The Biden Administration believes it is important to acknowledge history in respect to the issue of the Armenian Genocide, a White House spokesperson has told Kathimerini.
Azerbaijani forces abused Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) from the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, subjecting them to cruel and degrading treatment and torture either when they were captured, during their transfer, or while in custody at various detention facilities, Human Rights Watch said today.
The Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Defense Army has reported that 96 more servicemen, reservists, and volunteers had fallen during the recent battles for the defense of the homeland.
Sensational videos were sent to the e-mail address of 168.am. The videos clearly showed Advisor to Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan for Legal Affairs Anna Vardapetyan interfering in the preliminary investigation of the criminal cases launched against businessman, former president of the Football Federation of Armenia Ruben Hayrapetyan and his son, Rafik Hayrapetyan by making corrections in the materials of the cases and, in essence, instructing the key role-players.
During today’s session, the Armenian government approved an amendment to the Constitutional Law on the Human Rights Defender by which the proposed amount in the budget for the Office of the Human Rights Defender will depend on the discretion of the government from now on.
As already reported, late last night, sensational videos were sent to the e-mail address of 168.am. The videos clearly showed Advisor to Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan for Legal Affairs Anna Vardapetyan interfering in the preliminary investigation of the criminal cases launched against businessman, former president of the Football Federation of Armenia Ruben Hayrapetyan and his son, Rafik Hayrapetyan by making corrections in the materials of the cases and, in essence, instructing the key role-players.
The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed the reasons behind suspending Marianne Clark-Hattingh’s duties as UNICEF’s Representative in Armenia.
President Armen Sarkissian refused to approve Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s motion on dismissing the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Onik Gasparyan. The President returned the motion with objections, his office said.
t is the democratic processes that ensure the barring of intolerance, curbing of tensions, and guarantee the development of events within conditions of solidarity.
“We are extremely concerned by recent developments in Armenia,” said Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, Boriana Aberg (Sweden, EPP/CD) and Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC).
