Category: 2021

 13:43,

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS. The opposition Hayastan bloc lawmaker and Vice Speaker of Parliament Ishkhan Saghatelyan announced that they are re-launching the “street struggle”.

“We can’t eliminate the challenges and threats facing our country only with parliamentary activities,” Saghatelyan told reporters. “We have called a march for September 26, and afterwards you’ll see numerous rallies and actions.”

He said Hayastan lawmakers will again travel to provinces from October.

“We have numerous planned events from September 27 to November 9,” he said.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 14:01,

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS. The opposition lawmakers will apply to the Constitutional Court asking to repeal Healthcare Minister Anahit Avanesyan’s order requiring all private and public employees to either get vaccinated or get tested for COVID-19 twice a month starting October 1, opposition Hayastan bloc lawmaker Aram Vardevanyan told reporters.

“We already have the required 1/5 of signatures of lawmakers. In relation to the well-known, discussed order of the healthcare minister which had objectively angered a large part of the society we will apply to the Constitutional Court asking to revoke the order,” he said.

Vardevanyan noted that vaccinations are important, but it is up to every individual to make that decision.

“That is, we should see every day how the government is explaining with social ads and other platforms why people must get vaccinated. But when instead they tell people in difficult conditions of minimal wage ‘go get PCR tests every 14 days at your own expense or go get vaccinated’ – this is coercion. Why doesn’t the government want to cover that expense? Let the government subsidize the PCR testing expenses. By the way, this is one of the grounds for applying to the Constitutional Court,” the lawmaker said.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 14:06,

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu met with European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the Commission Josep Borrell on the sidelines of the 76th UN General Assembly in New York.

In a Twitter post, the Turkish FM informed that they have discussed Turkey-EU relations, the situation in Afghanistan, Eastern Mediterranean and the regional stability.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 14:31,

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan, who is in New York to participate in the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly, met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Ayman Safadim, the Armenian MFA reports.

The Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Jordan highly assessed the current level of political dialogue between the two states and emphasized the implementation of the agreements reached between the leaders of Armenia and Jordan during King Abdullah II’s visit to Armenia in February 2020. 

The sides discussed issues on further deepening of Armenian-Jordanian multidimensional relations. 

They also exchanged views on issues of mutual interest and developments taking place in the regions of Middle East and the South Caucasus. 

Ararat Mirzoyan presented to his interlocutor the situation resulting from the provocative actions of the Azerbaijani armed forces against the sovereign territory of Armenia, the issues of repatriation of Armenian prisoners of war and captured civilians held in Azerbaijan. In the context of the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Minister Mirzoyan stressed the need for the resumption of the peace process under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship.

 14:56,

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS. Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan received today Chargé d’Affairs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ahlam Rashid Ahmad Al Abd Al Salami, the Parliament’s press service said.

In his remarks the Speaker said that Armenia pays great importance to the development of the relations with the Arab Gulf states. He highly assessed the UAE balanced foreign policy at the regional and international levels.

Touching upon the necessity of the cooperation development in the frameworks of the parliamentary diplomacy, Simonyan stressed that the National Assembly would continue to make efforts for the activation of bilateral relations.

Alen Simonyan has informed that in the near future the Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group with the UAE would be formed, adding that formation of similar Group is expected by the UAE.

The UAE Chargé d’Affairs affirmed the importance of cooperation with Armenia in different formats. Considering the partnership of the parliaments as a landmark, she underscored the significance of implementing joint projects.

At the end of the meeting ideas were exchanged on the participation of Armenia at Dubai EXPO-2020 World Exhibition.