By Vafa Ismayilova
The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry has stated that Armenia attempted another provocation on the state border in order to create a military confrontation.
In an official statement posted on its website on November 10, the ministry said: "The Armenian side once again attempted to commit a provocation on the Lachin section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border."
The ministry stressed that at noon on November 9, about 60 Armenian servicemen on two military trucks moved towards Lake Garagol in Lachin region and settled on the road leading to the Azerbaijani army's positions.
"The Armenian side used metal obstacles to block the Azerbaijan army's path between positions on this section of the border and attempted to strengthen itself in the area in order to create a deliberate military confrontation," the ministry said.
The Azerbaijani army units stationed in this direction took immediate measures in the shortest time, concentrating additional personnel and military equipment in the area.
"As a result of the taken measures about 60 Armenian servicemen were under siege, all their actions were limited, and in the morning, taking into account the request of the Russian side, the Azerbaijani servicemen allowed the Armenian servicemen to return. We state that the military provocation of the Armenian side has failed," the ministry stated.
It pledged "harsh and more effectual measures" if similar provocations repeat in the future.
"We hope that this time disgrace of the Armenian army will be a lesson learned and they will not take such provocative steps in the future. There are no losses among the military personnel of the Azerbaijan army, as well as territory loss. The Azerbaijan army units control the operational situation. The entire responsibility for the recent tension that occurred on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border falls on the military-political leadership of Armenia," the ministry said.
The Azerbaijani foreign and defence ministries earlier described Armenian Defence Minister Arshak Karapetyan's visit to Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region as Armenia's another provocative act.
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Leyla Abdullayeva underlined that this shows that Armenia is deliberately trying to aggravate the situation.
“And the fact that these steps were taken on the eve of the first anniversary of the signing of the trilateral statement serves the purpose of casting a shadow on the activities of the Russian peacekeepers, and in general, this is a violation of the provision of the trilateral statement,” she stated.
Moreover, the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry described Karapetyan's unauthorized entry into the Azerbaijani territory, holding meetings with illegal Armenian formations and expressing views on their combat readiness as a military-political provocation.
“The political and military leadership of Armenia, grossly violating the provisions of the trilateral statement, attempts to destabilize the situation in the region and overshadow the activities of Russian peacekeepers,” the ministry stressed.
The ministry emphasized that the visit of the Armenian defence minister once again demonstrates that Armenia continues to directly support irregular Armenian military units, aggressive separatism, and terrorist acts on the Azerbaijani territory.
“We would like to remind the Armenian defence minister of the fate of his former colleagues and other Armenian generals who made utopian claims such as 'impassable Ohanyan line', 'new wars, new territories',” the ministry stated.
“We warn the military-political leadership of Armenia that in case of a continuation of such illegal visits to Azerbaijan’s territory, the necessary measures will be taken to prevent aggressive separatism and terrorist acts in accordance with the legislation of Azerbaijan,” the ministry added.
16:29,
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan had to correct and respond to the Azeri prime minister’s remarks who falsely claimed during his speech to CIS counterparts that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is in the past.
Speaking during the online meeting of the CIS Heads of Government, the Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov repeated his president Ilham Aliyev’s false narrative that “Nagorno Karabakh conflict is in the past and currently there are two regions in Azerbaijan –Karabakh and the Eastern Zangezur.”
In response, Grigoryan emphasized that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict cannot be solved with force and that the resolution of the conflict can only be achieved through peaceful ways, exclusively within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairmanship’s international mandate.
“I reiterate that Armenia was, is and will continue being committed to the implementation of all clauses of the 2020 November 9 and 2021 January 11 statements. Moreover, I’d like to repeat a very important nuance – the Nagorno Karabakh conflict cannot be solved through force. The resolution of the conflict can be achieved peacefully, exclusively within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairmanship’s international mandate. And from this perspective entering a phase of peaceful development in the region and de-escalating the situation requires Azerbaijan to adopt a constructive stance and abandon its policy of aggressive rhetoric and hostile actions,” the Armenian Deputy PM said.
Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan
PanARMENIAN.Net - A controversy ensued between Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan and Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov during an online meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of Government on Friday, November 12.
In the final minutes of the meeting, Asadaov asked for an opportunity to respond to Grigoryan's speech, Sputnik Armenia reports.
Asadov repeated the traditional theses of Baku, calling the Armenian servicemen still being held in Azerbaijan "saboteurs". Asadov also said "there is no Nagorno-Karabakh," but only "the Karabakh economic region of Azerbaijan."
Grigoryan then asked for the floor and noted that Armenia, unlike Azerbaijan, has fully complied with and is fulfilling the provisions of the trilateral statements of November 9, 2020 and January 11, 2021.
He called on Azerbaijan to abandon its aggressive rhetoric, reiterating that the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is possible exclusively by peaceful means.
11:40, 3 November, 2021
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 3, ARMENPRESS. The candidacy of former Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan is under discussion for the position of Member of the Board of the Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine, the Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister’s Office Arayik Harutyunyan said.
“Yes, it is under discussion,” he said, when asked to comment on rumors that Avinyan is being considered for the position.
“He is a member of the political team. And there must be people who would best represent Armenia’s interests in that organization.”
Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan
Prime Minister's Cup. The amateur cross-country running tournament kicks off
13:52,
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 30, ARMENPRESS. The 2nd sport of the "Prime Minister's Cup of the Republic of Armenia", the amateur cross-country running tournament kicked off in Armavir Province.
The correspondent of ARMENPRESS informs hundreds of citizens participate in the tournamnet in different age groups.
The tournament is held on the Yerevan-Etchmiadzin highway. The purpose of holding the "Prime Minister's Cup" tournament is to popularize running, healthy lifestyle, and the promotion of physical culture and sports among the population.
Sports journalist of ARMENPRESS Varvara Hayrapetyan also participates in the cross-country race.
Armenian Genocide documentary “Intent to Destroy” directed by Joe Berlinger has received the “Humanism in the Modern World” award at the 14th Independent American-Russian Documentary Film Festival (RUSDOCFILMFEST) in New York.
Over 30 films were screened as part of the Free World, Eternal Values, and Fresh Look programs. The films were made with support from independent studios and producers from eight countries.
In the FREE WORLD program the award were given to:
– In the category Free Word – “Bless You”, director Tatiana Chistova, producer Maciek Hamela (Russia / Poland)
– In the category Humanism in the Modern World — “Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial and Depiction”, director Joe Berlinger (USA)
– In the category Humanism in the Modern World — “Remembrance: Following the Trail of the Holocaust”, director Eugenii Bezborodov (Russia / Moldova)
– In the category Genius Loci — “Dossier of Laughter”, director Oleg Kovachev (Bulgaria)
“Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial and Depiction” – the film-in-film produced by Berlinger, Chip Rosenbloom and Eric Esrailian depicts the century of sophisticated denial campaigns by the Turkish government that perpetrated the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey, and features Atom Egoyan, Christian Bale, Mike Medavoy, Eric Bogosian, Serj Tankian, Angela Sarafian, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and the former US Ambassador to Armenia John Marshall Evans.
The 17 prison medical staff strengthened their knowledge and practical skills on prevention of infections conditioned by medical interventions in penitentiary medical facilities.
The training programme is based on a manual earlier developed by the project including inter alia the right to health care, medical confidentiality, monitoring and control of penitentiary health care services in Armenia in line with the Council of Europe and other international standards.
Two-day training took part in in-person on 20-21 October 2021. Overall, four sessions are planned to involve all medical staff of the penitentiary system
The training programme was developed under the framework of the project “Enhancing health care and human rights protection in prisons in Armenia” implemented by the Council of Europe and funded through the Action Plan for Armenia 2019 -2022.
17:55,
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 21, ARMENPRESS. The Arshile Gorky Foundation sent a work by the early Abstract Expressionist out for routine conservation, the single work came back as two after conservators discovered a painting hidden behind the later work on paper, ARMENPRESS was informed from Artnet News
“This discovery is the sort of moment that drew so many of us to art in the first place—the wonder and surprise, the invitation to think beyond what we already know, hints of new horizons,” Marc Payot, president of Hauser and Wirth, which will debut the work in a non-selling exhibition in New York next month, told Artnet News in an email.
The painting, which has been dubbed Untitled (Virginia Summer), is being added to a new Gorky catalogue raisonné, due out this month from the artist’s foundation.
When Gorky finished the painting on paper, The Limit (1947), he was in quite a prolific period, making a new work every day. As a result, it appears he was short on materials, and, lacking a stretched canvas to work on, simply placed it atop the earlier work now identified as Untitled (Virginia Summer).
It’s quite possible that this isn’t the only painting the artist obscured this way. “Curators of museums: It’s not a bad idea to take it out of the basement or off the wall, look behind, and see if you’ve got two paintings instead of one,” Matthew Spender, the artist’s son-in-law and author of From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky, told New York Times.
Arshile Gorky (Vostanik Manoug Adoian) was a U.S. – Armenian painter. Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century. The suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian genocide had crucial influence at Gorky’s development as an artist.
Gorky was born in the village of Khorgom (today's Dilkaya), situated on the shores of Lake Van in the Ottoman Empire in 1904. Gorky escaped the Armenian Genocide and arrived in the USA in 1920, where he lived until committing suicide in 1948.
21:10,
YEREVAN, 22 OCTOBER, ARMENPRESS. The United States wants to have predictable and stable relations with the Russian Federation, ARMENPRESS reports the Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin stated after the meeting with Ministers of Defense of NATO member states in Brussels.
As Reuters reported, the US Secretary of Defense also reassured the decisive commitment of the United States to the NATO and Washington’s extensive support to the European Union and Taiwan.