As much as Yuri Khachaturov’s appointment as CSTO Secretary General is a solution of an issue, it can equally be an aggravation of the issue, defense minister Vigen Sargsyan told reporters on April 21, commenting on the appointment of Armenia’s representative Yuri Khachaturov to the post of Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization – CSTO.
The Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires declared of interest “for the promotion and defense of human rights” the central act “for the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Turkish State, to be held next April 24 under the slogan ‘Memory, truth, justice and reparation'” during the session on Thursday 20 April, Prensa Armenia reported.
Recently media were focused on MEP Frank Engel from Luxembourg and his Armenian fiancée Tatev Manukyan, who lives in Belgium. She studied in the State University of Economics of Armenia and later continued her studies in Sweden’s Dalarna University.
The Minister said he will be one of the happiest men if he has a chance to continue his work as Defense Minister. Parliamentary election was held in Armenia on April 2.
“The situation in Syria is a dangerous violation of overall peace and security, which has led and can lead to serious international crisis,” the statement said.
Governments of 9 Latin American countries have condemned the recent clashes in Venezuela between police and protesters.
In the first quarter of 2017 compared with the same period of 2016 number of tourists visiting Armenia has grown by 18.2%. Zarmine Zeytuntsyan, Chairperson of State Tourism Committee of the Ministry of Economic Development and Investments, told about this recently.
The gunman also wounded two police officers before he was killed by security forces on the ChampsElysees. President François Hollande is to chair a security cabinet meeting, as France readies for Sunday’s presidential poll. So-called Islamic State (IS) said one of its “fighters” had carried out the attack.
On April 20 and overnight April 21 the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime 35 times by firing more than 400 shots from various caliber small arms at the Armenian positions in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.
“They used the cover of the war between Turks and Russians to say that Armenians must be removed from the war zone. The Armenians were walked to deaths or massacred in rivers, fields, droned at sea. This was the first genocide of the 20th century. The word ‘genocide’ came to describe this event,” he said.
