US House of Representatives of Hawaii passed the Resolution 167 recognizing the independence of Artsakh Republic. This was announced by the ANCA.
These terrible atrocities are being committed on the very land and deserts upon which a far more terrible genocide was perpetrated just over a hundred years ago by the Turks who head-chopped and knifed and shot to death a million and a half Armenian Christians, raping their women and throwing so many of their dead men into the waters of Anatolia that the very rivers changed course.
5th conference on HIV / AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia took place in Moscow, in the sidelines of which Russia presented Armenia with the second portable medical diagnostic complex in the framework of the assistance program for prevention HIV / AIDS in Armenia.
Defense Minister of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan paid a working visit to a number of military units of the 5th Corps. As 168.am was informed from the press service of the Defense Ministry, the goal of the visit was to get familiarized with service organization and the operative situation on the given part of the border on site, as well as to check the implementation process of assignments give during the previous visit.
The poll by WIN/Gallup International indicates that Roman Catholics and Jews have the most favourable opinion of the Pope.
“We witness what happens in Europe and all over the world. Azerbaijan’s actions are another form of terrorism. What Azerbaijan does along the border, and how it glorifies murderers are also a demonstration of terrorism. If Paris or Brussels attackers were glorified, would the international community be content with it? Of course, not. Then why do they keep silent when scums like Safarov are glorified by the Azerbaijani leadership or take identical measures”, Davit Babayan said.
Representatives of the Armenian community in Belgium try to find out if there were Armenians in the zones of explosions, Peto Demirchian, a media relations officer for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s Hay Dat Committee of Europe informed “Armenpress”.
In the wake of last week’s grassroots Fly-In to Washington, Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Legislative Affairs Director Raffi Karakashian has submitted testimony to key U.S. House and Senate panels supporting the foreign aid priorities of the Congressional Armenian Caucus and outlining the Armenian American community’s specific appropriations requests for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, reports ANCA.
ECHR decided, that the Government of the Republic of Armenia should pay EUR 50 thousand compensation to the applicants. Zaruhi Postanjyan, “Heritage” Faction MP, who formerly was the advocate of the three young men, considers decision by the ECHR precedential and considers it may have some preventive character. At yesterday’s NA briefings Z.Postanjyan stated that the Republic of Armenia, unfortunately, is not a democratic country, jurisdiction doesn’t fully function, as a result of which lots of Armenia’s citizens are unfairly in prison, and real criminals and murderers are in freedom.
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