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MP Gagik Tsarukyan has revealed plans to participate in the 2017 parliamentary elections.

“The 2017 parliamentary elections will be fatal for Armenia,” Tsarukyan said in a statement today.

“Considering the domestic and foreign challenges facing our country, as well as the public demand for my return, I declare I’m reopening the closed page of my political activity and will participate in the 2017 parliamentary elections, forming a broad coalition,” Gagik Tsarukyan said.

“Our doors are open to all political forces and politicians concerned by the future of our country,” he said.

“We can and we have the potential develop and strengthen our country,” he stated.

Armenia has been included in the UN’s 2017 Honour Roll for having paid its regular budget assessment in full.

In January 2017 Armenia paid $151,338 as a regular assessment.

The roll includes the countries that have paid their regular budget assessments in full within the 30 day due period specified in Financial Regulation.

Nine out of 193 UN member states were in the Honour Roll as of January 10, 2017.

The NKR National Assembly voted 20 to 7 with one abstention today to approve the President’s proposal to put the draft Constitution of the Artsakh Republic on a referendum.

“All of us are interested in having a better Constitution,” National Assembly Speaker Ashot Ghulyan said addressing the lawmakers.

“We already have certain traditions in the sphere and this maturity should become visible, when adopting the Constitution in 2017,” he said.

President’s representative Ararat Danielyan presented the main changes to the draft Constitution. All in all, 184 proposals had been submitted by factions and MPs, of which 30 were adopted. Another 13 offers were adopted partially, while the other 154 proposals were turned down due to different reasons.

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The search for the Malaysian airliner that disappeared three years ago with 239 on board has been suspended, the BBC reports.

In a statement, Australia, Malaysia and China said the decision was taken with “sadness” after a fruitless search in more than 120,000 sq km (46,300 miles) of the Indian Ocean.

Families of the victims called it an “irresponsible” move that must be reconsidered.

Flight MH370 vanished en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur in 2014.

So far only seven of the 20 pieces of recovered debris have been identified as definitely or highly likely to be from the Boeing 777.

 

 

 

Angelina Papikyan and Sabina Manvelyan will represent Armenia in the new music show “Ты-супер” (“You’re super”) to be hosted by the Russian NTV channel.

Angelina Pepanyan, 15, studies at the Gyumri’s boarding school after Fridtjof Nansen. Sabina Manvelyan, also 15, lives at children’s home in Vanadzor.

The project provides a chance to talented children without parents to express themselves. According to the rules of the project, every country should be represented by two participants.

The girls will leave for Moscow in the coming days and are looking forwards to the start of the show.

On 16 January President Bako Sahakyan signed a decree, according to which serviceman of the NKR Defense Army’s N division Garik Vardanyan was posthumously awarded with the “For Service in Battle” medal for bravery shown during the defense of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic state border.

Private of the NKR Defense Army Garik Artashes Vardanyan, born in 1996, succumbed to wounds at the military hospital in Yerevan on January 15.

The NKR Defense Ministry shares the sorrow of the heavy loss and expresses its condolences to Garik Vardanyan’s family and friends.

The NKR Defense Army has dismissed the claims that an Azeri serviceman had been killed in a shooting from the Armenian side.

The NKR Defense Ministry reports that that the Azerbaijani side kept violating the ceasefire regime all along the line of contact, using firearms of different calibers, also as 60 and 82 mm mortars.

More intensive firing was reported in the eastern and northeastern sections of the frontline.

The NKR forces resorted to response actions to pressure the activeness of the rival at some sections. “Azerbaijan will be responsible for the consequences of further aggravation of tension. Karabakh pledges stricter actions should the rival maintain the behavior.

The National Assembly of the Nagorno Karabakah Repubvlic will convene a special session on January 17.

A corresponding decision was signed by Speaker Ashot Ghulyan today.

The lawmakers are set to resume discussions on the draft Constitution.

Although disappointed not to win, Henrikh Mkhitaryan enjoyed the “amazing” atmosphere at Old Trafford in his first experience of Manchester United’s fierce rivalry with Liverpool.

The Reds were held to a 1-1 draw in the Premier League as Zlatan Ibrahimovic notched his 19th goal of the season to cancel out James Milner’s first-half penalty at a raucous Theatre of Dreams.

In particular, the noise levels inside the stadium erupted when Zlatan equalised on 84 minutes as the crowd willed the team on to secure a possible comeback victory. While a second goal unfortunately never came, Mkhitaryan told afterwards that he relished the whole experience.

“The atmosphere was amazing,” Henrikh said. “I want to see more of this kind of atmosphere in the stadium. Thanks to the supporters. They were believing in us and they supported us until the end.”

Offering his assessment of the match, Mkhitaryan continued: “It wasn’t the right result but we were down 1-0 so it wasn’t a bad result. We could have won, we could have lost, but I think we deserved to win more because we played very well like a team and did our best to win the game.

“The score was 1-1 at the end so we were pushing up a bit, trying to find the net for the second time but unfortunately we couldn’t. So 1-1 is not a bad result because we are still very close to the top four and we will do our best in the next games.”

Marouane Fellaini made a telling impact as a substitute on Sunday as his header that bounced off the post led to Ibrahimovic scoring a vital goal just seconds later. Mkhitaryan was quick to praise the Belgian afterwards, but also had positive words for United’s two other replacements.

“Not only Marouane but also Wayne Rooney and Juan Mata put freshness in the team,” Micki explained. “They helped us a lot up front and we are happy that they could change something in our game. We are happy to have them coming on.”

Mkhitryan is unconcerned that United’s nine-match winning run has come to an end, saying records are not the main focus this season, yet he hopes to begin another run at Stoke City next weekend.

“For sure, why not?” he said. “We have to win, try to win the next game. We are not looking for records, we are doing our best to be in the top four and to do that you have to win games. Do not think about records because one day they will break. We are just trying to do our job by winning every game.”

Contract serviceman Arayik Igor Sargsyan (born in 1995), was fatally wounded under unknown circumstances at one of the military units located in the southeastern direction of the NKR Defense Army at about 12:35 today, the NKR Defense Ministry reports.

Investigation into the circumstances of the incident is under way.

The NKR Defense Ministry shares the sorrow of the heavy loss and expresses condolences to the serviceman’s family and friends.