make preferableArmenian News - NEWS.am presents a daily digest as of 02.08.2019:
· At Thursday’s Cabinet meeting, the government of Armenia approved the project to move the vehicle customs clearance office from capital city Yerevan to Gyumri.
A 21.5-hectare area belonging to the Defense Ministry will be allocated, and 181 million drams will be needed for the setting up of this automobile customs house in Gyumri.
According to the project, this vehicle customs office will comprise customs clearance departments, a parking lot, and a center for foreign economic activity.
· Sanitek waste management company held an online press conference vis Skype on Friday.
According to him, the criminal case initiated against Sanitek in February is ‘groundless’ and ‘illegal’.
As the lawyer of the company noted, when the company began its activity 4.5 years ago, its leadership was assured that all rights would be strictly observed, regardless of possible changes in legislation.
According to a Sanitek employee, the company is being sabotaged as the garbage cans have been disappearing or have been burnt.
· A man holding a hand grenade entered Friday a Goris town police station in Armenia.
According to Armenian Police, the man threatened to detonate the grenade, but the police rendered him ineffective and took the grenade which, however, had no detonator.
The man was taken to the neuropsychiatric dispensary and the hand grenade was sent for examination.
· The spokesperson for Russian MFA Maria Zakharova said that they are alarmed by the flare-up on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in which one Armenian soldier was killed.
“We are alarmed by the flare-up on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in which one Armenian soldier was killed and several people on both sides wounded. We express condolences to the family and friends of the deceased. We believe any further escalation is unacceptable,” she said.
· The Trump Administration is targeting the humanitarian aid program in Artsakh, attempting to end U.S. funding for HALO Trust’s de-mining program that has saved countless lives across the Republic, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) official website reported.
U.S. Representatives Brad Sherman and TJ Cox are leading a Congressional campaign encouraging USAID Administrator Mark Green to reverse course and preserve the Nagorno Karabakh de-mining program.
“President Trump is wrong to bow to Azerbaijani dictator Ilham Aliyev’s reckless demand that America end U.S. humanitarian aid to Artsakh,” said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian.
· A woman suspected of desecrating the tombstones of the faller Armenian soldiers of the Four-Day Artsakh War has been released on bail.
On Thursday evening Armenian police officers apprehended a 51-year-old female resident of Yerevan who is suspected of desecrating the tombstones at Yerablur Military Pantheon.
The woman told police that she had poured melted candles on tombstones to break the curse and had committed similar actions at Yerablur Military Pantheon and other cemeteries. Police are clarifying the circumstances and preparing a report.
