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Canada’s Foreign Ministry expresses concerns over capturing of 6 Armenian servicemen by Azerbaijani forces

Nyrie Kalashian

Canada's Foreign Ministry expresses concerns over capturing of 6 Armenian servicemen by Azerbaijani forces

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 12:28, 29 May, 2021

YEREVAN, MAY 29, ARMENPRESS. The Foreign Ministry of Canada expressed concern over the capturing of 6 Armenian servicemen by Azerbaijani forces and the tensions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. ARMENPRESS reports, the Foreign minstry of Canada said in its Twitter page,

''Canada is concerned by the capture of six Armenian soldiers by Azerbaijani forces and the ongoing tensions along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border. We call for all issues to be resolved peaceful negotiations through the OSCE Minsk Group’'.

Harutyunyan, Shoigu consider possible ways of resolution of the situation on Armenian-Azerbaijani border, agreed over necessary steps

Nyrie Kalashian
Aysor, Armenia

Armenia’s Acting Minister of Defense Vagharshak Harutyunyan met today in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu.

During the meeting issues on the course of implementation of peacekeeping mission in Nagorno Karabakh, situation created in Armenia’s Syunik and Gegharkunik provinces as well as Armenian-Russian bilateral military cooperation and regional security were discussed.

Harutyunyan briefed to his Russian counterpart the details of the infiltration of Azerbaijani armed forces the territory of Armenia and the measures taken by the Armenian Armed Forces.

Armenia’s acting minister stressed that the Azeri provocations with the false “border adjustment” grounding are absolutely unacceptable and that the Azerbaijani sub-divisions must immediately leave the sovereign territory of Armenia.

The interlocutors considered possible ways of the resolution of the situation and agreed over necessary steps.

Armenia bloc presents its electoral program and team

Nyrie Kalashian
Panorama, Armenia

The Armenia bloc on Saturday presented its electoral program and the team.

The head of the election campaign headquarters of the Armenia bloc, former Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Armen Gevorgyan said that the program is entitled “365 days: The future starts today”.

Reviving Armenia party member Anna Grigoryan, renowned doctor Armen Charchyan, a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF, Dashnaktsutyun) Supreme Council, Candidate of Philology, publicist Lilit Galstyan and consultant on finance and banking law Aleksandr Khachaturyan were invited to present the program.

Subsequently, the leaders of the Armenia alliance, second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, ARF Supreme Council member Ishkhan Saghatelyan and Chairman of the Reviving Armenia party Vahe Hakobyan, were invited on stage.

The national anthem of Armenia was played. Then the attendees observed a minute's silence to pay tribute to the victims of the 44-day war in Artsakh.

Map shows location in Armenian territory where Azeri forces kidnapped troops

Nyrie Kalashian

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 14:12,

YEREVAN, MAY 27, ARMENPRESS. The Ministry of Defense of Armenia is once again emphasizing that the 6 Armenian troops seized by Azeri forces were kidnapped in Armenian sovereign territory. The Ministry of Defense released a map of the terrain where the kidnapping took place.

“We once again announce that our servicemen where located on territory of the Republic of Armenia and did not cross the border. We are releasing a detailed map of the terrain,”  the ministry said, adding that the Azeri authorities continue spreading disinformation and fake news.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Vice FM Le Yucheng and Armenian Deputy FM Avet Adonts Hold Video Consultations between Chinese and Armenian Foreign Ministries

Nyrie Kalashian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs – People's Republic of China
2021/05/26
Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng and Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Avet Adonts Hold Video Consultations between Chinese and Armenian Foreign Ministries

On , Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng and Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Avet Adonts held video consultations between Chinese and Armenian Foreign Ministries, and both sides exchanged views on bilateral relations, anti-pandemic cooperation and Belt and Road cooperation.

Le Yucheng said, China-Armenia relations are currently showing good momentum, with the two sides maintaining high-level interactions, bilateral trade growing against the headwinds of COVID-19 and the two peoples strengthening and enhancing friendship through working together to fight the pandemic. This year is of great significance for both China and Armenia, as China will celebrate the centenary of the Communist Party of China and Armenia will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its independence. The two sides should continue to consolidate political mutual trust, deepen Belt and Road cooperation and open up new prospects in the friendly cooperative partnership between China and Armenia.

Adonts thanked China for providing Armenia with COVID-19 vaccine assistance and lauded China for its important contribution to the global pandemic battle. Noting the long-time friendship between Armenia and China, he said, Armenia attaches great importance to developing its relations with China and is willing to continuously deepen cooperation with China in various fields on the basis of equality and mutual trust.

Armenia reports 130 daily coronavirus cases

Nyrie Kalashian

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 11:07,

YEREVAN, MAY 26, ARMENPRESS. 130 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Armenia in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 222,269, the ministry of healthcare reports.

323 patients have recovered in one day. The total number of recoveries has reached 211,957.

The death toll has risen to 4411 (11 death cases have been registered in the past one day).

3901 COVID-19 tests were conducted on May 25.

The number of active cases is 4822.

The number of people who had coronavirus but died from other disease has reached 1079 (2 new such cases).

 

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Interview with Francis Malige

Nyrie Kalashian

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 15:21,

YEREVAN, MAY 24, ARMENPRESS. Mr. Francis Malige, Managing Director, Financial Institutions for the EBRD, speaks on how challenging the 2020 was for EBRD, the global economy recovery after the crisis, likelihood of new projects and opportunities, current state of the banking system in Armenia and fruitful cooperation with Ameriabank.

“Ameria is clearly the best place of the Armenian banks for an IPO today. To fund IPO you need a few things to work. One is you actually need market appetite. So that is not entirely dependent on Ameria. There is a crisis out there so investor appetite, we need to be engaged properly by the arrangers of the transaction. But you also need strong fundamentals. And those strong fundamentals go in two buckets in my view. One that you need is a minimum critical size. Ameria is reaching that minimum critical size which is not easy in the Armenian market because it’s not such a big market. But it is reaching that size. They can actually go and be offering a pool of investors a number of shares that will make it into a meaningful IPO on the international stage. And it’s not just about being big. It’s also about being good. And Ameria has a very good management team has very good products, a good set of clients and so is ready, in my view, for an IPO’’.

You can watch the full interview here.

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Charles Aznavour bust unveiled in Stepanakert

Nyrie Kalashian
Public Radio of Armenia

Visiting Artsakh was one of Charles Aznavour’s most cherished dreams which he realized in the form of a pilgrimage.

Today, on his birthday, a bust of the world-famous chansonnier was installed in the Armenian-French Friendship Park in Stepanakert, immortalizing this powerful figure of the Armenian Diaspora in the heart of Artsakh, Diaspora High Commissioner’s Office reports.

Another bronze bust of Charles Aznavour wastoday.

 https://en.armradio.am/2021/05/22/charles-aznavour-bust-unveiled-in-stepanakert/

Cenbank presents more positive trends compared to projections

Nyrie Kalashian

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 11:06,

YEREVAN, MAY 18, ARMENPRESS. Macroeconomic developments are outlining more positive trends compared to central bank assessments in the direction of both economic activity and domestic demand, Central Bank governor Martin Galstyan said at the parliamentary committee on financial-credit and budgetary affairs while presenting the cenbank’s annual report.

Galstyan first spoke about the difficulties and the cenbank’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the period when martial law was declared in 2020. He noted the significant increase of inflation environment in Armenia’s main partner countries and in international commodity markets.

He said that a low economic activity and weak demand environment is maintained due to the COVID-19 pandemic and uncertainties over economic prospects.

According to 2021 Q1 projections, a slow recovery of aggregate demand will continue.

“It is noteworthy that current macroeconomic developments outline more positive trends in the directions of both economic activity and domestic demand compared to central bank assessments,” Galstyan said.

Positive developments were mostly observed in the industry and services, while the faster recovery of the domestic demand was mostly contributed by more positive developments in financial transfers from abroad and crediting of the economy.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan