In August, Armenian sappers demined 33,143 square meters in SyriaAugust 31, 2020 - 18:24 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian sappers in Syria have cleared an area of 33,143 square meters from mines in August. According to a Facebook post from the Armenian Center for Humanitarian Demining & Expertise, a total of 238,230 square meters have been demined since the beginning of the mission in 2019. In particular, the group of specialists from Armenia have uncovered anti-personnel mines, hand grenades, and other ammunition. The first group of Armenian sappers and doctors left for Aleppo in February 2019. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said back than that sending a humanitarian mission to Syria means responding in kind to the people who helped Armenians fleeing the Genocide in 1915. 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. |