Defense minister stands up for arming Armenia border residentsMarch 30, 2017 - 16:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The proposal to arm residents of Armenia's border areas is a correct one, with the defense ministry working on it for quite some time, minister Vigen Sargsyan said in an interview on Shant TV. “Under the prime minister’s decision, an interdepartmental commission of border communities has been created,” Sargsyan said. “Of course, it is clear that weapons entail certain dangers and problems, but we do have the necessary regulations.” "We have already launched an intensive program of assembling and training home guards in border communities,” the minister said, expressing his surprise over women’s determination who insist on their participating in all programs. According to the minister, “a more simplified system must be employed to provide border residents with hunting weapons at the very least.” Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. 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. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |