The U.S. Embassy in Armenia tells Hetq the civil consultant will support the strengthening of Armenia's defense institutions. The consultant will work in Armenia, having regular working contacts with the embassy and the Ministry of Defense.
The United States sees nothing to indicate that Russia's military presence contributes to a more peaceful and stable South Caucasus region.
A minor diplomatic flap occurred at a March 20 dinner in Paris organized by the local Armenian community when French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal accused Russia of wanting to "punish Armenia for its pursuit of peace and respect for its sovereignty,
Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan, during a joint press conference with visiting French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu, reiterated that Armenia has the right, as a sovereign country, to purchase arms from anyone it wants and stressed that
Pashinyan accused Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev of not wanting a peace treaty with Armenia based on mutual recognition of territorial integrity but rather seeks to seize new territories in Armenia.
French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu will travel to Armenia today for talks to strengthen defense cooperation between the two countries.
Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetyan and Russian energy giant Gazprom are the focus of a money laundering investigation in France that has resulted in the seizure of a US$132 million mansion on the French Riviera.
Twenty-four APCs have already been delivered to Armenia via the Georgian port of Poti according to several news sites. Official Yerevan has yet to confirm their delivery.
Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan and the French Thales Group today, in Paris, signed a contract that will deliver three GM (Grand Master) 200 radar units to Armenia.
French Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu and Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan will meet in Paris on October 23 to officially confirm Armenia's acquisition of French-made weapons.
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations, Defense and Armed Forces Committee, Cedric Perin, in the opening speech of the session, mentioned the threat hanging over Armenia as one of today's urgent international problems.
A similar gathering, organized by the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France, opposing the Lachin Corridor blockade, will take place in Paris on January 17, at 6:30 p.m. in front of the French National Assembly.
In a June 2022 interview with Le Courrier d'Erevan, Genetet admitted her mistake of accepting Azerbaijan's invitation on that sad day for Armenians and apologized for offending Armenians.
Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan, now in France on a working visit, gave an interview to France 24 TV and accused Baku of hindering his governmemnt’s efforts to provide favorable living and working conditions for 40,000 Armenians displaced by the
The EU, in October, dispatched a forty-member civilian border monitoring mission to Armenia for a maximum period of two months.
The Paris City Council (Le Conseil de Paris) today unanimously adopted a resolution condemning Azerbaijan’s aggression against the sovereign territory of Armenia and called on the French government to impose sanctions on the leaders of Azerbaijan.
French President Emmanuel Macron, during an interview with France 2 TV yesterday, accused Russia of using the Karabakh conflict to reestablish its presence in the South Caucasus.
Hundreds of people rallied near the European Parliament’s headquarters in Brussels today to celebrate the 31st anniversary of Armenia’s independence.
French-Armenian filmmakers Robert Guédiguian and Vasken Toranian and actor Simon Abkarian have called on Armenians to donate a minimum of ten dollars/euros monthly to assist Armenia and Artsakh.
Armenian government health sector officials were noticeably absent at a roundtable discussion today in Yerevan regarding a comprehensive medical insurance system that the current administration plans to introduce in 2023.
The Armenian Ministry of Justice, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Diaspora, Youth and Sports, and ten journalism NGOs today agreed to work together to draft a development strategy for the media in the country.
Manouchian and many of his comrades were arrested in November 1943 and executed by the Nazis on February 21, 1944. He is considered a hero of the French Resistance.
The war did not provide any solution. The war showed that there is an existential threat to the Armenians living in Karabakh. We live in the 21st century, and in the 21st century we cannot accept that people cannot live in their own home.
He and another journalist left for Armenia’s Gegharkunik province on June 15 to film the advance of Azerbaijan soldiers into Armenia.
"We cannot do this forever. If our border has been extended by 400km, then we can say that we have met 90% of the demand for the necessary military tents, counting one tent per kilometer. The rest is the job of the Ministry of Defense,”Hakobyan says.
French MP François Pupponi has proposed a resolution calling on his country's leadership to demand the immediate return of Armenian prisoners of war and civilians still detained by Azerbaijan.
It is wrong if Armenia only expects the diaspora to help because those Armenians live in countries where they are freer and richer, or that they should help to assuage their conscience while at the same time not meddling in Armenian affairs.
Fourteen years ago, on January 19, 2007, Hrant Dink, an Istanbul-Armenian journalist, intellectual and editor of the Agos newspaper, was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist in front of his editorial office in Istanbul.
It appears that the French Senate’s approval of a resolution calling on Macron’s government to recognize the independence of Nagorno Karabakh has irked many in Baku.
The proposal for a resolution recognizing the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which will be put to a vote by the French Senate on November 25, is not legally binding on the government.
Jean-Yves Le Drian did not accept the accusation of France's passivity in the Karabakh issue, assuring that France, through the Minsk Group, will continue to play a role in the peace process and in determining the future status of Nagorno Karabakh.
Announcements were made last night by Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Russian authorities regarding the implementation of a ceasefire agreement in Nagorno-Karabakh. We have taken note of the agreement and are examining its terms and implications. Clarifi
Only international recognition, as in the case of Kosovo, will allow the Artsakh Republic to get out of this illegal situation, which deprives it of any international support, even humanitarian.
The newspaper Figaro notes that the Grey Wolves group was singled out after attacks against Armenians communities near Lyon last week.
Hetq talks to Frédéric Encel, a professor of geopolitical sciences at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, about the ongoing fighting in Artsakh, the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and the situation in the region.
French politicians, including former President Francois Hollande, members of the Council of Armenian Organizations of France and the Armenian community gathered today in Alfortville, near Paris, in solidarity with war-torn Artsakh.
The slogans voiced by the demonstrators were "Stop Aliev", "Stop the war", and “Artsakh is Ours”.
Some IT professionals are concerned about the computer program created by the developers and the OEMI server security guarantees, as well as the fact that the security of the program is monitored by the NSS.
The scheduled March 23 election to name a new Yerevan State University (YSU) rector has been indefinitely postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak in Armenia.
One of the main causes of emigration of Armenian citizens is health related (predominantly those with Hepatitis C and cancer). This, according to the Geneva Convention, is not a ground for claiming refugee status. Thus, the large number of refusals.
A Special Prize, awarded by the Yerevan Municipality, went to Hetq’s Seda Ghukasyan, Tirayr Muradyan and Saro Baghdasaryan for their video entitled 14 Kindergartens Closed in Yerevan’s Kentron; The Land Sold.
French President Emmanuel Macron today signed a decree marking April 24, Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day.
Macron, in keeping with a 2017 campaign promise, made the announcement on Tuesday at an annual dinner of the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAF).
Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has threatened to ban Hetq from the internet throughout Russia if we do not remove all previous articles pertaining to Ruben Tatulyan, a
When asked about why they want to enter the political arena, they list different reasons, mostly concentrating on the possibility to solve issues apart from speaking up about them.
A Velvet Revolution quietly swept through Armenia in April 2018.
At the Digital Forum of La Francophonie in the Tumo Center, one of the Internet pioneers Louis Pouzin, Start Doon company CEO and Founder Philippe Poux and Start Doon General Manager Hayk Mnatsakanyan announced the launch of the RINArmenia project.
Today, on the second day of the 17th Summit of the International Organization of La Francophonie, held in Yerevan, the Ministerial Conference started its work, presided by Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are scheduled to meet before year’s end, this according to Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Tigran Balayan.
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