PanARMENIAN.Net – The Armenian Egyptian Business Association has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the International Business Relations Council of Armenia, Egypt Today reports.
The MoU is meant to boost cooperation and joint projects between investors in both countries, said the Egyptian foreign ministry in a statement on Friday.
Egypt’s Ambassador in Yerevan Bahaa Desouki attended the inking ceremony.
He also met with Executive Director of the Armenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Andranik Aleksanyan on economic cooperation.
PanARMENIAN.Net – The Armenian Museum presents a new exhibition in the Adele & Haig Der Manuelian galleries that explores the intertwined lives of diplomat Diana Agabeg Apcar (1859–1937) and artist Berjouhi Kailian (1914–2014).
In 1919, history connected these two women in Yokohama, Japan. As refugees from the Armenian Genocide, Berj and her mother found themselves in the shadow of Diana’s sturdy branches as she helped them find their way to a new home in the United States. Berj’s creative life flourished for 95 more years because of Diana’s compassion.
The exhibition will open on April 24, 2019 in recognition of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
The Armenian Museum said in a statement that it wishes to engage in meaningful dialogue around this solemn subject that permeates Armenian experience around the world.
A candlelight viewing of the galleries will be followed by a discussion of the traumatic effects of the Genocide to remember the victims, survivors, and individuals who chose to intervene.
The MoU is meant to boost cooperation and joint projects between investors in both countries, said the Egyptian foreign ministry in a statement on Friday.
Egypt’s Ambassador in Yerevan Bahaa Desouki attended the inking ceremony.
He also met with Executive Director of the Armenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Andranik Aleksanyan on economic cooperation.
“The Armenian nation can never be defeated,” Kim Bakshin, renowned author, screenwriter said on one occasion. The scholar who authored number of books about Armenia and Artsakh turned 88 on Friday.
For nearly half a century, Kim Bakshin has traveled across Armenia and has visited several countries where Armenians have always lived. Bakshin has also studied Armenian manuscripts in different libraries around the world, has visited several Armenian churches and has talked to our fellow Armenians.
Kim Bakshin has written six books devoted to Armenia and the Armenians, including Eagle and Sword, Fate and Stone, The Resurrection of Saint Lazar, From the Monastery about Love, Our World is Like a Wheel and Frozen Time, as well as the screenplay for the 20-part TV film about the Matenadaran.
“My books are valuable to me, especially the latest one that was translated into Armenia,” Bakshin has said about “The Spiritual Treasures of Artsakh” dedicated to the history, and historical and cultural monuments in Artsakh.
In 2016, Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan awarded Bakshin with the “Gratitude” medal for substantial contribution to the popularization of the Artsakh’s cultural heritage.
TEHRAN — Iran’s Telecommunication Infrastructure Company and companies from Armenia and Qatar signed a tripartite agreement for transit of data from Persian Gulf to the Europe during a meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, IRNA reported.
The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the meeting of Iran’s Information and Telecommunication Technology (ICT) Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi and Armenian First Deputy Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies Hakob Arshakyan in Tehran.
During the meeting, Azari Jahromi pointed to ICT cooperation between the two countries during past years.
Cyber security, solving frequency disturbance in Iran-Armenia border and development of ICT products export and digital economy were discussed during the meeting.
Azari Jahromi announced that the two sides will sign an agreement in the field of ICT cooperation in his future trip to Armenia.
Iran and Armenia have already begun their cooperation in ICT and now they are waiting for other countries to join, Arshakyan said.
He highlighted safeguarding from cyber-attacks and ICT infrastructure as the two main fields in which the two countries can boost cooperation.
Iran as data transit hub
In June 2017, Iran offered services to India through several international Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) for transit of data.
Having seven IXPs with the potential to offer international Internet transit services to neighboring countries, Iran is seeking to become a data service hub in the region to improve revenue in the technology sector and reduce dependency on oil exports.
An IXP is a physical infrastructure through which Internet service providers exchange Internet traffic between their networks.
Iran is already providing its western neighbor Iraq with data services through an IXP center in Khuzestan Province, which operates as an Internet transit hub. The center enables Iraqis to connect to the World Wide Web using Iran’s communications infrastructure.
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