Hawaii became the seventh state to rally in support of the democratic development and right to self-determination for the people of Artsakh today, voting unanimously to recognize the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, reports the Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region (ANCA-WR) informed.
The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit kicks off in Washington. It will last for three days, during which a number of heads of states, ministers responsible for nuclear matters and directors of large nuclear companies will deliver speeches. The summit will end on April 1 with an exhibition on nuclear industry. The summit will be chaired by the director of the Nuclear Energy Institute Martin Fertel, and the keynote speaker will be the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano.
In days leading up to President Aliyev’s visit to Washington for an international nuclear summit this week, more than 50 U.S. Representatives have joined with leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in calling upon President Obama to leverage this visit to pressure the Azerbaijan leader to stop obstructing the implementation of the life-saving Royce-Engel peace proposals for Nagorno Karabakh, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
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”.
