Before 1915 Armenians were living on these lands – in Isparta, Mersin, Adana, Trabzon, Tigranakert, Bursa, and one in every five in this country was Armenian, but now we even can’t fill a stadium if gather. Of course, we didn’t evaporate.
Armenia’s Minister of Emergency Situations Felix Tsolakyan spoke over the phone with the Deputy Chief of Mission of Iran to Armenia Ali Mohammad Motaghi after a powerful earthquake hit Iran.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez in his remarks criticized Turkey’s attacks on Kurds in Syria and its impermissible behavior in the region in general, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) reported.
Judge Anna Danibekyan of the Yerevan Court of General Jurisdiction has denied ex-President Robert Kocharyan’s request to be released from pre-trial detention on bail.
Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London, Professor Ara Darzi expressed his concerns over the fact that the United Kingdom didn’t follow the example of the US House of Representatives on recognizing the Armenian Genocide, The Guardian reported.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s spokesperson Vladimir Karapetyan has told ARMENPRESS that all media reports claiming that Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Arayik Harutyunyan was relieved of duties are false.
The Trump administration opposes Turkey sanctions adopted by the House last week as well as a resolution condemning the Armenian genocide, arguing that the two initiatives risk further straining relations with a key NATO ally, a senior State Department official said.
Russia is selling the kinds of weapons to Armenia which it hasn’t sold to any other country before, senior Russian lawmaker Leonid Kalashnikov told reporters when asked about Russia’s arms supply to Azerbaijan, the adversary of CSTO member Armenia.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) mechanism will be launched in the event of Armenia coming under attack, Russian State Duma lawmaker Konstantin Zatulin told reporters.
At the invitation of President Armen Sarkissian, President of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos has arrived in Armenia on a two-day official visit.
