11:04, 9 June 2022
YEREVAN, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS. Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Lavrov visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan to pay tribute to the memory of the victims, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said.
The Russian FM was accompanied by his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan.
Sergei Lavrov arrived in Armenia on a working visit on June 8.
11:42, 9 June 2022
YEREVAN, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS. The government approved today the 2022-2024 state support program for providing housing access to families in border settlements.
“This is a project of boosting the process of improving the housing conditions of families in border settlements. By easing the credit burden, we give the families with the opportunity to settle in a private house built by them in their preferred border rural settlement. This project is one of the important components for the proportionate development of rural communities”, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Narek Mkrtchyan said at the Cabinet meeting today.
He said that the state assistance for this project is provided to a beneficiary who received a mortgage loan by banks or credit companies. The state assistance is directed to repaying the monthly principal amount and interest rates of the mortgage loan. “The state support provided to the beneficiary for servicing the mortgage loan in ten years will comprise around 20 million 600 thousand drams”, the minister said.
The minister said that the program beneficiaries are spouses registered in the population registrar of Armenia, at least one of whom must be a citizen of Armenia. There is no age limitation and a requirement for having a child. Newly-created families are the main target of this project.
12:29, 9 June 2022
YEREVAN, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS. Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan and Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Lavrov held a meeting in Yerevan on June 9.
The private talk of the two FMs was followed by the meeting attended by the delegations.
Sergei Lavrov arrived in Armenia on June 8 on a working visit.
He is scheduled to meet also with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and President Vahagn Khachaturyan.
12:30, 9 June 2022
YEREVAN, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS. The region of Nagorno Karabakh exists as such, and it’s not up to Azeris to delete it from history, Armenia’s Ambassador to Albania Tigran Mkrtchyan said in an interview to the Albanian Public Radio and TV.
“I’s sometimes used that it’s a conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh. This is what usually the Azeris are presenting because when we are talking about the conflict over a territory, that means that it’s a territorial conflict. But the reality is that it’s not a territorial conflict, it’s a conflict about the rights of the Armenians to live the way they like in a territory which has been theirs for centuries, for thousands of years. The situation right now is not of very, you know, I don’t have good things to tell about this conflict right now”, he said.
The Ambassador said that after the war Azerbaijan has tried to capitalize on its victory which it gained by the support of Turkey. “But we believe that any conflict, especially this conflict, needs a fair just solution where there are not absolute winners and absolute losers, where there are not humiliators and humiliated ones”, he said.
“Azerbaijan has continuously violated the orders of the International Court of Justice, leaving no doubt that Nagorno Karabakh under Azeri control means Karabakh without Armenians, it means ethnic cleansing, it means in a way genocide”, Tigran Mkrtchyan said.
The full video of the interview is available below:
[see video]
13:00, 9 June 2022
YEREVAN, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS. Armenia continues to believe that the Russian peacekeeping mission is able to restore the status quo established in Nagorno Karabakh by the 2020 trilateral statement, the situation as of March 23, 2022, which has been violated by the incursion of the Azerbaijani armed forces into Parukh village in Askeran, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said at a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Yerevan on June 9.
FM Mirzoyan said that Russia played a vital role in the stop of the aggression unleashed against Artsakh.
“The deployment of peacekeeping forces in Nagorno Karabakh as a factor to prevent provocations and ensure the security of the people of Artsakh is aimed at creating conditions for restoring the normal life and ensuring stability and security in our region”, the Armenian FM said.
13:09, 9 June 2022
YEREVAN, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS. Armenia is interested in activating the works of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship – the negotiation format having an international mandate by the international community, aimed at the comprehensive settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said at a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Yerevan on June 9.
The FM reminded that the principles for the settlement of the NK conflict have been developed by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship.
“Our discussion today, of course, focused on the possible document on normalization of the relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as on issues relating to the settlement process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. I reaffirmed the readiness of the Armenian government to make efforts to achieve stability and peace in the region. In this context addressing the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is vital which will include the key points on ensuring the security and all rights of the people of Artsakh and determining the final status of Nagorno Karabakh”, the Armenian FM said, recalling the latest statement of the Armenian and Russian leaders where they affirmed the importance of using the potential and experience of the OSCE MG Co-Chairmanship institute in accordance with its international mandate.
13:20, 9 June 2022
YEREVAN, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the regime to be introduced in the framework of unblocking of economic and transportation communications in South Caucasus will be based absolutely on the sovereignty of the territory of Armenia.
“As you know, the railway route has been agreed upon, now the agreement on the automobile route is being completed, as well as the agreement over the regime that will be installed is being completed. It will be based absolutely on the sovereignty of the territory of Armenia. There couldn’t be any ambiguity here”, the Russian FM said at a joint press conference with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in Yerevan on June 9.
13:26, 9 June 2022
YEREVAN, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS. Human Rights Defender of Armenia Kristinne Grigoryan met today with the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Kara C. McDonald, the Ombudswoman’s Office said.
During the meeting Ombudsperson Kristinne Grigoryan presented the situation of human rights in Armenia.
Kara C. McDonald congratulated Kristinne Grigoryan on assuming office and discussed the challenges relating to the protection of human rights. She expressed readiness for further cooperation.
14:15, 9 June 2022
YEREVAN, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS. Hard Rock Cafe Yerevan will provide its employees with the best conditions of the international market – competitive salary, health insurance and an opportunity for constant growth.
Hard Rock Cafe Yerevan, which will open in Pushkin str. 3/1, will provide its future staffers with broad educational and training opportunities.
The Job Fair of Hard Rock Cafe was held on June 9, during which the list of jobs required for Yerevan, the job requirements and the criteria for the employees were presented.
Hard Rock Cafe Yerevan Director Bob Khalil told reporters that the preference will be given to Armenians as they better know the desires and demands of the local clients.
“Hard Rock Cafe is not just a restaurant or a café, it’s an entire experience, an environment involving the highest level of standards and service”, Bob Khalil said, adding that Hard Rock Cafe will bring also a new high quality and a perfect service culture.
Dom Arena director Arsen Hovhannisyan added that many people have applied for the job.
“It’s already over two weeks we have started collecting CVs. Interviews will soon launch in two stages, and then the participants will be selected. Next week specialists will arrive to hold training. The best 60 will be selected and will work in our field”, he said.
Hovhannisyan said that when they were discussing with ANIF (Armenian National Interests Fund) bringing the project to Armenia, it was noted that the company will not only bring a restaurant, but also knowledge, experience, corporate governance culture, which, unfortunately, is lacking in the sector.
Asked whether the state’s participation to the project is not worrying given that every business wants to be independent, Arsen Hovhannisyan said that the cooperation is built in a way that the business is quite free in making decisions. “Of course, there is accountability, well-built relations, but the relations here are within the corporate governance”, he said.
Food Republic and Hard Rock International signed a contract on opening Hard Rock Cafe in Yerevan. ANIF participates in the program within the framework of the Anti-Crisis fund programs of the ANIF subsidiary company established to mitigate the economic consequences of COVID 19. ANIF has 48% participation in the project.
The opening of Hard Rock Cafe in Yerevan is expected in the second quarter of 2022.
The first Hard Rock Cafe opened in downtown London in 1971.
Today the brand is present in more than 68 countries.
14:18, 9 June 2022
YEREVAN, JUNE 9, ARMENPRESS. Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan departed for Kazakhstan on a working visit, the government’s press service said.
During the visit the Armenian deputy PM will participate in the sessions of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission and the Economic Council of the Commonwealth of Independence States (CIS).