Author: Anna Tamamian

Expert: No document can prevent Baku’s barbarian regime from occupying whole of Artsakh

Anna Tamamian
Panorama
Armenia – April 2 2022

Armenian expert on Iran Vardan Voskanyan, who heads the Chair of Iranian Studies of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the Yerevan State University (YSU), dismissed the Armenian authorities’ claims that signing a peace treaty with Azerbaijan would ensure peace for Armenia and Artsakh.

"They are trying to convince us that a piece of paper called a treaty is supposed to ensure peace for the Republic of Armenia and the Artsakh Republic,” he wrote on Telegram on Saturday.

“In fact, no document can hold Baku's barbarian regime back from occupying the whole of Artsakh and other territories vital for Armenia, if the enemy is convinced they can do it by force.

“According to the muted statements from Baku, the 44-day war stopped because the Armenian military dealt heavy blows, draining the Azerbaijani bashi-bazouks.

“We, unfortunately, have forgotten about the uselessness of the “paper spoon” Khrimian Hayrik was talking about, and have again entered a stage when they are trying to mislead us with the pernicious "idea" of preserving and strengthening our ancestral homeland, not with the sword of justice, but with a fickle piece of paper,” Voskanyan said.

Delyagin reacts to Azerbaijan’s decision to declare him internationally wanted

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 19:45,

YEREVAN, 30 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. Russian State Duma deputy Mikhail Delyagin stated that he has not called for the bombing Azerbaijan, ARMENPRESS reports he made a note about this on his "Telegram" page.

"I have not called for the bombing of Azerbaijan with conventional or nuclear weapons," he said.

He expressed the opinion that the information about him being declared internationally wanted by the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan "is either fake or a journalistic mistake."

"Otherwise, we must admit that there is no one left in the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan who understands Russian or can use the services of a translator. If we assume that this news is true, it is very sad, because the people, whose legal system has nothing to do with reality, are waiting for very interesting revelations, which will not always be pleasant," he wrote.

Mikhail Delyagin had called on Russian peacekeepers to strike at Azerbaijan's oil fields for disobeying.

In response to that statement, the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan filed a criminal case against him. Mikhail Delyagin was declared internationally wanted through Interpol.




Azerbaijan denies troops pullout from peacekeepers’ zone in Nagorno-Karabakh

Anna Tamamian
FXEMPIRE
By:Reuters
Published: Mar 27, 2022, 22:04 GMT+3

(Reuters) – Azerbaijan on Sunday denied pulling out its forces from a zone policed by Russian peacekeepers in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, contradicting a statement by Moscow which had accused Baku of violating a peace agreement by entering the area.

(Reuters) – Azerbaijan on Sunday denied pulling out its forces from a zone policed by Russian peacekeepers in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, contradicting a statement by Moscow which had accused Baku of violating a peace agreement by entering the area.

“There has been no change in the positions of the Azeri army in the village of Farrukh, which is part of the sovereign territories of our country,” the Azeri defence ministry said.

Moscow on Saturday accused Azerbaijan of violating a 2020 peace agreement by entering the zone and striking positions of Nagorno-Karabakh army with drones, although Azerbaijan refuted Russia’s version of events.

On Sunday, the Russian defence ministry said that after negotiations Azerbaijan had withdrawn its forces from the area.

“The information about the withdrawal of units of the Azerbaijani Army from those positions does not reflect the truth. Our army is in full control of the operational situation,” Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said in a statement.

(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

https://www.fxempire.com/news/article/azerbaijan-denies-troops-pullout-from-peacekeepers-zone-in-nagorno-karabakh-949057



Azerbaijan seeks to make South Caucasus a platform of pan-Turkism and extremism – Artsakh MFA

Anna Tamamian
Panorama
Armenia –

The Artsakh Foreign Ministry on Friday issued a statement, slamming Azerbaijan over the invasion of the village of Parukh and calling for strict response from the international community. The full statement is provided below.

"On March 24, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces, grossly violating the ceasefire regime, crossed the line of contact with the Republic of Artsakh and invaded the village of Parukh in the Askeran region of Artsakh. The enemy has undertaken provocations also in the direction of the settlement of Khramort of the same region.

Moreover, on the night of March 25, the Azerbaijani military opened fire at the units of the Artsakh Defense Army, using both firearms of different calibers and attack drones (UCAV).

The above actions are the logical continuation of the recent terrorist campaign initiated by the Azerbaijani authorities, which manifests itself in the exertion of psychological pressure on the civilian population, periodic violations of the ceasefire regime, disruption of the operation of the only gas pipeline feeding Artsakh, resulting in a dire humanitarian situation in the Republic of Artsakh.

All these actions carried out by Azerbaijan are nothing but a state-orchestrated policy of ethnic cleansing aimed at the complete eviction of Armenians from Artsakh.

Azerbaijan's geopolitical goals are obvious: to intimidate the people of Artsakh, to strike at the Russian peacekeeping mission, to make the Transcaucasia a platform of pan-Turkism and extremism for the implementation of far-fetching programs in the future.

The international community and specialized international organizations should assess Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian policy in the strictest terms. Indifference and inaction will have the most severe consequences for the entire civilized world.

The people of Artsakh continue to stand firmly on their land. They will never give up their homeland and will never retreat to the vileness and insidious tricks of the enemy."

Armenian FM receives Personal Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office

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 14:49,

YEREVAN, MARCH 25, ARMENPRESS. Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan received today Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, the ministry said in a news release.

During the meeting FM Mirzoyan touched upon the March 24 Azerbaijani infiltration into the village of Parukh, which is in the responsibility zone of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno Karabakh, the Azerbaijani actions on deliberately obstructing the normal operation of vital infrastructures and other steps directed to ethnic cleansing. The necessity of the return of Azerbaijani units back to their initial positions was emphasized.

Ararat Mirzoyan presented also the position of the Armenian side on the negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan around a peace agreement, highlighting the mediating role of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship in this context.

As a result of Azerbaijan’s criminal actions, 14 servicemen received various degrees of injuries. Artsakh’s Ombudsman

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As a result of Azerbaijan's criminal actions, 14 servicemen received various degrees of injuries. Artsakh's Ombudsman

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YEREVAN, 25 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. Artsakh’s Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan got acquainted with the health condition of the servicemen wounded as a result of the March 25 actions of Azerbaijan at the Stepanakert Military Hospital, ARMENPRESS reports Stepanyan wrote on his Facebook page.

"According to the verified information at the moment, 14 people received various degrees of injuries. Doctors assess the condition of 10 people as mild, 1 as moderate, 1 as severe, and 2 as extremely severe.

Private conversations with the wounded revealed that almost all cases of injuries were registered due to the use of drones by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

Such actions against military personnel in the context of the ceasefire should be considered as crimes and violations of international humanitarian law. The private conversations with the wounded have shown that some of them were deliberately targeted by drones as they tried to provide first aid to injured friends. It is reported that the Azerbaijani side, while being able to observe unhindered by UAVs, struck at the moment when a humanitarian operation was being carried out by the military personnel.

In the conditions of systematic ethnic cleansing and genocidal actions carried out by the military-political leadership of Azerbaijan, the Artsakh Defense Forces indisputably carry out self-defense enshrined in international documents to ensure the right to life and existence of the people of Artsakh”, Stepanyan wrote.

Canada bans RT

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 11:29, 17 March, 2022

YEREVAN, MARCH 17, ARMENPRESS. Media regulators in Ottawa have formally outlawed RT and RT France on Wednesday, saying their programming went against government policy and undermined democracy, RT reports.

After reviewing complaints from the public, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced that “the continued authorization to distribute RT and RT France is not in the public interest.”

Most Canadian operators have already pulled the networks off air, citing the conflict in Ukraine.

Asbarez: Azerbaijan Has Advanced to 4—Not 3—Positions inside Armenia, Says Tatoyan

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Maps detailing the four points where Azerbaijani forces have advanced inside Armenia

Using maps and graphics that pinpoint exactly where Azerbaijani forces have advanced and set up positions since they breached Armenia’s sovereign borders in May 2021, Armenia’s former human rights defender Arman Tatoyan revealed the enemy has advanced in four—not three, as previously reported—positions inside Armenia.

He listed the positions in the following order:

  1. Nerkin Hand village of Syunik Province—March, 2022
  2. Vardenis in the Gegharkunik Province (Kut, Verin Shorzha and a number of other villages, as well as the area near Ishkhanasar)—May, 2021.
  3. Goris in the Syunik Province (Black Lake area; near Akner and Verishen villages)—May, 2021.
  4. Border area near Tsav village in the Syunik Province—October 2020.

Tatoyan emphasized the Azerbaijani incursion into the Tsav village, as well as the unlawful presence of Azerbaijani forces on the Goris-Kapan and Kapan-Chakaten roads (since November-December 2020) and the illegal blockade of those transit routes (since November 2021).

Armenia’s Defense Ministry, earlier this week, denied local Syunik residents reports that Azerbaijani forces had made further advancements and had set up camps on Armenia’s sovereign territory. The ministry insisted that the Azerbaijani had remained in their original positions.

In his report, Tatoyan said that Azerbaijani armed forces had been stationed near Armenian villages since November 2020 and were in the vicinity of houses and lands owned by residents who had corresponding ownership documents dating back to the Soviet times.

“Along with this, the Azerbaijani authorities continue their policy of Armenophobia; their policy of hatred and enmity from the highest level and enacted by Azerbaijani armed servicemen has made the every-day lives of our border residents impossible,” Tatoyan emphasized.

Inauguration ceremony of Armenian 5th president taking place in Yerevan

Anna Tamamian
 NEWS.am 
Armenia –

12:30, 13.03.2022

The inauguration ceremony of the fifth President of Armenia, Vahagn Khachaturyan, is being held at the Demirchyan JCC in Yerevan on Sunday.

The second and third Presidents of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharyan and Serzh Sargsyan will not take part in the ceremony. There is no information about the participation of the first and fourth presidents of the country Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Armen Sargsyan in the event.

Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II will also take part in the inauguration ceremony.

Vahagn Khachaturyan was elected President of Armenia on March 3. The parliamentary opposition factions of the “Armenia” and “I have the Honor” blocs refused to participate in the presidential elections in the country.

Vahagn Khachaturyan will take office on March 13, at a special session of the Armenian Parliament, which will be held at the Demirchyan JCC in Yerevan.

The fourth President of the Republic of Armenia Armen Sarkissian resigned on January 23.