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[would you believe it: an ethnic Armenian representing Her Britannic Majesty in Armenia]
From:
The UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Press release
Published 12 August 2019
Change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Armenia: Alan Andranik Gogbashian
Mr Alan Gogbashian has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia in succession to Ms Judith Farnworth.
Mr Alan Gogbashian has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia in succession to Ms Judith Farnworth who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Gogbashian will take up his appointment during September 2019.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Full name: Alan Andranik Gogbashian
2018 to 2019
Full-time Language Training (Russian)
2017 to 2018
FCO London, Head, International Human Resources, Human Resources Directorate
2014 to 2017
FCO London, Head, Caribbean, Central America and Mexico Department, Americas Directorate
2011 to 2014
Rabat, Deputy Head of Mission
2008 to 2010
FCO London, Head, Export Licensing Team, Counter-Proliferation Department
2008
Joined FCO
News.am, Armenia
Aug 12 2019
Professor says 30% of Armenia's adult population is obese and overweight
Thirty per cent Armenia’s adult population is obese and overweight, chief cardiologist of Yerevan, Professor Parunak Zelveyan told NEWS.am Medicine.
According to him, severe obesity is not widespread in the republic, but in the case of overweight the situation is different.
The expert informed that several years ago studies were carried out in a number of schools in the capital that revealed depressing indicators: approximately 30-40% of children were overweight.
“The reasons are low physical activity among children,” he said. “It is necessary to reduce the indicators of overweight in school children. This will prevent their future development of cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, diabetes, prediabetes, as well as metabolic syndrome.”
According to him, negative effects of malnutrition on the body.
“Fast food can't be helpful. These are fast-digesting carbohydrates, high calorie content, high fat content. It is necessary to follow the rules of good nutrition, that is, take food often, but in small portions. Do not forget about the dangers of sweet soda for the heart,” he said.
News.am, Armenia
Aug 12 2019
Armenian serviceman left military post in circumstances yet unknown
On August 12 at around 12:00, in circumstances yet unknown, serviceman Arayik Ghazaryan (born in 2000) left the military post from the maintenance station of one of the military units of the Defense Army of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) stationed in the southeastern direction, as reported the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Artsakh.
Azerbaijani presses report that serviceman Ghazaryan is currently in Azerbaijan.
Investigation is underway to clarify the details about the incident.
ARKA, Armenia
Aug 12 2019
Average price of homes in Yerevan rise by 9.5 percent
The average price per one square meter of housing in apartment buildings in Armenia's capital Yerevan rose by 9.5 percent in the first half of 2019 when compared to the first half of 2018, the State Cadastre Committee reported. When compared to the second half of last year, the average price was up by 4.6%.
The highest price in the reporting period were registered in Kentron (Center) administrative district - 586,600 drams per square meter, the lowest - in Nubarashen district - 161,600 drams.
The average cost per square meter of housing in apartment buildings in the regions increased by 1.9% compared to the second half of 2018.
In the regions, the highest price per square meter of housing was in the resort town of Tsaghkadzor - (281,800 drams), the lowest - in Dastakert community in the southern region of Syunik (21,400 drams).
Overall, some 84,441 real estate transaction were registered in the first half of 2019, which was 11.1% more than in same period of time last year. The largest number of transactions was registered in Yerevan - 35.1% of the total, and the smallest - in Vayots Dzor region - 2%.
According to the State Cadastre, of all registered real estate transactions 37.6% were real estate sale and purchase transactions and 14.7% were primary registration of real estate. Also, inheritance transactions accounted for 15.3% of the total number of transactions, 17% were collateral transactions, 6.8% were real estate rental transactions and 8.6% were state registrations.
[Magnus is the current world chess champion]
Arminfo, Armenia
Aug 12 2019
Aronian defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen at the fast chess tournament
Tatevik Shahunyan
Leader of the Armenian chess team Levon Aronian defeated the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen at the fast chess tournament in St. Louis Grand Chess Tour (GCT). In the fourth round, Aronian tied with the Chinese Ding Liren.
Aronian with 9 points (2 points are given for a victory, 1 point for a tie) is the leader in the tournament. In the first round, Aronyan defeated French chess player Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, the second - Russian Sergey Karjakin, in the third - Azerbaijani Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. In the 6th round, Leinier Dominguez will become Aronian's rival. After 9 rounds of fast chess, 18 rounds of blitz will take place. The tournament will end on August 15th.
RFE/RL Report
Pashinian Government Defends Its Long-Term ‘Mega Goals’
August 09, 2019
Sargis Harutyunyan
Vice-Premier Tigran Avinian has reaffirmed his government’s vision of Armenia’s strategic goals for the next three decades or so that were outlined by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian earlier this week.
Speaking at a rally in the Nagorno-Karabakh capital of Stepanakert on August 5, Pashinian, in particular, said that increasing the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) 15 times should be among the “mega goals” of Armenian governments in the period until 2050. He also said that the country’s population by then should grow from today’s 3 million to 5 million.
Talking to RFE/RL’s Armenian Service (Azatutyun.am) on Friday, Avinian said that in order to meet the GDP growth target by 2050 Armenia’s economy needs to
annually grow by 9.5 percent on average, which, according to the official, is quite doable.
Vice-Premier Tigran Avinian
“If corresponding efforts are made what today seems unrealistic will become possible in the very near future,” said Avinian.
Armenia’s economy expanded by 5.2 percent in 2018. The International Monetary Fund predicts a 4.5-percent GDP growth for Armenia this year, while the
country’s Central Bank expects the Armenian economy to grow between 4.6 and 6.1 percent in 2019.
Vice-Premier Avinian, meanwhile, expressed confidence that Armenia will be able to get on track for fulfilling the ambitious goals through reforms to be
carried in the coming years.
“I think that with in-depth reforms and overall budget revisions in the next few years these existing inertial approaches will be completely changed, and in particular with the introduction of an inclusive economic growth model, with the expansion of education and healthcare services when we will be working to develop the human capital, I am sure it can’t but yield its serious results in the future,” he said.
“Perhaps it won’t happen in the next few years, but after that when some deep changes are made in the system of education, science, in the sphere of high
technologies, healthcare, I am confident that this can’t but yield some serious results,” Avinian added.
Earlier, some economists voiced skepticism over the government’s vision of its future goals.
Economist Bagrat Asatrian, who served as governor of Armenia’s Central Bank in 1994-1998, for instance, said that in order to expand its economy 15-fold by 2050 Armenia will need to dramatically accelerate its growth rates.
“At the current rate of growth we will at best quadruple our GDP in 30 years’ time,” he said.
Anticipating skeptical assessments by economists and analysts, Pashinian stressed in his speech on August 5 that after achieving “the impossible” during the 2018 “velvet revolution”, Armenians are no longer interested in “what is possible.”
“What is possible to implement is no longer interesting for us. We are interested in what everyone considers to be impossible to realize. Because the Armenian people have already realized what is impossible!” he underscored.
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