The court case in which the Vanadzor office of the Helsinki Civil Assembly is suing RA Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan for slander is scheduled to continue tomorrow at the Kentron and Nork-Marash District Court.
RA President Serzh Sargsyan had a farewell meeting with German Ambassador to Armenia Hans Jochen Schmidt who is completing his diplomatic tour of duty in Armenia.
Armenia’s Permanent Representative to the U.N., Karen Nazaryan, raised the issue of the Azerbaijani occupation of Artzvashen, Shahoumyan and Getashen during his speech yesterday at the Security Council.
“While formally agreeing to the three above-mentioned principles, Azerbaijan actually only accepts one of them – territorial integrity, rejecting the principles of the right of peoples to self-determination and the peaceful settlement of conflicts,” Serzh Sargsyan said.
Police arrested two Yerevan teenagers yesterday on suspicion of beating and robbing a Mashtots Avenue storeowner yesterday.
“It used to be a big village with a rich harvest. But now, no one pays attention to our problems. The youth have left,” says 90 year-old Moushegh Paonyan.
Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan yesterday met with Nikolay Bordyuzha, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
Four current and a former Glendale Armenian American police officers can move forward with their federal discrimination and harassment lawsuit against the city after a judge last week refused to throw out the claims.
Police report that Masis town resident 74 year-old Volodya Sahakyan attacked his daughter-in-law Kristineh Zakaryan with a knife yesterday and then turned the knife on himself, in an attempted suicide.
Authorities in Azerbaijan must drop the charges against journalist Hilal Mamedov and immediately release him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Mamedov is the eighth journalist jailed in Azerbaijan, according to CPJ research.
Unless Armenia’s next presidential election is fair and gives its winner a strong political mandate, the government will lack the legitimacy needed to implement comprehensive reforms, tackle corruption and negotiate a peaceful end to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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