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 15:46,

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS. Humanitarian aid will be delivered to Armenia following the request by Armenian Organizations in Greece, Greekcitytimes reports.

The International Development Cooperation Service of Greece’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as part of its humanitarian mission, will deliver the aid to Armenia.

Specifically, the Armenian Relief Society, Armenian Blue Cross and Cross of Mercy Macedonia-Thrace, with assistance from the Embassy of Armenia in Athens, gathered humanitarian aid for victims of the Artsakh war.

With cooperation from the Ministry of National Defense, which provided a transport aircraft, the delivery is scheduled to be transported to Armenia on December 12.

The humanitarian aid includes medical supplies and food for the victims and refugees of Azerbaijan’s invasion of Artsakh.

The aid was supplied by Greeks and Armenian-Greeks.

The actions are coordinated by the General Director of the International Development Cooperation Service, Mr. G. Larissis.

He will deliver the sent aid to representatives of the Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations and the branch of the Armenian Relief Society in Armenia.

 14:37,

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian held a meeting with Vazgen Manukyan, opposition forces’ united candidate for the prime minister, the Presidential Office told Armenpress.

Armen Sarkissian and Vazgen Manukyan discussed the current situation in Armenia.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 16:47,

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS. Intelligence Online has published an article about the recent war in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), stating that Azerbaijan has won the intelligence war thanks to the Israeli contracts.

The article says that while the world’s focus was on the support of Turkey and Syrian mercenaries to Azerbaijan, as well as the Israeli-made UAVs, Israel was also providing intelligence data to Baku.

Intelligence Online reports that Israeli companies have provided Azerbaijan with concrete data about the geographical terrain of Nagorno Karabakh which made it easier for the UAVs of the Azerbaijani army to move in the aforementioned areas. It says it is thanks to these data that the UAVs managed to accurately hit the targets and cause huge losses to the Armenian side.

The article also states that Israel managed to test its equipment in areas near Iran, which, according to the author of the article, is of great importance for it.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 17:00,

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s delegation led by Minister of Defense Vagharshak Harutyunyan has departed for Russia on a working visit on December 12, the ministry told Armenpress.

During the visit the minister is scheduled to meet with Russian Defense Minister, Army General Sergei Shoigu and other top officials.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 17:07,

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS. The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Stéphane Visconti of France, Andrew Schofer of the United States of America, and Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, will arrive in Yerevan on December 13, Armenian foreign ministry spokesperson Anna Naghdalyan told Armenpress.

“The Co-Chairs will arrive in Yerevan on December 13. Their meetings in Yerevan are scheduled on Monday”, she said.

The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs are currently in Baku as part of their regional visit. They already met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

Reporting by Norayr Shoghikyan; Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 16:57,

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS. The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Stéphane Visconti of France, Andrew Schofer of the United States of America, and Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, met with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev in Baku.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Co-Chairs’ regional visit.

The meeting was also attended by Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mikhail Bocharnikov.

The OSCE MG Co-Chairs and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office will also visit Armenia.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 17:20,

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov held a telephone talk to discuss the implementation of a trilateral statement on Nagorno Karabakh, TASS reports citing the Russian Foreign Ministry.

“The sides discussed the essential issues of the international and bilateral agenda, including the practical tasks of implementing the statement by the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia on the Nagorno Karabakh settlement”, the ministry said in a statement, following the results of the foreign ministers’ phone talk.

On November 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed a joint statement on a complete ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh starting from November 10.