21:26, 1 June 2022
YEREVAN, JUNE 1, ARMENPRESS. Hayk Sargsyan, the nephew of the third president Serzh Sargsyan, is under remand, ARMENPRESS reports his lawyer Amram Makinyan wrote on his Facebook page.
Hayk Sargsyan is charged with mass disruptions of public order after the clashes near the third government building. He had been arrested earlier.
Political analyst Suren Sargsyan has revealed details of Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan's visit to the United States, saying he has been half an hour late for a meeting with Senator Bob Menendez.
“While in Washington, D.C., Ararat Mirzoyan was about 30 minutes late for a meeting with U.S. Senator Menendez,” he wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.
Republican Senator Jim Risch, who was also supposed to take part in the meeting, was “outraged” and wanted to leave after waiting for 20 minutes, but was persuaded to wait a little longer.
The senators were annoyed not only at the minister’s tardiness, but also about the fact that no reasonable explanations were provided over it, Sargsyan said.
“Even Biden does not make an official like Menendez, who is also a good friend of Armenia, wait. I won’t be surprised if Bob Menendez, Chairman the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, does not want to communicate with Armenian delegations from now on,” he said.
“Incidentally, this is not the first scandal concerning Menendez. In 2020, then MP Makunts requested an urgent meeting with Menendez, but as the community press later reported, the only purpose of the meeting was to have a photo together,” the analyst added.
ArmInfo.Ankara synchronizes the Armenian-Turkish process with the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated this on May 25 from the rostrum of the parliament during the government hour.
Thus, in response to the MP's question about the role of meeting places between the representatives of Armenia and Turkey, the minister admitted that he does not attach importance to the place of the meeting and did not rule out that in the future the above meetings will be held both in Yerevan and Ankara.
"At the moment, I can only say that, unfortunately, no matter how verbally it is asserted about the process without preconditions, nevertheless, our Turkish partners, to a certain extent, synchronize it with the relations developing between Armenia and Azerbaijan. They do this as part of their narrative," Mirzoyan said.
According to him, this, of course, does not become a precondition, but such an approach does not give constructiveness to the process and the environment.
"Discussions are ongoing. But, unfortunately, there is no tangible progress yet. Armenia's position remains the same. Armenia wants and is ready to normalize relations and open borders. We would like to see the same attitude from Turkey. I have already said about the Azerbaijani narrative and various gestures of the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry," Mirzoyan summed up.
It should be noted that the third meeting of the Special Representatives of Armenia and Turkey Vice Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Ruben Rubinyan and Ambassador Serdar Kilic to normalize relations took place in Vienna on May 3. The special representatives confirmed that the ultimate goal of the talks is a full-fledged settlement between Armenia and Turkey, which was agreed upon during their first meeting in Moscow on January 14. The start of the normalization process was announced on December 13, 2021 by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. At the same time, he stressed that Ankara will act in coordination with Azerbaijan regarding steps to normalize relations with Armenia.
16:15, 26 May 2022
YEREVAN, MAY 26, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Super Heavyweight boxer Davit Chaloyan won over Juraj Soldo of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Yerevan EUBC Men’s Elite European Boxing Championship preliminaries.
The ringside judges scored the bout 5:0.
Heavyweight Narek Manasyan of Team Armenia will face Slovakia’s David Michalek later tonight.
Russian political analyst Nikolay Silaev, in a conversation with NEWS.am told that he thinks the current situation in Karabakh will last for a long time and that all the sides involved understand this.
According to his assessment, there will be no attempts to significantly move the situation on the ground until the end of the military operation in Ukraine, because after 24 February, the stakes for everyone have grown very much, first of all for Russia.
"This is no longer quite the Russia that everyone was dealing with on 9 November 2020. To demand the early withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Karabakh means radically spoiling relations with Russia. Do any of the parties need to radically damage relations with Russia? I would not expect this.
Of course, the Russian military presence on the territory that Azerbaijan considers its own is very sensitive for Azerbaijan. The situation that developed in the region as a result of the second Karabakh war does not satisfy Armenia, but any stable international order is always completely unsatisfactory for all the parties involved.
I would not expect any radical changes. It seems to me that the situation that has developed can last for a long time," Silaev noted.
He said that Russia is interested in strengthening good relations with both Armenia and Azerbaijan, especially since all global logistics are changing now because of the sanctions.
"A new impetus for the development of transport communications is important, and good relations with Armenia and good relations with Azerbaijan are important for us here. It is important for us to unblock communications, the North-South transport corridor," the expert added.
Lawmakers from the opposition Hayastan and With Honor (Pativ Unem) alliances were allowed to enter the Armenian Foreign Ministry building after opposition demonstrators broke through police cordons and blocked all entrances to the building on Tuesday morning.
Protesters, led by Ishkhan Saghatelyan, a senior Hayastan MP and ARF Armenia leader, had marched to the Foreign Ministry from central France Square as part of the ongoing civil disobedience campaign to oust Nikol Pashinyan.
Opposition MPs wanted to enter the ministry headquarters to relay the message of the protesters and to warn against concessions to Azerbaijan over Artsakh, but the police initially rejected their request.
"We will not allow the violations of the deputies’ rights to continue,” Saghatelyan said, urging police officers to open the door.
Eventually, the MPs were let in.
Armenian President meets with FIFA President Gianni Infantino
20:48,
YEREVAN, MAY 24, ARMENPRES. Within the framework of Davos World Economic Forum, the President of the Republic of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturyan met with FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
As ARMENPRESS was informed from the press service of the President’s Office, Vahagn Khachaturyan noted that the Government of Armenia attaches great importance to cooperation with FIFA and makes efforts to contribute to the development of football in Armenia.
During the meeting, the sides referred to the activities carried out for the development of football in Armenia, and stressed FIFA's support in that issue.
The sides also referred to the "Game of Legends" planned in Yerevan.
11:41, 18 May, 2022
YEREVAN, MAY 18, ARMENPRESS. 277 people were detained by police as of 10:45 May 18 in the latest anti-government protests in Yerevan.
Police said the demonstrators were detained for failure to obey the lawful order of a police officer.
The opposition demonstrators resumed civil disobedience campaigns in the morning of May 18 and are blocking streets in Yerevan.
17:38, 19 May, 2022
YEREVAN, 19 MAY, ARMENPRESS. The Central Bank of Armenia informs “Armenpress” that today, 19 May, USD exchange rate up by 1.91 drams to 459.40 drams. EUR exchange rate up by 2.88 drams to 484.07 drams. Russian Ruble exchange rate up by 0.18 drams to 7.40 drams. GBP exchange rate up by 3.88 drams to 571.03 drams.
The Central Bank has set the following prices for precious metals.
Gold price down by 99.88 drams to 26743.39 drams. Silver price down by 0.36 drams to 319.99 drams. Platinum price stood at 16414.1 drams.
20:41,
YEREVAN, MAY 19, ARMENPRESS. The Russian peacekeeping contingent continues to fulfill its tasks in Nagorno-Karabakh, ARMENPRESS reports the Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement.
Russian peacekeepers are monitoring the situation and the ceasefire around the clock at 27 checkpoints.
It is noted that no violations were registered in the area of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping contingent.