Russian Embassy`s councellor in Armenia: Cases of abuse of corpse by  barbarians and savages were registered during the April war 

ArmInfo. The Russian Embassy to Armenia has summed up the results of 2016. The meeting with journalists started with a minute of silence related to tragic crash of Tu-154, which led to 92 victims. 

Russian Embassy's counsellor in Armenia, Andrey Ivanov during his  speech stated that this tragic accident is another one among grievous  events happened this year. "We all remember the terrible events  happened in April this year when a lot of innocent people were killed  among both soldiers and civilians. Everybody knows that during these  events cases of abuse of corpses by barbarians, savages and  terrorists were registered", the Russian diplomat noted. 

At the same time he noted that today it became known that the  governmental forces in Aleppo have detained supporters of terrorist  groups and they had passports of US, France, Great Britain and Saudi  Arabia. According to him now it is quite clear why these countries  have been defending the so-called Syrian oppositionist forces in the  UN Security Council, they were just afraid of being revealed. 

"However, there were also positive moments this year and we should  not forget about them. Thus, Armenia's chairmanship in CSTO was  successful; the Organization's strategy was finally approved, which  the sides failed to do for many years. Besides, a center of crisis  response was opened, drills of CSTO Collective Forces of Rapid  Reaction were held and additional measures were taken to confront  terrorism.  We also remember about humanitarian aid, which Armenia  has sent to Syrians", Ivanov said. He added in this context that  quite optimistic achievements were registered within the Eurasian  Economic Union.  According to the Russian diplomat in the light of  negative world trends Armenia managed to receive enough dividends  from the integration union and there are prospects for more  significant results. 

"At the background of economic downfall we are moving forward and  this is the most important thing. We have made serious progress in  humanitarian field this year. We will continue to provide support to  Armenia on the issue of implementing UN program on ensuring catering  in schools. A number of interesting and important programs have been  implemented. We hope that we will manage to continue in the same vein  next year", the Russian diplomat summarized.