Category: 2022

 12:09,

YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS. The shots and terrorist actions in the direction of the peaceful settlements of Artsakh are manifestations of ethnic and religious hatred, being coordinated by the Azerbaijani authorities, against Armenians, Human Rights Defender of Armenia Kristinne Grigoryan said during a discussion today relating to Azerbaijan’s ethnic hatred policy and its consequences.

The Defender said the numerous reports of the Ombudsmen of Armenia and Artsakh, the fact-finding missions and analysis of organizations having an international mandate prove that Azerbaijan’s policy of ethnic and religious hatred against Armenians is of systematic nature.

“It feeds the Azerbaijani society. In particular, the 2020 September 27 war was accompanied by huge hatred and hostility campaign, which was being encouraged by the Azerbaijani authorities. The state-sponsored propaganda of Armenophobia and hostility today is reaching very dangerous and extremely fascist manifestations. I want to note that our studies show that the policy is based on two pillars – ethnic and religious, because there are talks on ethnic hatred, Armenophobia very often, but in many cases the religious hatred becomes secondary. But our reports also state that the facts prove that this hatred on religious grounds also exists”, Kristinne Grigoryan said.

 12:26,

YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS. Minister of Healthcare of Armenia Anahit Avanesyan received Acting UN Resident Coordinator in Armenia Lila Pieters Yahia, the ministry said in a press release.

Welcoming the guest, Anahit Avanesyan said Armenia’s 30-year-old membership to the United Nations has been outlined by the constructive partnership with the UN agencies.

“We highly appreciate all the efforts made during these years in the healthcare field of our country”, the minister said.

Lila Pieters Yahia in turn said that Armenia is not only a part of the United Nations family, but also a very active member. According to her, Armenia has registered high figures in a number of healthcare directions, which is exemplary for other countries.

The sides also discussed the healthcare reforms in the context of the healthcare system development strategy. They also touched upon the COVID-19 situation and the vaccination process.

At the end of the meeting Lila Pieters Yahia said the UN agency is ready to provide further support to the Ministry of Healthcare for the initiatives aimed at the system development.

 12:26,

YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS. Azerbaijan’s policy of ethnic and religious hatred has a clear goal – to evict Armenians from Artsakh and carry out ethnic cleansing, Human Rights Defender of Artsakh Gegham Stepanyan said during a discussion today relating to Azerbaijan’s ethnic hatred policy and its consequences.

“The policy of ethnic and religious hatred by Azerbaijan has been carried out also during the Soviet years, and the authorities of the Azerbaijani SSR have always run a policy for making the life of Armenians in the territory of Artsakh not so favorable”, he said.

According to him, after the first Artsakh war when the ceasefire was signed, it seemed it was possible to ensure the security of Artsakh and its residents’ right to life on its own, but after that Azerbaijan’s policy of Armenophobia further deepened. “It entered schools, various specific events were being organized, everything was done to bring up a generation in Azerbaijan that literally hates and doesn’t tolerate the Armenian people, moreover, the Armenian Christian people, because there are the two components both the ethnic hatred and the religious one”, he said.

The Ombudsman of Artsakh said they witnessed that hatred during the 2020 war because Azerbaijanis were not only brutally killing and torturing the Armenian soldiers, but also were desecrating the Armenian Christian heritage.

 12:33,

YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS. The Central Bank of Armenia commented on the call of Ukraine’s national bank to suspend all transactions with cards of Russia’s Mir payment system.

In a query to ARMENPRESS, the Central Bank said that it will properly notify the public about any action in all cases.

“The National Bank of Ukraine has publicly announced that it has asked the central banks of the partner countries to stop transactions with cards of Mir payment system in their national systems. The decisions of the Central Bank of Armenia have always been transparent, and in all cases the public will be properly informed about any action”, the Central Bank said.

The National Bank of Ukraine has appealed to the leadership of the central banks of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Turkey, and the Kyrgyz Republic to suspend any transactions with payment cards of the MIR payment system in these countries. Specifically, the NBU has urged these central bankers to discontinue the servicing of MIR cards in their ATM and POS networks, and to make it impossible to use these cards in e-commerce and P2P transfers.

 12:46,

YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS. The disruption of gas supply in Artsakh is creating multiple humanitarian problems, Ombudsman of Artsakh Gegham Stepanyan said during a discussion today relating to Azerbaijan’s ethnic hatred policy and its consequences.

“The disruption of the gas supply makes it impossible for the people to exercise various rights. It mostly affected the education process, yesterday the ministry of education of Artsakh already made a statement according to which the spring breaks will start sooner due to the current situation. In other words, it is already seen that children’s study process will be affected because of the gas problem. There is a certain impact in productions, bread factories. In other words, the absence of gas greatly affects the issues on providing ordinary essentials”, he said.

Since March 8 the Republic of Artsakh is without gas supply as the main pipeline supplying gas from Armenia to Artsakh has been damaged. The damaged section of the pipeline is under the control of the Azerbaijani armed forces. Negotiations are underway with the Azerbaijani side for conducting the repair works of the pipeline.