Category: 2021

This year, the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church will celebrate the Feast of the Apostles St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew on December 04. Information department at the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin reports, that according to the Pontifical Encyclical of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; the feast was proclaimed as Pilgrimage Day of Holy Lance (Geghard).

On December 03 at 5:30 p.m., on the Eve of the Feast, a Divine Liturgy was offered in St. John the Baptist and St. Vardan Chapel-baptistery of the Mother See. During the Eve of the Feast, the relics of the St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew were brought out.

On December 04 at 10:30 a. m., a Divine Liturgy will be offered in St. John the Baptist and St. Vardan Chapel-baptistery of the Mother See, during which the Holy Lance (Geghard) will be brought out. The relic will remain in the Chapel-baptistery for the worship of the faithful until 6 p. m.

The new provocation of Azeri servicemen in direction of Chartar settlement in Artsakh comes to give the full picture of their previous crimes in October in Martakert and the November incident on the main highway leading to Shushi town, lawmaker Tigran Abrahamyan wrote on Facebook. 

“In the past three months three citizens of Artsakh were killed as a result of the Azerbaijani provocations, an employees of the water and sewage service, a truck driver and a cattleman among them,” Abrahamyan wrote on Facebook, commenting on the Friday incident. 

“Azeris have one motive to kill an Armenian, disrupt the peace yet to be established and remind of Turkish hatred and true aims,” Abrahamyan wrote, adding the tragic incidents could be prevented if decision makers in Artsakh and Armenia had realized the priorities,  detected the threats on time and taken precautionary measures.”  

In the words of the opposition MP, authorities deliberately keep the public in the status of victims to consistently persuade and justify their defeatist policy. 

To remind, on December 3, a resident of Chartar settlement of Artsakh’s Martuni district Seyran Sargsyan was captured and killed by Azerbaijani military units.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh (NKR) David Babayan participated in the conference of the ARF-Dashnaktsutyun Hay Dat Committees and Offices, which took place in the Grand Hall of the National Assembly of Artsakh, and delivered a speech, the Facebook page of the minister said. 

David Babayan highly appreciated the works carried out by the Hay Dat Offices and their contribution to the development and strengthening of Artsakh. Babayan expressed gratitude to the ARF Hay Dat for its patriotic activities and expressed hope that the structure would continue its work with the same zeal and dedication and that the Artsakh-centrism would remain among the pillars of its activity.

The Azerbaijani foreign ministry issued statement about the failed meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers on the sidelines of the 28th meeting of Ministerial Council of the OSCE in Stockholm, TASS news agency reported. 

According to the statement, issued by the Azerbaijani side, a few hours before the considered meeting on December 3, Armenian MPs paid what it described ‘illegal’ visit to Nagorno Karabakh and as a response, ‘the Azerbaijani side did not consider it expedient to hold a meeting of Ministers of two countries in Stockholm.’

To note, Armenian foreign ministry spokesperson Vahan Hunanyan earlier commented that the expected meeting between Ararat Mirzoyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov didn’t take place, adding the Armenian side has never avoided meetings in the framework of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement process under the mandate of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship.