The capacity will be increased to 700MW in 2021 after completion of the second stage, and the final stage up to 1050MW – based on market and regional cooperation demands.
A negotiating group has been formed in accordance to Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan’s decision with the purpose of negotiating with the EU over the comprehensive air transport agreement. Sergey Avetisyan, head of the General Department of Civil Aviation of Armenia is charged with leading the negotiations group.
“Events of last April proved once again (and I stress “once again’) to our adversaries that the use of force or threats to use force is a tragic and dead-end road, which means it’s not a road at all.”
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Armenian Armed Forces, President Serzh Sargsyan, accompanied by His Holiness Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, President of the NKR Bako Sahakian, and the highest leadership of the Republic, visited today the Yerablur Military Pantheon and paid tribute to the memory of the sons of the Armenian nation who gave their lives for independence of our Fatherland.
Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjørn Jagland, President of the Constitutional Court of Armenia, author of the abovementioned book Gagik Harutyunyan, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Armenia to the CoE Paruyr Hovhannisyan gave speeches at the ceremony.
According to initial reports, at 16:20, January 26, Cadet Sargis Apinyan, a conscript, drastically fell ill in the drill-grounds of the military base. At 17:35 Apinyan was pronounced dead after the medical personnel’s attempts to save him.
At the end of the meeting, over three dozen Armenian businessmen in Russia issued a statement about their readiness to participate in the business projects and initiatives of the Government of Armenia.
The expanded meeting specifically discussed the proposal of the Armenian side to set up an Armenian-Russian investment fund with a view to funding Armenia’s priority economic sectors.
In accordance to the executive order of the SSFS director a temporary ban has been imposed on imports of all kinds of live poultry from Iran’s Ghazvin, Tehran, Kermanshah, Gilan, Merkezi and Golestan provinces.
s a result of the ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side, on January 22, as of 23:25, the NKR Defense Army soldier Karen M. Ulubabyan, born in 1995, was fatally wounded at one of the military units located in the eastern direction of the Defense Army. Investigation is underway to clarify the details of the case.
