Decision to put cross on dome of Holy Cross Church has already been madeSeptember 9, 2010 - 16:13 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The decision to put the cross on the dome of Holy Cross Church has already been made by the Government, according to Kaan Soyak, the Co-Chairman of Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council (TABDC). “My understanding, there are some delays due to either domestic political reasons which involved whole Turkey in the last several months and also technical reasons, because the weight of the cross is about 300 kilograms. But there is no question of putting or not putting the cross. This has already been decided by the Government. It is going to be put very soon,” the TABDC Co-Chairman told PanARMENIAN.Net “All of Turkey has been focused on referendum in the last several months and Turkey is passing through a very sensitive period of her history as one can imagine. Please also bear in mind that the opposition parties of Turkey are openly against any step towards normalization of the relations between Armenia and Turkey. Armenia is perhaps not participating in the liturgy "physically" for some reasons unknown to me but I am very sure that their hearts will be there in Akthamar during the ceremony,” Kaan Soyak said. Top stories Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". The earthquake caused a temporary blackout, damaged many buildings and closed a number of rural roads. Partner news | 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. 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. |