Author: Tatoyan Vazgen

Job Offer: Armenia – Psychologist in Yerevan

Tatoyan Vazgen
Relief Web
Feb 12 2021

Organization
  • Première Urgence Internationale
Posted
12 Feb 2021
Closing date
12 May 2021

Première Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people in order to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency.

The association leads in average 190 projects by year in the following sectors of intervention: food security, health, nutrition, construction and rehabilitation of infrastructures, water, sanitation, hygiene and economic recovery. PUI is providing assistance to around 5 million people in 20 countries – in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and France.

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On 27 September 2020, heavy fighting broke out along the border in and around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh —the most serious escalation since 2016. Civilian casualties have been reported on both sides, while many houses and public infrastructures in the conflict zone, such as schools, roads and communication networks, were also damaged. According to official statements, around 90.000 people – equivalent to two-thirds of the Nagorno-Karabakh population – have been displaced as a direct result of the conflict. Nearly 90% of the spontaneous arrivals were women and children, and the majority of them fled to the capital Yerevan as well as to the cities of Goris and Sisian. Following heavy clashes, the President of Azerbaijan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, and the President of Russia signed a 9-point statement on cessation of hostilities on 9 November 2020.

The massive influx of spontaneous arrivals is adding pressure on already limited resources in cities and localities where they seek safety. Moreover, the pandemic of COVID-19 and the post-conflict situation affect the capacity of the hosting communities to provide sustained support. While the health care system is stretched, MHPSS needs increased significantly.

Première Urgence Internationale is an NGO resulting from the merger of Aide Médicale Internationale (AMI) and Première Urgence (PU) in 2011. Following the conflict escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh at the end of September 2020, PUI decided in October to organize a first exploratory mission in order to meet state authorities and humanitarian actors in Armenia, and thus evaluate the support that the organization would bring to this response. In light of the fast evolution of the context and the ceasefire signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan, PUI decided to organize a second needs-assessment in December, in particular in MHPSS. Indeed, the conflict’s escalation is part of long-term tensions that had already impacted the mental health of Armenians, but the war has definitely exacerbated pre-existing MHPSS needs. Considering the results of these two assessments, PUI wants to contribute to the reduction of the suffering of host communities, spontaneous arrivals and returnees affected by the conflict in Armenia through a MHPSS approach at first. Thus, PUI recently submitted a proposal to an institutional donor. The funding of this project should be confirmed soon.

For 2021, the major objective of PUI is to bring about strong sectoral improvements in MHPSS in Armenia and look into new PUI sectors to include in our mission strategy over 2021. In this context PUI is looking for a strong and experienced head of mission.

As part of our activities in Armenia, we are looking for a Psychologist in Yerevan.

The Psychologist works within the Première Urgence Internationale’s project in Yerevan. The beneficiaries are host and refugee communities supported by the local partner associations. The psychologist is focused on the provision of targeted clinical supervision, trainings and direct provision of psychosocial support when relevant: he/she develops individualized clinical supervision, capacity building interventions and trainings in accordance with the gaps and needs identified. In collaboration with the partner associations, s/he conducts focused counseling sessions for individuals and families, contributes to the quality of the community-level psychosocial support activities, supports the psychologists and psychosocial workers in their clinical practice, and supports the referrals of cases for psychological consultations. He/she contributes to data collection.

  • Provide technical support and capacity building to the partners’s MHPSS staff
  • Support adequate referrals of community centers’ beneficiaries in need of psychological care
  • Participate in providing psychosocial interventions in the community centers
  • Participate in training activities
  • Participate in data collection and reporting

IMPROVE QUALITY CARE BY PROVIDING TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND CAPACITY BUILDING TO PUI’S MHPSS STAFF PARTNERS

  • Conduct KAP Survey at the beginning and end of the project to assess the clinical knowledge, practices and needs of the supported MHPSS teams, and evaluate the progress and remaining gaps.
  • Provide on the job training through the direct observation of the PSS sessions
  • Develop individualized and group clinical supervision. Debrief on the observed PSS sessions with the team in order to strengthen and develop the psychosocial interventions and clinical competencies.
  • Make needed adjustments to the capacity building plan according to the impact assessment and beneficiary feedback
  • Work in coordination with other organization providing MHPSS services
  • Conduct all actions with high level of professionalism (confidentiality and ethics included)

SUPPORT PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS FOR THE BENEFICIARIES

Individual consultations are offered by the PUI psychologist as part of the psychosocial activities carried out by the partner in the community centres. The psychologist in this context of intervention is in charge of supporting the psychosocial workers – and not replacing them.

  • When adequate and according to PUI guidelines, offer immediate psychological support through individual / family sessions in the community centers to beneficiaries who need more than PSS support.
  • Foster on-the-job capacity building by providing co-counseling sessions when possible, with the consent of the patient: allow PSS staff (individually) to observe and/or participate in these consultations for training purposes
  • Allow the psychologists to observe the clinical practice of these staff in individual consultation situations and to adapt their interventions (training/supervision) according to what she has observed from the practice of the PSS staff.
  • Ensure and support the referral of beneficiaries for psychological consultations and advanced services provided by the partners associations when needed
  • Support the follow-up the referred cases
  • Support the provision of MHPSS and Covid-19 awareness messages through the design and dissemination of culturally adapted IEC materials within all supported associations
  • Participate in advocacy with the community leaders
  • Mainstream of protection throughout all actions
  • Ensure high level of confidentiality and ethics throughout the actions
  • Observe and evaluate the activities on daily basis and providing feedback and suggestions for improvement to the MHPSS Staff of partner associations

PARTICIPATE IN DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING

  • Ensure all activities (beneficiary and capacity-building activates data) are accurately collected and reported, according to PUI guidelines
  • Contribute to the MHPSS statistic reports and reports to the donors
  • Follow-up the referrals

Training:

  • Masters degree in psychology or related field
  • Training in trauma-focused interventions

Professional Experience:

  • Minimum two (2) years of clinical practice in mental health care
  • Exprerienced in Community-Based MHPSS
  • Experience in the provision of training and clinical supervision

Knowledge and Skills:

  • Excellent writtten and verbal communication skills
  • Understanding of the Iraqi society and health care system

Language: Russian and/or Armenian

Required Personal Characteristics:

  • Abilty to practise neutrality and impartiality in all occasions
  • Creativity
  • Willingness to work outside / in a tent structure throughout the project period
  • Readiness to commute daily from Yerevan to Nagorno-Karabakh
  • Ability to conduct manualized interventions
  • Employed with a Fixed-Term Contract
  • Monthly gross income: from 1 650 up to 1 980 Euros depending on the experience in International Solidarity + 50 Euros per semester seniority with PUI
  • Cost covered: Round-trip transportation to and from home / mission, visas, vaccines…
  • Insurance including medical coverage and complementary healthcare, 24/24 assistance and repatriation
  • Housingin hotels for now but in collective accommodation on the long run
  • Daily living Expenses (« Per diem »)
  • Break Policy: 5 working days at 3 and 9 months
  • Paid Leaves Policy: 5 weeks of paid leaves per year + return ticket every 6 months

If you wish to apply, follow this link and fill in the form on our website.

Country
  • Armenia
City
  • Yerevan
Organization
  • Première Urgence Internationale
Type
  • Job
Career Category
  • Program/Project Management
Years of experience
  • 3-4 years
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COVID-19: Armenia reports 154 new cases over past day

Tatoyan Vazgen

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 10:57,

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 12, ARMENPRESS. 154 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in Armenia in the past one day, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 168,830, the ministry of healthcare said today.

168 more patients have recovered in one day. The total number of recoveries has reached 160,838.

3 more patients have died, raising the death toll to 3138.

2893 tests were conducted in the past one day.

The number of active cases is 4066.

The number of people who had been infected with COVID-19 but died from other disease stands has reached 788 (2 new such cases).

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Issues of villagers’ rights, their peaceful life must be of primary importance, says Armenian ombudsman

Tatoyan Vazgen
Panorama, Armenia
Feb 11 2021

The issues of the rights of villagers, their peaceful and normal daily life must be of primary importance in the process of resolving border disputes, Armenia’s Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) Arman Tatoyan said on Thursday.

“In the 1920s, for example, in the border areas of Soviet Armenia, one of the constant concerns of Armenian villagers was the attacks and looting by bandits from Azerbaijani territories (later Red Kurdistan), theft of animals, sale of lands to Armenian villagers by Azerbaijani landowners and thereafter illegally bringing claims of ownership to reclaim such lands.

“For example, in 1922, in the report addressed to the Central Executive Committee of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) of the Zangezur Provincial Executive Committee, it states that “there can be no normal life” or “friendly relations” without resolving the issue of the land-administrative borders of Zangezur province with Ghubatlu. Several reports from the Zangezur Provincial Executive Committee to the Haykent Executive Committee in the second half of 1925 attest to this, referring to the border dispute between Kapan and Ghubatlu citing the same concerns. Such issues were also raised on October 18, 1926 within the report addressed to the land administration of the People’s Committee of Agriculture of the Armenian SSR,” he wrote on Facebook.

“Historical documents show that the local administrations of Azerbaijan, including the Ministry of Education and Science of Azerbaijan, have always wrongfully accused the Armenian villagers living in the border areas of Zangezur of border violations and illegal activities in their own territory. Unfounded border disputes brought upon Azerbaijani allegations and against the villagers have, by all accounts, have repeatedly contributed to such provocations. In fact, these were the ways and means of occupying the territories of Soviet Armenia.

“These days, we must learn from these important historical facts, and we are duty bound to guarantee the rights of the inhabitants of the border villages of Armenia,” Tatoyan said. 

Opposition leader announces new rally at Yerevan square on Friday

Tatoyan Vazgen
Panorama, Armenia
Feb 11 2021

Vazgen Manukyan, the joint candidate of Armenia’s opposition Homeland Salvation Movement for interim prime minister, announced a new rally at the Liberty Square in Yerevan on Friday, February 12.

In a statement on Thursday, he urged people to “wake up” from the “hypnotic state”.

“The authorities have decided that from now on it is required to have the consent of Armenia’s national security agencies to cover various topics in some parts of Syunik Province.

“Yesterday it became known that there is a secret document, according to which the borders of Syunik and the communication links passing through it are determined to the detriment of Armenia. It’s yet unknown what other secret and illegal documents have been signed. After some time, we will wake up one day to find out that we have lost Syunik as it was the case on the night of November 9, 2020,” the opposition leader said.

“Armenia is getting smaller every day; our territories are controlled by foreigners. On our way to change the situation, we became convinced that we do not have police, because it, serving the current authorities, serves the interests of Azerbaijan and Turkey.

“Future generations will curse us. We will have an enslaved part of the people in this area, which is still called Armenia, while the rest will be scattered all over the world, becoming refugees,” Manukyan said, urging Armenians to “wake up and take hold of the country’s future”.

“Do not wait for the steps of political parties! All national political forces stand with you, but it’s for you to decide the future of the country.

“I urge you to gather at the Liberty Square tomorrow, February 12, at 3pm, to decide what further steps we have to take. We are losing our homeland,” he stated. 

Rights of Armenia’s citizens must be the basis of decisions in border determination process- Tatoyan

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 10:56, 1 February, 2021

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, ARMENPRESS. The rights of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia should be the basis of decisions when engaged in the process of determining the borders; it is necessary to take into account all the mistakes made in the past, Ombudsman of Armenia Arman Tatoyan said in a statement on Facebook.

“When in 1923, in order to artificially separate Armenia from Artsakh, “Red Kurdistan” was formed, the border disputes with Zangezur of the Armenian SSR intensified. One of the main concerns consistently raised by the people of Zangezur at the time was the issue of the rights of the villagers to the lands, along with the winter and summer time pastures and gardens.

For example, in October of 1925, a member of the State Committee of the Armenian SSR, A. Yerznkyan, by way of a reference stated that the areas West of the border with Meghri and Karyagino (Jabrail) were mainly winter pastures, which were actually used by the residents of the villages of Kapan and Meghri without grasslands. One of the main reasons was that without these pastures, the livestock of the villages in the referenced regions would be paralyzed.

In another case, the head of the local commission for demarcation of the borders of Zangezur “between the provinces of Kurdistan,” Ya. Kochetkov, by way of an example, based his disagreement with the Azeri proposals on the village of Teghut on the fact that it is one of the districts of Shvanidzor, where the lands (gardens and pastures) are so intertwined that it will be impossible to separate them.

The same disputes over the rights of the villagers took place between the villages of Kapan and Zangelan, Khoznavar and Azerbaijan.

In 1924, 1926, 1929, and 1935 sessions of the local commission of the USSR tasked with resolving the border disputes and relevant issues, it is clear from the materials memorializing the efforts of these years, that discussions pertaining to the rights of the villagers of the USSR have repeatedly been woefully inadequate. For example, Zangezur’s scarcity of “village-to-village” connections (administrative, economic, etc.) was ignored, and without an accounting of the difficulties that might arise for the rights of villagers.

Complete add careful attention was also not paid to the security of the villages (attacks by various gangs on Armenian villages from Kurdistan, thefts, etc.), which directly affected the use of pastures and other lands by the villagers (for example, when the 21 villages of the Voghji Basut River Basin were handed over to the Jabrail Province of Azerbaijan).

All of these shortcomings once again confirm that the rights of the citizens of the Republic of Armenia should be the basis of decisions when engaged in the process of determining the borders; it is necessary to take into account all the mistakes made in the past; to learn the necessary lessons from them; and to not permit violations or disregard of rights”, the Ombudsman said.

RFE/RL Armenian Report – 02/03/2021

Tatoyan Vazgen 
                                        Wednesday, February 03, 2021
Armenian Opposition Alliance To Resume Anti-Government Protests
February 03, 2021
        • Gayane Saribekian
Armenia -- Opposition supporters demonstrate outside the main government 
building in Yerevan to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian's resignation, 
December 12, 2020.
Leaders of a coalition of more than a dozen Armenian opposition parties said on 
Wednesday that it will resume soon street protests aimed at forcing Prime 
Minister Nikol Pashinian to resign.
“There will be civil disobedience actions -- marches, demonstrations, rallies -- 
so that we oust this government of evil under popular pressure,” said Ishkhan 
Saghatelian, the coordinator of the Homeland Salvation Movement. He did not go 
into details.
The alliance blames Pashinian for Armenia’s defeat in the recent war with 
Azerbaijan and wants him to hand over power to an interim government headed by 
one of its leaders, Vazgen Manukian. The prime minister has rejected the 
opposition demands and has offered to hold fresh parliamentary elections instead.
The opposition forces failed to attract large crowds for their street protests 
staged in Yerevan in November and December. Saghatelian said last week that they 
are now discussing ways of reinvigorating their campaign.
The top leaders of the alliance met late on Tuesday as part of those 
discussions. They included Saghatelian, Manukian, former Presidents Serzh 
Sarkisian and Robert Kocharian, Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) leader Gagik 
Tsarukian and former National Security Service Director Artur Vanetsian.
“The movement will continue protest actions at top gear and use its entire 
toolkit for fighting against the authorities,” Vanetsian told reporters. He said 
that the anti-government protests were suspended because of a cold weather, 
rather than differences among the alliance leaders.
Saghatelian acknowledged that they are divided over their participation in snap 
elections that would be held by the current government. But he downplayed those 
differences, saying that the opposition forces remain united in their attitude 
towards Pashinian’s administration.
Kocharian said last week that he and his political allies will participate in 
the elections if they are organized by the current government. The BHK and 
Vanetsian’s Fatherland are also against boycotting such polls. The boycott is 
favored by Sarkisian’s Republican Party.
Armenia ‘Ready’ To Buy Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine
February 03, 2021
RUSSIA -- A woman receives an injection with Sputnik V vaccine against the 
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a hospital in the village of Donskoye in 
Stavropol Region, January 27, 2021
The Armenian government would like to buy Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine 
and is negotiating with Moscow for that purpose, Health Minister Anahit 
Avanesian said on Wednesday.
“Close cooperation and periodical exchange of experience with the Russian side 
is very important for us, and our specialists are now holding active 
negotiations over the acquisition of the Sputnik V vaccine,” she told Sergei 
Kopyrkin, the Russian ambassador to Armenia, at a meeting in Yerevan.
A statement by the Armenian Ministry of Health quoted Avanesian as saying that 
her government is ready to buy Sputnik V in addition to another vaccine which is 
due to be supplied to Armenia by the COVAX Facility global partnership supported 
by the World Health Organization. No other details were reported.
The Russian Ministry of Health donated more a dozen doses of Sputnik V to 
Armenia in November. Then Health Minister Arsen Torosian and other senior 
officials were among Armenian volunteers who received the vaccine shots at the 
time.
The deputy director of the Armenian National Center for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Gayane Sahakian, said late last month that COVAX will soon deliver 
the first batch of the relatively cheap vaccine developed by the British company 
AstraZeneca and Oxford University
Sahakian said the Armenian health authorities plan to start vaccinating an 
estimated 3 percent of the country’s population against COVID-19 by the 
beginning of March. The “first phase” of the vaccination will cover medical 
workers, care home personnel, people aged 65 and older as well as younger people 
suffering from chronic diseases, added the official.
The authorities have so far announced no plans to vaccinate the majority of 
Armenians.
Armenia has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 167,000 
cases and at least 3,096 fatalities officially confirmed in the country of about 
3 million to date. The real number of cases is believed to be much higher.
Ministry of Health data shows that COVID-19 infections have fallen significantly 
in the last three months even though the authorities have largely stopped 
enforcing their safety and hygiene rules. The ministry reported on Wednesday 
that 190 people tested positive for the disease in the past 24 hours, down from 
more than 2,000 cases a day routinely registered in late October and early 
November.
Armenian Parliament Approves Government Plans For New Judges
February 03, 2021
        • Artak Khulian
        • Gayane Saribekian
Armenia -- A session of the National Assembly, February 3, 2021
Opposition leaders accused the Armenian parliament of undermining judicial 
independence on Wednesday as it approved a government proposal to hire new 
judges who will deal only with corruption cases or pre-trial arrests of criminal 
suspects.
A relevant bill drafted by the Ministry of Justice calls for the selection of up 
to 21 such judges for Armenian courts of first instance. Three other new judges 
specializing in arrests or corruption-related offenses would be appointed to the 
Court of Appeals.
Government officials have said that the new judges would reduce the workload of 
courts increasingly overwhelmed by pending criminal and civil cases. According 
to Justice Minister Rustam Badasian, they should also hand down “more objective” 
rulings on arrest warrants demanded by investigators.
In recent months Armenian judges have refused to allow law-enforcement bodies to 
arrest dozens of opposition leaders and members as well as other anti-government 
activists. Virtually all of those individuals are prosecuted in connection with 
angry protests sparked by the Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s handling of the 
autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Pashinian charged in December that Armenia’s judicial system has become part of 
a “pseudo-elite” which is trying to topple him after the disastrous war.
Armenia -- A courtroom in Yerevan.
The National Assembly passed the government bill in the first reading by 83 
votes to 17 with one abstention. Both opposition parties represented in the 
parliament rejected the bill, saying that the authorities should address instead 
the far more pressing security challenges facing Armenia and Karabakh.
“These issues are not addressed because the authorities have what they see as a 
much more important agenda: how to increase the number of judges approving 
arrest warrants,” said Naira Zohrabian of the opposition Prosperous Armenia 
Party (BHK).
Lilit Makunts, the parliamentary leader of Pashinian’s My Step bloc, rejected 
the criticism. “I want to remind that the government takes on a weekly basis new 
measures to overcome consequences of the war,” she said. “We do not contribute 
to a better [security] environment by delivering fiery speeches here and trying 
to spread alarm among our citizens.”
Armenia - Riot police detain opposition activists outside the parliament 
building in Yerevan, February 3, 2021.
Several other opposition groups denounced the government bill in stronger terms 
and rallied hundreds of supporters outside the parliament compound in Yerevan in 
a bid to scuttle its passage. Their senior members claimed that Pashinian’s 
administration wants to install loyal judges who would duly allow the pre-trial 
arrests of their political opponents.
The protesters scuffled with riot police after blocking a major street adjacent 
to the compound. Several opposition activists were detained on the spot.
The crowd then marched to the main government building surrounded by several 
rows of riot police.
Food Prices Soar In Armenia
February 03, 2021
        • Sargis Harutyunyan
Armenia -- A man looks at meat products at a food store in Yerevan.
Food prices in Armenia rose by an average of 6.4 percent year on year in 
January, according to government data.
A monthly report released by the Armenian government’s Statistical Committee 
shows particularly drastic increases in the prices of imported key foodstuffs 
such as cooking oil and sugar. They were up by more than 40 percent from January 
2020.
The prices of bread, dairy products and eggs rose by about 8 percent, said the 
Statistical Committee. It also reported a roughly 10 percent surge in the cost 
of fruits and vegetables mostly grown in Armenia.
Meat and products made from it were the only foodstuffs that have essentially 
not become more expensive since January 2020, the official statistics show.
Consequently, consumer price inflation in the country reached 4.5 percent last 
month, according to the committee report, surpassing a full-year target of 4 
percent set by the government for 2021. It already rose significantly in 
December.
In a bid to curb the higher-than-projected inflation, the Central Bank of 
Armenia has twice raised its key interest rate since December 15.
The surge in food prices was caused in part by a major depreciation of the 
Armenian dram. The national currency has lost more than 7 percent of its nominal 
value against the U.S. dollar in the past year.
The surge also appears to reflect a global trend. In a recent report, the UN’s 
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that world food prices rose in 
November to the highest level in six years. It described the coronavirus 
pandemic as “an important driver of the levels of global food insecurity.”
The pandemic was the main factor behind an estimated 8 percent contraction of 
Armenia’s GDP in 2020.
Reprinted on ANN/Armenian News with permission from RFE/RL
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President of Artsakh hosts philanthropist Aleq Baghdasaryan

Tatoyan Vazgen

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 09:51, 4 February, 2021

STEPANAKERT, FEBRUARY 4, ARMENPRESS. President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan received on February 3 philanthropist Aleq Baghdasaryan, the Presidential Office told Armenpress.

Arayik Harutyunyan thanked the philanthropist for the charitable projects being implemented in Artsakh, stating that the post-war difficulties are possible to overcome only with joint efforts of the people.

Aleq Baghdasaryan thanked the President for the warm welcome and informed that they are going to carry out additional activities in Artsakh aimed at the education development.

The meeting was also attended by chief of staff of the Artsakh President’s Office Artak Beglaryan.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Special flight from Germany transports 30 tons of humanitarian aid to Armenia

Tatoyan Vazgen
Public Radio of Armenia
Jan 25 2021  

 

About 30 tons of humanitarian aid – medicines, medical equipment, various items necessary for the social sphere – were transported to Yerevan by a special flight of the German Federal Ministry of Defense, the Government reports.

The flight was carried out through close cooperation between the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Germany, the Prelacy of the German-Armenian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the “Silva Kaputikyan” Union of German-Armenian Women.

Azerbaijanis in Marneuli destroy over 30 trucks transporting cargo to Armenia

Tatoyan Vazgen
News.am, Armenia
Jan 25 2021

15:33, 25.01.2021

Last night after midnight, Azerbaijanis attacked a row of Armenian trucks in the primarily Azerbaijani-populated Marneuli and destroyed over 30 trucks transporting cargo, Yerevan Today reported.

This is already the second time the enemy is attacking Armenian trucks in the past month following the signing of the capitulation act.

There is still no information about the people affected by the incident and details about property, and one of the truckers who contacted Yerevan.Today at night said he and the other truckers are horrified and did everything possible to make sure they weren’t engaged in a fight caused by the enemy’s provocation.

“We were more than tense. Azerbaijanis are attacking and destroying our trucks in a foreign city, and we don’t even know if the Azerbaijanis are armed and why they’re provoking…Cargo transportation through Georgia is becoming very dangerous. Who will solve this issue? The economy is going to decline soon, but Armenian government officials led by Pashinyan are talking about communications with the enemy and want to transfer cargo to Russia through Azerbaijan. How? How is our security going to be guaranteed?”

One of the drivers promised to share the story about the incident as soon as he reaches Yerevan. Until then, he sent scenes of the incident taped on the drivers’ mobile phones.

    

30 tons humanitarian aid arrives in Armenia from German

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 19:37, 25 January, 2021

YEREVAN, JANUARY 25, ARMENPRESS. 30 tons of humanitarian aid arrived in Armenia by a German Defense Ministry special flight, ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of the MFA Armenia.

‘’It was organized in close cooperation between the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Germany, the Prelacy of the German-Armenian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and the ‘’Silva Kaputikyan’’ Union of German-Armenian Women’’, the Ministry said. The humanitarian aid mainly includes medicines, medical equipment, as well as various items necessary for the social sphere.