Armenian News - NEWS.am presents the daily digest of Armenia-related top news as of 06.10.21:

  • Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) said it has started using Armenia’s airspace to carry passengers from Baku to Nakhchivan.

"From now on, AZAL can use all available air corridors, including those passing through the territories of Armenia and Iran, in carrying out this flight," the flag carrier of Azerbaijan added in its respective statement.

This information has caused concern in Armenian society.

It came after Iran had closed its airspace to the Azerbaijani air force, which carries out military supplies from Baku to Nakhchivan.

Since Wednesday morning, Armenian News-NEWS.am has been trying to contact the Civil Aviation Committee of Armenia to find out since when Armenia has allowed Azerbaijan to carry out passenger transportation through its airspace to Nakhchivan, whether this is a new decision or it was made earlier, but only now it is being announced by Azerbaijan.

But so far, the Civil Aviation Committee has not responded to us in any way.

  • Azerbaijan is ready to launch negotiations with Armenia for the normalization of relations and considers the active participation of the European Union in this process possible, said President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

His remarks came during the meeting with Peter Mikhalko, the new Ambassador of the European Union to Azerbaijan, haqqin.az reports.

“We want to establish relations with our neighbor Armenia. We are ready to launch talks over the signing of a peace treaty with Armenia, the conduct of demarcation, and the unblocking of communication routes. The process has partially begun,” Aliyev said.

  • A rescue squad today conducted searches for the remains of Armenian servicemen in Jrakan (Jabrayil) in Nagorno-Karabakh - now controlled by Azerbaijan.

The rescue squad found the remains of another 2 Armenian servicemen who had died during the hostilities and were deemed to be missing to this day.

A total of 1,680 servicemen in and from the seized territories of Artsakh.

  • As of 9 am on Wednesday, it is snowing at the road bends of Dilijan, Armenia, the Road Department SNCO informs.

All interstate and national motorways in the country are open.

To avoid accidents and traffic jams, drivers are advised to use winter tires on their vehicles.

The head of the Meteorological Center of Armenia, Gagik Surenyan, on Wednesday posted a video on Facebook, noting that it is snowing in Vanadzor.

The video shows how the third-largest city in Armenia is covered with snow falling with large flakes.

  • As of Wednesday morning, 1,155 new cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in Armenia, and the total number of these cases has reached 267,363 in the country.

Also, 21 more deaths from COVID-19 were registered, making the respective total 5,440 cases.