Region/Armenia

A commemorative event dedicated to the 12th anniversary of the murder of founder and editor-in-chief of “Agos” periodical Hrant Dink takes place in front of “Agos” periodical, where he was killed in 2007. ARMENPRESS reports a lot of people have gathered in the place where 12 years ago the Istanbul-Armenian intellectual was murde...

January 19, 2019 - 16:01 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - UN Secretary-General António Guterres sent a congratulatory message to Nikol Pashinyan on his appointment as Prime Minister of Armenia. "Please accept my congratulations on your appointment as Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia. The recent parliamentary elections, for which t...

January 19, 2019 - 14:10 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Some 180 ceasefire violations - as many as 1300 shots in total - by Azerbaijani army were registered on the contact line with Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) in the period from January 13 to 19, the Karabakh Defense Army said in a statement. The Karabakh frontline units refrained from re...

January 19, 2019 - 12:23 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - U.S. President Donald Trump has sent a congratulatory message to Nikol Pashinyan on his appointment as Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Pashinyan's office said. "The United States supports a prosperous, democratic Armenia at peace with its neighbors," Trump said in the mes...

January 19, 2019 - 12:00 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament representing the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) urged the Turkish parliament to take up the case of the Armenian editor Hrant Dink, who on January 19, 2007 was gunned down in front of the offices of the Agos newspaper, which ...

January 18, 2019 - 17:03 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The Orthodox Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Nourhan Manougian arrived on Friday, January 18 noon at Manger Square in Bethlehem, marking Palestine’s Armenian Christians’ celebrations of Christmas and Epiphany, WAFA reports. Manougian’s procession left from the Armenian Patriarchate,...

Ethnic Armenian lawmaker of the Turkish Parliament Garo Paylan urged the Parliament to deal with the investigation of the murder case of Istanbul-Armenian intellectual Hrant Dink, gazeteduvar reported. “After being murdered Hrant Dink became a symbol of seeking equality, pluralism, democracy and justice in Turkey. 12 years have ...

January 18, 2019 - 12:11 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement on Thursday, January 17 that he welcomes the meeting between the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov and the Acting Foreign Minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan held on 16 January in Paris under the...

January 18, 2019 - 09:40 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia’s Acting Minister of Education and Science, Arayik Harutyunyan, will participate in Living Diaspora, a one day academic and cultural event to be held at UCLA on Saturday, January 19,, with the aim of promoting Armenian language, culture and heritage, as well as supporting var...

January 17, 2019 - 17:06 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian President Armen Sarkissian on Thursday, January 17 met Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, The Gulf Today reports. The Sheikh welcomed President Sarkissian in the presence of H.H. Sheikh Maktoum Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid A...