The Covid-19 pandemic is the greatest risk management proposition that any global leader could have faced in the last two years. The question is whether it could have been managed better. Was there enough knowledge that something like this could strike us? The reality is that there was enough evidence to suggest that a pandemic like Covid-19 was likely to happen. American business magnate and philanthropist Bill Gates has written in his book that he had predicted something akin to this was on the cards with the kind of environmental degradation that was taking place.
However, the United States, which too funded research on coronaviruses in the Chinese lab in Wuhan, did not prepare a strategic plan to deal with it if it did strike as they had anticipated. They had enough information that if the virus escaped, it would really spread very fast globally and kill many people. Yet, strangely they did not prepare a preventive management plan to stop it or even contain it. The Centres fo
Pashinyan comments on factors behind US recognition of Armenian Genocide | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency
13:15, 3 May, 2021
YEREVAN, APRIL 3, ARMENPRESS. Caretaker Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says there are four factors which contributed to US President Joe Biden’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
“I believe there is one long-term, one mid-term and two short-term factors here,” Pashinyan said in parliament when asked to comment. “The long-term factor is definitely the consistent work of the Armenian-American community and all organizations of the Diaspora. The mid-term factor is Turkey’s regional policy and in this context the dissonance which appeared between Turkey and the United States. First of the short-term factors is the 44-day war and Turkey’s explicit and active involvement in it, and second is Armenia being a democratic country. In my conviction these are the four factors which led to the United States President making this unprecedented and histo
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Jennifer Lopez, left, performs onstage with her mother Guadalupe Rodriguez during the taping of the Vax Live. The concert was pre-taped over the weekend in Los Angeles, and will stream on YouTube along with American television networks ABC and CBS on May 8. (Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON DC, MAY 1, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) has expressed disappointment over reports that US President Joe Biden is waiving a congressional sanction and thereby clearing way for American aid to Azerbaijan, despite having earlier called on his predecessor to fully implement the sanction.