  Armenian Diaspora ready to finance city-building on NKR liberated territories June 15, 2012 - 14:17 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan want to build a city to be populated by 100000 on Zangelan-adjacent liberated territories. “The city will be named Bagharan,” Azerbaijan’s Armenian Refugees Assembly board member Mariam Avagyan told a news conference in Yerevan. “The city must be given a status of a free economic zone, with talks as to Bagharan construction in progress with NKR authorities,” she noted. According to Ms Avagyan, U.S.-based Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan are ready to finance the project. Another representative of the Assembly, Eduard Poladov, in turn, expressed hope the newly-built city will be in no way inferior to Baku, which they were forced to leave. “Bagaran will become a symbol of friendship between the nations in the region,” he stressed.   Top stories Grigoryan added that the situation around the world and particularly in the region is very difficult. The Armenian Defense Ministry has denied Azerbaijan's accusations of violating the ceasefire. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan took to social media to thank his Lithuanian counterpart for the contribution. President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova.   Partner news |  Latest news Viva sees growing demand for cloud services  In recent years, medical institutions are starting to make use of Viva’s cloud servicesTurkey replacing term "Central Asia" with "Turkestan" in textbooks The Turkish Ministry of Education is replacing the term "Central Asia" with "Turkestan" in textbooks.Armenian, German presidents meet in Berlin Armenian and German Presidents Vahagn Khachaturyan and Frank-Walter Steinmeier met in Berlin.Armenia assumes presidency of Mediterranean Network of Regulatory Authorities The Commission on Television and Radio of Armenia said it expects productive cooperation in various formats. |
