ICRC helped Baku-detained Armenians speak to families 660 times in 2023February 9, 2024 - 14:11 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - In 2023, 660 oral, video, and written Red Cross messages as well as phone calls were exchanged between the Armenians detained in Azerbaijan and their relatives, the International Committee of the Red Cross reports. “We visited the detained individuals on a regular basis and helped them restore or maintain contact with their families,” the ICRC said in a short statement on Thursday, February 8. In total, 303 persons from Armenia are still missing in relation to Azerbaijan’s aggression in 2020-2022, as per data registered by the ICRC earlier. Top stories As a result of floods in Armenia’s northern Lori and Tavush provinces, 17 bridges, including five large ones, have collapsed. David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with Stephan Schütz, Executive Partner at Gerkan, Marg and Partners. 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. Partner news | Russia: Armenia’s frozen membership weakens CSTO position in Caucasus A Russian envoy said any step that could alienate the CSTO member states from each other is “deeply wrong”. International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets. Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty. Armenian, Iranian foreigh policy chief talk over the phone The Foreign Minister of Armenia once again expressed condolences to his counterpart on the death of the President of Iran. |