Kazakh football team unable to leave Armenia due to aircraft malfunctionMarch 27, 2017 - 11:15 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The plane carrying Kazakhstan's national football team had to make an emergency landing at Yerevan's Zvartnots airport, Sputnik Kazakhstan reports. "The captain made a decision to return to the airport shortly after takeoff," the teams' spokesman Yerbol Kairov tweeted. "The plane had to return to Yerevan because of a landing gear failure. The team will board another aircraft for Kazakhstan." Armenia beat Kazakhstan 2-0 on Sunday, March 26 in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier. The team thus registered their second win in Group E with second-half goals from Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Aras Ozbiliz. Top stories Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. Partner news | Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Freedom House concerned by mounting reports of police violence in Armenia Freedom House urged Armenian authorities to investigate this pattern of excessive force and inhumane treatment. CSTO recognizes Armenia’s sovereign right to withdraw Tasmagambetov has said that if Armenia decides to leave the organization, “it will be the sovereign right of Armenia.” |