RA MFA confirms Armenian citizen death in Sudan plane crashAugust 21, 2012 - 13:23 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that there was an Armenian citizen among the victims of the plane crash in Sudan. Ministry’s spokesman Tigran Balayan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that the Armenian was identified as Armen Virabyan, born in 1970. The Aug 19 crash killed 31 people, including Sudanese guidance and endowments (religious affairs) minister Ghazi al-Sadeq, state minister for youth and sports Mahjoub Abdel Raheem Toutou, and state minister for tourism, antiquities and wildlife Eissa Daifallah. Top stories The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Defense Minister Suren Papikyan has visited the southern Armenian province of Syunik, the Defense Ministry reported on March 18. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |