She said he had chosen the time and the place to attack and cause “maximum carnage and to kill and injure indiscriminately.” May said security services “believe the attack was carried out by one man” but need to find out whether “he was acting alone or part of a wider group.”
Edward Nalbandian, acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, started his press statement on the outcomes of Armenia-EU Council meeting with expressing condolences over the causalities of the Manchester Arena attack.
“Through such provocative activities they intend to disorientate the international community and direct the arrow toward Armenia. It’s already a new strategy and shelling their own borders, territories under their control and filming they haven’t thought that we and international organizations have the opportunity to film.”
The World Assembly of OIE Delegates will examine, with a view to adopting, a number of new intergovernmental standards covering animal disease control methods, including those for controlling diseases transmissible to humans, the safety of international trade in animals and animal products, as well as animal welfare.
CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) member states signed a contract on the sidelines of the Milex 2017 defense expo, whereby the sides will cooperate over the creation of a repair chain for Russian-made helicopters, the ‘Russian Helicopters’ holding told TASS.
“In order to maintain peace and stability in the region Azerbaijan must recognize complete exercise of the Artsakh people’s right to self-determination: as long as Azerbaijan doesn’t recognize that right, the conflict cannot be settled,” Sharmazanov said.
CanadianArmenian Elena Avetisyan, who is one of the victims of the May 18 New York attack, when a man drove his car into pedestrians in the city’s Times Square, is still in coma, New York Post reports.
The Armenian Embassy in London is currently claryifying whether Armenian nationals have been affected by the Manchester Arena bombing, Tigran Balayan, spokesman of the Armenian foreign ministry said on Twitter.
The president extended condolences to the families of the victims and wished speedy recovery to the wounded. According to latest information, twenty-two people, including children, have been killed and 59 injured in a suspected suicide attack at Manchester Arena.
“We would like to remind you that peaceful assembly and freedom of speech are fundamental rights in this country. The aggressiveness and brutality demonstrated by the Turkish security personnel are interpreted by many of us as much more than an attack against peaceful demonstrators – it is an attack against these very rights.”
