‘Daily news’

  • The answer of Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on the question at National Assembly
    Question: According to some publications, Foreign Minister of Israel Liberman has said that the term Holocaust is not applicable for the Armenian Genocide. I would like to have a comment on this matter. Answer: First of all, nobody uses the term Holocaust to describe Armenian Genocide. Armenian Medz Eghern is described by the term «Genocide». And not only because that dozens...
    February 8, 2012 19:29
  • Initial operative results of population census in Armenia known
    According to the initial operative figures of the 2011 population census in Armenia, 3 million 285 767 people have been registered. The initial operative figure of the existing population made 2 million 871 509 people, chairman of the National Statistical Service of Armenia Stepan Mnatsakanyan told a news conference February 7. According to him, the number of permanent...
    February 7, 2012 14:43
  • Armenian women, who were entertaining restaurant patrons, are arrested in Turkey
    Eighteen foreign women—including two minors—, who were working in a restaurant in Turkey’s Kocaeli province, are taken into custody. These women were illegally working as entertainers for the restaurant’s patrons, Turkey’s Anadolu News Agency informs. And there are women from Armenia among the arrestees. It is noted that these women were taken to the department...
    February 7, 2012 10:19
  • Investigation is launched against Turkish minister who denied Armenian Genocide
    The Prosecutor’s Office of Switzerland’s Canton of Zurich launched an inquiry against Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs, Egemen Bagis. The proceedings were launched after when Bagis had stated in Zurich, and while returning from the World Economic Forum in Davos, that there was no Armenian Genocide, Hurriyet daily of Turkey informs. And in an interview with Anadolu...
    February 6, 2012 17:24
  • “Armenian Youth for Human Rights” Photo Exhibition Organized at the UN House
    Young human rights activists shared their creative view of human rights at a photo exhibition titled “Youth for Human Rights”, which aims to raise public awareness on human rights issues and to promote youth activism.  It was open today at the UN House.   The exhibition is supported by the UN Department of Public Information and is organized in the framework...
    February 6, 2012 14:58
  • Armenia marks World Cancer Day
    The World Cancer Day, which is observed on February 4, was declared by the Union for International Cancer Control. The Union’s website (www.uicc.org) has posted a world map, where any organization, or initiative group, can post information on its activities to be carried out on this day. In line with Armenian Oncology Center’s 2011 data, 270 out of 100 thousand people...
    February 4, 2012 13:40
  • French Constitutional Council to decide on bill criminalizing genocides in one month
    PARIS. – French Constitutional Council will cast a verdict on bill criminalizing denial of genocides, including the Armenian Genocide, in early spring. More possible dates are Feb. 29 or March 1, Turkish Sabbah reports. The Council needs minimum 7 votes for the verdict. It accepted the appeal against the bill on Tuesday by 72 French Senators (minimum 60 votes are required...
    February 4, 2012 10:38
  • Armenian servicemen deadly injured on Karabakh-Azerbaijani contact line
    STEPANAKERT. – An Armenian serviceman was deadly injured in Jabrail military unit in Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday, NEWS.am source reports. Head of the Karabakh MOD PR department Senor Hasratyan approved the report to the NEWS.am adding the incident occurred at 5.00 p.m. in the Nagorno-Karabakh-Azerbaijan contact line on Thursday. Serviceman Karlen Baghdasaryan, 20, was...
    February 4, 2012 0:18
  • Sarkozy Warns
    French President Nikola Sarkozy stated that if the Constitutional Council of France rules the recently adopted law on the Armenian genocide is anti- Constitutional, the same fate will be expected for the law on the Jewish Holocaust. As we know the point is about the law penalizing the denial of the Armenian genocide. A similar law exists also with regards to the Jewish...
    February 1, 2012 11:42
  • Teenage girl in coma after nose plastic surgery in Armenia
    YEREVAN. – Satenik Mirzoyan, 19, continues to stay in coma for already 4 months after nose plastic surgery. Erebuni medical center intensive care department head Harutyun Mangoyan told -NEWS.am that there is a progress, which does not mean, however, she gained consciousness. She turned to the center for the plastic surgery last October. The surgery was successful, but...
    February 1, 2012 8:45
  • Coalition partners meet at Presidential Office
    The political parties representing the ruling coalition held an extended session at the Presidential Office on Monday. Speaking to Tert.am, Edward Sharmazanov, a spokesperson for the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), said President Serzh Sargsyan (who is the RPA leader) did not have a separate meeting with the leader of Prosperous Armenia party (PAP), Gagik Tsarukyan. Without...
    January 31, 2012 11:08
  • (Հայերեն) Կանաչ գոտու և ընդհանուր օգտագործման տարածքների հաշվին տաղավարներ չեն տեղադրվել
    Վերջին 2 ամիսների  ընթացքում Երևանի քաղաքապետարանը Երևանի Կենտրոնի գոտիավորման  նախագծին համապատասխան կառուցապատման աշխատանքներ է կատարում Գլխավոր պողոտայի Մաշտոցի պողոտա- Եզնիկ Կողբացի հատվածում՝...
    January 30, 2012 18:54
  • Tigran Sargsyan Dwells On Post-Crisis Economic Policy Threats And Remedies
    On January 29, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan traveled to Tsakhkadzor to meet with the students of the Yerevan School of Political Studies. The head of government delivered a lecture entitled “Post-crisis economic policy: challenges and opportunities” The lecture was attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan, as well as U.S. and Finnish Ambassadors to...
    January 30, 2012 15:31
  • Deathly drama in French city: elderly Armenian dies
    LIMOGES. – A fight which took place because of a stolen car ended in a tragedy for an Armenian family from Limoges, France, on Thursday evening, Le Parisien writes. A young man shot at a father and son of Armenian origin. Martunik Aslanyan, 61, was wounded at the back and fell at the parking lot. His son Gor, 26, received a light injury. Both injured were taken...
    January 30, 2012 9:10
  • Armenia’s Syunik Region scandalous governor intends to defend academic degree
    KAPAN. – Armenia’s Syunik Region Governor Suren Khachatryan intends to defend his thesis and become a candidate of historical sciences, he told Armenian News-NEWS.am adding the thesis will dwell on the history of Syunik in 1918-1929ss. Using the opportunity, Khachatryan congratulated for the 20th anniversary of the Armenian Armed Forces.
    January 30, 2012 9:03
  • French senator against genocide law criticizes Turkish Ambassador to France
    The Chairman of the Environmental group of the French Senate Jean-Vincent Place who was against the genocide law considers the letter sent to the French Senators by the Turkish Ambassador to France asking to sign a petition to the Constitutional council against the law criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide to be inappropriate and counterproductive, Nouvelles d’Armenie...
    January 28, 2012 12:24
  • On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the creation of the RA Armed Forces Serzh Sargsyan visited the Ereblur Military Pantheon
    On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the creation of the RA Armed Forces, the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, accompanied by the highest leadership of the country, visited today the Ereblur Military Pantheon and paid tribute to the memory of the sons of our nation, who had sacrificed their lives for the independence of the Motherland.
    January 28, 2012 12:20
  • Congratulatory Address by President Serzh Sargsyan on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Armed Forces of Armenia
      Dear Compatriots, Generals, officers, soldiers, Ladies and Gentlemen, I cordially congratulate you on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Armed Forces of Armenia. After losing independent statehood, the Armenian nation brought forth many warriors, but was not blessed with having its own army. The Armenian soldiers, officers and generals...
    January 28, 2012 11:45