Armenian soldier shot, wounded by Azerbaijani forces on border
12:48, 7 August 2022
YEREVAN, AUGUST 7, ARMENPRESS. A soldier of the Armenian Armed Forces was shot and wounded by the Azerbaijani military in the evening of August 6 while on-duty at a military position in the eastern part of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the Armenian Ministry of Defense said.
20-year-old Private Nver Gevorgyan, a conscripted serviceman, suffered the gunshot wound.
His life is out of danger.
12:54, 5 August 2022
YEREVAN, AUGUST 5, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s advisor Artashes Tumanyan held a meeting with the Ambassador of France to Armenia Anne Louyot, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a press release.
Tumanyan and Ambassador Louyot addressed the latest regional developments, as well as a number of issues pertaining to bilateral relations.
Artashes Tumanyan presented the Armenian government’s activities in the economy, particularly the ongoing programs for the development of infrastructures. In this context the possibilities for Armenian-French cooperation in building transport infrastructures, water and irrigation systems and in other areas were discussed.
Armenia’s former Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan, who is currently under arrest, has been taken to Izmirlian Medical Center in Yerevan, the secretary said at a court hearing in his trial on Thursday.
"In the absence of the defendant, the hearing must be postponed, but some motions have been filed by the defense lawyers, which can be heard in his absence," said presiding judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan.
In late June, the court denied a defense motion to release the former official on bail.
Aghvan Hovsepyan was arrested in September 2021 on charges of bribery, money laundering and illegal entrepreneurial activity denied by him.
Hovsepyan also ran the Investigative Committee from 2014 to 2018.
French-Armenian community leader and ARF Bureau member Mourad Papazian is taking legal action against the Armenian authorities over the decision to ban him from entering Armenia, he said in a social media post on Thursday.
“I have decided to start legal proceedings to restore my rights, entrusting MP Artsvik Minasyan to represent me in the court and asking lawyer Siranush Sahakyan to take the necessary legal action,” he wrote.
Papazian noted that Minasyan sent a letter to the National Security Service on July 25 asking it to scrap the ban.
“Under the law, the NSS has five days to respond to it, and based on that we will decide our further steps,” he added.
Papazian, a co-chairman of the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France (CCAF), was barred from entering Armenia on July 13 after his plane landed at Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport.
One of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s unnamed aides said that Papazian was barred from entering Armenia under the domestic law because he was one of the organizers of the attack on Pashinyan’s motorcade in Paris on June 1, 2021. Papazian denies the accusations.
A total of 10 Armenian players will take part in the 44th edition of the Chess Olympiad in Chenna, India, the National Olympic Committee reports.
The world's biggest chess event will be held from July 28 to August 10.
The Armenian men’s team led by Arman Pashikyan consists of Gabriel Sargissian, Hrant Melkumyan, Robert Hovhannisyan, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan and Manuel Petrosyan.
The women’s team members are Elina Danielyan, Lilit Mkrtchyan, Anna Sargsyan, Mariam Mkrtchyan and Susanna Gaboyan.
ArmInfo.Over the past week (from July 18-24), 6,158 tests for coronavirus were carried out in Armenia, of which the disease was confirmed in 965 cases(a 53% weekly increase), 547 patients recovered, and 7 people died.
According to the Ministry of Health, 1,144 patients are currently undergoing treatment (up 55% in a week). In total, 3,154,685 tests were carried out in the country, of which 425,365 cases of infection were detected, 413,901 people recovered, and 8,633 deaths were recorded. At the same time, over the past week, 1,017,950 people have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus, which is 0.1% higher than a week ago.
According to the source, as of July 25 this year, a total of 2,225,916 doses of anti-COVID vaccine were received in the country, of which 1,141,151 people were vaccinated with the first component. The number of revaccinated citizens over the past week has increased by 2.1%, reaching 62,007.-
10:18,
YEREVAN, JULY 25, ARMENPRESS. Farming businesses acquired around 2150 new agricultural equipment within the framework of the Agricultural Equipment Leasing Support Program which is implemented through government subsidy.
The purpose of the program is to increase the agricultural output and cut the farmers’ expenses.
Ministry of Economy Agricultural Program Development, Resource Use and Cooperative Development Department Chief Ira Panosyan told ARMENPRESS that they launched the program in 2017 as the agricultural equipment used by farmers was old and required upgrade.
The government is subsidizing the interest rate of the leasing. The banks issue 14% interest rate leasing, 12% of which is subsidized by the government so that the leasing is accessible to the farmers for 2%. The leasing is issued for a 10-year term, depending on the value of the equipment. The average term is 6 years.
However, farmers working in border towns and those who suffered disabilities in the military and are now in the farming business get a full subsidy.
Panosyan said the program is giving good results and the agricultural equipment in Armenia is being gradually upgraded.
“Since the beginning of the program around 2150 units of equipment were issued as part of 10 billion dram leasing. And only as of the 6 months of this year, 1,4 billion drams of agricultural leasing has already been issued,” she said.
Aside from increasing output and cutting spending, the program has an ecological goal given the emissions from old equipment.
Interview by Anna Grigoryan
12:45,
YEREVAN, JULY 23, ARMENPRESS. Two cases of monkeypox have been identified in children in the United States, CNN reported citing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The two cases are unrelated and probably the result of household transmission, the CDC said.
One case is a toddler who is a resident of California. The other is an infant who is not a US resident. Public health officials are investigating how the children were infected.
Both have symptoms but are in good health and receiving treatment with an antiviral medication named tecovirimat or TPOXX, which the CDC recommends for children under the age of 8 because they are considered to be at higher risk from infection.
Since the monkeypox outbreak began in May, most of the cases have happened among men who have sex with men. However, anyone can catch the virus through close skin-to-skin contact. In the case of children, the agency said this could include "holding, cuddling, feeding, as well as through shared items such as towels, bedding, cups, and utensils."
Mikayel Harutyunyan issued a statement announcing that he is resigning from the post of Chairman of the Conservative Party (CP) of Armenia.
The statement reads as follows, in particular: "(…) I accept the defeat of my kind and me personally under the conditions of the current unethical arrangement, I hereby announce my resignation from the position of Chairman of and my membership in the Conservative Party. Starting today, no document with my signature in the name of CP Chairman can be considered valid."
TEHRAN- The value of Iran’s export to Armenia increased 21 percent in the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-June 21), from the first quarter of the previous year, the spokesman of Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) announced.
Ruhollah Latifi said that Iran exported commodities worth $74 million to Armenia in the three-month period.
Iran and Armenia signed a memorandum of understanding at the end of the two countries’ 17th meeting of Joint Economic Committee in Yerevan in mid-May.
The MOU, which covers cooperation in areas of transit, transportation, facilitation of exchange of goods, energy, development of environmental cooperation in Aras area and removal of pollution from border rivers, as well as medical tourism, was signed by Iranian Energy Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian and Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, who are the chairmen of the two countries’ Joint Economic Committee.
In that meeting, which was attended by a large number of deputy ministers, senior officials, ambassadors, and members of parliament of the two countries, the main issues that play a key role in the development of relations between the two countries were discussed.
According to the officials, the purpose of holding the 17th meeting of Iran-Armenia Joint Economic Committee was the real and tangible development of relations between the two countries.
In late April, Iranian Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Ehsan Khandouzi headed a delegation on a visit to Armenia to hold talks with the country’s senior officials with the aim of expanding economic ties between the two nations.
During the visit, Khandouzi met with Armenia’s Deputy Prime Minister Mher Herbert Grigoryan, the country’s Economy Minister Vahan Kerobyan, and Minister of Finance Tigran Khachatryan.
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