The Armenian diaspora, estimated at 10 million, is three times the population of Armenia itself, with migrants and their descendants sprinkled across the continents from Russia to the United States, UK, Lebanon and Australia.
Russia committed to delivering the S-300 systems to Tehran under an 800-million-dollar deal in 2007 but stopped the process in 2010, citing the fourth round of the UN Security Council sanctions, which barred hi-tech weapons sales to the Islamic Republic.
The Armenian community, namely the Federation of Armenian Organisations in the Netherlands (FAON) and Dutch Armenian Committee for Justice and Democracy (Hay Tad) had filed a police report against the statements made during that demonstration. The court session in Almelo lasted for two hours.
Rex Tillerson highly appreciated the fact that Armenia gave shelter to dozens of thousands of Syrian refugees. Edward Nalbandian and Rex Tillerson exchanged ideas over the steps aimed at propelling Nagorno Karabakh peace process. The Armenian Defense Minister presented the recent developments that occurred in the conict zone.
“We have many famous people like Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Levon Aronian. We have Olympic champions. But we can also be useful for the EU by exporting our products and not only. IT is also developing very fast in Armenia, and above all, we can be a friendly neighbor for the Europeans, a predictable neighbor at that.”
Russian government has submitted a draft bill, which anticipates imposing ban on turnover of goods of separate category supplied to Russia from EEU member countries, ministers’ cabinet website informs.
Jordanian firms Arab Potash and Jordan Bromine signed a deal in 2014 to import 2 billion cubic meters (around 70 billion cubic feet) of gas from Israel’s Tamar field over 15 years. At the time reports said the deal was worth $771 million.
Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova will apply to her Azerbaijani counterpart over Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin’s case who was extradited from Belarus to Azerbaijan, RIA Novosti reported. Moskalkova said she is going to apply to Azerbaijan’s Ombudsman with the request to check Lapshin’s detention conditions.
“This means that we take into account the concern of our opposition over the use of administrative resources in the electoral processes. This also means that we create opportunities for the youth to demonstrate themselves in politics.”
“We were deeply appalled that they chose to attack the mural . . . The mural is a depiction of just our historical background,” he said. “There’s nothing political about the mural. We’re not sending a message, and we don’t want people to interpret it that way.”
