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The ‘fake’ plant in Armenia to increase investments to $10.1 million

Tambiyan Samvel
ARKA, Armenia

YEREVAN, April 25. /ARKA/. The International Manufacturing Group CJSC (IMG Group) will increase the investment in the production of household machines to 4.9 billion drams (about $10.1 million), Economic Development and Investments Minister Tigran Khachatryan said at a government meeting today.

The government of Armenia decided today to provide the company with a set of customs benefits for import of equipment and raw materials. 

The minister said the company has already invested 2.2 billion drams in the construction of workshops and equipment imports, and plans to bring investments to 4.9 billion drams under a new program.

He said the company is engaged in the assembly of household appliances, including TV sets, washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners in the village of Merdzavan in Armavir region.  According to him, the new investment is expected to create some 60-70 new jobs with an average salary of 200 thousand drams.

The minister said also the company plans to assemble 90 thousand pieces of household appliances a year. The output is to reach 11.3 billion drams, of which 4.5 billion drams worth goods will be sold in Armenia and the rest in other countries.

In this regard, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan asked if this is the plant that he opened late last year. He said there were rumors that the plant did not operate and was a ‘fake.’ 

"This is not a fake plant. Its launch is being delayed because some of the equipment  was to go through customs clearance at the port of Poti in Georgia. Now it is on the way to Armenia, and the first batch of goods  will be produced within a month," said Khachatryan.

He also noted that at the first stage the goods will be assembled in Armenia, and at the second stage some parts will be produced here.

The opening of the plant took place on December 5, 2018 in the presence of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The plant is a joint Armenian-Lebanese-Syrian program. -0-

Asbarez: Turkish Police Ban Genocide Commemoration in Istanbul

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Garo Paylan was among those participating in a Genocide commemoration after it was banned by police

Paylan Urges Discussion of Armenian Genocide in Parliament

For the second consecutive year the police in Turkey banned a planned commemoration of the Armenian Genocide which was scheduled to be held in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square.

Eren Keskin, co-chair of the Human Rights Association, which organized the annual event with the Istanbul Branch and Commission Against Racism and Discrimination condemned the decision, saying that negotiations with the police yielded no results, hence she moved the event in front of her organization’s offices.

Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkey’s parliament representing the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) said the ban by police was proof the democracy in Turkey was regressing.

“For years, there was a will to confront the genocide that took place 104 years ago. Nevertheless, they [the authorities] have also taken a step back from this will of confrontation. I am really sorry. Every crime which is not confronted repeats itself and, unfortunately, this crime is also repeating itself today. The great brutality that Armenians were subjected to 104 years ago is being perpetrated against the Kurdish people today,” said Paylan who urged Turkey’s government to confront its historical reality and promising to continue to fight for rights and rule of law.

“I curse the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide,” Paylan said in a Facebook post.

He also posted a photo of Faik Ali Ozansoy, the Governor of Kütahya during the Armenian Genocide, who refused to obey the Ottoman government’s orders to deport and massac the Armenian population.

“I respectfully bow before all those who, at the cost of their lives, refused to carry out the genocide order, in person of Kütahya Governor Faik Ali Ozansoy,” added Paylan on Facebook.

Paylan also issued a statement on April 24, calling on the Turkish Grand National Assembly to hold discussions about the Armenian Genocide in the Turkey’s legislature.

On April 24, 1915, political scientists, writers, poets, journalists, teachers, scientists and many other Armenian intellectuals were arrested in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. They were also deported to Ayash and Changhir, but later most of them were killed.

While the lives lost in 1915 cannot be recovered, in the interest of co-existing, it is important and valuable to acknowledge the painful past in our society and work toward improving relations with one another.

The Parliament should restore the rights and keep the memory of those intellectuals who were working toward the betterment of the Ottoman and Armenian people, and who were developing the educational institutions, were writing, producing, thinking, who, nevertheless, were killed on this land.

April 24, 1915 is accepted by the entire world as a day that the Armenian Genocide began. The Armenian Genocide has been a subject of discussion in numerous parliaments of the world, but has never been discussed in the Turkish parliament. Meanwhile, the parliament, where this great tragedy should be discussed, is that of the country where the tragedy has taken place. In other words, that is the parliament of Turkey.

For 104 years, Armenians around the world have been demanding the restoration of justice. Justice can be restored only within the conscience of the Turkish people and inside the Turkish parliament. The legislature that should be discussing the tragedy that happened to the Armenian people, first and foremost, must be the parliament of Turkey. And we urge to hold a parliamentary discussion on this matter.

Easter message from Armenia’s President

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Public Radio of Armenia
Easter message from Armenia's President

2019-04-21 12:57:27 

                           

President Armen Sarkissian has congratulated everyone in Armenia, Artsakh and Diaspora on the glorious resurrection of Jesus Christ.

He has also congratulated the the friends of the Armenian nation, all Christians who celebrate Easter, and the guests visiting Armenia these days.

“This day is celebrated by the Christian world with a special festiveness and love, especially by our people. In the country, which was the first to make Christianity state religion, Christian faith has been for centuries deeply and strongly embedded in the Armenian soil, Armenian peoples’ minds, and our self-identification,” the President said.

“The meaning and significance of Easter is more than just a church holiday. In a certain way it unites us, inspires and empowers us all, brings forth and renews, makes our faith in our own strength stronger, inspires new hopes for tomorrow,” he added.

According to President Sarkissian, the holiday is also a kind of appeal to be more united and unified, to be more far-sighted, resolute, tolerant, especially now, when the world is full of instability and concerning developments.

“I wish that the hope-inspiring news on Jesus Christ resurrection will light us up and will fill our hearts with new ardor, will call for new and good deeds for Armenia and for our nation,” he concluded.

On Easter Eve President Sarkissian attended a  Divine Liturgy at Zoravor Surp Astvatsatsin Church in Yerevan.

How to Counter 7 Lies in Turkey’s Denial of the Armenian Genocide

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How to Counter 7 Lies in Turkey's Denial of the Armenian Genocide
 
By David Swindle
 

Next week, on the 24th, is the commemoration of the Armenian genocide, 114 years after the Ottoman Empire started systematically murdering 1.5 million Armenians, as well as Greek and Assyrian minority Christians.

One man and the state he leads will not be participating in this important recognition of historical truth.  Turkey's anti-Semitic, Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, fancies himself the reviver of a neo-Ottoman Empire and has undertaken to spread his ideological influence globally.  That includes Armenian genocide denial.

While Turkey has long fought the recognition of the Armenian genocide internationally, the situation under Erdoğan's Islamist ideology has led him into an alliance with the international Muslim Brotherhood and its American affiliates.  This has given Turkish propaganda a reach into the United States that didn't exist at these levels before.  Samantha Rose Mandeles wrote at The American Spectator in February on how Turkish diplomats have spoken at and influenced prominent Muslim groups since 2014.  One such organization officially embracing Turkey's genocide denial is the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella group of over 30 Islamist charities and mosques, which published a "Statement on 1915 Turkish-Armenian Events" that forwards Turkey's denialism.

American Muslim organizations that founded the USCMO include American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), ICNA, Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), MAS, Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), and The Mosque Cares (Ministry of Imam W. Deen Mohammed).  Today, 32 Muslim organizations and mosques affiliate with the group.

Now Turkey has gone a step farther: actively distributing Armenian genocide denialist propaganda to American Muslims.  Last year, MAS's 21st annual West Coast convention took place from November 22 to 24 at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, California.  The conference featured booths from Muslim charities and businesses.  But Turkey was the only Muslim government present, represented by two booths.  There, amid complimentary Turkish flags, hats, and t-shirts, they distributed free books and pamphlets challenging the regime's enemies, including the Armenian people. 

A good example of the Turkish propaganda on offer is Our Neighbours of a Thousand Years: The Armenians, a slick, 52-page book filled with pictures and even a miniature CD in the back with folk songs.  While the title seems friendly and inviting, the book contains questionable historical claims and shaky arguments about Armenian-Turkish relations. 

These falsehoods include the following:

  1. The book quotes Erdoğan at the beginning demanding that all death and suffering of the period be treated the same, ignoring the historical question of who was responsible: "a fair humanitarian and conscientious stance requires an understanding of all the pain experienced in this period regardless of religion or ethnic origin."  This is akin to insisting that equal historical weight be given to the Jews murdered in the Holocaust and to the Nazis responsible for their deaths.
  1. The book claims that the Ottoman Empire did not seek to exterminate the Armenians —  that it sought only to relocate them.  The decision to forcibly relocate Armenians was supposedly the result of a "life or death struggle," and had it not been done "to secure both fronts during this time [sic] war," then there would have been "heavy casualties among Muslims."
  1. The book alleges that Armenians and Turks "lived side by side, amicably" for centuries; the conflict allegedly started with "the armed actions by the Armenians."  Thus, Turkey claims that rising Armenian nationalism provoked the conflict.  This ignores the fact that pogroms against Armenians occurred in 1894, 1895, 1896, and 1909.
  1. It alleges that Armenians collaborated with Turkey's enemies during the war and committed violent crimes: "they were involved in manslaughter and looting incidents in cities and towns, that there is a need for a radical measure for the security of the state and that on this account, it had been decided to transfer the Armenians rioting from the war zones to other regions."
  1. The pamphlet asserts that the Ottoman government did have a plan to feed and support the Armenians who were forced to relocate; however, there were "certain setbacks and abuses in implementation" that "caused many Armenians to have bitter memories of this period etched in their brains."
  1. Any abuses of Armenians were supposedly done by "disobedient state officials," and documents proving that such events occurred supposedly disprove genocide claims because "they also prove that the Ottoman Government did not intend for such incidents to occur, on the contrary, penalized those who committed such crimes."
  1. Finally, the pamphlet asserts that in the 1970s, Armenian terrorists murdered Turkish diplomats and that it was around this time when "forged documents and photographs" and "dubious memoirs" emerged supporting the idea of the genocide.  This historical revisionism collapses by doing the most basic historical research into the period.  The truth of the genocide was affirmed in the 1918 memoir by Henry Morgenthau, who served as the United States' ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918, and Winston Churchill's 1929 history of the First World War, The World Crisis.  It is evidenced even by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkish president from 1923 to 1938.  Ataturk named the nationalist group responsible for the genocide: "These leftovers from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the lives of millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacred …"

To summarize: Today, Turkey claims that the Ottoman Empire's policy was one of relocation, not extermination, and that it was both morally justified and existentially necessary because it was provoked by alleged Armenian nationalism, violence, and treason. 

Where to begin?  All of these historical points and arguments may seem like a lot to unpack.  However, the book skips something that should be obvious in any document purporting to tackle a controversial historical subject: there are no sources whatsoever to back up any of these dubious claims.

"This booklet is publication of Prime Ministry of Republic of Turkey," the book notes on the last page in the poor English that characterizes much of the text.  How is it that a state with the resources of Turkey cannot manage to produce a book that would earn a college freshman a passing grade? 

The Turkish-backed USCMO's insistence that what is needed is a "proper investigation of these events by independent historians" rings hollow, given that substantive historical work has been done for generations now, and an abundance of contemporaneous evidence from 1915 makes the denialist position so untenable that it almost starts to make sense that Turkey would not even bother with standard academic conventions like a works cited page. 

Where do we find clear evidence affirming the Genocide?  The New York Times' archives going back to 1915 are a good place to start.  An article summarizing the Times coverage and evidence of the genocide notes how "extensively" it was covered, with "145 articles in 1915 alone by one count — with headlines like 'Appeal to Turkey to Stop Massacres.' The Times described the actions against the Armenians as 'systematic,' 'authorized,' and 'organized by the government.'"

The pamphlet's claim that the Ottoman government's policy was relocation, not extermination, and that atrocities were isolated incidents by officials acting on their own, is not tenable when the sheer numbers are considered.  The Times notes, "The University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies has compiled figures by province and district that show there were 2,133,190 Armenians in the empire in 1914 and only about 387,800 by 1922."  Likewise, the vastness of the numbers missing engulfs Turkey's suggestion that any meaningful number of the Armenians killed were done so in reasonable self-defense.

The historical truth of the genocide and the mendacity of its present-day Islamist deniers are dark and disturbing subjects to process.  However, history has offered a silver lining in the form and people of the Armenian diaspora.  In countries around the world, over the generations since the genocide, Armenians have built prosperous communities, in harmony with their neighbors.

Living well is indeed the best revenge, and it is this sense of peace that Turkey is now striving to disrupt among Armenian-Americans.  But we can fight back together. 

I will continue to advocate for recognition of historical truth, clear-eyed resolve in confronting Erdoğan's imperial impulses, and a unified opposition to the threat of Islamist totalitarianism both abroad and right here in sunny Southern California.  It's time for Armenians, Jews, Christians, women, moderate Muslims, and everyone with a moral conscience to come together to recognize the common threat Islamism poses to the peace of all our communities.

David M. Swindle is Southern California associate for the Counter-Islamist Grid and director of research for The Israel Group.  Follow him on Twitter at @DaveSwindle.

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Prelate’s Easter Message

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Western Prelate Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian

The triumphant message of the glorious Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ once again emboldens our lives, illuminates our hearts and spirits with His light, and bolsters our faith with the hope of eternal life. Today we rejoice, for “Christ was resurrected and His enemies scattered.” Life triumphed over the bonds of death, goodness over evil, light over darkness, truth over lies, and justice over injustice.

The Son of God came to this earth with a message of love, peace, hope, forgiveness, and reconciliation, preaching redemption and salvation for all mankind. Many received Him, took up their cross and followed Him, while others felt threatened and sought to defeat Him. His opponents, the supposed teachers and defenders of the law, had so much hatred and deception in their hearts that they could not tolerate His fair and just condemnation and subsequently plotted to have Him killed with the help of the chief priests. To the distraught apostles and disciples who witnessed firsthand the slanderous accusations against their beloved teacher, His condemnation, arrest, crucifixion, and ultimately His death and burial, it appeared as though evil had triumphed. But it was only the beginning, for “on the third day He rose again, and ascended into heaven with the same body and sat at the right hand of the Father” (Nicene Creed).

The haze of doubt and cloud of despair was dispelled as the Resurrected Christ appeared to His disciples. Armed with kindled faith and restored hope by the triumph of the Resurrection, they began a new life as bold witnesses to the glory of God, witnesses to truth and justice, while the forces of darkness, that is, the chief priests and the Pharisees, suffered defeat.

The light, truth, power, and promise of the Resurrection reached and illuminated the Armenian nation through the apostles. The Armenian people, too, became fearless witnesses and remained so during the countless sufferings, persecutions, death and destruction that we endured throughout the centuries, armed with the conviction that in the end, truth and justice will always prevail, and heartened by the words of our Lord Himself, “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it” (Matthew 16:25).

Dear faithful,

Each year, Easter comes to remind us that the Lord came that we may have life, and that we may have it more abundantly (John 10:10). There will always be evil in the world; there will be hate, envy, deception, persecution, and more. There will be moments when our faith is tested and our hope is weakened, but we must not despair. “In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). Yes, Jesus overcame all, and “everyone born of God overcomes the world” (1 John 5:4).

We live in a challenging time with no shortage of negative influences that can threaten the integrity of our individual, family, community, and spiritual life. Thus, it is vital that we remain vigilant. We must plant and cultivate seeds of love, peace, truth, and justice first within our own hearts and then in the hearts of those around us, so that we may collectively choose the path of light and goodness in our spiritual lives, in our service, duties, and in our mission.

Come, before all else, let us invite the Resurrected Lord to dwell in our hearts and to breathe the power of the Resurrection in us as He breathed the Holy Spirit on the apostles (John 20:22). Only then will we be able to “put on the whole armor of God” and “stand against the wiles of the devil” (Ephesians 6:11) to become intrepid witnesses to the truth and justice of our Lord.

Encouraged by these reflections, renewed and revitalized in body, mind, and spirit through the spiritual journey of Great Lent, and, above all, fortified in faith, hope, and joy by the power and promise of the Resurrection, we convey our heartfelt wishes for a happy and blessed Easter to our clergy, councils, parishes, schools, community organizations, and faithful.

We pray for the light of the triumphant Resurrection to radiate throughout the world and throughout Armenia, Artsakh and the Diaspora especially, inspiring and guiding the sacred mission of our government, religious, and national leaders.

May the breath of the Resurrection reinvigorate our lives and may the glory of Easter transform us in our daily walk so that we may live and serve as “children of light” and guardians of truth and justice.

CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD
BLESSED IS THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
HAPPY AND BLESSED EASTER TO ALL

Prayerfully,
Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian
Prelate, Western United States
Easter 2019




Armenian military increases offensive units

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YEREVAN, APRIL 9, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Armed Forces are in the phase of increasing its offensive units and the Defense Ministry’s vision in terms of arsenal and military equipment is aimed at this, Armenian Deputy Minister of Defense Gabriel Balayan told reporters after the session of the parliamentary committee on defense and security affairs.

Balayan was addressing Minister of Defense Davit Tonoyan’s statement in New York on the Armenian military plans to increase its attacking units.

“The defense minister not only has announced that we must increase, but I can also say that we are at this stage, including in terms of arsenal and military equipment our vision is aimed at this,” he said.

He said that perceiving Tonoyan’s statement as an aggression is naïve. Balayan said perhaps the adversary isn’t looking into the meaning of the minister’s speech and is commenting on it out of context.

Balayan stressed that the entire society must be able to realize that no one has gifted peace to Armenia. “The relative calm that exists has been imposed on the adversary. And if the adversary were to attempt to unleash again, we will again impose peace,” he said, adding that the ways of imposing peace differ – military, diplomacy, personal contacts, and others.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan




Armenia wants to move to five-year gas price agreement with Gazprom

Tambiyan Samvel
ITAR-TASS, Russia
Thursday 5:52 PM GMT
Armenia wants to move to five-year gas price agreement with Gazprom
 
YEREVAN April 4
Armenian Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources considers it expedient to switch to a five-year agreement on the price of gas with Gazprom instead of the practice of setting the price of gas annually, said the head of the ministry’s foreign relations department Tigran Melkonyan at a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation between the Russian Federation and Armenia on Wednesday.
  
YEREVAN, April 4. / TASS /. Armenian Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources considers it expedient to switch to a five-year agreement on the price of gas with Gazprom instead of the practice of setting the price of gas annually, said the head of the ministry’s foreign relations department Tigran Melkonyan at a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation between the Russian Federation and Armenia on Wednesday.
 
"It is extremely important to work on agreeing and signing an agreement on the pricing procedure for supplying natural gas to Armenia for at least five years, which will make it possible to have certainty in the tariff policy when setting gas prices," Melkonyan said.
 
Gazprom is the only supplier of gas to Armenian consumers. On January 1, 2019, the price of Russian gas for Armenia increased from $ 150 to $ 165 per thousand cubic meters. Then, the Armenian authorities have repeatedly said earlier that they were negotiating a gas price reduction with the Russian side. In 2018, Armenia received gas on the border with Russia at the price of $150 per 1,000 cubic meters, which had been lowered to that level from $165 per 1,000 in 2016. Meanwhile, the fuel price for consumers was $290.
 
Russian gas deliveries to the country stood at 1.87 billion cubic meters in 2016 and at 2 billion cubic meters in 2017.
 
Gazprom Armenia, a subsidiary of the Russian holding. The contract for supply of up to 2.5 bln cubic meters of natural gas is effective until the end of 2019.

Diplomat: Iran-Armenia Ties Strong, Friendly

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Fars News, Iran
 
 
Diplomat: Iran-Armenia Ties Strong, Friendly
 
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Ambassador to Armenia Kazzem Sajjadi lauded the good status of Tehran-Yerevan relations, describing the bilateral ties between the two neighboring counties as strong and friendly.
 
Sajjadi on Saturday praised the high-level relations between Iran and Armenia, adding that the two neighboring counties have always sided with each other in difficult times, Sajjadi said.
 
He made the remarks in a ceremony held to celebrate the Nowruz ceremony in the Armenian capital city of Yerevan.
 
The envoy referred to the recent Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's visit to Iran and described Iran and Armenia relations as friendly.
 
Commenting about the peaceful nature of Nowruz celebration, he said that the Iranian nation has always been peace-seeking and an advocate of regional and international peace.
 
Iran and Armenia have taken major strides in widening and deepening their relations in recent years, particularly in the economic sphere.
 
Late in February, Armenian Prime Minister Pashanyan visited Iran and in a meeting with Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani expressed the hope that his visit to Tehran would be a milestone in relations between the two countries, specially in economic fields.
 
Pashanyan welcomed development of economic relations with Iran, expressing the hope that his visit to Tehran would open a new chapter in the two countries' relations.
 
 Pashanian also met with Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei where Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that Tehran and Yerevan should endeavor to further broaden their relations and cooperation irrespective of Washington's pressures.

Calendar of Events – 03/21/2019

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What:           Event dedicated to "Iraqi Armenian Educational Institutions"
When:           Mar 24 2019 4:30pm
Where:          St. Gregory Armenian Catholic Cathedral's Hall
                1510 E. Mountain St. Glendale, CA 91207
Misc:           With a high sense of gratitude to our Iraqi national Schools
                and educators, we have organized an event dedicated to "Iraqi
                Armenian Educational Institutions" under sponsorship of the
                Hamazkayin USA Western Region.
                Participating in the event are our youth with recited poem, who
                had received their Armenian education in Iraq, Singers, the
                screening of Iraqi Armenian Schools history video, former
                principals and teachers eyewitness testimony video, and remark
                of the Hamazkayin Board member.
                The event is free of charge to the public. There will be a
                reception at the end of the program.
Tel:            818-244-9639

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What:           Armenian Economic Association 2019 Annual Meetings
When:           Jun 27 2019 10am
                to Jun 29 2019 7pm
Where:          Armenian State University of Economics, 
                the Armenian National Agrarian University, and the American
                University of Armenia
Misc:           Scholars, researchers, and graduate students are invited to
                present their research in all areas of economics and finance. 
                No cost to present or attend.
Online Contact: [email protected]
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Armenpress: Sweden’s Minister for International Development Cooperation to visit Armenia

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Sweden’s Minister for International Development Cooperation to visit Armenia

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YEREVAN, MARCH 19, ARMENPRESS. Sweden’s Minister for International Development Cooperation Peter Eriksson will visit Armenia on March 21-22, swedenabroad.se reports.

Ahead of the minister’s visit the Swedish government announced that it intends to expand its financial support to Armenia in response to the strong political will to undertake necessary reforms, following the velvet revolution of 2018. 

“An active democratization process has started in Armenia after the ‘velvet revolution’ in 2018. We see a strong political will to undertake necessary reforms and to strengthen democracy, freedom of _expression_ and other fundamental rights and freedoms”, the Swedish minister said.

The opening of a bilateral program for Sweden’s development cooperation with Armenia will mean increased funding for projects in Armenia and make the Swedish support to Armenia more targeted.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan