The handing over took place on September 11, at 15:04 p.m. of the local time, on the border between the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and the Azerbaijani Republic, near the village of Bash Karvend.
During the celebration awards were handed to an Armenian tank crew that came in second place at the 2014 Tank Biathlon held in Russia.
At a regional conference today in Yerevan regarding the illegal drug trade, former Armenian prosecutor general Aghvan Hovsepyan noted that Armenia must pay greater attention to combating the menace because Armenia might become a transit country.
During a coffeebreak at a press conference today in Yerevan regarding ways to combat the illegal drug trade in the region, former prosecutor general Aghvan Hovsepyan claimed that systematic corruption within the prosecutor’s office had long since been dealt with and no longer exists when asked by reporters to comment on the current state of the office.
Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan today hosted Robert Emmayan, President of Armenia’s Athletic Federation, and a prominent athlete in his own right.
According to U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern, the sale of the three hydroelectric power plants in Armenia (Vorotan Cascade), to U.S. energy giant ContourGlobal has yet to be finalized despite early government reports to the contrary.