Category: 2022

 13:15, 4 August 2022

YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. Individuals and organizations from around the world are joining forces to help strengthen and develop Armenia and Artsakh within the framework of Armenians Forward Together Forum 2022, the second All-Armenian Collaboration Forum in Yerevan.

The three-day Forum has been organized by volunteers living in the United States, Canada and Armenia whose purpose is to create opportunities for the collaboration of organizations and individuals.

“People, who want to cooperate, present their ideas and find people, who could help develop ideas not only financially, but also with their knowledge and efforts, have gathered here. There are projects both at a level of an idea and those that are already being implemented”, Hripsime Mkrtchyan, Assistant-Professor at the American University of Armenia, researcher at the Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, said.

The Forum aims at gathering people with the same interests and projects in one place, enabling them to talk, know each other, collaborate and create new opportunities.

Armine Karapetyan from San Francisco, representing Publicis Groupe, said that the idea of holding this Forum came after the 44-Day Artsakh War. “We wanted to invest our strength and knowledge in order to be able to organize something that will help both Armenia and Artsakh”, she said.

On the first day of the Forum, on August 4th, 19 different organizations and initiatives were presented. In the next two days 14 seminars will be held during which educational, cultural heritage preservation, crisis management, cancer research and other projects will be discussed. The Office of the State Minister of Artsakh, the Office of the High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs of Armenia, LeranmingMission, RepatArmenia and other organizations have also contributed to the organization of the Forum.

“Our primary goal was to help children of families displaced from Artsakh who were deprived of education that days. We are now assisting the schools of Syunik [province], we are opening computer laboratories in schools, provide notebooks by which teachers from US are holding online classes”, Alina Vehuni, representing California-based Hye Hopes, said during the Forum. The company Hye Hopes has been founded after the 44-Day war unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh. It has already opened laboratories in Kapan, Verishen, Meghri, and will soon open in schools of Sisian and Goris. The company is teaching different subjects, such as robotics, programming, leadership, English. “We want to establish cooperation with the organizations that are operating in education sector”, she said, commenting on their participation in the Forum.

 13:39, 4 August 2022

YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan held a meeting with foreign ambassadors on August 4.

Mirzoyan drew the attention of the ambassadors to the situation created as a result of Azerbaijan’s aggressive actions and provocations in Nagorno Karabakh. The FM said that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces – by once again violating the November 9, 2020 trilateral statement of the leaders of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan on cessation of hostilities in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone – launched aggression in the area of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping troops, which led to 2 soldiers of the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army being killed and 19 others wounded.

The Armenian FM specially emphasized that the Azerbaijani side has officially and overtly assumed the responsibility of the aggression, evidence of which are the statements released by the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry and Foreign Affairs Ministry, and the ceasefire violations recorded by the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno Karabakh.

FM Mirzoyan said that before the aggression, the Azeri side submitted a letter to the Russian peacekeeping contingent regarding transferring control of the Lachin Corridor, according to which the Azerbaijani side is planning to change the route which is presently passing through Lachin Corridor, which is a gross violation of the November 9 trilateral statement because point 6 of the statement clearly states that with agreement of the parties, meaning Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, a plan for the construction of a new route along the Lachin corridor shall be determined within the next three years, whereas there is no such plan approved in a trilateral format.

FM Mirzoyan underscored that to Armenia’s efforts for achieving regional stability and peace the Azerbaijani authorities are responding with Armenophobic rhetoric, aggressive statements and undisguised threats of using force. The FM said that Azerbaijan’s continuous policy to subject Nagorno Karabakh to ethnic cleansing is unacceptable.

The Armenian FM also addressed the outstanding humanitarian issues caused by the 44-day war, emphasizing that by violating international humanitarian law Azerbaijan continues to hold Armenian PoWs, including civilians, in captivity.

FM Mirzoyan reiterated Armenia’s stance aimed at the peaceful resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict through the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship mandate – the only international format authorized by the UN Security Council.

It was also highlighted that the international community’s coordinated and united support is needed for supporting Armenia’s agenda of reaching peace in the South Caucasus.

 13:56, 4 August 2022

YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. Primate of the Artsakh Diocese, Bishop Vrtanes Abrahamyan visited the wounded soldiers today in the central hospital of Stepanakert.

The Primate of the Artsakh Diocese delivered prayer for the speedy recovery of the servicemen and thanked the medics for their dedicated service.

On August 3, two Artsakh soldiers were killed and 19 others were wounded when Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire and launched an attack on Artsakh military positions. The Azerbaijani military used mortars, grenade-launchers, combat UAVs in attacking a permanent deployment location of an Artsakh military base.

 14:21, 4 August 2022

STEPANAKERT, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijani intelligence agencies are attempting to create an atmosphere of fear and panic among citizens and state structures of Artsakh by sending fake news and threats to e-mails and messenger accounts, the Artsakh National Security Service (NSS) warned on August 4.

The Artsakh NSS added they are “taking required measures to prevent possible developments.”

“We urge everyone not to give in to fake news, not respond to such messages and follow only official information. Those receiving suspicious messages or threats are advised to contact the Artsakh NSS via the official website or by calling 047-94-41-26 and 41-26.”

 14:59, 4 August 2022

YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. Russia is concerned over the escalation in Nagorno Karabakh, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

“We are closely following. Naturally we are concerned over the escalation of the situation. We call on the sides to display restraint, and most importantly to implement the provisions of the trilateral documents,” Peskov said.

The Kremlin spokesperson said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s schedule doesn’t include a planned phone conversation with Azeri president Ilham Aliyev on Nagorno Karabakh. “Right now it’s not in the president’s schedule. But if needed such a contact can be organized very swiftly,” Peskov said.

On August 3, two Artsakh soldiers were killed and 19 others were wounded when Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire and launched an attack on Artsakh military positions. The Azerbaijani military used mortars, grenade-launchers, combat UAVs in attacking a permanent deployment location of an Artsakh military base.

The Russian peacekeeping force officially stated that Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire.

 15:04, 4 August 2022

YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Guinness record holder Yuri Sakunts eyes to set a new world record with his latest spectacular performance: pulling two train wagons by only using his little finger.

Sakunts, two-time Champion of Europe in power triathlon, pulled the two metro cars weighing 65 tonnes with his pinky on August 4. The record has to be formally registered by Guinness to be official. 

Yuri Sakunts is also a lecturer at the State Academy of Crisis Management.

He set his previous record by pulling two firefighting vehicles weighing 37,5 tonnes with his teeth.

“It’s very difficult to pull 65 tonnes using only one pinky, given that I weight only 65 kilos. I am happy that I could do it, albeit with difficulty. My motto for success in life is to believe in what you want to do. I dedicate this record to the Armenian people,” Sakunts said.

He said he plans to pull a helicopter using his pinky next.

 15:12, 4 August 2022

YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. The close contacts between Armenia and Russia at various levels will allow to clarify the questions that Yerevan has regarding the activity of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told TASS.

“There are trilateral documents that are considered to be the main starting point. The important is to implement all the obligations assumed by the sides with these documents. If there are questions, they definitely need to be answered. At the same time, we have close contacts with the Armenian side at various levels which will allow us to clarify the existing issues”, he said.

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan announced today that “a number of events that have taken place in Nagorno Karabakh since 2020, including those in recent days, evoke questions from the Armenian public about the content and nature of the peacekeeping operation in Nagorno Karabakh. “In this context, there is an urgent need to agree the details of the peacekeeping operation there”, the PM said as quoted by TASS.

 16:01, 4 August 2022

YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. President of Russia Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Nagorno Karabakh with members of the Security Council, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.

Peskov said the escalation of the conflict in NK was discussed. “The high necessity to implement all provisions of the trilateral agreement was underscored,” Peskov added.