Author: Arshalous Bagdazarian

Brussels (50). Two years in the war of Russian aggression against the Ukraine the balance is grim. Let us take stock. Leadership. The EU model of command and control consist of an old grumpy old general, an Austrian, who nobody has heard before, taking a political control of a pretty large army based of a defeatist model. The question to pose is the General who often is compared with Franz Josef I. suitable for modern command? The likely answer is no. The European play wars. The Europeans appear to be out of the fight. NATO command is in contradiction with…

Armenia’s Ambassador to Belgium Tigran Balayan met with Armenian patients injured in fuel depot explosion near Stepanakert on September 25, which occurred during the forced displacement of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. The patients thanked the Belgian side for their prompt reaction and effective treatment. Ambassador Balayan informed the patients that efforts are being made to implement the interim decisions of the International Court of Justice to ensure the rights of the forcibly displaced Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh so that they can return to their homes under an international guarantee, and assured that no effort will be spared to implement the…

The EU mission in Armenia (EUMA) has now reached the full operational capability. The head of the mission Markus Ritter said about it at the opening of EUMA’s new headquarters in Yeghegnadzor on November 1 attended also by Armenia’s president Vahagn Khachaturyan. Markus Ritter said that currently the mission has 93 members deployed from 23 EU member states. The mission is operating its patrols from six Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) – in Kapan, Goris, Jermuk, Yeghegnadzor, Martuni, and Ijevan – covering the entire length of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Last week, EUMA marked 1000 patrols since its deployment.…

While the EU has led the development of green finance standards, Asia is ahead of the curve on transition finance, with Japan driving the transition bond market. When speaking of leaders in the transition to net zero, Japan — or Asia, for that matter — doesn’t spring to mind. After all, Asia’s emission intensity (how much a given pollutant is emitted relative to a specific activity or industrial process) is more than 40% higher than the rest of the world’s, according to the Asian Development Bank. And the region is home to economies with a high level of fossil fuel…

Zhanna Andreasyan received a delegation led by newly appointed Iranian Ambassador Mehdi Sobhani, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Armenia informed Armenian News-NEWS.am. Andreasyan reaffirmed her ministry’s readiness to continue assisting in the development and deepening of Armenian-Iranian friendly relations in education, science, culture, sports, and youth affairs. The newly appointed Iranian ambassador, in turn, underscored the teaching of the Persian language in Armenia’s public schools as part of regional language learning. Andreasyan, for her part, emphasized the implementation of a training program for Persian-language teachers in Armenia’s universities and schools by Iranian colleagues. The parties discussed…

The UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office in cooperation with the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme organized an inception workhop on “Strengthening the resilience of Central Asian countries by enabling regional cooperation to assess high altitude glacio-nival systems to develop integrated methods for sustainable development and adaptation to climate change” project at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. The project aims to strengthen the adaptation capacity of five Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to climate change impacts on the cryosphere through assessment, promotion of regional cooperation, and stakeholder engagement. The primary objective of the project is to consolidate general knowledge on the cryosphere,…

Azerbaijan continues to propagate racist stereotypes and perpetuate animosities, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) said in its 6th report on Azerbaijan. It said that public discourse in Azerbaijan has been marked by the use of inflammatory rhetoric in public statements by politicians, including at the highest political level, and other public figures, as well as by the wide dissemination of hateful and dehumanising content against Armenia. The report stated that discriminatory language in Azerbaijani school textbooks against Armenians exists. “In this context, ECRI is deeply concerned that the use of hate speech linked to the long-lasting conflict and confrontations…

Bagrat Mikoyan, the head of the office of the second President of the Republic of Armenia (RA), Robert Kocharyan, responded to Tuesday’s statements by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. In particular, Mikoyan noted as follows: I got acquainted with Nikol Pashinyan’s thoughts expressed yesterday. Perhaps, realizing where he has made Artsakh [(Nagorno-Karabakh)] and Armenia reach, he is trying to put the blame on others by all possible and impossible means. Although we have repeatedly referred to the falsity of these accusations with facts, we have to repeat once more. As of 1998, there was no person in the Republic of Armenia…

Moscow is taking into consideration Armenia’s stance regarding the Ukraine conflict but continues to develop its allied relations with Armenia, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said. “We are taking note of it,” TASS quoted Peskov as saying when asked to comment on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s statement that Armenia is not Russia’s ally in the Ukrainian conflict. Peskov noted that this is “an important statement.” “We know that there are certain nuances in Armenia’s approaches regarding the conflict around Ukraine, we are taking this into consideration,” Peskov said. The Kremlin spokesperson added that Russia continues to develop its allied…

Pashinyan sold Putin out, not just betrayed. To make it even clearer, I will put it this way – for euros.The topic of betrayal is not up for discussion at all. It is obvious and has already been discussed multiple times. In the long-range view, there is nothing left to discuss, there is even nothing to predict and forecast. What Pashinyan is doing has been clear for a long time. In 2008 some guy named Nikol Pashinyan stepped in when in the same year Turkey announced its plans for a Caucasus platform which would unite the Turkic states. For some…