The United States threatens to impose unilateral sanctions on Turkey, but is in no hurry to do so, as it avoids further straining relations with a key NATO ally, and given that Ankara warns that such sanctions will not go unanswered.
“In the past two and a half years, you have taken the solution of the Artsakh conflict exclusively in the direction of giving or not giving land, while before you negotiations were held to withdraw Artsakh from Azerbaijan through compromises.
Sixteen Armenian extra-parliamentary and parliamentary opposition parties have demanded that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign in three days.
Manukyan said Pashinyan’s foreign policy cost Armenia all its allies and that the country now faces a host of security risks.
The rally began with a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the recent war in Artsakh.
Tsarukyan, in his statement, argues that the country is in serious danger and only by uniting all healthy forces will we be able to stop the catastrophe brought by Pashinyan.
Pashinyan said that over the last twenty-five years the international community more and more perceived the Karabakh issue as a territorial dispute and Armenia as an occupying force.
We failed in our work to avoid the consequences of your failures. This is the truth,” Pashinyan said.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian, in a statement released today, described the country as being in a “deep post-war crisis” and appealed to the people to remain calm, maintain law and order, an jointly seek solutions to present challenges.
A special Russian medical unit in the Artsakh capital of Stepanakert has begun to treat patients, this according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
BICC experts note that the 2019 data testify to the continuing trends of militarization in the world, especially in the Middle East.
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