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Cham Wings Airlines is resuming direct flights from Yerevan to Damascus and back, Aleppo-based Kilikia travel agency reveals.
The first flights is scheduled for June 21, set to be implemented once a week on Wednesdays.
The tickets will cost some $150.
The first-ever flight from the Armenian capital to the Syrian one was carried out back in 2012.
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A senior member of the U.S. House Transportation Committee has warmly welcomed discussions between Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) and the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) regarding the establishment of direct flights between Los Angeles (LAX) and Yerevan (EVN), Asbarez reports.
Congresswoman Grace Napolitano (D-CA), a nationally respected legislator with a long track record of leadership on a broad array of ANCA-backed policy priorities, represents California’s 32nd Congressional District, home to the ANCA San Gabriel Valley chapter and a large and active Armenian American community.
“I am encouraged that the ANCA and Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) have begun a welcome dialogue on establishing a direct LAX to Yerevan flight,” shared Congresswoman Grace Napolitano. “As a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Aviation, I look forward to lending my support to this creative initiative to explore how to directly connect Armenia with Los Angeles. I commend the ANCA and LAWA for taking the first steps in this regard,” she added.
“The ANCA San Gabriel Valley chapter is proud that Congresswoman Napolitano is backing the ANCA’s goal of establishing a direct flight between LA and Yerevan,” remarked Levon Kirakosian. We are equally proud to have a long working relationship with Congresswoman Napolitano, which dates back to when she was first elected in 1992 as a member of the California State Assembly and her subsequent election to the US Congress in 1998,” added Kirakosian.
The Congresswoman, who serves on the Transportation Committee’s Aviation Subcommittee, is a leading national voice on aviation issues. This Subcommittee has jurisdiction over all aspects of civil aviation, including safety, infrastructure, labor, commerce, and international issues. All programs of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), except for research activities, are within the purview of the Subcommittee.
Earlier this month, the ANCA met LAWA officials http://asbarez.com/163029/anca-lax-discuss-establishment-of-los-angeles-to-yerevan-direct-flights/ about launching direct flights between the United States and Armenia, an ANCA policy priority that will – in addition to saving travelers time and inconvenience – substantially boost tourism, increase business travel, expand cargo traffic, and strengthen U.S.-Armenia bilateral economic relations. The discussions with LAWA Chief Executive Officer Deborah Flint and Deputy Executive Director and Chief of External Affairs Trevor Daley provided an opportunity for a positive and constructive exchange of views about the practical steps needed to establish direct air service between LAX and Zvartnots Airport (EVN) in Yerevan. The ANCA was represented by Chairman Raffi Hamparian and long-time community leader Zanku Armenian, who has extensive experience in the commercial aviation industry, having worked with each of the major U.S. airlines on bilateral aviation agreements and a range of aviation-related regulatory and policy issues.
The ANCA is calling on the U.S. Department of Transportation to support a public-private partnership regarding establishing U.S. to Armenia flights, involving U.S. airlines and relevant government agencies, among them the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, and Transportation Security Administration. These direct flights would include both passenger and cargo traffic.
California’s 32nd District covers several cities and communities in the San Gabriel Valley, including: El Monte, West Covina, Covina, Baldwin Park, Azusa, Duarte, Irwindale, Industry, La Puente, Avocado Heights, West Puente Valley, Valinda, Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne and Monrovia.
The famous Armenian singer Harout Pamboukjian gave on Saturday (May 20th) an exceptional concert “My Life” (“կյ նքըանքը” in Armenian) at the Karen Demirdjian Cultural and Sports Complex in Yerevan in the presence of several thousand fans. Harout Pamboukjian was accompanied for a few songs by the singers Sirusho and Kristin Bebelyan as well as the singer Razmig Amyan.
“I am happy to be in Yerevan again in concert, six years after my last concert. Yerevan is my city, here it is my country, I was born and I grew up here. I always have a great pleasure to sing here, “ said Harout Pamboukjian before the concert. For two hours, Harout Pamboukjian, nicknamed “Tsakh Harout”, ignited the room by taking again his tubes that circled the planet. Very moving was the interpretation of his song “Yes arants kéz” (“Ես անցաքեզ քեզ” in Armenian, “Me without you” in Armenian) dedicated to his wife Rouzanna disappeared a few years ago. “It’s my pain. Until the loss of a loved one we do not know its worth. I realize what Rouzanne wanted, “ said the singer, shedding great emotion, unable to hold back a few tears. Harout Pamboukjian, who also sang one of his last songs dedicated to the Armenian soldiers, the hero of “the four-day war” in Artsakh in April 2016. During the concert, Harout Pamboukjian descended several times to mingle and be Photographed with his fans, of all ages. Harout Pamboukjian’s last concert in Yerevan was in 2012. And Armenia was eagerly awaiting the return of “Tsakh Harout”, home to him in Armenia.
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The General Department of Civil Aviation of Armenia granted AMC an Egyptian private airline AMC permission to operate Hurghada-Yerevan-Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh- Yerevan – Sharm El Sheikh, and Hurghada-Yerevan- Sharm El Sheikh flights.
As the government-affiliated agency reported in a released statement, Hurghada-Yerevan-Hurghada flights will be launched on June 18, 2017, while Sharm El Sheikh- Yerevan – Sharm El Sheikh – from September 24, 2017.
According to the source, Air Cairo airlines as well were granted a permission to operate roundtrip flights to Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh once per week from the period of June 20 to October 28.
PanARMENIAN.Net – Polls opened across Yerevan on Sunday, May 14 at 8:00 am for elections to the City Council of the Armenian capital, set to close 12 hours later.
5136 observers from 17 monitoring organizations will carry out observation missions.
A total of 474 district electoral commissions have been formed.
Three parties participate in elections. The ruling Republican Party’s proportional list is headed by current mayor Taron Margaryan; Nikol Pashinyan, who was recently re-elected to the National Assembly, tops the list of YELQ bloc; while 5th Convocation National Assembly lawmaker Zaruhi Postanjyan, who recently announced the Yerkir Tsirani (Land of Apricot) party, will head its list.
As the campaign for the Yerevan City Council elections continues, the opposition bloc Yelk (Way Out) has embarked on active efforts towards ruling out the Republican Party’s name from voter ballots.
It has prepared two appeals questioning the validity of the governing political force’s campaign.
In one of the appeals, already submitted to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), the bloc calls for annulling the RPA’s registration.
Two activists of Yelk, Artak Zeynalyan and Edmom Marukyan, took the appeals to the CEC, our correspondent reports from the scene.
“We have found out that [incumbent Mayor] Taron Margaryan distributes electoral bribes. So one of our appeals is a call for annuling the RPA’s registration for the elections and excluding them from the electoral campaign,” Marukyan said.
With their second appeal (which is to be submitted later today), the activists will try to rule out what they call the election check mechanisms to ensure that all the envelopes with ticked ballot papers contain no other unnecessary items after the voting.
“Sample ballots not matching the established standards, as well as those with colored pen marks must be declared invalid. Also, we will demand that all the ballot-papers be sealed by the election committee members,” said Nikol Pashinyan, the top candidate listed on the bloc’s electoral ballot.
He added that their team saw voters in Malatia-Sebastia administrative district being given electoral bribes in Margaryan’s campaign headquarters on Thursday.
Nearly a year after being arrested and imprisoned for conspiracy to overthrow the Armenian government by force, Jirair Sefilian, a major figure of the radical Armenian opposition, will finally be able to answer for the acts of which he is accused before the courts , A justice of which he doubts strongly of impartiality and independence. The competent Armenian authorities announced that the criminal investigation against him had been completed and that they had (…)
Quintuplets, including four girls and one boy, were born in maternity hospital in Yerevan in the early hours of Wednesday.
The parents, a couple from Metsamor (Armavir region), say they are shocked but at the same time pleasantly surprised for the rare gift of nature.
Doctors initially told the couple that they were going to have triplets. “As we went for an ultra-sound examination a few days later, we were told they were quintuplets,” said Vardan Karapetyan, the father.
The family have no other children.
The infants, delivered by Ceasarian section, weigh on average 950g. The smallest weighed 950g at birth.
The bust of Armenian national hero and Artsakh Liberation War participant, Tatul Krpeyan, was unveiled in Yerevan on Sunday.
In his speech, Defense Minister of Armenia, Vigen Sargsyan, specifically noted: “They say it is not that important how many days there are in a person’s life: It’s more important how much life there is in each day the man lives. The history of all nations includes such points when the struggle for life was the only alternative to disgraceful defeat. If for many people this was a spontaneous decision made under the pressure of the moment, it was a deeply realized wisdom for Tatul Krpeyan, who chose the profession of a historian after serving in the USSR army and who worked as a history teacher in his native village.”
“We don’t serve justice to Tatul Krpeyan, It is he who tells our generations by his own example that the Armenian land is forbidding, the state is strong and our future is always bright,”he added.
Tatul Krpeyan’s daughter, Aspram Krpeyan, for her part, expressed gratitude to the sculptor Levon Tokmajyan.
The opening ceremony of the bust was attended by Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan, Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan, Education and Science Minister Levon Mkrtchyan, Culture Minister Armen Amiryan and Head of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, Movses Hakobyan.
Tatul Krpeyan died on 30 April 1991. He was bestowed the title of national hero in 1996.
The campaign of the Yerevan Council of Elders elections starts today, on April 21, with three political forces set to participate in municipal elections to be held on May 14.
To remind, the party list of the ruling Republican Party is headed by the acting Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan. Apart from the ruling party, two oppositions forces – Yelq (Exit) bloc headed by Nikol Pashinyan and the newly established Yerkir Tsirani (Land of Apricot) party headed by Zaruhi Postanjyan will vie for 65 seats in Yerevan’s Council of Elders that will elect a new city mayor.
Panorama.am talked to representatives of the political forces to learn about their upcoming plans. Candidate of Yerevan Council member from “Yelq” alliance Tigran Avinyan informed the alliance is set to start its campaign from “Yeritasardakan” metro station with a march to Northern Avenue, where a concert-rally is scheduled, featuring a rock band.
Avinyan stressed “Yelq” will come up with innovative campaign to be carried out in all administrative districts of the capital city, starting from Avan.
Spokesperson at Yerkir Tsirani party Sona Aghekyan informed the political force will launch its campaign with a cycling event on Friday to start from Liberty Square at 17:00.
Aghekyan added the party will provide updates on campaign program on daily basis. In her words, Zaruhi Postanjyan, who heads the party list and is the candidate for the mayoral post, is about to participate in all meetings with electors in Yerevan.
Naira Nahapetyan, candidate for a Council’s member from the ruling Republican party informed, the party will hold district meetings attended by acting mayor Taron Margaryan.
“We look to having sincere meetings and interactions with Yerevan residents, since that is important to present them the work done and receive feedback,” Nahapetyan said, adding no concerts and demonstrations are planned in the scope of the current campaign.