Author: Maral Takmazian

 18:13, 4 July 2022

YEREVAN, JULY 4, ARMENPRESS. Minister of Justice of Armenia Karen Andreasyan delivered opening remarks at the high-level conference organized by the Council of Europe's Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) and the Corruption Prevention Commission of the Republic of Armenia on the presentation of standard rules of conduct for public servants in Armenia.

As ARMENPRESS was informed from the Ministry of Justice of Armenia, in the event attended by Executive Secretary of GRECO and Head of the Action against Economic Crime Department at Council of Europe Hanne Juncher, Head of the EU Delegation to Armenia Andrea Wiktorin, Deputy Minister of Justice of Albania Adea Pirdeni, President of the Corruption Prevention Commission Haykuhi Harutyunyan and other local and international dignitaries, Karen Andreasyan presented the institutional success of the Armenian Government with EU support in the anti-corruption field.

Andreasyan highlighting the great role of GRECO in the fight against corruption, noted that the Government, in the person of the Ministry of Justice and other state bodies, is doing everything possible to fulfill all GRECO's advisory requirements and expressed hope that all of them will be implemented in the near future.

The head of the EU Delegation to Armenia, Andrea Wiktorin thanked the Ministry of Justice for the development and smooth implementation of the anti-corruption policy, and in that context emphasized the process of developing and adopting standard rules of conduct for public servants.

The conference also highlighted the importance of mentoring, training public officials and promoting good behavior at all levels of public service.

 18:07,

YEREVAN, JUNE 29, ARMENPRESS. On June 29, the newly appointed Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Republic of Armenia Joel Lion (residence in Jerusalem) presented his credentials to President Vahagn Khachaturyan.

As ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of the President’s Office, the President of Armenia congratulated the Ambassador, wishing him success in his responsible mission.

Ambassador Joel Lion noted that he will make maximum efforts for expanding and deepening the Armenian-Israeli cooperation.

The sides stressed that there is a great potential for expanding the cooperation between the two countries; it is necessary to take steps to give qualitatively new content to the bilateral agenda.

Armenia Plans to Normalize Relations with Turkey, Pashinyan Says

June, 28, 2022 – 12:10 Other Media news

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Armenia sees opportunities to normalize relations with Turkey and will do everything to take advantage of them, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during an online press conference.

At the same time, according to him, the statements made by Turkey about the "Zangezur corridor" hinder the process of the Armenian-Turkish settlement, but this does not mean that Armenia will stop the dialogue with Turkey, RIA Novosti reported.

Baku insists on laying the so-called Zangezur corridor, which will connect Azerbaijan with the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic through the Syunik region of Armenia.

Azerbaijan's future plans include the connection of Zangilan, located in the region of Eastern Zangezur, with Western Zangezur, and then through Ordubad with Nakhichevan and Turkey. Yerevan does not agree with the idea of a transport corridor from the western regions of Azerbaijan to Nakhichevan through the territory of Armenia. In Armenia, they say that we can talk not about a corridor, but about a road.

There are no diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia, the border between the two countries has been closed since 1993 at the initiative of Ankara. Difficult relations between the countries are caused by a number of circumstances related, in particular, to Ankara's support for the Azerbaijani position on the Karabakh problem and Turkey's sharp reaction to the process of international recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

On January 14, Moscow hosted the first meeting of special representatives for the normalization process between Armenia and Turkey – Deputy Chairman of the Armenian Parliament Ruben Rubinyan and former Turkish Ambassador to the United States Serdar Kilych. As the Russian Foreign Ministry reported, the parties during the talks showed their readiness to conduct a dialogue in a constructive, non-politicized manner. Two more meetings were held in Vienna.

 17:31,

YEREVAN, JUNE 24, ARMENPRESS. Arman Yeghoyan, the Chair of the Standing Committee on European Integration of the Parliament of Armenia, MPs Arsen Torosyan, Mikayel Tumasyan and Aleksey Sandikov met with MPs of the Hellenic Parliament Christos Dermentzopoulos, Anna-Mani Papadimitriou and Maria-Alexandra Kefala, the Armenian Parliament’s press service said.

The latter arrived in Armenia in order to participate in the workshop of the EU Twinning Project “Strengthening the capacity of the National Assembly of Armenia to further support CEPA oversight and implementation,” which took place on June 22-23 in Tsaghkadzor.

Issues related to the deepening of the EU-Armenia ties, having more open, democratic parliaments for the society and the youth were at the center of the discussions. A number of other issues of mutual interests were also touched upon.

Discussions were organized between the employees of parliaments. The sides highlighted the opportunity given by the Twinning Project, the opportunities to expand ties between the departments of different countries, to exchange experience for the development of institutional capacities.

 10:50,

YEREVAN, JUNE 20, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan will pay a working visit to Belarus on June 20-21, his Office said.

The Armenian PM will participate in the session of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council.

 12:12, 16 June 2022

YEREVAN, JUNE 16, ARMENPRESS. The leadership of Armenia moves on the path of the exercise of rights and the guarantee of the security of the people of Artsakh, and negotiations are taking place around this, and the status must derive from the guarantees that will be for ensuring the security and protecting the rights, Members of Parliament from the ruling Civil Contract faction said at a press briefing today.

Commenting on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s speech of yesterday in the Parliament relating to the status of Artsakh, Arusyak Julhakyan said: “The Prime Minister yesterday said the following over the status of Artsakh that it should not be a goal for us, but a mean to ensure the security and rights of Artsakh-Armenians. And I claim that he is not the first person in Armenia who made that statement, noting that the Artsakh issue has been initially and always considered by Armenia as an issue of right, a security issue, not as an issue of right to self-determination”.

According to her, the Artsakh issue remains as an issue of ensuring the protection of rights and the security of Artsakh-Armenians. The lawmaker assured that there couldn’t be a step back on this matter.

Artur Hovhannisyan highlighted the PM’s speech in a sense that with these statements the leadership is trying to close the “gap” existing between the public and the entire negotiation process. In fact, the public has not been aware of the negotiation processes. “We move on the path of the exercise of rights and the guarantee of the security of the people of Artsakh. Negotiations are taking place around this. And in fact, the status should be derived from the guarantees that will be for ensuring the security and protecting the rights”, he said. “Negotiations are taking place for the exercise of rights and the security guarantees of the people of Artsakh, and the status should be derived from this. Negotiations are underway to ensure the security of the people of Artsakh and their right to live in their homeland”, he added.