Category: 2022

 14:47,

YEREVAN, JANUARY 14, ARMENPRESS. Russia is in favor of a swift launch of the demarcation process of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press briefing.

“This issue doesn’t relate to Nagorno Karabakh and regional issues, this is a bilateral issue which we are proposing to start for already a year,” he said.

He reminded that Russia offered to set up a special commission and act in an advisory capacity given the fact that the Russian military possesses maps which reflect the borders and their changes.

“Yesterday I spoke with my Armenian counterpart over this issue. There is a respective proposal because in the event of creating a commission we must agree on what conditions it is created. There are disagreements, but our position is clear – it is necessary to sit down and resolve within the framework of the commission the issues which remain not agreed,” Lavrov said.

 15:20,

YEREVAN, JANUARY 14, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s Ambassador to Spain Sos Avetisyan presented his credentials to King Felipe VI, the Armenian foreign ministry reports.

At the meeting Ambassador Avetisyan and the King of Spain discussed the current level of the Armenian-Spanish bilateral relations, highlighted their further development and appreciated the role of the Armenian community in strengthening the friendly ties between the two nations.

 15:34,

YEREVAN, JANUARY 14, ARMENPRESS. The history of the Armenian Genocide will be taught in middle and high schools in the U.S. state of Massachusetts after legislative amendments were passed.

A group of lawmakers had presented genocide education bill No. 692 for the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives approval in February 2021, and it was signed into law by the Governor on December 2, 2021.

The law will take effect from the beginning of the new academic year – July 1, 2022, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute said in a press release.

The amendments to the compulsory education law seek “ to achieve and promote the teaching of human rights issues in all districts, with particular attention to the study of the inhumanity of genocide, including but not limited to the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine known as Holodomor, the Pontian Greek Genocide, the forcible transport of Africans to the Americas in the slave trade in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, the violence committed against indigenous people in the Americas, and more recent atrocities in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Sudan, there shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Genocide Education Trust Fund for the purpose of educating middle and high school students on the history of genocide."

“The administration of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute welcomed the passage of the bill and sent a letter of gratitude to Senator Rodriguez. In the letter, we underscored genocide education as a preventive factor of the crime, its importance for Armenia and the Armenian nation, and expressed readiness to support the Massachusetts department of education and the state’s educational institutions with materials,” the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute said.

 15:37,

YEREVAN, JANUARY 14, ARMENPRESS. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is convinced that the stop of hostilities and unblocking of all transportation communications in the South Caucasus, in accordance with the agreements reached between the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders at the Russian President’s mediation, will open opportunities which all countries of the region – Armenia, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan are interested in.

During a press conference today, commenting on the question about the “3+3” format dedicated to issues relating to the South Caucasus, Lavrov said that Georgia’s joining to this format will not oblige Tbilisi to change its political stances.

“We can agree that we are discussing exclusively those topics within the frames of this format which concern all participants”, the Russian FM said, adding that as Moscow doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Tbilisi, it has less opportunities to explain the Georgian side the advantages of this cooperation format. Therefore, Russia has applied to its Armenian, Turkish and Azerbaijani partners on this issue, so that they explain this to the Georgian side.

According to Lavrov, it is in Georgia’s interest to join this format without preconditions.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev came up with the “3+3” initiative on cooperation in the South Caucasus. The first meeting took place in Moscow, Russia, on December 10, 2021. Georgia announced that it will not attend that meetings.

 15:59,

YEREVAN, JANUARY 14, ARMENPRESS. Russia will convey to Azerbaijan the Armenian side’s proposals over the delimitation and demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press briefing.

“Yesterday I spoke with my Armenian counterpart, who has new proposals. We will relay [the proposals] to Baku. We must achieve a swift launch of the commission,” he said.

 16:05,

YEREVAN, JANUARY 14, ARMENPRESS. On January 14, ahead of the meeting of the Special Representatives of Armenia and Turkey, the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Armenia, Special Representative of the Armenia-Turkey normalization process Ruben Rubinyan met with the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Andrey Rudenko in Moscow.

The sides exchanged views on the normalization process between Armenia and Turkey.

 16:16,

YEREVAN, JANUARY 14, ARMENPRESS. Special Representatives for the normalization process between Armenia and Turkey, respectively, the Deputy Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Mr. Ruben Rubinyan and Ambassador Serdar Kılıç met on , in Moscow, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

“During their first meeting, conducted in a positive and constructive atmosphere, the Special Representatives exchanged their preliminary views regarding the normalization process through dialogue between Armenia and Turkey. Parties agreed to continue negotiations without preconditions aiming at full normalization.

Date and venue of their second meeting will be decided in due time through diplomatic channels”, the statement says.