Category: 2022

 11:50, 2 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. Candidate for President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan assures that if elected, he will be the President of all citizens of Armenia.

During the parliamentary debate over his candidacy, Arsen Torosyan from the Civil Contract faction said that a fake agenda has been generated. “Eventually, are you going to be only our president, or the president of all citizens of Armenia?”, he asked.

In response, Vahagn Khachaturyan said: “I am convinced that you do not want me to be only your president. Be convinced also that I don’t want me to be only your president. I ought to be the President of all citizens of Armenia by the Constitution. The President of Armenia is also an institute of solving national issues, and I am going to be like that, play that role. There is no obstacle for me in acting that role. Moreover, maybe you have chosen my candidacy taking into account this fact, I assume so. In any case, you have seen in me the person who can play that role. And for our separated public today, which is in a difficult socio-economic situation, it’s very important for the presidential institute, that is uniting, to work”.

He added that when that institute works, it will be revealed what major works he has to do. However, he noted that this institute cannot solve that problems alone if there is no cooperation with the parliament, the government, the society, political forces and NGOs. “I just believe and know that we can work only in this way”, he said.

Arsen Torosyan expressed confidence that Khachaturyan will really be the president of all citizens of Armenia, for which they have nominated his candidacy.

 12:18, 2 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. Candidate for President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan says reducing corruption, increasing competitiveness, developing high technological economy and expanding the regional cooperation are important for the development of the economy.

During the parliamentary debate over his candidacy, in response to the question what kind of an economic policy needs to be run for having a competitive state, Mr. Khachaturyan said it’s not a coincidence that when Armenia’s economic future was being discussed after the 2018 Velvet Revolution, he emphasized that only if the corruption decreases, competitiveness increases and alternative becomes more, that would be the best boost for the economic development.

“Now I repeat the same that corruption must decline, and competitiveness, alternatives must increase. These are the best tools that will contribute to Armenia’s economic development”, he said.

Talking about alternatives, he stressed that the country must think of alternatives.

“The problem is the following: we should have a high technological economy. We can understand everything under it. We have no alternative, we have lost the opportunity, which we had for becoming so, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We have lost those technological, human, equipment potential which we had during the Soviet times. We must restore this. Our ministry was engaged with this work. There were some, very little achievements”, he said.

By saying alternatives, Khachaturyan means also expanding the regional cooperation, opening roads. “These are the alternatives, the opportunities which will open a big path for our economy’s development”, he added.

 12:31, 2 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. There will be economic successes, achievements in social life in Armenia only when the security systems work and when the public feels that the borders are protected, Candidate for President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan said in the Parliament.

Serving as the Minister of High Technological Industry, Mr. Khachaturyan said the security issue, raising the defense capabilities are priorities for Armenia, and those are issues that must be solved as soon as possible, he added.

“When we fell that we have stability, that there is an environment in the region that there will be no threat of war, the borders will be open. In other words, our aspiration must be to achieve stability in the region, and the best guarantee for that is to have security systems”, he said.

Veteran ARMENPRESS journalist Levon Azroyan passes away

 12:48, 2 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. Renowned journalist of ARMENPRESS News Agency Levon Azroyan passed away at the age of 84.

He died on March 1 at a Yerevan hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19 complications.

Levon Azroyan was born on August 28, 1937 in Tbilisi. His journalistic career began in the 1960s when he joined the Soviet Georgia newspaper.

Azroyan moved to Yerevan in 1966 and continued his career at the Armenian Telegraph Agency – the predecessor of ARMENPRESS. He covered a wide range of spheres for over 30 years with the agency, before being appointed Deputy Head of the Press Service of the Armenian Government in 1993, where he worked for 5 years. Then, after some time he again returned to ARMENPRESS and continued his journalistic career until his death.

Levon Azroyan taught journalism at the Armenian-Russian University of Yerevan, in a number of other private universities as well as the Gavar State University.

Azroyan is the only Armenian journalist to have covered one of the Congresses of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party as part of the TASS News Agency’s team. He also covered the sessions of the last parliament of the USSR.

He is the author of 15 books.

 “I was destined to become a journalist,” Azroyan once said in an interview in 2019 on the occasion of his 82nd birthday. “I must do journalism as long as I am breathing.”

ARMENPRESS News Agency is expressing condolences to Levon Azroyan’s family and friends.

The funeral ceremony will take place on March 4 at the LyuAr funeral hall, and the burial will take place on March 5 at the Spandaryan Cemetery.

 14:41, 2 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. Presidential candidate Vahagn Khachaturyan says he believes that Armenia must seek to establish good-neighborly relations with its neighbors and the country’s development must be seen within this logic.

Speaking in parliament during his confirmation hearing as president, Khachaturyan, the incumbent minister of high-tech industry, said Armenia must be able to live in peace with neighbors.

“Speaking and negotiating is a better way than arguing or fighting or showing force to anyone. We can show force with knowledge and skills,” he said.

Khachaturyan says the Pashinyan Administration’s goal of opening an era of peaceful development is entirely acceptable for him, and that the President of Armenia must also work in this direction.

 15:04, 2 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. Atom Janjughazyan was elected Chairman of the Audit Chamber.

70 lawmakers voted in favor of Janjughazyan’s candidacy.

 16:06, 2 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. The new meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations will take place Wednesday evening in the same membership as before, Alexey Arestovich, advisor to the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, said, TASS reported.

“The second round of talks with Russia will take place later on March 2, in the same membership as before”, he said, according to Hromadske TV.

According to TASS information, the new round will take place in Belovezhskaya Puscha in Belarus.

The first round of the Russia-Ukraine talks was held on February 28 in the Gomel region of Belarus.

 

 16:10, 2 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. As of March 2, the Migration Service of Armenia hasn’t received an application for asylum from any citizen of Ukraine due to the ongoing military operations in that country, Deputy Head of the Migration Service Irina Davtyan said at a press conference in Armenpress.

“As of this moment, the Service has no application from the Ukrainian citizens. We also have no calls or letters connected with asylum application. The discussion of applications for asylum, providing asylum to foreign citizens and persons holding no citizenship is within the jurisdictions of our Service. Accordingly, if we have foreigners who will apply to the Service for that matter, we will discuss it properly and will make a relevant decision”, she said.

 16:13, 2 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. Armenian health authorities lifted on Wednesday the mandatory indoor face mask requirement citing a stable epidemiological situation in the country.

People will no longer have to wear face masks in enclosed public spaces, with the exception of medical facilities.

However, health authorities still recommend wearing face masks in enclosed spaces.

The regulation will come into force March 3.

In the last 14 days, 11,775 cases of COVID-19 were recorded, a 69% drop compared to the previous 14 days.

 16:15, 2 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 2, ARMENPRESS. Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine, and Trade Reza Fatemi Amin will depart for the Armenian capital of Yerevan on March 3 to discuss the expansion of trade relations between the two countries, Mehr news agency reported.

In this regard, an Iranian business delegation consisting of companies in the fields of home appliances, clothing, medicine, aquaculture and fisheries, food industry, furniture, industrial machinery, and medical equipment left for Armenia to attend the meeting on trade and investment opportunities.