Zangi unveils messenger with NATO-approved military grade encryption for Nagorno Karabakh in case of internet blackout

Kalantarian Kevo

 17:15,

YEREVAN, JULY 20, ARMENPRESS. The Government of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) has signed a memorandum with the Armenian Zangi on launching a modern and secure messenger capable of being used without internet.  

The messenger is developed by Zangi and will be called ArtsakhX.

“We’ve solved several problems, most importantly the problems of security and access. In case of Artsakh’s internet getting cut off, ArtsakhX will continue to work with partial functionality,” Zangi CEO Vahram Martirosyan told ARMENPRESS.

ArtsakhX is encrypted with NATO-approved military grade End-to-End AES-GSM-256 algorithm. The servers and data will be located in Nagorno Karabakh, enabling to ensure data transfer in the event of an enemy electronic warfare or cyber attack.

The messenger is free and will be available in Nagorno Karabakh soon.

“ArtsakhX is a unique solution in the world, integrating civilian GSM operator and messenger system. ArtsakhX is created by Zangi and will be serviced by Zangi for free,” the CEO added.

Zangi began to work on the project six months ago, but the idea was conceived after the 2016 Nagorno Karabakh Four-Day War.

Karina Terteryan




RFE/RL Armenian Service – 07/20/2023

Emil Lazarian 
                                        Thursday, 
Armenia Building Checkpoint On Turkish Border
        • Nane Sahakian
Turkey/Armenia - An Armenian truck loaded with humanitarian aid for earthquake 
victims crosses a Turkish-Armenian border bridge near Margara, February 11, 2023.
Armenia is building a checkpoint at its closed border with Turkey despite what 
Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has described as a “pause” in efforts to 
normalize Turkish-Armenian relations.
The Armenian government contracted recently a private company to construct the 
checkpoint in Margara, a border village 40 kilometers southwest of Yerevan, in 
preparation for a planned opening of the Turkish-Armenian border for diplomatic 
passport holders and citizens of third countries.
Ankara and Yerevan reached an agreement to that effect in July last year 
following a series of negotiations held by their special envoys. The Armenian 
negotiator, parliament vice-speaker Ruben Rubinian, said earlier this year that 
it is due be implemented “at the beginning of this summer.”
However, the Turkish government gave no such indications even after Prime 
Minister Nikol Pashinian’s June 28 phone call with Turkish President Recep 
Tayyip Erdogan. The issue was reportedly on the agenda of the call.
“We have had a certain pause in this process, which I think was due to the 
[presidential] election campaign and the elections in Turkey,” Mirzoyan said 
during a visit to Austria on Tuesday. “Now it’s time to continue the 
normalization talks.”
Armenia- A view of the ruins of a medieval Armenian bridge over Akhurian river 
marking the Turkish-Armenian border, May 10, 2023.
Erdogan and other Turkish leaders have repeatedly made clear that further 
progress in the normalization process is contingent on the signing of an 
Armenian-Azerbaijani peace accord sought by Baku.
The head of Armenia’s State Revenue Committee, Rustam Badasian, said on Thursday 
that work on the Margara checkpoint is in full swing and will be complete 
“soon.” “I can't give a specific date,” he told reporters.
Badasian, whose agency comprises the national customs service, did not comment 
on prospects for the functioning of the Margara facility.
Another interim agreement reached by Rubinian and his Turkish opposite number, 
Serdar Kilic, called for air freight traffic between the two neighboring 
nations. There have been no signs of its implementation either, even though the 
Turkish government officially allowed cargo shipments by air to and from Armenia 
in January.
In the words of Gagik Musheghian, an Armenian businessman who splits his time 
between Yerevan and Istanbul, such shipments are possible only “on paper.” He 
said that as recently as on Monday he inquired about Turkish customs clearance 
for airlifting a consignment of goods to Armenia.
“They said … it’s not possible to do as a normal [commercial] shipment because 
they don’t recognize Armenia,” Musheghian told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
Russia Responds To Turkey Over Karabakh Peacekeeping Mission
        • Aza Babayan
LITHUANIA - Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a press conference 
during the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, 2023.
Turkey has no business deciding how long Russian peacekeepers should remain 
stationed in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
The ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, responded to Turkish President Recep 
Tayyip Erdogan, who said last week that the peacekeeping contingent must leave 
Karabakh in 2025 in line with a Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the 2020 
Armenian-Azerbaijani war.
Under that agreement, the 2,000 or so Russian soldiers, deployed along the 
current Karabakh “line of contact” and in the Lachin corridor right after the 
six-week war, will stay there for at least five years. The peacekeeping 
operation can be repeatedly extended by five more years if Armenia and 
Azerbaijan do not object to that.
Speaking at the end of a NATO summit in Vilnius on July 12, Erdogan expressed 
confidence that Moscow will honor the truce accord and the five-year timeline 
set by it.
“Ankara is not a party to the statement of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan dated 
November 9, 2020,” Zakharova told a news briefing in Moscow.
“It was on the basis of this document that the Russian peacekeeping contingent 
was deployed in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” she said. “And it is 
in this document that both the terms of stay of the contingent and the 
parameters of its possible extension for the next five-year period are laid out.”
Nagorno-Karabakh - Russian peacekeepers check their weapons at a checkpoint on 
the road to Shushi, November 17, 2020.
Azerbaijan regularly emphasizes that the peacekeeping forces are deployed in the 
conflict zone on a “temporary” basis. It has increasingly criticized them during 
its seven-month blockade of the Lachin corridor condemned by Armenia and 
Karabakh as a gross violation of the ceasefire.
Baku accused the peacekeepers of supporting “Armenian army units” in Karabakh 
when it rejected on July 16 Moscow’s latest calls for an immediate end to the 
blockade. A senior Russian diplomat strongly denied the claim.
The Russians have also been criticized by Armenia for their failure to ensure 
unfettered traffic through Karabakh’s sole land link with the outside world 
envisaged by the 2020 accord.
Zakharova again defended the peacekeepers, saying that they are playing a 
“stabilizing role” in Karabakh. “Maintaining peace in the South Caucasus is in 
the interests of both Azerbaijan and Armenia, and, I think, all countries of the 
region, including Turkey,” she said.
Karabakh’s leadership regards the Russian military presence as the Armenian 
populated region’s main security guarantee. Arayik Harutiunian, the Karabakh 
president, expressed hope last September that it will be “indefinite.”
Pashinian Admits Lack Of Progress In Fresh Talks With Aliyev
        • Astghik Bedevian
Armenia - Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian addresses prosecutors in Yerevan, July 
1, 2023.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said on Thursday that he and Azerbaijani 
President Ilham Aliyev did not achieve “concrete results” at their latest 
meeting hosted by European Union chief Charles Michel on July 15.
Pashinian said they discussed mutual recognition of Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s 
territorial integrity, delimitation of the border and transport links between 
the two states as well as the deepening humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh 
caused by Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin corridor. He made no explicit 
mention of an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace treaty, the main focus of peace talks 
held by Baku and Yerevan in recent months.
“As you can see, I cannot present very concrete results from the Brussels 
meeting,” Pashinian told his ministers during a weekly cabinet meeting. 
“Nevertheless, the negotiation process should continue as intensively as 
possible and active efforts should be made to find mutually acceptable 
solutions.”
Speaking after the trilateral meeting, Michel gave no indications that Aliyev 
and Pashinian narrowed their differences on the peace treaty. He said he urged 
them to “take further courageous steps to ensure decisive and irreversible 
progress on the normalization track.”
Pashinian said the meeting “did not yield any concrete results in terms of 
opening the Lachin corridor and overcoming the humanitarian crisis in 
Nagorno-Karabakh.” He again charged that “ethnic cleansing” is the ultimate aim 
of the Azerbaijani blockade.
“At the moment, our task is to draw greater international attention to the 
humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh through diplomatic methods and by 
presenting the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh in the international press and 
social media as widely and objectively as possible,” he said.
Artur Khachatrian, an Armenian opposition lawmaker, dismissed the remarks. He 
said Yerevan should portray the blockade as further proof that the Karabakh 
Armenians cannot live safely under Azerbaijani rule.
“They [the Armenian government] don’t talk about that because they are scared,” 
he told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
Echoing statements by other opposition leaders, Khachatrian claimed that the 
blockade is the result of Pashinian’s decision to stop championing Karabakh’s 
right to self-determination and to recognize Azerbaijani sovereignty over the 
Armenian populated region.
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Azeri ‘aid’ is actually blackmail and attempt to subjugate us,Nagorno Karabakh demonstrators say after closing Akna road

Jagharian Tania

 14:08,

STEPANAKERT, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. Citizens in Nagorno Karabakh have closed the Askeran-Akna (Aghdam) road with concrete barriers in a move to show that despite the harsh humanitarian situation Nagorno Karabakh is categorically against receiving any supplies of Azerbaijani goods, be it “humanitarian aid” or “very cheap products”.

Demonstrators said that Azerbaijan, by claiming that it wants to send supplies to Artsakh, is actually blackmailing Nagorno Karabakh in an attempt to subjugate it.

Several high-ranking Azerbaijani government officials have been talking about “readiness” to send what they describe as “aid” to Artsakh via the Akna (Aghdam) road. The Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has spoken about this during a number of meetings. The President of the European Council Charles Michel also mentioned the possibility of using this road during a press briefing after his meeting with the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders in Brussels on July 15.

“We’ve clearly said that this is a red line for us,” Arshak Abrahamyan, a founding member of the Artsakh Security Development Front movement told ARMENPRESS. The Askeran-Akna road is closed by demonstrators from this movement’s youth wing and others.

“Artsakh should maintain its social and economic connections only with Armenia. The removal of the illegal Azerbaijani checkpoint on Hakari Bridge remains a priority in our main demands,” he added, noting that they are calling for a humanitarian air corridor to be established as a short-term and urgent solution to the humanitarian disaster.

“Their statements claiming to be ready to send supplies are an attempt to blackmail and subjugate us,” Abrahamyan added.

 

Van Novikov

PM Pashinyan commends project on opening EHL Hospitality Business School branch in Gyumri

Emil Lazarian

 15:59,

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has held a meeting with Swiss-Armenian businessman Vahe Gabrash and the AGBU Armenia President Vasken Yacoubian.

Gabrash and Yacoubian presented the project on opening a branch of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne – EHL Hospitality Business School of Lausanne – in Gyumri, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a readout.

PM Pashinyan commended the initiative and expressed the government’s support in effectively implementing the project. The Armenian Prime Minister mentioned that the government is carrying out large-scale reforms in education for improving both physical infrastructures and the content. 

A certification process of teachers is underway, and the development of the Academic City is also in process.

The Prime Minister attached importance to establishing a branch of the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne in Gyumri in terms of ensuring high-quality professional education and development of skills.

Gabrash and Yacoubian thanked the Armenian Prime Minister for supporting their initiative and presented details on the course of the work.

Amundi-Acba made a huge investment in the RA economy

Emil Lazarian

 16:20,

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. Amundi-Acba made an investment from the assets of Balanced and Conservative pension funds in the first EU-Armenia SME private equity fund that invests in the equity capital of companies operating in various sectors of the RA economy.

The fund is managed by Amber Capital Armenia, the assets are about 60 million USD and the investment of Amundi-Acba is 6 million USD making 10% of the fund’s assets.

The fund made one of its investments in Walnut farms. Amber Capital Armenia has invested 3 million US dollars in Walnut Farms, Amundi-Acba’s share makes about 300,000 US dollars.

The company Walnut Farms has been engaged in walnut processing for 6 years and a new Armenian future brand the Nut is created on 100 hectares of land in Armavir marz.

The founding director of the company, a Lebanese-Armenian Samuel Samuelyan, noted that this is an investment that looks to the future, the result of this business will be visible after years, it is a long-term and prospective work, which will foster the creation of the Armenian industry of nuts and pulses.

Jean Mazejian, the CEO at Amundi-Acba Asset Management, said: “We made an indirect investment from the assets of pension funds in Walnut Farms through Amber Capital. Agriculture is a priority for Armenia’s economy. The activity carried out by Walnut Farms is an innovation, which will soon create a new industry in the country and the vision of development foresees the products be exported abroad. In addition to creating jobs, developing the local market and economy, Walnut Farms, creates an ecosystem in the country that contributes to Armenia in becoming a part of the global economy by introducing the latest technologies into business processes”. 

Hrayr Aslanyan, the Deputy Executive Officer at Amundi-Acba Asset Management, fund manager emphasized: “The company will have the opportunity to significantly enlarge the walnut orchards and build a new factory with this investment. Besides, it promotes the creation of jobs especially in rural communities. In addition, in the context of investing from pension funds the most important factor is the partner’s experience, which meets Amundi-Acba’s standards.

 “The business founders have two sources of financing, one is the loan instruments – the bank, and the other source is the equity capital. The banking sector in Armenia is quite saturated and functions effectively, however, there was a lack of equity capital. Apart from money, Amber Capital was able to provide a number of other advantages to the company, mainly in the field of corporate management. After the investment, a board of directors was established where we have our representative, a financial director was appointed and an external audit institute was introduced. This fosters the culture of the company since it moves from a small institution to a corporate stage. The role of Amundi Acba Asset Management is very important, they have been with us since the first day, the total investment of 60 million AMD would not have been made if it was not for the first investment” said Grigor Harutyunyan, the Investment Director at Amber Capital Armenia.

Walnut Farms wants to create a community where all pulse producers can share experiences how to plant orchards, cultivate them and implement technologies.

Amundi-Acba Asset Management was established in Armenia by the French Amundi and ACBA Bank in 2013. Amundi-ACBA asset management manages three pension funds, benefiting from the Amundi advanced know-how, expertise and technical support. As of June 30, 2023, the assets under the management of Amundi-Acba made about 351 billion AMD.

Back in 2020, Amundi-Acba invested a certain part of the pension funds in the EU-Armenia Small and Medium Enterprise Fund managed by Amber Capital Armenia. The fund invests in various companies operating in the real sector of the economy.

Amber Capital Armenia is the first institutional private equity fund manager in Armenia. The fund is registered in Luxembourg and its assets are about 60 million US dollars. The investment in Walnut Farms is 5% of the total fund.

The company Walnut Farms operates in the field of growing high-value agricultural products in Armenia. The company processes and exports walnut from ecological regions of Armenia.




Group of Armenian civil society organizations concerned over Charles Michel’s statement

Talar Tumanian

 17:20,

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. A group of Armenian civil society organizations have expressed concern regarding the recent statement made by the President of the European Council Charles Michel.

Below is the full statement released by the group of civil society organizations.

“The undersigned civil society organizations in Armenia express their alarm over the press statement of July 15 made by Charles Michel, President of the European Council, following the latest trilateral meeting with Prime Minister Pashinyan and President Aliyev. Specifically, we are concerned that the announcement equates the Lachin Corridor and Aghdam as options to address the current humanitarian crisis. This proposal disregards the fact that the source of the humanitarian crisis is Azerbaijan’s continued blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh (NK), subjecting its population to hunger and malnutrition to force submission to their demands, or worse, push them physically out of the territory. Moreover, it does not solve other ongoing violations of human rights, including freedom of movement, access to health services, access to education, etc. We fear that should this proposal be pursued, it will worsen the current dire situation, putting the lives of people in Nagorno-Karabakh at risk.

“The Lachin Corridor does not have an alternative. The February 2023 Preliminary Order (reaffirmed in July 2023) of the International Court of Justice confirms the importance of keeping the corridor open for the free passage of people, goods, and vehicles. However, the Azerbaijani side has not only ignored the Order but has further tightened the months-long blockade. Instead of addressing the root cause of the humanitarian crisis, the discussion of “alternative” routes, such as Aghdam, diverts the international community’s attention from the source of the problem – the illegal blockade of a humanitarian corridor and the policy of ethnic cleansing by the Azerbaijani government. Making the Aghdam road operational would inadvertently support this policy by giving additional political and economic leverage to Azerbaijan over the Armenian population in NK and further undermining their rights. 

“Using hunger as a negotiation tactic should not be normalized. If the current situation of a total blockade persists, the act of offering food and supplies through Aghdam resembles hostage-taking and undermines any efforts to build trust between NK and Azerbaijan within the context of a possible Baku-Stepanakert dialogue. Should the international community yield to Azerbaijan’s unlawful actions and clear intentions of ethnic cleansing, it would effectively validate the wrongful closure of the Lachin Corridor and the captivity of 120,000 individuals since December 2022. Furthermore, this endorsement would legitimize the non-adherence to the ICJ’s order and discredit all existing and future agreements or international legal rulings.

“Additionally, the statement refers to the facilitation of the release of soldiers who inadvertently cross to the other side. While this is an important issue, it is crucial that the fate of all detainees and prisoners of war is not forgotten. There are at least 35 confirmed prisoners of war and other civilian detainees in Azerbaijan. There have been reliable reports that they have been subjected to torture and inhuman and degrading treatment. Two of them were kidnapped earlier this year from Armenia proper, and the court in Azerbaijan sentenced them to lengthy prison sentences for “trespassing” for allegedly attempting to supply a group of “saboteurs” and for “armed terrorism conspiracy”. Similar sham trials have also occurred in relation with other detainees captured during and after the 44-day war. It is obvious that access to justice is impossible under the current circumstances. Moreover, Azerbaijan appears to hold these detainees as a bargaining chip during the process of negotiations.

“Thus, we earnestly request that the international community:

  • prioritize efforts to immediately unblock the Lachin Corridor in accordance with the ICJ ruling,
  • unite efforts in facilitating the immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners of war and other detained persons.

 

 

 

Democracy Development Foundation

Analytical Centre on Globalization and Regional Cooperation (ACGRC)

Center for Rights Development NGO

“Asparez” Journalists’ Club

“For Equal Rights” Educational Center NGO

Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor

Non-Discrimination and Equality Coalition

Public Journalism Club

Peace Dialogue NGO

Protection of Rights Without Borders NGO

Real World, Real People NGO

Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center

Regional Center for Democracy and Security

Union of Informed Citizens

Women’s Support Center”

BTA. President Doubts that "Parliament of Low Legitimacy" Should Amend Constitution

Kalashian Nyrie

 17:44,

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS/BTA. President Rumen Radev doubts that what he considers “a parliament of low public approval and low legitimacy” should amend the Constitution. “Let us see what they are going to propose. There is a majority but there have been no proposals about amending the Constitution,” Radev said on Wednesday, taking a question from BTA about whether amending Bulgaria’s basic law is on the agenda.

He was also asked to comment on a remark by Hristo Ivanov of Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria, one of two coalitions which have worked out the formula of the present government. Ivanov said recently that Radev’s opinion that “Ukraine insists on waging the war” against Russia puts the Bulgarian President in the same league as the pro-Russian President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, which Ivanov described as “irresponsible and dangerous for Bulgaria”.

Radev said: “Mr Ivanov is doing everything possible, using all possible cards to make us forget the lowly way in which he deceived his voters and betrayed his own principles and values. He had built his entire political image as a fighter against the mafia, which he identified with [GERB party leader Boyko] Borissov, and against backstage politics, which he identified with [businessman and MP Delyan] Peevski. And now, he is not just locked in an embrace with them, he is their running dog.”

Radev expects the government to defend Bulgaria’s interests and to follow the Bulgarian agenda, paying attention to the problems of the people. “This will determine my attitude to the incumbents,” he said.

(This information is being published according to an agreement between Armenpress and BTA.)




Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Khachatryan chairs regular session of the SME Development Council

Jane Topchian

 18:09,

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. Today, July 19, the 21st session of the Small and Medium Business Development Council of the Republic of Armenia was held under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Khachatryan, ARMENPRESS was infomred from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. 

Welcoming the members of the Council, the Deputy Prime Minister noted that the formation of a friendly institutional environment for the activity and continuous growth of small and medium enterprises is among the Government’s priorities. Khachatryan expressed confidence that as a result of cooperation with the private sector, the legal framework regulating the business environment will be continuously improved, creating favorable conditions for the sustainable development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Summarizing the results of the implementation of the decisions made during the previous session, the members of the Council referred to a number of important issues from the point of view of ensuring a favorable business environment, including the possibility of revising the responsibility for the employer in case of non-calculation or non-payment of wages in accordance with the law, reasonableness of fines for violation of the rules of the use of cash registers, as well as the problems that appear in the export process.

Thanking the members of the Council for the objective and effective discussion, Deputy Prime Minister Khachatryan expressed hope that the close cooperation formed during this period with state administration bodies will be continuous, allowing to effectively address the obstacles that appear during the activity of small and medium enterprises.

Armenian, Russian PMs discuss economic cooperation issues

Emil Lazarian

 19:11,

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan had a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin, ARMENPRESS was infomred from teh Office of teh Prime Minister. 

The interlocutors discussed issues on the Armenian-Russian economic cooperation agenda and current programs.

Issues related to cooperation within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union were also addressed.

Our task is that you walk normally, study and work. PM Pashinyan to former serviceman disabled as a result of the war

Jhanna Virabian

 19:24,

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan received Aram Arzumanyan, who was disabled as a result of the 44-day war. Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Narek Mkrtchyan was also present at the meeting, ARMENPRESS was infomred from the Office of the Prime Minister. 

The Prime Minister had met Aram’s parents on July 17 in Artashat, who raised the issue of changing Aram Arzumanyan’s disability degree from 1 to 2.

Nikol Pashinyan listened to Aram Arzumanyan, answered his questions, and the minister presented the necessary clarifications regarding the change of degree, informed that Aram was provided with modern high-quality prosthetics, which contributed to his ability to walk.

Prime Minister Pashinyan noted that the government is bringing the policy of providing disability degree to the international standard. “Degree is not a goal, it is a means to solve a problem. The meaning of the policy is as follows. that methodology says, don’t assess whether a person has legs or not, but assess whether they can walk, whether their ability to walk has been restored in any way or not. And we think that policy is correct. Our policy is to restore the person’s functional capacity. We all focus on the degree all the time, but degree is not the goal. The extent to which functionality has been restored should be assessed. We should try to understand the method of providing degree, how effective it is and what needs to be done to make it more effective,” said the Prime Minister.

Nikol Pashinyan emphasized that the Government should do its best to restore the functionality of the person. “We must provide our brothers and children disabled as a result of the war with prosthetics that meet the best international standards.

We do not want you and our other children and brothers to have a disability degree, but to be fully rehabilitated, to be able to get an education, a job, that is, to act freely and to recover your functional capacity. In the cases when this will not be successful, the disability order will be defined by the examination, which will give us an indication that there is a functional problem,” said the Prime Minister.

The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs reported that more than 1,400 servicemen were disabled as a result of the 44-day war.

Prime Minister Pashinyan reminded that the comprehensive health insurance system will be introduced in the republic from next year. “Persons disabled as a result of the 44-day war should be included in this system at the very first stage. Our task is not that you say what a good government, it gave me a first degree disability? Our task is to ensure that you walk normally, run, study, work, live. Please, don’t push us in the direction of providing a disability degree and thinking that we have solved a problem. We need you to have no disability degree. We need to implement such a modern functional prosthetics that will be both comfortable and functional,” said Nikol Pashinyan, adding that the Government will move according to the new methodological standard for disability classification.

During the meeting, Aram Arzumanyan raised other health-related issues. The Prime Minister instructed Minister Mkrtchyan to submit a new draft Government’s decision, as necessary, to solve additional health problems of Aram and other persons with disabilities.

An agreement was reached to organize a new meeting in the coming months, including with the participation of other persons with disabilities, to discuss the problems and further steps to solve them.