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AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA FMS TO MEET

The US has proposed holding a meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers, in Washington, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov told reporters in Warsaw.

“The latest meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers was held in Moscow at the initiative of my colleague Sergey Lavrov. Jointly with Russia, we can hope for the progress in the [Nagorno-Karabakh] conflict settlement, given the efforts are increased twice or three times,” Mammadyarov said.

US CONGRESSMEN VISIT GENOCIDE MEMORIAL

A delegation of US congressmen visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial to pay tribute to the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims.

Members of the delegation laid flowers at the eternal flame, then examined the exposition in the Armenian Genocide Museum.

The purpose of the delegation’s visit is to identify potential opportunities for impactful engagement by HDP with the Armenian National Assembly.

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS REQUIEM MASS’ VENUE CHANGED

In the wake of the fire that broke out at the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris, the Requiem Mass commemorating the victims of the Armenian Genocide will be served at the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Lebanon in Paris.

“Since 1979, the Requiem Mass commemorating the victims of the Armenian Genocide has been served at the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris. This year was going to be the 40th Requiem Mass at the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris, but due to the fire, it was decided to serve the Requiem Mass in another church, that is, the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Lebanon located in the 5th district of Paris,” said Treasurer of the Prelacy of the Armenian Diocese of France in Paris Hampartsoum Talatinian.

EX-ARMENIAN MP’S HOUSE SEARCHED

The search in the house and the office of former Armenian MP Mihran Poghosyan, who is involved in the headline-making case of money laundering through offshore company, is over. The search was conducted in the presence of his family members by National Security Service and Special Investigation Service. Officers of the National Security Service of Armenia are only ensuring the natural course of the search being conducted in the mansion belonging to former deputy of the National Assembly Mihran Poghosyan, the head of the press center of the National Security Service Samson Galstyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

SOLDIER DIES IN YEREVAN

The 24-year-old soldier with a gunshot wound, and who was taken to hospital in capital city Yerevan Thursday morning, has died. The soldier was pronounced dead at around 11:35am.

On Thursday at around 8:20am, the Military Police and a military garrison investigation department received a report that a contract soldier of a military unit in Yerevan had caused a gunshot injury to himself at the arsenal of this military unit.

ARMENIA RANKED 61ST

Armenia is ranked 61st out of 181 countries in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders on Thursday.

The report says the new media served as an echo chamber for the “velvet revolution” in the spring of 2018 that brought a former journalist to power.

“The media landscape is diverse but polarized and the editorial policies of the main TV channels coincide with the interests of their owners. In other words, journalistic independence and transparent media ownership continue to be major challenges,” the report on Armenia reads.

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