The head of the Public Council of Armenia Vazgen Manukyan considers unacceptable the attempts to solve any issues with illegal actions. In a conversation with “Armenpress” Manukyan commented on the hostage situation in Yerevan. “Solving problems with illegal actions is unacceptable, I’m not a supporter of these kind of actions. They only harm Armenia. There are other way to resolve issues,” Manukyan said.
“A group of armed people have taken as hostages a small group of policemen and in order to release them they demand the release of Jirayr Sefilyan who was imprisoned with the charges of illegally obtaining, keeping, transporting weaponry. A policeman has been killed, two have been wounded. In order to stop and disrupt the criminal actions of the armed group that illegally holds the area, the Special Forces have released two hostages.
An armed group has entered the building of the patrol police department in Yerevan and keeps people there with the threat of violence.
Currently the society is becoming more demanding, and the civil society should raise from that demanding and lead the public, make the state and the authorities assume that responsibility. I don’t know it succeeds or not, I can’t say, the situation is yet unstable and indefinite.
Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ announced 1563 members of the Turkish armed forces have been arrested, 5 generals, 29 colonels were dismissed from their posts for the coup attempt. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced that one of the generals supporting the coup has been killed during the operations. According to the preliminary data, the Armenian citizens or Armenians didn’t suffer during the military operations in Turkey.
The Armenian citizens, who are currently in Turkey and need support, must apply to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Armenian Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman Tigran Balayan posted a note in Twitter.
Medieval Armenian capital city of Ani has been included in UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites, UNESCO’s official website informs. The decision was taken during the 40th session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee held in Istanbul. In the description of Ani posted in UNESCO’s website, it is mentioned that Ani was built by Armenians. It says that though there is little information about Ani’s establishment, it is known that the city was populated during Urartu era in mid first millennia BC.
Units of the 102nd Russian military base started the main phase of tactical exercises and went on to defense in high altitude conditions at Alagyaz polygon. Motorized rifle, tank, artillery and special forces interact in repelling attacks of conditional rival.
“In August and mid-July tension was recorded as in that period trainings of special subdivisions of Caspian Turks were over. Those military trainings were launched in the territory of Turkey and in the end of sniper courses all alumni were proving on Armenian borders that they’re specialists, and by shooting at Armenian soldiers and peaceful civilians, they were obtaining qualification. In short, I don’t anticipate anything in August, however I anticipate it in September and October,” he said.
“Currently Christianity faces serious challenges in the Middle East. Economic alert, unsafe conditions, terror and migration have serious implications. This situation isn’t only the concern of Christians, it should also become the concern of the Arabic world and Europe. Moreover, absence of Christian-Islam coexistence will turn that part of the world into a center of extremism. It’s a bothering phenomenon, practical expression of which we are already observing,” Aram A said.
