Anti-sabotage systems set up at frontlines: Defense Minister September 16, 2014 - 17:25 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan announced creation of a defense system to curb the enemy’s sabotage attempts at a Tuesday, Sept 16 meeting with students and professors of the Yerevan State University. “Both in Artsakh and Armenia, we set up sabotage-preventing defense systems. While committing acts of sabotage, the enemy reached the engineering structures and could not move forward,” the Minister said. Commenting on the civilians crossing the border, Ohanyan noted, “mountainous terrain in the area does not allow blocking every meter of the border. Some sections remain open, but there are special signs there. However, local residents do not pay attention to them.” Dwelling on recent escalations at the frontline, the official slammed Azeri policy of deliberately flaring the tensions, which, however, wasn’t successful. “We have created conditions where strong-arm methods cannot be used against Armenia and Artsakh. The victories we gained during our struggle for Artsakh’s existence are being multiplied,” Ohanyan said, according to Tert.am. As the Minister stressed further, Armenia is modernizing its military equipment. According to the official, Armenia’s arsenal includes has long-range and precise military equipment; also, the country struck deals to further enhance its military capacity. Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. 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. Partner news | Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |