Category: 2022

Azerbaijan canceled meeting with Armenia, Pashinyan says

Chatinian Lara
PanARMENIAN
Armenia –
– 15:12 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that Azerbaijan has canceled a meeting between Secretary of Armenia’s Security Council Armen Grigoryan and Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev.

Pashinyan told an online press conference on Monday, June 27 that the meeting was supposed to be held in Brussels.

According to him, Yerevan has also proposed a meeting between the Foreign Ministers but no response has been received from Baku so far. Pashinyan said Azerbaijan’s claims that Armenia is allegedly delaying negotiations on a peace treaty are “strange”.

Following Pashinyan’s remarks, media reports from Azerbaijan cited a diplomatic source as saying that the meeting in Brussels did not take place because there were “real reasons” for that.

“If the Armenian side makes contradictory statements every day, continues to talk about the mechanism of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmanship, and makes territorial claims against Azerbaijan, then what is the point of holding meetings?” the source reportedly said.

Russia planning to establish technopark in Armenia

Nahapetian Zhanna
PanARMENIAN
Armenia –
– 16:52 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Russia is planning to establish a joint technopark in the near future, Vice Speaker of the Russian State Duma Alexey Gordeev told reporters in Yerevan on Tuesday, June 28.

According to him, the possibility of significantly increasing investments in the establishment of joint ventures, both in industry and in agriculture, was discussed at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan.

He added that issues of mutual certification of products in the markets of Russia and Armenia were under serious consideration, so that these goods would be perceived as products of domestic production.

“A separate topic was how we can use the potential in education and science, create the right chains of interaction,” Gordeev noted.

Armenia: Ruling party to sack opposition’s deputy parliament speaker

Greg Madatian
PanARMENIAN
Armenia –
– 18:53 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – The ruling Civil Contract party has made a decision to remove Ishkhan Saghatelyan from the opposition Armenia bloc from the post of Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly.

MP Artur Hovhannisyan from Civil Contract said Tuesday, June 28 that lawmaker Vahe Hakobyan, also from Armenia bloc, will be sacked as the head of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs.

President of the National Assembly Alen Simonyan said earlier in the day that Civil Contract was going to discuss the possibility of firing opposition deputies for missing out on work due to a months-long campaign demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Days earlier, opposition lawmaker from “I Have Honor” bloc, Chairman of Homeland party Artur Vanetsyan resigned. Vanetsyan went on a sit-in in mid-April and launched a campaign against Pashinyan and his government. Pashinian came under fire after he and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev agreed to start drafting a bilateral peace treaty to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and set up a joint commission on demarcating the borders.

Yerevan and Marseille keen to expand cooperation

Jhanna Virabian
Public Radio of Armenia
Armenia –
, 16:19

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The perspectives of deepening the 30-year cooperation between Yerevan and Marseille were discussed during Yerevan Mayor Hrachya Sargsyan’s meeting with the deputy mayors of Marseille.

Mayor of Marseille Benoit Payan was unable to receive the delegation as he tested positive for Covid-19.

Greeting the Mayor of Yerevan, Deputy Mayor of Marseille Yanick Ohanissian noted that the collaboration between the two cities has a big potential for development and expansion, which should be used for the benefit of the residents of Yerevan and Marseille.

Expressing gratitude for warm welcome, Yerevan Mayor Hrachya Sargsyan stressed that the visit is a good opportunity to outline priority directions for working out a new three-year program. The parties attached importance to experience exchange between specialists and stressed that the cities encountering similar problems should join their efforts to achieve results.

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Ruling faction decides to remove Ishkhan Saghatelyan from the post of Deputy Speaker of Parliament

Garnik Tadevosian
Public Radio of Armenia
Armenia –
, 18:57

 1 minute read

The Civil Contract faction of the National Assembly has made a decision to remove Ishkhan Saghatelyan, representing the opposition Armenia faction, from the post of Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Secretary of the Civil Contract faction Artur Hovhannisyan has said.

In addition, Vahe Hakobyan will be removed from the post of the chief of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Economic Affairs.

Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Alen Simonyan said earlier today that the Civil Contract Party would consider stripping opposition MPs from parliamentary mandates.

According to the Speaker, at the moment there are 10 deputies, the number of whose absences has exceeded the maximum, which allows depriving them of their mandate.

Speaking to reporters, Simonyan did not rule out that the Deputy Speaker and the Heads of Standing Committees could also be removed.

Special Representatives of Armenia, Turkey to meet in Vienna on July 1st

Jirair Kafian
Public Radio of Armenia
Armenia –
, 12:23

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The fourth meeting of the Special Representatives of Armenia and Turkey for the normalization process will take place in Vienna on July 1st, the Armenian Foreign Ministry informs.

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Ruben Rubinyan and Ambassador Serdar Kilic last met in Vienna on May 3.

The Special Representatives reaffirmed the declared goal of achieving full normalization between their respective countries through this process. In this sense, they had a sincere and productive exchange of concrete views and discussed possible steps that can be undertaken for tangible progress in this direction.

They reiterated their agreement to continue the process without preconditions.

Diplomatic school of Armenia praised reforms in Kazakhstan

Kalantarian Kevo
 

YEREVAN. KAZINFORM – Ambassador of Kazakhstan Bolat Imanbayev met with the Rector of the Diplomatic School of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Vahe Gabrielyan, during which issues of developing bilateral cooperation in the field of training and advanced training of diplomatic personnel were discussed, Kazinform has learned from the press service of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry. 

The Ambassador informed about the focal points of the State-to-the-Nation Address of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev «New Kazakhstan: the path of renewal and modernization», aimed at large-scale political and socio-economic transformation of the country, as well as the results of the nationwide referendum on amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, held on June 5, 2022. Having highly appreciated the initiatives of the Head of State, Gabrielyan noted the consistent course of the leadership of the Republic of Kazakhstan in carrying out reforms and building a New Kazakhstan in the face of modern global challenges. 

During the conversation, the possibilities of establishing contacts between the diplomatic institutions of the two countries were also considered. Having congratulated on the 30th anniversary of the diplomatic service of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Gabrielyan drew attention to the high-level achievements of Kazakhstani diplomacy. He also said that this year Armenia and Kazakhstan are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, and the Armenian side is ready to further deepen cooperation in bilateral and multilateral formats, including in the humanitarian and educational sphere.


Armenia and Armenian people ‘have no allies’, analyst says

Antranik Varosian
Panorama
Armenia –

Armenia and the Armenian people “have no allies”, according to political analyst Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan.

“We are alone in this world. But that is not all. The biggest problem is that even our elites don’t fully realize it. Or they do, but they are running away from the truth,” he wrote on Telegram on Tuesday.

“And it is no longer an escape. It is betrayal,” the analyst said.

Opposition MP: Armenian authorities preparing people for ‘new big concessions’

Christine Harutyunian
Panorama
Armenia –

Tigran Abrahamyan, a lawmaker from the opposition Pativ Unem (With Honor) faction, on Tuesday reacted to Nikol Pashinyan’s latest statements on the risk of renewed war.

At an online news conference on Monday, the Armenian premier accused Azerbaijan of hampering peace efforts in an attempt to legitimize a new war against Armenia.

“First, Pashinyan is actually saying that the peace agenda promoted by him has failed; he cannot fulfill the key promise made to the people,” the MP wrote on Facebook.

“Second, Pashinyan says that in the absence of a chief of the General Staff, with an incompetent defense minister and an irresponsible commander-in-chief we will face a new war.

“Of course, I’m inclined to think that the authorities are preparing the people for new big concessions by intimidating them with [warnings about] a new war, but I do not rule out that at some point Armenia will get both losses and a new war,” Abrahamyan said.

Analyst urges Armenian authorities to invite Minsk Group co-chairs to Yerevan

Emil Lazarian
Panorama
Armenia –

Political analyst Suren Sargsyan urges the Armenian authorities to invite the OSCE Minsk Group mediators to Yerevan.

“France and the U.S. on the one hand and Russia on the other hand trade blames for the “demise” of the Minsk Group. Armenia, unlike Azerbaijan, insists that the Minsk Group is needed,’ he wrote on Facebook.

“Now the question is: Why doesn’t Armenia invite the Minsk Group co-chairs to Yerevan? Incidentally, this will be the only channel of communication between the West and Russia. Let them visit the region and let Aliyev not receive them. Many things will become clear to everyone,” the analyst said.

His comments came after the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs said the U.S. Minsk Group co-chair spoke with her counterparts today to discuss the future of Nagorno-Karabakh. Also, the Bureau said the Russian co-chair did not accept Washington’s invitation to joint it.

Earlier on Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that the Minsk Group “has wound down its activities” on the initiative of the United States and France.