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6 minutes of Armenia coverage in Transcaucasian Telegraph’s Sep/5/2024 edition.
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Pashinyan urges Armenians to be less wasteful and flashy (riots expected in Los Angeles)
PASHINYAN: I know it’s not appropriate to be nosy but when you look at our citizens in restaurants, 90% of them order 30% more food than they need. You occasionally glance and notice how packed the table is, so packed that it could feed another group of people. This is a socio-psychological problem. Why do we have more food on our tables than we actually need? We do this so the guests won’t think we are cheaping out, so they won’t think they are unwelcome. The person receives a guest in the evening and wastes the resources, then goes to his workplace in a state office and begins to spend taxpayer money with the same logic. The person’s behavior cannot change between the evening and morning, you can’t be wasteful in the evening and efficient in the morning. //
USAID will provide Armenia with $130 million for efficient governance & economic reforms
The United States Agency for International Development will allocate an additional $130 million to Armenia aimed at enhancing the efficiency of its public administration.
Pashinyan cabinet approved the agreement on Thursday. This is on top of another $120M similar grant that Armenia signed to receive in 2022.
The new effort will:
• strengthen democratic values and safeguard democratic achievements
• institutionalize effective and accountable governance
• promote civic engagement in democratic consolidation
• ensure economic stability
• boost the competitiveness of targeted industries
• improve natural resource management
United States shares OSCE concerns regarding the fake parliamentary elections organized by the Aliyev regime
STATE DEPARTMENT: We urge Azerbaijan to implement the OSCE’s previous recommendations as well as ones that we understand to be forthcoming, and enable the exercise of fundamental freedoms by its people consistent with its constitution and international commitments.
Georgia illegally handed over an Azerbaijani journalist to Aliyev regime: European court ruling
Afghan Mukhtarli was kidnapped in Georgia and deported to Azerbaijan in violation of European conventions on human rights. Now the two states owe him €21,000, says the European Court of Human Rights.
Mukhtarli left Azerbaijan in 2015 after investigating corruption by the Aliyev regime. Two years later he was attacked, blindfolded, and kidnapped in Tbilisi and taken straight to the border and handed over to Azerbaijan. Mukhtarli was freed in 2020 under Western pressure.
Armenia’s non-parliamentary pro-EU parties initiate a process to organize a non-binding referendum to reaffirm Armenia’s path to the EU
The group submitted a registration application to the electoral commission. If/when the commission registers the group, it will have 60 days to collect 50,000 signatures to submit the referendum resolution to Parliament.
The ruling party says this non-binding referendum would be premature, wouldn’t accomplish anything now, would cause unnecessary fatigue in the electorate (there will be general elections in 2026 and another referendum on Constitution in 2027), and that it’s way too early to talk about Armenia’s accession to the EU at a time when Armenia hasn’t even completed the implementation of CEPA, after which it would need to complete CEPA+, then Visa Liberalization, then CEPA+Economic, and only then they can have a realistic path to join the EU.
On Thursday the ruling party approved the Government’s decision to join EuroJust. It’s a European initiative under which countries share justice-related information and combat crime jointly. The EU welcomed Armenia’s decision to join it.
RULING MP TOROSYAN: This is what Euro-integration looks like in real life. People often ask what it means and what we are doing. This is an example. //
Armenia issues an Order of Friendship to Arnaud Ngatcha, the Deputy Mayor of Paris
… for his significant contribution to the strengthening of Armenian-French friendly ties.
During the ceremony, Mayor Anne Hidalgo emphasized the special ties between Armenia and Paris, reaffirming that Paris has always been and will continue to stand by Armenia and its people.
Armenia’s Ambassador thanked Paris for the recent inauguration of Esplanade d’Arménie in the heart of Paris and a park named after Charles Aznavour.
population stats in January-July
2023: 20,157 births
2024: 18,632 births (-7.6%)
2023: 14,270 deaths
2024: 15,166 deaths (+6.3%)
… what’s killing Armenians?
54% cardiovascular (+7%)
20% cancer (+2%)
9% respiratory (+10%)
5% digestive system
4% accidents & injuries (+9%)
2% endocrine system
1% infections
actual number of Nagorno-Karabakh refugees who left Armenia and haven’t returned yet, as of…
Dec: 6,600
Jan: 7,000
Mar: 8,000
Apr: 9,100
May: 9,900
Jun: 10,300
Jul: 11,300
foreign trade stats for January-July
Total trade: $20.4B
$9B Russia (+140%)
$4B UAE (+630%)
$1.7B China (+42%)
$389M Iran (-2%)
$272M Germany (-31%)
$265M United States (?)
$244M Italy (+1%)
$106M Belgium (+19%)
$93M Netherlands (-59%)
$83M France (-9%)
government lifts customs tax on the import of minibuses to allow provinces to improve their connectivity
Passenger transportation operators won’t pay an import tax on minibuses imported from third countries.
this is the most convenient type of transport for organizing transport links between regions of the country.
what is Armenia’s National Security Council chief doing in South Korea and Japan?
Armen Grigoryan will visit South Korea on Friday.
anti-corruption: another former mayor is at the center of an asset forfeiture investigation
Ex-Mayor of Berd Harutyun Manucharyan and his family members were invited to the prosecutor’s office to explain how they obtained certain properties.
There is a separate criminal case against the ex-mayor regarding properties. He is accused of forgery and allowing his family members to break the law during a construction process.
thieves steal 5 kilometers of high voltage cables in Gegharkunik province
AUTHORITIES: Last week we received a report about the theft of electricity cables totaling 3,000 meters in Gavar. While we were investigating the report, a similar report was made about the theft of another 2,000 meters in the same region.
The investigators identified 6 suspects. The Patrol Police discovered their vehicles and arrested 4 of them, while the other 2 were able to…
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