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YEREVAN, JULY 26, ARMENPRESS. The Defense Ministry of Armenia denies another statement of the Azerbaijani defense ministry according to which the Armenian Armed Forces have shelled the Azerbaijani combat positions.
Armenian Defense Ministry Spokesperson Aram Torosyan told ARMENPRESS that the statement released by the Azerbaijani defense ministry is disinformation.
Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) has emphasized the importance of recent U.S. House passage of Amendment #121 to the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R.7900), reports the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
The measure calls for a report by the State Department and Defense Department that would detail the use of U.S. parts in Turkish drones used by Azerbaijan against Armenia and Artsakh; Azerbaijan’s use of white phosphorous, cluster bombs and other prohibited munitions deployed against Artsakh; Turkey’s and Azerbaijan’s recruitment of foreign terrorist fighters during the 2020 Artsakh war.
“Over the course of 44 days starting in September 2020, Azerbaijan perpetrated a horrific war and humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, killing thousands of Armenians and forcing thousands more to flee their ancestral homelands. And to this day, Azerbaijan continues to illegally detain Armenian soldiers who have been subject to torture. Azerbaijan also threatens thousands of innocent civilians who live in fear of another attack and invasion. It is of the utmost urgency that we understand the full extent to which Azerbaijan has violated international law so that we can hold the Aliyev regime to account, and send a strong message that America will not stand by as Azerbaijan continues its belligerency against the Armenian people,” said Congressman Schiff.
Joining Representatives Cardenas, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), and Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) as Congressional cosponsors of the bipartisan amendment include Representatives Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), James Langevin (D-RI), Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), Andy Levin (D-MI), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Linda Sanchez (D-CA), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Jackie Speier (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and David Valadao (R-CA).
PanARMENIAN.Net - Chairman of the Armenian parliament's Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Eduard Aghajanyan has said that Armenia's position on the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement has not been changed, and that any precondition is unacceptable for Yerevan.
Aghajanyan made the remarks Friday, July 22 at a joint press conference with and the Chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs David McAllister, who arrived in Armenia on regional visit.
Aghajanyan highlighted the meetings of the Delegation led by McAllister with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President of the Parliament Alen Simonyan, Vice President Ruben Rubinyan, members of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations and the representatives of other political forces in parliament.
According to him, modern regional problems, particularly developments in the context of the Armenian-Azerbaijani, Armenian-Turkish relations, the problems combining them the ways of solutions, as well as the issues of the return of Armenian prisoners of war, the protection of historical-cultural heritage and other numerous issues.
McAllister underscored the active role of the European Parliament in the work for the solution of the regional problems and reminded that the European Parliament called on the two countries to return prisoners of war. He noted that the Council of Europe would continue to be in contact with their Armenian colleagues in any event.
Karen Hekimyan, Chairman of the "Citizens Rights Protector" NGO of Armenia, posted on Facebook the exchange rates offered—on July 16—by the currency exchange office at Zvartnots International Airport of Yerevan—and which are drastically different from the rates offered by other exchange offices in the Armenian capital.
In particular, one US dollar was bought for 300 drams and sold for 620 drams, one Russian ruble was bought for 3 drams and sold for 7.60 drams, and one euro was bought for 300 drams and sold for 650 drams.
“This is Zvartnots airport of Yerevan. Look at the exchange rates. Arshakyan Hakob [i.e., deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia and co-chairman of the ‘STARMUS FESTIVAL VI: 50 years on Mars’] was right: 2022 is the year of space for Armenia. This is space robbery," Hekimyan wrote on Facebook.
A man carries a Turkish national flag as Turkey-backed Syrian fighters gather along the frontlines opposite YPG forces near the town of Dadat north of Manbij in Syria's northern Aleppo province, on July 5, 2022. (AFP)
Turkey does not need anyone's permission to conduct military operations against terrorist groups in Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Thursday.
"We exchanged ideas, but we never asked and we never ask permission for our military operations," Çavuşoğlu said two days after a summit in Tehran at which both Russia and Iran urged against Turkey's proposed new military operation in northern Syria.
He emphasized that Turkey has disagreements with Iran and Russia on the issue of Syria, and that the two countries' support for the Syrian regime is unacceptable to Turkey.
"It is clear that these two countries are against our operations today as they were in the past. Of course, the statements of these countries are obvious, what we say is important, what our president says is important. We have not received permission from anyone in the past," he said.
"We paused our operation against the YPG/PKK in the east of the Euphrates, both within the framework of America's commitments, Russia's commitments and the agreements we reached. Both of these countries have made a commitment to clear the YPG/PKK terrorists from this region. Since this has not happened so far, these terrorists have started to increase the attacks against our own lands from there, as well as continuing the attacks against the Syrians, the opposition, our soldiers, and our police. What would the U.S. do in such a situation now? What would Russia do?"
"In such a case, the threat will continue as long as these terrorists are here. We can't keep our hands tied, after all, we have not received permission from anyone in the operations we have carried out so far," he added.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Wednesday that Turkey's plan for a new military operation in northern Syria will be on the table as long as the PKK terrorist group's Syrian branch YPG continues to pose a security threat to his country.
Erdoğan also called on the United States to pull troops from east of the Euphrates River, accusing the NATO ally, once again, of training and helping the YPG terrorists.
Erdoğan made the comments late Tuesday on his return from a visit to Tehran, where he met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The conflict in Syria was among the topics they discussed, and Erdoğan sought support for a new Turkish operation against the U.S.-backed YPG terrorists.
In May, Erdoğan announced plans for a new military operation in Syria to drive away the YPG that Ankara says is an extension of the banned PKK. The plans include resuming Turkish efforts to create a 30-kilometer (20-mile) safe zone along the border with Syria and enabling the voluntary return of Syrian refugees from Turkey.
Turkey has launched three major cross-border operations into Syria since 2016 and already controls some territories in the north.
“A new operation will continue to be on our agenda as long as our national security concerns are not resolved,” Erdoğan said. “We want Russia and Iran to be on our side in our fight against terrorist organizations.”
He continued: “America is feeding terrorist organizations there. As soon as America withdraws or doesn't feed these terrorist organizations, our task will become easier."
Turkey has long been infuriated by U.S. support for the YPG terrorists, who form the backbone of U.S.-led forces in the fight against the Daesh terrorist group.
During the meeting in Tehran, Erdoğan said Turkey was determined to “drive out the centers of evil” that target Turkey’s security, adding that the regions of Tal Rifaat and Manbij – where Turkey has said it plans to send troops – had turned into a “terror bed.”
The three presidents released a joint statement that appeared to refer to Turkey's concerns. The statement said they “rejected all attempts to create new realities on the ground under the pretext of combating terrorism, including illegitimate self-rule initiatives."
But Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, at a meeting with Erdoğan earlier, warned Turkey against an operation.
“Any sort of military attack in northern Syria will definitely harm Turkey, Syria and the entire region, and will benefit terrorists,” Iran’s top leader said, stressing the need to “bring the issue to an end through talks.”
Iran and Russia have backed Bashar Assad’s regime, while Turkey has supported armed opposition factions.
Çavuşoğlu also said officials from Turkey, Finland, and Sweden will meet in August to evaluate the progress made in fulfilling Ankara's counter-terrorism demands from the Nordic countries paving the way for NATO membership.
He said the meeting in August would be the first of a monitoring committee formed under a deal signed last month. He added that Turkey would block their membership bids if Stockholm and Helsinki fail to keep their promises.
Sweden and Finland formally applied to join the transatlantic alliance in June, a decision spurred by Russia's war on Ukraine.
But Turkey, a NATO member for 70 years, voiced objections to the membership bids, criticizing the countries for tolerating and even supporting terror groups.
A trilateral agreement signed among the countries in June stipulates that Finland and Sweden will not provide support to the YPG nor to the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup in Turkey, and said Ankara extends full support to Finland and Sweden against threats to their national security.
On the ongoing normalization process with neighboring Armenia, Çavuşoğlu said Turkey expects concrete steps.
"We want to see in practice how sincere Armenia is. So far there are messages, and there are explanations. There's also pressure, it's true. The (Armenian) diaspora from the outside, fanatic groups from the inside. But when we come to concrete steps, we haven't seen those concrete steps from Armenia yet," he said.
He added that Turkey wants to see steps from the Armenian administration under Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
"The steps to be taken in the region are in everyone's interests," he added.
Ankara and Yerevan last December appointed special representatives for talks on normalizing the ties, with the first meeting held in Moscow on Jan. 14. The parties have held four meetings so far.
As part of normalization efforts, this February Turkey and Armenia resumed commercial flights after a two-year hiatus.
Wednesday,
COVID-19 Cases Rising Again In Armenia
• Anush Mkrtchian
Armenia -- Medics at the Surb Grigor Lusavorich Medical Center in Yerevan,
Armenia's largest hospital treating COVID-19 patients, June 5, 2020.
Mirroring a global trend, coronavirus infections in Armenia are rising rapidly
again after falling to record low levels in May, government data shows.
The Armenian Ministry of Health recorded a total of 629 COVID-19 cases last
week, up from 354 cases in the previous week and 174 cases in the period from
June 27 to July 3.
The ministry reported an average of several cases a day in May. The country’s
infection rates remained negligible until the end of June.
Despite the soaring cases, health authorities in Yerevan have reported no
coronavirus-related deaths so far this month.
“Severe cases are not registered in large numbers yet,” Romela Abovian, a senior
official from the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, explained
on Wednesday. “There are hospitalized people but many of them were vaccinated
and are coping [with the disease] well.”
Abovian blamed the resurgence of the virus on the even more contagious BA.4 and
BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron which are becoming prevalent around the world.
Davit Melik-Nubarian, a public health expert, said that waning vaccine
protection is another factor behind what appears to be a new wave of infections.
Armenia - A man is vaccinated against coronavirus at a mobile vaccination center
in Yerevan, October 24, 2021.
According to the Ministry of Health, less than half of Armenia’s population has
received two doses of a coronavirus vaccine. The vast majority of them were
vaccinated last fall and winter.
Only 60,000 or so people in the country of about 3 million have received a third
“booster” shot to date. The vaccination process practically ground to a halt in
May.
Melik-Nubarian said the COVID-19 resurgence could intensify after schools and
universities across the country reopen their doors in September. Still, he
suggested that it will be less severe than the previous waves “in terms of the
loss of human lives.”
Abovian said that the authorities will consider restoring mandatory mask-wearing
and reimposing other restrictions if the upward trend continues unabated in the
coming weeks.
Melik-Nubarian was skeptical on that score, arguing that such restrictions were
barely enforced in Armenia when they were in force.
The Armenian authorities have registered more than 10,300 coronavirus-related
deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Yerevan Silent On French-Armenian Leader’s Deportation
• Artak Khulian
France - Mourad Papazian, a leader of the French-Armenian community, speaks at
an Armenian genocide remembrance ceremony in Paris, April 24, 2022.
The Armenian authorities have declined to explain their decision to ban a leader
of France’s influential Armenian community critical of Prime Minister Nikol
Pashinian from entering Armenia.
Mourad Papazian, co-chairman of the Coordination Council of Armenian
Organizations of France (CCAF), was detained at Yerevan’s Zvartnots
international airport and deported back to Paris last Thursday. He says that
said immigration officers there gave no reason for his deportation.
The National Security Service (NSS), which is in charge of passport control at
Zvartnots, on Wednesday refused to explain what was a rare entry ban slapped on
a prominent Armenian Diaspora figure. The NSS only cited a legal provision which
allows it to withhold such information if it breaches “the secrecy of a person’s
private or family life.”
Papazian, who is also a leading member of Dashnaktsutyun, a pan-Armenian party
in opposition to Pashinian’s government, insisted, meanwhile, that his expulsion
was politically motivated.
“Mr. Pashinian doesn’t accept opposition both inside and outside [Armenia,]” he
told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service. “There is a serious problem with democracy
behind this affair.”
France/Armenia - French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the
Co-ordination Council of Armenian Organisations of France (CCAF) annual dinner
in Paris, 05Feb, 2019
The CCAF, which is an umbrella structure uniting France’s leading Armenian
organizations, condemned Yerevan’s decision as an “attack on democracy” and
“brutal blow” to the French-Armenian community.
“Armenia also belongs to the Diaspora, to the sons of survivors of the [1915]
genocide, especially when they fight for their rights,” the CCAF said in a July
15 statement. “And no one can decide to exclude activists of the Armenian cause
from it to settle political scores.”
The Armenian government has still not reacted to this criticism echoed by its
domestic political opponents.
Zareh Sinanyan, the government’s Armenian-American high commissioner for
Diaspora affairs, claimed this week that he does not know why Papazian was
denied entry to Armenia. Sinanyan at the same time accused the CCAF and
Dashnaktsutyun of pressuring European politician not to cooperate with the
authorities in Yerevan.
Some Armenian pro-government media outlets have said that Papazian was deported
because the authorities believe he was behind an anti-Pashinian demonstration
staged during the prime minister’s June 2021 visit to Paris.
Papazian denies any involvement in that protest. He was able to visit Armenia as
recently as in May.
Death Of Arrested Government Critic ‘Investigated’
• Naira Bulghadarian
Armenia - Activist Armen Grigorian at a rally in Yerevan, November 28, 2020.
Law-enforcement authorities have pledged to investigate the sudden death of a
vocal critic of the Armenian government who was controversially arrested two
months ago.
Armen Grigorian, a well-known entertainment producer, collapsed in a courtroom
on Friday as he stood trial on charges of insulting residents of two Armenian
regions supporting the government.
Grigorian had made disparaging comments about them a year before his arrest
condemned by the Armenian opposition as politically motivated. He was taken into
custody by the National Security Service, which normally deals with grave crimes.
The 57-year-old activist’s death sparked outcry from opposition leaders as well
as the country’s human rights ombudswoman, Kristine Grigorian (no relation). The
latter demanded “clarifications” from prosecutors and the Ministry of Justice,
which runs Armenia’s prisons.
The Investigative Committee said this week that it has opened a criminal case in
connection with Grigorian’s death, the precise cause of which is still not known.
The Office of the Prosecutor-General specified that the law-enforcement body is
conducting an inquiry into prison medics’ failure to adequately perform their
duties, rather than the wisdom of holding Grigorian in detention.
“Throughout the confinement period Armen Grigorian was under the surveillance of
medical personnel and received treatment,” the Ministry of Justice insisted for
its part.
In a statement, the ministry revealed that Grigorian complained of headaches,
high blood pressure and dizziness right after being taken to a prison 50
kilometers west of Yerevan. But it said that neither the activist nor his lawyer
formally notified the prison administration of his health problems.
Armenia - Angry opposition supporters protest outside the prime minister's
office in Yerevan following the death of an arrested government critic, July 15,
2022.
The lawyer, Ruben Melikian, said on Friday that his client, who was a medic by
education, did not allow him to “speak up about those problems in the court or
any other bodies.”
Melikian and opposition leaders have blamed the country’s political leadership
for Grigorian’s death. They have linked his May 18 arrest to daily
antigovernment protests launched by the opposition in Yerevan on May 1.
More than two dozen other opposition activists are also currently under arrest.
Most of them are accused of assaulting riot police during the protests aimed at
forcing Pashinian to resign. The authorities maintain that the accusations are
not politically motivated.
The opposition has accused Pashinian’s administration of weaponizing pre-trial
arrests to try to neutralize its members and supporters fighting for regime
change.
Zaruhi Hovannisian, who leads a team of civic activists monitoring Armenian
prison conditions, likewise criticized on Wednesday the authorities’ excessive
recourse to such arrests.
“Both under the former authorities and now pre-trial arrest has been used for
pressuring individuals or as a punitive measure against them,” Hovannisian told
RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Wednesday. “This does not correspond at all to
objectives set in the Criminal Code.”
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Opposition lawmaker Aram Vardevanyan has reacted to Monday’s phone call between the Armenian and Turkish leaders, accusing Nikol Pashinyan of acting against his statements.
The Armenian opposition maintains that Ankara has not dropped its preconditions for Armenian-Turkish normalization.
“Obviously, any public officer must be accountable for their statements. Moreover, the bar is much higher when the country’s leader is involved. It has been publicly announced multiple times that the normalization of relations with Turkey cannot be considered separately from Turkey’s role based on the circumstances of the 44-day war [in Artsakh],” Vardevanyan, who represents the Hayastan alliance, said on Facebook on Tuesday.
He recalled Pashinyan’s statements regarding Turkey in October 2020.
“Turkey has returned to the South Caucasus to continue the Armenian Genocide,” the premier said.
He accused the Turkish authorities of recruiting terrorists to fight against Artsakh on Azerbaijan’s side.
“Turkey has come to the South Caucasus to continue the policy it is carrying out in the Mediterranean against Greece and Cyprus, or in Libya, or in Syria, or in Iraq. It is an expansionist policy. Turkey’s expansionist plans to the north, to the east, and to the southeast are well known, the point is that Armenians in the South Caucasus are the last impediment on that way. And now Turkey is not tackling the Karabakh issue at all. Turkey is trying to continue its genocidal policy, since Armenians in the South Caucasus are the last remaining obstacle on its path to advancing that expansionist policy to the north, east and south-east,” Pashinyan said in an interview.
“No action has been taken following the statements, no consistency has been demonstrated. Turkey has not changed its policies, signing the disgraceful Shushi declaration. In response, the ‘Armenian prime minister congratulated the Turkish president on Kurban Bayram’,” he wrote.
“Army of Emperor Heraclius Battles the Persians,” Pierro della Francesca (1452). The ties of Armenian culture and Hellenism go back at least to the 6th century BC Public Domain
The ties of Armenian culture and Hellenism go back at least to the 6th century BC, as a reference to Armenia was made by the Greek historian Hecataeus of Militus in 525 BC.
According to 20th century linguists, the Armenian and Greek languages share common ancestry, with the two peoples having similar traditions.
Armenians have contributed greatly as carriers of the Greek language, civilization, and Eastern Orthodoxy since they were an important part of the Byzantine Empire.
The Armenian Orthodox Church, which was the first Orthodox church in the world to be officially recognized, has followed suit with the Greek Orthodox Church.
In 334 BC, Alexander the Great, leading an army of 40,000 men, invaded Asia Minor, aiming to topple the Persian Empire that had invaded Greece over a century earlier.
It took the Macedonian Army three years to defeat Persian king Darius III and destroy the Persian capital of Persepolis.
With the fall of the Persian Empire in 331 BC, Alexander appointed a new satrap, Mithranes from the Orontid royal house, to govern Armenia.
After Alexander’s sudden death in 323 BC, the partitioning of his empire and warring among his generals led to the emergence of three separate Greek kingdoms.
Armenia fell under the rule of Seleucus in 311 BC, establishing the Seleucid Dynasrty. Despite pressure from the Seleucids, the Orontid dynasty continued to control the largest of three kingdoms into which Armenia had been divided.
Several historians claim that Hellenism was Armenia’s greatest cultural influence, becoming so ingrained into the culture that many Hellenistic characteristics are still apparent within the Armenian culture to this day.
The Greek language became the official language of the rulers, as Greek inscriptions uncovered at Armavir, the first Orontid capital, show.
The inscriptions point to the existence of a Greek temple of Apollo and Artemis, served by a predominantly Greek priesthood.
Armenians identified with the Hellenistic culture which shared the zodiac, the pantheon of gods, and traditions.
They absorbed Greek philosophy, architecture, and the gods, giving Armenian deities Greek names, and eventually, their human likenesses.
The Armenian language is said to be influenced from Ancient Greek; however, both languages developed differently over time.
In the 4th century BC, certain parts of Armenia known as Western Armenia became part of the Byzantine Empire.
Armenians flourished in the Byzantine Empire. Numerous Byzantine emperors were either ethnically Armenian, half-Armenian, part-Armenian, or possibly Armenian.
Emperor Heraclius, who established the Heraclian Dynasty (610-717) was Armenian on his father’s side. Basil I, Romanos I, John I Tzimiskes, and Nikephoros II were also Armenian.
In fact, one in five Byzantine emperors and empresses were either fully or partially Armenian.
The Akathist Hymn, sung during Orthodox Lent, commemorates the saving of Constantinople from the Persians and Avads by Emperor Heraclius with the miraculous help of the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary.
The Macedonian Dynasty, named after Basil I the Macedonian hailing from the theme of Macedonia in Thrace—not geographical Macedonia—reigned during the most glorious period of the Byzantine Empire.
It was a period in which the Empire reached its greatest extent since the Muslim Conquests, and the Macedonian Renaissance in letters and arts began.
Also significant was that from the 5th century and onward, Armenians were regarded as the main constituent of the Byzantine Army, with the palace guards being picked among the bravest Armenians.
According to certain scholars, Armenian military power was the basis of the stability and longevity of Byzantium and Hellenism.
In addition, bishops, architects, important military figures, and other prominent members in the history of the Byzantine Empire were Armenians, contributing greatly to politics, Greek Orthodoxy, and trade.
The contribution of the Armenian people to the Byzantine Empire, and consequently to Hellenism and Orthodoxy, was constant throughout its history.
Basil II, also known as the “Bulgar Slayer” (976-1025) , was one of the strongest Byzantine emperors, winning territory in the Balkans, Mesopotamia, Armenia, and Georgia.
Despised by the Bulgarians for his cruelty, he took over their land after years of war, and with the later submission of the Serbs, the Empire regained its ancient Danubian frontier for the first time in 400 years.
Basil II increased his domestic authority by attacking the landed interests of the military aristocracy and of the church.
The expansion of Byzantium by the Armenian emperor was important for the spreading of Hellenism and Orthodoxy in today’s Balkan territories.
A devastating earthquake on October 25, 989 ruined the great dome of Hagia Sophia, the eternal symbol of Greek Orthodoxy in Constantinople.
After the disaster, Byzantine emperor Basil II asked the Armenian architect Trdat, the creator of the great churches of Ani and Agine, to repair the dome.
The magnitude of the destruction in the church was such that reconstruction took almost five years to complete. Hagia Sophia was re-opened on May 13, 994.
The magnificent reconstructed dome designed by Trdat remains atop the “Great Church” to this day.
In the 20th century, the Armenian people and Hellenism both faced violent persecution by the Turkish state, culminating in the 1922 destruction of the Greek and Armenian population of Smyrna.
In fact, the Armenian Genocide (1915-1916) by the Ottomans during World War I is one of the darkest hours of modern history, as 600,000 to 1,500,000 Armenians were killed.
Greece is one of the countries that officially recognizes the genocide of the Armenians by the Ottomans. It also grants development and humanitarian assistance to Armenia and has supported that country’s rapprochement with European institutions.
As of 2021, a total of 31 countries have now recognized the Armenian Genocide, along with Pope Francis and the European Parliament.
Greece was also one of the first countries to recognize Armenia upon its independence, which was won on September 21, 1991. There has been a Greek Embassy in Yerevan since 1993 and a corresponding Armenian Embassy in Athens since that time.
Armenia facilitates visa procedures for citizens of Egypt
20:47, 5 July 2022
YEREVAN, JULY 6, ARMENPRESS. The process of obtaining an Armenian visa is being facilitated for the citizens of Egypt.
The Armenian Embassy in Egypt said on social media that starting July 11th the visa regime for the citizens of Egypt is being simplified. In particular, the citizens of Egypt will no longer need invitation from the Police or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia. The Egyptian citizens can apply for a visa directly to the Embassy of Armenia in Egypt or any other diplomatic representation of Armenia.
The Egyptian nationals can apply for a visa via e-visa system ( https://evisa.mfa.am/ ).
In addition, the citizens of Egypt can obtain a visa upon arrival at any border-control point of the Republic of Armenia, if these citizens have a valid residency or a valid visa of one of the following countries:
1) EU member states
2) Schengen zone states
3) The United States of America
4) Australia
5) New Zealand
6) The Republic of Korea
7) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
8) Canada
9) Russia
10) Japan
11) Saudi Arabia
12) Kuwait
13) The United Arab Emirates
14) Qatar
15) Bahrain
16) Oman
Japanese ex-PM Shinzo Abe shot while making election speech
09:24, 8 July 2022
YEREVAN, JULY 8, ARMENPRESS. Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday while campaigning for a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man armed with an apparently homemade gun opened fired at him from behind, Reuters reports.
Police said a 41-year-old man suspected of carrying out the shooting in the western city of Nara had been arrested.
Kyodo news agency and NHK said Abe, 67, appeared to be in a state of cardiac arrest when airlifted to hospital, after having initially been conscious and responsive.
TBS Television reported that Abe had been shot on the left side of his chest and apparently also in the neck.