While attending yesterday’s Assembly of Bishops in Etchmiadzin, a reporter from the Arajin Lratvakan new site asked Ararat Diocesan Locum Tenens Archbishop Navasard Kjoyan to comment about his involvement in the Cyprus offshore scandal recently uncovered by Hetq.
At the invitation of China, Gyumri Mayor Samvel Balasanyan will lead a delegation to the Eurasian Economic Forum taking place in Sian from September 24 to 27.
An interim report on the underground water resources of the Ararat Valley was presented today at Yerevan’s Marriott Hotel.
Dajat Vardapetyan, a deputy in Armenia’s Parliament and President of the Georgian-Armenia Union, told reporters today that he sees no political overtones to the arrest of Armen Chakhalyan, brother of Georgian-Armenian activist Vahagn Chakhalyan.
Their job is to deliver cocaine, tons of it. They work for trans-national organized crime syndicates and South American cartels. Thanks to them, people can buy cheap cocaine at some hidden corner in any city, fuelling a market that in 2009 the UN estimated at $85 billion annually.
For the past ten years, the park in Etchmiadzin has belonged to the Armenian Church whose headquarters are located in the same town.
President Serzh Sargsyan attended today’s opening in Etchmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church’s Assembly of Bishops presided over by Catholicos Garegin II and Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia.
The International Committee of the IOA (International Ombudsman Association) has conferred an “A” rating to Armenia’s Office of the Human Rights Defender led by Karen Andreasyan.