Since being elected U.S. President, Barack Obama has made his third address to the Armenian community in the United States in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide.
However, as during his previous addresses, the U.S. President used the term Meds Yeghern (Arm. Great Massacre), without qualifying the crime as genocide.Armenian News-NEWS.am posts the full text of his statement.
“We...
Dear compatriots,
Today we are marking the 96th anniversary of the Genocide of Armenians. The purpose of the appalling crime which was planned and carried out by the authorities of the Ottoman Turkey during World War I was to exterminate Armenians and, as a result, to deprive the Armenian people of their historical homeland ruling out any Armenian presence whatsoever –...
Fellow Compatriots,
Today is the 24th of April, and we commemorate the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
In 1915-1923 a crime against the Armenian nation, against humanity and civilization was committed, which at the time had no name. All the names and definitions – moral, legal, or political – given later are only provisional and only in part reflect...
YEREVAN. – A traditional meeting and torchlight procession toward the Memorial to Armenian Genocide victims started in Yerevan at 8:00 p.m. local time (Photos).
Thousands of people, with Armenian national flags and posters calling on Turkey to admit the Armenian Genocide, gathered in front of the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan.
The people are protesting...
Armenia’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE) addressed an open letter to Head of the IMF mission in Armenia Guillermo Tolosa, in connection with his statement on tax benefits to high-tech companies.
In their letter the authors express their concern over and disagreement with Mr. Tolosa’s idea, voiced at a press...
On the eve of Border Troops Day, which is celebrated on April 26, President Serzh Sargsyan visited the newly constructed compound of the National Security Service Border Troops attached to the RA Government at the Davtashen community of Yerevan. The President of Armenia toured the compound and familiarized with the facilities.
The President was informed that construction...
YEREVAN. – Famous Armenian weightlifter Yuri Vardanyan is in intense care department, his doctor Sahak Saribekjyan toldNEWS.am.
Vardanyan is receiving treatment at Erebuni medical centre. According to the doctor, Vardanyan underwent operation, but he is not in coma.
Vardanyan is recovering after the operation, Press secretary of Armenian Health Minister Shushan Hunanyan...
National Sustainable Development Council met today at the Office of Government, chaired by council head, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan.
Council Secretary, President of “Association for Sustainable Human Development” NGO Karine Danielyan reported on the current status of the UN-launched Rio+20 global campaign and Armenia’s contribution to the process. In particular,...
On 21 April President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan visited the Askeran region.
The Head of the State held meetings with representatives of the Ughtasar, Nakhijevanik, Vardadzor and Sarnaghbyur communities and discussed issues they faced.
Afterwards in the Askeran regional center the President inspected the workflow of programs carried out there and convoked an...
YEREVAN. – Executive Director of the “One nation, one culture” fund Tamar Poghosyan said in an interview with Armenian News-NEWS.am that she is going to hand in her resignation.
Recently, Tamar Poghosyan charged Armenian Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan, who is Chairwoman of the fund’s Board of Trustees, with money laundering and other actions posing corruption...
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