Hayastan all-Armenian Fund raises more than $12.5 mln for KarabakhNovember 24, 2017 - 10:59 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Hayastan all-Armenian Fund hosted its 20th annual Thanksgiving Day telethon to raise more than $12.5 million with the help of Diaspora Armenians. The telethon, this year called “Fruitful Artsakh”, aired for 12 hours, with the donations set to be used for two major projects in Nagorno Karabakh - deepwater drilling and installation of solar power stations. The telethon is held in Los Angeles, U.S. each year, while the Fund has implemented 50,000 projects worth $350 million with donations from around 700,000 individuals. Various art and entertainment programs ran throughout the telethon with visits from community leaders as well as footage showcasing past projects funded by the telethon. The biggest donations came from an anonymous benefactor ($2.5 million), Russia-based Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetyan ($2.25 million), the Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine ($350,000), Armenian lawmaker and businessman Samvel Aleksanyan ($200,000) and many more. Top stories 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. London’s Armenian community has been left feeling “under attack” after the city’s Genocide monument was vandalised. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. 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 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. |