do not correspond to reality,” 
added the official.

Hunanian stressed at the same time that Yerevan is committed to starting work on 
border demarcation and reopening the Armenian-Azerbaijani frontier for cargo 
traffic in line with the ceasefire deal brokered by Putin.

Pashinian did not comment on the issue on Monday when he visited the Armenian 
parliament to present his government’s draft budget for next year to lawmakers. 
He declined to answer questions from them or talk to reporters.

Deputies representing the ruling Civil Contract party either claimed to be 
unaware of any planned deals with Baku or did not want to comment on such a 
possibility.

“I am waiting to see the content of a document that will be presented to us by 
our government,” said Hrachya Hakobian, who is also Pashinian’s brother-in-law. 
“I don’t want to comment now on what foreign media outlets report.”


Armenia - Senor lawmakers from the opposition Hayastan and Pativ Unem alliances 
talk during a parliament session in Yerevan, August 24, 2021.

The reports prompted serious concerns from Armenian opposition leaders and other 
critics of Pashinian. They renewed their allegations that Pashinian is planning 
to make more territorial concessions to Baku and recognize Azerbaijani 
sovereignty over Karabakh.

Artsvik Minasian, a senior lawmaker from the main opposition Hayastan alliance, 
said it will try to scuttle such concessions.

“Even if a negotiating process is underway, it must be public or at least the 
main political and publics actors must be involved in it,” Minasian told a news 
conference. “The authorities cannot carry with their secretive stance.”

Another senior Hayastan representative, Ishkhan Saghatelian, announced late last 
week that the bloc led by former President Robert Kocharian will soon hold a 
rally in Yerevan to try to prevent a “new capitulation agreement.”

Putin already hosted a trilateral meeting with Aliyev and Pashinian in January. 
The three leaders decided at the time to set up a Russian-Armenian-Azerbaijani 
commission tasked with working out practical modalities of establishing the 
transport links.

The commission most recently met in the Russian capital on October 20. Ahead of 
that meeting, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov spoke of “positive” 
signals coming from Yerevan. Bayramov expressed hope that they will translate 
into “concrete results” soon.


Reprinted on ANN/Armenian News with permission from RFE/RL
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Armenia’s Human Rights Defender faces off with government

Tambiyan Samvel
Oct 25 2021
 

ByAni Avetisyan
Arnab Tatoyan. Official photo.

The already hostile relationship between Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan and the Pashinyan administration has deepened in recent weeks with both Tatoyan and government authorities openly trading barbs.

On 22 October, Tatoyan repeated his assertion that the Azerbaijani military was carrying out ‘active engineering work’ and building fortifications on the territory in the eastern Armenian province of Gegharkunik. 

The claim was immediately followed by a statement from the Ministry of Defence refuting Tatoyan’ assertion and stating that the ‘engineering work’ was carried out ‘not in the territory of Armenia, but ‘next to it’. The Ministry also called on Tatoyan to refrain from spreading ‘unverified information’.

That same day, in an interview with RusArminfo, Armen Grigoryan, Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, stated that Tatoyan has never been ‘unbiased’ in his position as Human Rights Defender. He also accused Tatoyan of repeatedly ‘speaking against the revolution’ — referencing the 2018 revolution that deposed then-Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and the long-ruling Republican Party, bringing Nikol Pashinyan to power.  

Tatoyan was appointed by a Republican Party-led parliament in 2016 for a 6-year term. Grigoryan claimed that as Tatoyan’s tenure as Human Rights Defender is coming to an end it is ‘obvious’ that he is seeking to start a ‘political career’. 

The relationship between Armenia’s Human Rights Defender and the Pashinyan administration soured in the wake of Armenia’s defeat in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. Tatoyan has been particularly critical of government actions in the wake of Azerbaijani troops crossing Armenia internationally recognised border this past spring.

 [Read more Border crisis between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues]

Tatoyan also caused consternation in the government for his criticism of violent rhetoric used during the 2021 snap parliamentary election campaign by both ruling authorities — including Nikol Pashinyan specifically —  and the opposition.   

In April of this year, the Armenian government proposed abolishing a provision in the Armenian Constitution that stipulated that the office of the Human Rights Defender cannot receive less funding in any given year than the amount it had received the previous year. The measure has not yet been voted on in parliament.

Tatoyan condemned the move as ‘discrimination’ that would ‘abolish’ the independence of the office, by making it vulnerable to financial pressure from the authorities. 

The government denied any political motives behind the bill.

In March, a month before the draft constitutional amendment was announced, Tatoyan also accused the ruling authorities of no longer inviting him to weekly government briefings. 

Pashinyan’s spokesperson Mane Gevorgyan replied to the accusation by claiming that Tatoyan had not been attending the briefings ‘for a while’ and had instead sent employees of the Human Rights Defender’s Office in his stead — and that even more recently, his office had sent no one at all. 

In a statement, Tatoyan’s office stressed that invitations to government sessions are a right rather than an obligation of the Human Rights Defender.

‘For objective reasons, the Human Rights Defender was unable to personally attend several government sessions due to a sharp increase in the amount of work and complaints, frequent trips to the Syunik and Gegharkunik provinces, which are necessary to draw up reports for international organisations’, the statement reads.


Pashinyan hopes Armenian Summit of Minds will become certain platform for modeling economy, geopolitics

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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 23, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hopes that the Armenian Summit of Minds, taking place in the town of Dilijan, will become a certain platform for modeling the economy, the politics and the geopolitics, so that the processes taking place around the country would be more understandable and thus, more manageable.

Delivering remarks at the Armenian Summit of Minds, Pashinyan welcomed the idea of holding the Summit this year offline despite the COVID-19 situation. He attached great importance to such meetings, debates and exchange of ideas.

“The contemporary world is in particular a world of models and modeling where almost everything is modeled and works with this logic. When we model the world, we start to better recognize it, have a greater participation to the management of processes and make them more predictable for us”, the Armenian PM said.

Touching upon the geopolitics, he said that it also can be somehow modeled. “Geopolitics is very similar to tides, which are taking place constantly and regularly, and in the non-modeled world people didn’t understand what is taking place for what and why. But in the modeled world all these are already becoming predictable”, he said.

According to him, the most urgent issue to be discussed at the Summit of Minds is the modeling of the geopolitics, how and why the processes are taking place.

“Especially in the current and upcoming period there are issues which are of key significance for the past, present and future of our country. And their answer is important from the future’s perspective. And that future would be manageable and predictable to an extent on how we can model the geopolitics which is taking place in our region in narrower, broader and global terms”, Pashinyan said. “I hope this event will become a certain platform for modeling our economy, politics and the geopolitics, so that the processes happening with and around us will be more understandable and thus, more manageable”, he added.

Armenia is hosting the leading international Summit of Minds for the third time.

The Armenian Summit of Minds is taking place in the town of Dilijan, at the Training-Research Center of the Central Bank.

The event is attended by President Armen Sarkissian and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The agreement on holding the summit in Armenia was reached back in September 2018 when the President of Armenia was taking part in the annual Summit of Minds as a keynote speaker in the French city of Chamonix.

The slogan of this year’s Summit is “Global Transformations In A New Quantum World”.

 

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Armenpress: US Senate Committee on Appropriations recommends $2 million aid to Artsakh

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YEREVAN, 19 OCTOBER, ARMENPRESS. The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations released its Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations Bills today, which includes a recommendation of $2 million in aid to Artsakh, ARMENPRESS was informed from the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly).

Specifically, "the Committee recommends up to $2,000,000 for humanitarian demining and UXO clearance activities in areas affected by the 2020 fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, subject to prior consultation with the Committees on Appropriations."

The report also called "for humanitarian assistance" for those that have been "displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh."

In addition, the Committee remained "concerned with the protracted conflict," and requested "the Secretary of State to consult with the Committees on Appropriations prior to obligating assistance made available under title IV of the act for Armenia and Azerbaijan."

The bill itself restates Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act, which was adopted in 1992 when Congress took a principled stand against Azerbaijani aggression toward the Armenian people. Section 907 states that U.S. funds "may not be provided to the Government of Azerbaijan until the President determines and so reports to the Congress, that the Government of Azerbaijan is taking demonstrable steps to cease all blockades and other offensive uses of force against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh." In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on American soil, a national security waiver was added to Section 907. The exercise of the waiver is valid so long as it "will not undermine or hamper ongoing efforts to negotiate a peaceful settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan or be used for offensive purposes against Armenia."

The Senate Committee's action follows the recommendation of $50 million in funding for Armenia and $2 million for Artsakh in the Bill and Report by the House Committee on Appropriations in relation to the Fiscal Year 2022 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations legislation.

"The Assembly welcomes continued U.S. support for the Armenian people. As the House and Senate finalize the Appropriations bills, we urge Congress to allocate robust funding for both Armenia and Artsakh," said Assembly Congressional Relations Director Mariam Khaloyan.      

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.

COVID-19: Armenian health ministry reports 1589 new cases

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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 14, ARMENPRESS. 1589 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the last 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total number of confirmed cases to 276,666.

The total number of recoveries reached 251,330 (754 in the last 24 hours).

29 patients died, bringing the death toll to 5675, the health ministry reported.

12,522 tests were administered.

The number of active cases stood at 18,430 as of October 14.

Armenia Foreign Ministry strongly condemns Azerbaijan’s gross violation of ceasefire in Artsakh

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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 15, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s foreign ministry issued a statement today, strongly condemning yesterday’s gross violation by the Azerbaijani armed forces of the ceasefire in Artsakh established by the 2020 November 9 trilateral statement.

The statement says:

“We strongly condemn the gross violation by the Azerbaijani armed forces of the ceasefire regime on October 14, which was established by the November 9 trilateral statement, as a result of which 6 servicemen of the Defense Army of Artsakh were wounded near the village of Norshen of Artsakh. The Azerbaijani side continued violating the ceasefire also today, on October 15, by opening fire at a medical ambulance of the Defense Army in the north-eastern section.

We record that this is the second serious incident of the ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side within a week, as a result of which civilians and servicemen suffer.

Let us remind that on October 9 civilian Aram Tepnants was killed from a sniper fire while he was carrying out farming works near Martakert town. The respective statement of the Armenian Foreign Ministry has clearly emphasized the necessity of properly investigating this crime and holding the guilty ones accountable.

We attach importance to the implementation of the necessary actions with the mediation of the Russian peacekeeping forces aimed at the unconditional observance of the ceasefire regime and the prevention of such incidents in the future”.

 

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Russian Defense Ministry delivers 50 thousand doses of Sputnik-V vaccine to Armenian MoD

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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 14, ARMENPRESS. In line with the agreement reached between the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Arshak Karapetyan and the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergey Shoygu, the Russian Defense Ministry  provided the Armenian Ministry of Defense with 50,000 doses of "Sputnik-V" vaccine.

As ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of the MoD Armenia, the vaccines were delivered to Armenia on October 14 with a military airplane.

“The vaccines will be used for the needs of the Armed Forces of Armenia, and a part of the batch will be allocated to the Ministry of Health for vaccination of civilians.

The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia thanks the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for transferring the batch of vaccine to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, as well as for providing effective assistance in the fight against the epidemic”, reads the statement of MoD Armenia.