Students of the American University of Armenia (AUA) on Tuesday joined the opposition protesters demanding that Nikol Pashinyan step down.
They came out of the university building and joined the opposition march waving the flags of Armenia and Artsakh.
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Azerbaijani media report on the closure of the country’s airspace for Russian military aircraft, according to Avia.pro.
The Azerbaijani edition of The Azeri Times reported that, following Turkey, neighboring Azerbaijan closed its airspace for Russian military aircraft. According to The Azeri Times, this is due to intentions to disrupt the transportation of military cargo between Russia and Armenia.
“Azerbaijan has closed its airspace to Russian military aircraft. As a result, Russian military aircraft carrying military supplies from Armenia to Russia were forced to fly over Iran and the Caspian Sea on their way to Rostov-on-Don," The Azeri Times reports.
Despite the appearance of such data, there are no official statements from the Azerbaijani and Russian representatives so far. This does not exclude the possibility that the information is provocative.
“Even if Azerbaijan really closed its airspace to Russian military aircraft, this is not critical, although it can definitely affect logistics. However, if the information is true, then Baku should think about the consequences,” an Avia.pro specialist notes.
The staff of the Armenian Embassy in Belgium once again honoured the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide at the khachkar-memorial in Henri Michaux Square in Brussels.
The monument had recently become a target of cultural vandalism, but was restored within hours thanks to Ixelles authorities.
Members of the Belgian Parliament from the New Flemish Alliance – Allessia Claes, Karl Vanlouwe, Andries Gryffroy and Mark Demesmaeker also honoured the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, while protesting against the act of vandalism towards the memorial.
15:17, 29 April, 2022
YEREVAN, APRIL 29, ARMENPRESS. Speaker of Parliament of Armenia Alen Simonyan received the delegation headed by the Director of the WHO Regional Office for Europe Hans Kluge, the Parliament’s press service said.
Alen Simonyan welcomed the cooperation agreement signed yesterday between the Ministry of Health of Armenia and the WHO Regional Office for Europe. The Speaker of Parliament expressed hope that it will contribute to the development of the health system in all directions.
Various assistance provided to Armenia by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the fight against the pandemic was touched upon at the meeting.
Both sides highlighted the implementation of the legislative initiatives aimed at health system reforms. The importance of efforts to have access to different health areas and to provide quality services was also stressed.
Minister of Health of Armenia Anahit Avanesyan and Deputy Minister Lena Nanushyan, Chair of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Healthcare, member of Parliament from Civil Contract faction Narek Zeynalyan and deputy of the Civil Contract Faction Arsen Torosyan participated in the meeting.
Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia will meet with Foreign Policy Advisor to the president of Azerbaijan
19:10, 29 April, 2022
YEREVAN, APRIL 29, ARMENPRESS. Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan is scheduled to meet with Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev in Brussels on May 2, ARMENPRESS reports Grigoryan told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Armenia service.
"We will discuss a number of issues related to Armenia-Azerbaijan relations," Armen Grigoryan said.
He considered it possible that the Pashinyan-Aliyev meeting could follow that meeting.
"If we succeed in getting the answers to all those questions in Brussels, then we can also discuss a meeting at the level of Heads of State in Brussels," said the Security Council Secretary.
To the question of the journalist whether the meeting with Hajiyev can be viewed in the context of the preparation of the peace treaty, Grigoryan said. "You can view it in the context of normalization of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations, as Armenia-Azerbaijan relations, we can say, have several directions at the moment: Trilateral working group on unblocking of communication, the formation of delimitation and demarcation working groups is currently being discussed. It is almost in the final stage, I think the formation of a working group will be announced in the near future. There is also the direction of discussing the peace agenda at the level of foreign ministers. There are also regular meetings of the heads of the security forces, where some issues of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations are discussed. There is also the platform of of the meeting between me and Hikmet Hajiyev, where we discuss a number of issues related to Armenia-Azerbaijan relations."
PanARMENIAN.Net - Yerevan has urged Baku to specify which territories they mean when they speak about the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani presidential aide Hikmet Hajiyev said earlier that the main expectation of Azerbaijan is the recognition of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Azerbaijan by Armenia.
Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan said on Friday, April 30 that there is nothing unacceptable in the proposal of mutually recognizing each other's territorial integrity by Armenia and Azerbaijan.
"We also said that Armenia and Azerbaijan recognized each other's territorial integrity in the early 1990s. The Nagorno-Karabakh issue is not a territorial issue for us, but an issue of security and rights for the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh," Grigoryan said, according to Armenpress.
"But some statements by a number of high-ranking Azerbaijani officials need to be clarified. In the context of these statements, we believe that the Azerbaijani officials should specify which territories they see in the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan so that Armenia could clarify its position."
16:18,
YEREVAN, APRIL 28, ARMENPRESS. The next session of the Armenia-Russia-Azerbaijan deputy prime ministerial working group dealing with unblocking of transportation communications in the region will take place in the near future, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a press briefing.
She said that Russia considers the high-level trilateral agreements as a base for moving forward the process of settling the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and continues the active work with Yerevan and Baku in all directions, including in the unblocking of economic and transportation ties, the launch of the demarcation process of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the agreement over a peace treaty.
“The communication unblocking issues were discussed during the April 26 meeting of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. An agreement has been reached with the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides on holding the next session of the trilateral working group chaired by the deputy prime ministers in the future. As for border issues, contacts are planned in Baku by the end of this week at a foreign ministry level”, she said.
Zakharova said the Russian side records that Armenia and Azerbaijan are ready to meet halfway with each other, and informed that trilateral contacts are being developed on this topic.
“It’s obvious that the real work in different formats gives a result. We are in the existing formats and see that the work is underway there. We attach great importance to the formats and fulfillment of the documents which together give a real result. Civilians, economic operators and the region in general feel that result”, she said.
21:42,
YEREVAN, APRIL 19, ARMENPRESS. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin confirmed the importance of using the potential and experience of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs in the process of settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in accordance with its international mandate.
“The leaders exchanged views on the situation in the South Caucasus, spoke in favor of the continuation of the constructive work in the sidelines of the regular meetings between the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia and the consistent implementation of the November 9, 2020, January 11 and November 26, 2021 agreements reached between the three leaders for the benefit of regional stability, security and economic development, stressed the decisive contribution of the Russian peacekeeping contingent to the provision of security of Nagorno Karabakh and creation of favorable and safe living conditions for the population, emphasized the need for an urgent solution to pressing humanitarian issues and the settlement of all issues through political and diplomatic means. In this context, the Parties underlined the importance of using the potential and experience of the institute of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs, in accordance with its international mandate”, reads the statement.
11:14,
YEREVAN, APRIL 15, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan held a meeting on April 15 with the Ambassador of Lithuania to Armenia Inga Stanytė-Toločkienė, the presidency said in a press release.
President Khachaturyan and Ambassador Stanytė-Toločkienė both expressed conviction that through joint efforts they will contribute to the expansion and further deepening of the Armenian-Lithuanian agenda. They underscored that the two countries have big potential for cooperation in economic, high-tech, educational and cultural sectors.