08:01, 4 October, 2020
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 4, ARMENPRESS. President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan has joined the troops for a morning coffee on October 4. He posted a photo in the morning of October 4.
“Good morning with the best coffee prepared by our frontline soldier, together with our hero men,” he said.
Earlier on October 3, Harutyunyan took a special forces unit and personally headed to the frontline amid the Azerbaijani attacks.
Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan
Spokeswoman of Armenia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Anna Naghdalyan commented on Ilham Aliyev’s latest remarks made during the founding ceremony of the offshore operations of the “Absheron” field.
“The statements made by the President of Azerbaijan are deeply disappointing. They demonstrate the inability of the leader of the neighboring country to perceive soberly and without painful emotions the existing reality and his own role in the creation of that reality,” said Naghdalyan, according to the press service of the foreign ministry.
In her words, such rhetoric, containing obviously groundless and even false allegations, does not dignify any head of state.
“We realize the damages inflicted by Azerbaijan on the peace process by the April 2016 aggression and the military escalation initiated in July 2020. In order to prevent these damages from becoming irreversible, the government of Azerbaijan should reconsider its policy of the use of force and threat of force, renounce its attempts to destabilize the regional peace and security by involving non-regional players, and prepare itself for a peaceful settlement,” said Naghdalyan, adding: “Armenia is confident in its capacities to protect the right of the people of Artsakh for self-determination and the right to live in their historical homeland, and we once again underline with full confidence that there is no alternative to the peaceful resolution of the conflict.”
BY Mustafa Marie
This visit came in light of the resumption of flights between Armenia and Egypt, starting Thursday, September 17th.
During the meeting, Anani began his speech by highlighting the distinguished political relations between the two countries and the recent visit of the Armenian Foreign Minister to Egypt.
The minister also reviewed the precautionary and preventive measures and health safety controls that Egypt has taken, which are applied in Egyptian tourist and hotel facilities, museums and archaeological sites to ensure the health safety of tourists, citizens and workers in the tourism sector, after resuming inbound tourism to Egypt, starting from the first of last July.
Anani also referred to the resumption of the cultural tourism movement in Egypt since the beginning of September 2020, expressing his optimism about its success, such as the remarkable success achieved by resuming tourism in coastal cities, which was reflected in the positive indicators in the number of tourists coming to Egypt since the resumption of the tourism movement, pointing out that the tourist delegations that arrived in the governorates of South Sinai and the Red Sea reached more than 200,000 tourists and returned to their countries after the end of their tourism programs and their enjoyment of the picturesque beaches of Egypt and its warm and sunny weather.
Furthermore, Anani also spoke about the incentives granted by the Egyptian state to encourage companies and international tour operators to organize trips to the Egyptian tourist governorates, noting that the idea of creating new tourism patterns to integrate cultural tourism with beach tourism by organizing tourism programs that combine visits to Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh and between Luxor, Aswan and Cairo, enabling tourists to see the Egyptian antiquities and learn about the ancient Egyptian civilization, in addition to enjoying the picturesque beaches of Egypt, noting that the ministry is keen in its plan to integrate coastal tourism with the cultural tourism product, and to make Egyptian tourist destinations of all kinds available to tourists by linking the shores of the Red Sea to archaeological sites in the Nile Valley and in Upper Egypt.
Moreover, the minister indicated that an archeology museum will soon be opened in Sharm El-Sheikh. This is in addition to the Antiquities Museum in Hurghada, which was inaugurated last February as the first archeology museum in the Red Sea.
For their part, tour operators and tourism companies praised the precautionary measures and health safety controls taken by the Egyptian government to resume tourism and also with the facilities provided by the Egyptian government to them to encourage inbound tourism to Egypt, emphasizing that Egypt has become the first tourist destination for Armenian citizens.
13:11, 1 September, 2020
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Ambassador to France Hasmik Tolmajyan and French Ambassador to Armenia Jonathan Lacôte paid a tribute to the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims at the statue of Komitas which was desecrated on August 31, the Armenian Embassy in France said on Facebook.
The Armenian and French Ambassadors were accompanied by Co-chairs of the Coordination Council of the Armenian Organizations of France (CCAF) Ara Toranyan and Murad Papazyan.
On August 31 the Embassy of Armenia in France strongly condemned the desecration of the statue of Komitas in Paris, calling it a manifestation of denialism.
Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan
17:31, 25 August, 2020
YEREVAN, AUGUST 25, ARMENPRESS. On 24 August 2020, Belgium notified the General Secretariat of the European Council and the Council of the EU about the completion of its internal procedures necessary for the ratification of the Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA), the Armenian Embassy in Belgium said on Facebook.
Armenia and the European Union signed the CEPA in Brussels on November 24, 2017.
Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan
13:12, 26 August, 2020
YEREVAN, AUGUST 26, ARMENPRESS. Rescuers found the body of a man under the rubbles of the apartment building in Yerevan which was partially destroyed by a gas explosion Wednesday morning.
The victim is a 58-year-old man.
The explosion was caused by a gas leak.
Two others are hospitalized. One of them is critically injured.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said on social media that personally visited the scene early morning.
The incident took place at 3 Raynis Street in the Kanaker-Zeytun district.
The Mayor of Yerevan said the residents of the building will be provided with temporary accommodation until experts will evaluate the possibility of restoring the building.
Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:00 P.M.) – Earlier this week, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev held a phone meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about the latter’s delivery of 400 tons of weapons to Armenia in recent weeks.
Aliyev reportedly expressed his concern about Russia’s deliveries, especially during a time when Azerbaijan and Armenia were clashing along the border.
However, according to the Russian publication, Avia.Pro, Azerbaijan had more reasons to worry about the arms shipment because it involved modernized weapons like air defense and electronic warfare systems.
“According to the data available to the resource Avia.pro, since mid-July, Russian military aircraft have made a huge number of mysterious flights to Armenia, transferring about 400 tons of military cargo here, as reported,” they said.
“According to the data, we are talking about the most modern weapons, including air defense systems, short, medium and long range radars, electronic suppression systems, artillery weapons, etc. long-range, including the S-300 air defense system,” Avia.Pro added.
Russia is one of largest suppliers of weapons to Armenia and also a key ally to Yerevan in the region; this has led to some friction with Azerbaijan, who rejects Armenia’s claims to the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
On July 12th, fierce clashes broke out between the Armenian and Azerbaijani forces along a border region separating the two nations; this resulted in the death of 18 people, including 12 Azerbaijani soldiers.
09:06, 14 August, 2020
YEREVAN, AUGUST 14, ARMENPRESS. Opposition Bright Armenia (LHK) party Member of Parliament and head of the Financial-Credit and Fiscal Affairs committee Mane Tandilyan is resigning from parliament due to health issues.
“I’ve had health issues for already a lengthy period of time now and I’ve been trying to solve them simultaneously with work,” she said in a statement. “However, it became clear that [these health issues] are incompatible with being a lawmaker and being engaged in political activities”.
Tandilyan, who briefly served as Minister of Social Affairs and Labor in 2018-2019, said she is also quitting the governing board of the LHK party.
She thanked her party-members, wishing them good luck in the future. Tandilyan also extended gratitude and apologized to constituents. “I couldn’t have done it without you”, she told her supporters.
Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan
16:42,
YEREVAN, AUGUST 14, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian government is easing the coronavirus restrictions and the mandatory face mask rule is being revised.
Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan, the coronavirus response task force leader and the Superintendent in charge of enforcing the state of emergency restrictions, published on August 14th a decision effective immediately defining the areas where citizens are no longer required to wear face coverings.
Citizens no longer have to wear face covering in their personal vehicles, in resort zones and beaches, in the mountains and forests and similar open areas. However, the mandatory face mask rule in these areas remains in force in the event of visiting historic-cultural sites, pilgrimages, during organized individual or group tours, hiking tours etc. Citizens can also visit without masks open-air leisure locations outside rural and urban residential locations.
Other earlier announced rules are still in force – face masks are mandatory in open air and enclosed public areas. Children below the age of 6 and people with respiratory illnesses are allowed to not wear face coverings. Face masks aren’t mandatory during exercising and cycling also.
Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan