The Prosecutor General’s Office today will submit an appeal to the Court of Cassation against the decision of the Court of Appeals to release 2nd President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan from custody, Head of the PR department at the Prosecutor General’s Office Arevik Khachatryan told Armenpress.
The ruling of the Court of Appeals on releasing 2nd President Kocharyan from custody has been received both by the accusatory and defending sides on August 17.
An international team of 26 mentors worked with startups during Sevan Startup Summit 2018 on July 22-29.
Assisted by the EU program Support to SME Development in Armenia (EU-SMEDA), the mentors held over 160 meetings with the competing teams.
According to EU-SMEDA team leader Eva Naeher, they help organize the summit for the second successive year.
“We are helping young companies, investors, partners and mentors come together. During this event Sevan went global and more is yet to come. It’s an exciting journey. There is really a great future for Armenian startups,” she said.
Head of the mentors’ team Chuss Lozano added they shared knowledge and experience with the startups throughout the week of the summit.
“Most of the startups are coming with ideas and they need to know how to validate those ideas and get to know how to put their ideas into a business,” he noted.
Lozano also emphasized the fact that this year 40% of the participating startups were from other countries.
Sevan Startup Summit 2018 is co-organised by the EU program Support to SME Development in Armenia (EU-SMEDA).
Armenia will participate in the upcoming Noble Partner 2018 multinational military exercises of NATO with a 4-man group, Armenian defense ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan said.
The exercises will be held August 1-15 in Georgia.
“Armenia will participate in the military exercises. Four officers of the Armenian Armed Forces will depart for Georgia,” he said.
NATO member and partner states will take part in the drills.
Today at the residence of the President of the Republic of Armenia the official welcoming ceremony of the President of the Republic of Italy, Sergio Matarella, who arrived in Armenia, took place.
Armenia proposed member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to start a procedure of replacing the organization’s Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, Spokesperson at foreign ministry Tigran Balayan told Armenpress news agency.
“This is a strictly internal legal process, and an Armenian citizen is involved within the ongoing criminal case being investigated in Armenia. Given that the talk relates to the case involving the person which currently is serving as the CSTO Secretary General and attaching great importance to the Organization’s reputation and uninterrupted normal activity, Armenia has suggested the CSTO partner states to launch a process of replacing the Secretary General. Armenia strictly adheres to the commitment on strengthening the CSTO and will continue to be actively involved in the joint activities on this path”, Balayan has noted, as quoted by the source.
To remind, the CSTO acting Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov is charged with overthrowing constitutional order in Armenia in 2008 in the scope of the investigation into the so-called March 1 events – the post presidential election crackdown in 2008 during which eight civilians and two police officers were killed. Khachaturov was released from custody on bail on Friday.
To note, Khachaturov served as the Chief of the Yerevan garrison at a time of March 1, 2008, and on March 15 was appointed by the then President Robert Kocharyan as Chief of General Staff of Armenia’s Armed Forces.
Armenian MP Edmon Marukyan touched upon Vanadzor Mayor Mamikon Aslanian’s recent statement on Facebook about his Olympic relationships.
Speaking about the absence of a revolution in Vanadzor, the MP noticed that Mamikon Aslanyan is in the mood of the mandate, so the agenda of Vanadzor residents should be Mamikon Aslanyan’s resignation. Details are in the interview.
PanARMENIAN.Net – It's already the third generation of the Hovhannisyan family living in a temporary shelter, a handmade wood cabin in Gyumri, Armenia. After the destructive earthquake, the family father, Martin, built a container with wooden materials from he found in the street to provide a shelter for his large family. His belief in and expectations for a better life never left him. Moreover, he tried to built a new stone house adjacent to the cabin to replace the temporary shelter with a safe roof, but the social burden put off the fulfillment of the dream for three decades.
Now, owing to the housing project implemented by VivaCell-MTS and the Fuller Center for Housing Armenia, the construction of the Hovhannisyans' four-room house will be complete in a few days. The volunteers of the partnering sides have joined forces to sooner finish the construction of the long-awaited house.
“Four years ago, we tried to build the walls, but could not finish the construction of the house. We have even tried to make the handmade wooden cabin something of a house, but it still remained a container without basic housing conditions, too small for a family of nine. Today everything has changed, and I am grateful to you for the support,” said Martin, the family father.
“It is easier to speak about the necessity of overcoming difficulties, than actually addressing them. I think everyone will agree. However, when difficulties arise, it becomes clear that everyone reacts differently. Thus, it is of great importance to go through hardships preserving the dignity, willpower and determination. I believe I won’t be wrong if I say that this family has succeeded in doing so. Instead of complaining and putting up with unfavorable circumstances, they have chosen the path of striving to improve their situation,” said VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian.
“We work with VivaCell-MTS in all regions of Armenia. We have built 7 houses in Shirak province, including this one in Gyumri. It's amazing how steadfast the family was after 30 years of living in a wooden cabin. And now we are glad to register that another family will finally have a decent home, ” said Fuller Center for Housing Armenia President Ashot Yeghiazaryan.
The volunteers from partnering organizations have concreted the sidewalks of the house. In one to two months, the family will move to their new home.
Armenia, like any other democratic country, reaffirms its commitment to the exclusively peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship format, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the meeting of the heads of states and governments contributing to the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels.
“Any attempt to settle this conflict through military means should be viewed as an attack on democracy, human rights and peace.
The recent ceasefire violation and provocation cases provoked by Azerbaijan on the border with Armenia and the line of contact with Artsakh seriously question Baku’s commitment to the peace process.
We reaffirm the importance of the implementation of the previous agreements, in particular, those reached during the meetings in Vienna, St. Petersburg and Geneva, which aim at creating favorable conditions for peace and making confidence-building measures”, PM Pashinyan said.