The Minister said, that "by its aggressive actions Azerbaijan has in fact attempted to reject to abide to its international commitments on peaceful settlement of the conflict, violating the basic principles of international law, the decisions and declarations adopted by the OSCE Summits and Ministerial Councils, blatantly disregarding the statements of the Presidents of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict...
According to Armenia’s Investigative Committee, Khachatryan’s body, with a gunshot wound to the head, was found at a military outpost yesterday.
Residents of the Shirak Province village of Metz Mantash turned out today to pay their final respects to Arman Andreasyan, a 19-year-old soldier killed in the recent round of fighting along the Artsakh Line of Contact.
57 homes in the town of Martakert (Artsakh) were damaged due to Azerbaijani shelling in the recent round of fighting along the Line of Contact.
The two heads of the church, along with their retinue, were greeted at the airport in Stepanakert by Archbishop Barkev Mardirosyan, Primate of Artsakh, Artsakh Parliament President Ashot Ghoulyan, the Artsakh minister of culture and justice, and top military officials.
A Facebook page had been created calling on the Armenian government to call back its ambassador to Georgia, Yuri Vardanyan.
Naturally, Russia’s main aim is the deployment of Russian peacekeeping troops in Nagorno Karabagh. There is no doubt that Nagorno Karabagh conflict is the main lever for Russia to keep its influence in the South Caucasus. Hence, the resolution of the conflict (in favor of any of the sides) is not in the interests of Russia.
Artsakh Prime Minister Arayik Haroutyunyan yesterday visited the town of Martakert and the villages of Mataghis and Talish to take stock of the damage caused to homes and infrastructure by the recent shelling by the Azerbaijani military.
On October 31, 2003, Ilham Aliyev, the newly elected president of Azerbaijan, stood behind a podium and a profusion of white flowers to address presidents, prime ministers and 2,000 other guests assembled at the Respublika Palace. First touching the constitution and then the Koran, Aliyev swore to serve his people. That night, fireworks lit up the sky of the Azeri capital, Baku.
When Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ran for the top office in 2014, he promised voters he would sell Roshen, Ukraine’s largest candy business, so he could devote his full attention to running the country.
During the Communist years in the former Czechoslovakia, he was a zealous public prosecutor. Indeed, Monsport became a symbol of rigid totalitarian repression with the 1986 case of the band Jazz Section (Jazzová sekce), when he proposed jail sentences for up to 8 years for a group of overly independent jazz musicians – just for playing jazz.