Category: 2020

Armenian PM’s spouse holds phone talk with Lebanon’s Youth and Sports Minister

 09:52, 1 June, 2020

YEREVAN, JUNE 1, ARMENPRESS. Spouse of the Armenian prime minister, chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of My Step and City of Smile charitable foundations, Anna Hakobyan had a telephone conversation with Lebanon’s Youth and Sports Minister Vartine Ohanian-Gevorgian, Mrs. Hakobyan’s Office told Armenpress.

Anna Hakobyan congratulated Vartine Ohanian-Gevorgian on holding an important and responsible position, wishing productive work.

During the phone talk the sides discussed the current situation of the Lebanese-Armenian community, the difficulties and ways to overcome them.

Given the fact that Mrs. Ohanian is also serving as the director of Zvartnots care center for children and teenagers, Anna Hakobyan was interested in the activity of the Center.

The possibility of future cooperation in several directions was also discussed during the phone conversation.

Minister Ohanian thanked Anna Hakobyan for the interest shown and asked to convey her warm greetings to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Armenian President addresses congratulatory message on Children’s Day

 10:08, 1 June, 2020

YEREVAN, JUNE 1, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian addressed a congratulatory message on the International Day for Protection of Children on June 1, the Presidential Office told Armenpress.

The message says:

“Today is International Day for Protection of Children.

Each child is a symbol and promise of the future – the family’s future, country’s future, army’s future, land’s future… Future starts tomorrow but it starts today with the cry of a newborn baby, delight of each parent, with a new citizen of the state.

Dear children, my little friends,

I know that today it is very difficult to stay home when the nature, backyard, and games call you out. I am thankful that you remain understanding and patient. Believe me that today’s difficulties and discomfort are necessary to make tomorrow a better day, to make it dreams’ day.

You have dreams which are not only yours but also your parents’. Together, we must make your dreams come true, so that your dreams turn into the reality.

Dear compatriots,

Through the kids, we rediscover the enormous world around us. It is a mosaic of big and small, colorful and multilayered worlds. Children’s world is the most colorful part of that mosaic which is being built thanks to children and with the participation of the adults. Let us not spare our efforts as a state and as citizens, as a family and parents, as authorities and a society. Let’s employ our heart and mind to build that world on a strong and unshakeable foundation, to make it beautiful and bright, full of hope and emotions.

But all efforts made for the sake of children and for the children will be wasted if we are not able to ensure first and foremost their peaceful childhood. Peace is not only blue skies. Peace is also the atmosphere in which love, tolerance, and solidarity reign for the children and for the adults alike, inside the family and among the strangers.

Today is the day for the protection of our future. Protection means also responsibility for the children’s today and tomorrow, for their liberties and rights, for their destiny.

Children should be in the center of our attention. Regardless of the position we hold and public status, we all have to manifest a daily and personal high responsibility. And in assuming an obligation – from an international document and ensuing laws to educational programs and textbooks, we have to be guided by the notions emanating first of all from the national system of values related to the family and children. In the implementation of the laws and documents, regulations should be found which will reflect our ideas related to the state, future and children and which will be in line with our national character.

Let us love and protect the children and their rights, and in their person – let us protect the tomorrow of our families, of our country, and of our society”.

Criminal charges pressed against ex-official Arman Sahakyan

 12:08,

YEREVAN, MAY 30, ARMENPRESS. Former Director of the Department of State Property Management Arman Sahakyan has been charged in a criminal investigation concerning the alienation of a land area, Investigative Committee spokesperson Rima Yeganyan told ARMENPRESS.

Arman Sahakyan is the son of former Speaker of Parliament Galust Sahakyan.

He led the Department of State Property Management from 2011 to 2018.

Yeganyan said the investigation continues.  She said the land area in question is adjacent to a public school in Yerevan.

Reporting by Lilit Demuryan; Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Anoush Pogossian of Glendale awarded 2020 US Presidential Scholars in the Arts

 11:26,

YEREVAN, MAY 30, ARMENPRESS. Armenian-American clarinetist Anoush Pogossian, 17, of Glendale (Verdugo Academy) has been awarded the 2020 US Presidential Scholars in the Arts.

“National YoungArts Foundation congratulates the 56th class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, with special acknowledgment to the 20 U.S. Presidential Scholars in the Arts (full list below) who are YoungArts award winners and were nominated for the honor by YoungArts”, the National YoungArts Foundation said.

The United States Presidential Scholars Program is described as “one of the Nation’s highest honors for students” in the United States of America.  

“It is my privilege to congratulate the Presidential Scholars Class of 2020 on their outstanding academic achievement, community service, and leadership,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. “These exemplary young people have excelled inside the classroom and out. And, while they are facing unprecedented challenges as they graduate from high school into a world that looks much different than it did just a few months ago, their determination, resilience, and commitment to excellence will serve them well as they pursue their next steps.”

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan