Pope Francis has arrived in Yerevan. President Serzh Sargsyan and Catholicos of All Armenians His Holiness Garegin II welcomed the Pope in the “Zvartnots Armenia” International Airport.
Foreign media outlets attach particular attention to the fact, that visit of the Pope is not a regional, he visits to Armenia only. His visit to our neighboring countries is planned later—in late summer. According to the assessment of media outlets, which follow clerical news, international interest towards the visit of Armenia is compatible only with the meeting of the Pope and Russia’s Patriarch held this February. For his visit to Armenia Pope Francis has chosen the slogan of John-Paul II “Visit to the first Christian country.” founder of papal throne is considered Apostle Peter.
he aircraft will land in Armenia’s “Zvartnots” Airport at 15:00. After the official welcoming ceremony at the airport, the Pope will depart for Mother See of Holy Etchmiatsin, where a welcoming ceremony will take place. Later on the same day, Pope Francis will meet President Serzh Sargsyan in the Presidential Palace, and then with Armenian officials, representatives of the society and diplomatic corps.
The tariff of electricity will decrease by 2.58 AMD for Armenian consumers starting from August 1. The draft on decreasing the electricity tariff was discussed and approved during the Public Services Regulatory Commission’s session on June 24.
“Resolution on expansion of observation mission may be considered a progress for the Armenian side. The statement adopted in St. Petersburg as a result of negotiations allows to officially consider “aggressor” the side, which will violate the ceasefire after the summit. Another important result in NK conflict settlement process was maintenance of Russia’s role as a chief player. “
On the whole, 21 issues have been included in the agenda. The issue of amendments to the Electoral Code will be debated as well. Need for amendments to the Electoral Code emerged after the authorities and the opposition agreed on a range of key issues and signed a statement on consensus.
“There is a concrete statement. It was promulgated and it is an official document. Everyone should be guided by it instead of making arbitrary or distorted interpretations,” Zakharova said.
The details of the investigative mechanism, such as the specific tasks investigators will assume and under what circumstances they will be deployed to the Line of Contact and Armenia-Azerbaijan border, are under discussion by the sides. The OSCE will be the organization in charge of implementing the mechanism, and the Co-Chairs, in their capacity as OSCE mediators, will continue to work with the sides on refining the proposal.
“I’m sure that Novruz Mammadov is lying, and Edward Nalbandian is right for the reason that I like Nalbandian, and I must say that I exclusively don’t like, when he says the truth. That expression, lie by Novruz Mammadov pursues the purpose to conceal Baku’s diplomatic failure from the Azerbaijani community. That’s all. Other processes will continue in France.”
“Mammadov is known for rather inadequate statements, he says what serves to their propaganda. It’s just a statement of internal use. At large, he touches upon elements of Madrid and Kazan documents. We all know that negotiations are held around them, however, I’m sure that during this meeting likewise issues haven’t been discussed, mainly possibilities and ways of resumption of negotiations have been covered. Thus, any agreement couldn’t have been reached,” A.Arzumanyan said.
