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U.S. Ambassador meets Syunik s governor, mayors of Meghri, Goris and Sisian during her trip to Syunik province
During Ambassador Tracy’s recent trip to Syunik Marz, she met with the Governor of Syunik, Melikset Poghosyan as well as the Mayor of Meghri, Mkhitar Zakaryan, the Mayor of Goris, Arush Arushanyan, and the Mayor of Sisian, Artur Sargsyan.
Armenia’s Syunik Marz has borne the brunt of the twin crises of the pandemic and conflict this past year, and the Ambassador appreciated learning from these officials how the region has been affected.
She also discussed how the U.S. government is providing humanitarian assistance to those displaced by the conflict and shared ways in which we continue to support the province’s development.
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“Everyone here volunteered during the war. Even men in their sixties,” said Vardan Hayrapetyan, sitting in the spartan office of his hotel in southern Armenia, near the Iranian border. The hotel mostly caters to Iranian truck drivers who shuttle gas and other goods along the main road through Syunik province, a relatively narrow strip of land that is bordered by Azerbaijani territory on two sides, east and west.
“Most of the men went to defend the border with Nakhichevan and the south of Karabakh,” Vardan added. “That’s where the battles were hardest.”
Nakhichevan is Azerbaijan’s exclave to the west of Armenia, while Nagorno-Karabakh is disputed territory to the east. For 44 days last autumn, Armenia fought a tooth-and-nail defence against Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, home to thousands of Armenians (and before a cataclysmic war in the 1990s, to many Azerbaijanis as well). On 27 September, Azerbaijani forces launched a full-scale mil