This year’s world championship of the most popular intellectual game “What, Where, When” will be held in Armenia. Former Minister of Education and Science Armen Ashotyan wrote on his Facebook page.
Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held in Yerevan on 11-12 March. Issues of fighting against international terrorism and threats of extremism will be discussed at the session.
Discussions of the draft Tax code chaired by Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan went on at the Government on March 1 with the participation of the representatives of interested state agencies.
President Serzh Sargsyan sent a congratulatory message to the renowned author, expert in Armenian studies, translator and intellectual Kim Bakshi on March 1, wishing him excellent health and new creative achievements.
In accordance with the arrangement reached with the government of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission will conduct a monitoring of the Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijani line of contact in the Askeran direction on March 2.
The adversary fired over 900 shots from different caliber weapons in the direction of Armenian front line units on the contact line of Karabakh-Azerbaijan opposing armies during Feb. 29-March 1. As 168.am was informed from the press service of NKR Defense Ministry, the adversary also used 60 mm mortar (1 projectile) in the eastern direction of the contact line.
Profoundly acknowledging the universal importance of Saroyan’s heritage, on account of its poor condition, and aiming at saving it from destruction, Intellectual Renaissance Foundation founded by Arthur Janibekyan purchased it in 2015, which throughout last two years boosted development of Armenian Wikipedia and contributed to rising Armenian intellectual potential on international level.
70 old Armenian houses are preserved in New Jugha (New Julfa). This was said during a press conference by researcher, professor of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Isfahan, Iran, Ahmad Montazer.
Membership of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in itself is not an obstacle for Armenia’s cooperation with the EU. Let me recall that the EU and Armenia have completed a scoping exercise prior to the launching of negotiations to see how far our cooperation can go in this new context.
Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian will visit Geneva on February 29 to take part in the 31st session of UN Human Rights Council.
