The Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed House Resolution 191, titled “Recognizing the Armenian Genocide,” on May 19, thus making The Lone Star State the 46th state in the U.S. to ofcially classify and commemorate the 1915-1923 annihilation of Ottoman Turkey’s indigenous Armenian community as genocide, the Armenian Weekly reports.
“The actions of the Turkish security guards are outrageous, and I condemn them. They violate both American law and deeply-held American values. The Turkish security guards must be held accountable.
“Julian Assange will now try to get out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London and ask France to make such a gesture and to provide asylum in order to protect himself from the US prosecution against him,” Branco told Franceinfo broadcaster.
U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas A. Shannon expressed his concerns over the incident to the Turkish Ambassador.
The video recording devices installed on the front line have detected that the Azerbaijani side opened fire on its own positions from 60 mm mortars by preliminary information in the SeysulanYarmja section of the contact line at about 12:15-12:19 and 13:32-13:36, as a result of which explosions took place in the mentioned area.
Former defense minister of Artsakh Samvel Babayan’s remand has been extended by two months, his attorney told Armenpress. According to him, Babayan didn’t want to be present in Court. Babayan was arrested on March 20 amid an investigation into smuggling of a surface to air missile system to Armenia.
“And Congress is for protection of interests of US citizens. Accordingly, raise the issue with your Congressman, take steps so that clear statements are made, that respective decision condemning those steps was adopted. If there were Jews or Irish instead of Armenians, I’m sure, a week later serious sanctions would have been imposed.”
Trump will go first to Saudi Arabia, where he will be welcomed by King Salman. The Saudi leader is organizing a greeting committee of as many 20 other heads of state representing a large percentage of the world’s 1.5 billion Sunni Muslims.
The Parliament passed the bill on reducing the number of permanent committees from 12 to 9. 64 MPs voted in favor, 9 against, and 4 abstained. At the same time, the Parliament refused the opposition bloc Yelk’s proposed bill, under which it suggested the Parliament to have 10 committees.
This year, however, the people of the Nuba Mountains will be able to rely on three Armenian doctors who will be substituting for him, and, like him, will save lives, Aurora Prize official website informs. Lieutenant Colonel Gevorg Voskanyan, Major Hayk Hovhannisyan and Armine Barkhudaryan –did now waver for a second when told that they are urgently needed in a remote corner of the world.
