Author: Lilit Nahapetian

​Azerbaijan reclaims key city near Nagorno-Karabakh (with several links)

Lilit Nahapetian
Aug 26 2022
Azerbaijan reclaims key city near Nagorno-Karabakh
The leader of Azerbaijan says the country has reclaimed control of a strategic city on the edge of Nagorno-Karabakh

By The Associated Press
, 6:24 PM

MOSCOW — Azerbaijan has reclaimed control of a strategic city on the edge of Nagorno-Karabakh, the leader of Azerbaijan said Friday.

President lham Aliyev said Azerbaijani forces have moved into the city of Lachin and two nearby villages. “I congratulate Lachin residents and the entire people of Azerbaijan,” he tweeted.

Lachin sits on a road that has served as the main link between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan has reclaimed control of the city and the “Lachin corridor” after building an alternate route in line with a Russia-mediated truce that ended a 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.

During a six-week war in 2020 that killed more than 6,600 people, Azerbaijan reclaimed large parts of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas that had been controlled for decades by the Armenia-backed separatists.

The cease-fire in 2020 was mediated by Russia, which deployed about 2,000 troops to the region to serve as peacekeepers.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/azerbaijan-reclaims-key-city-nagorno-karabakh-88895905

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Ambassador KD Dewal flags off Indo- Armenia Bicycle Expedition

Lilit Nahapetian
Aug 19 2022

Ambassador KD Dewal recently flagged off the Indo- Armenia Bicycle Expedition .This 1000 KMS expedition by Aakash Pannu and Kshitij Sao, Indian students of Yerevan State Medical University, is dedicated to Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, IndiaAt75, the 30th anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between India and Armenia and the 100th Anniversary of the establishment of YSMU.

Ambassador KD Dewal also joined the students for a few kilometers on the bicycle to motivate and support the students.


“We left on the 11th of July; we had 12 days to complete the trip. We intended to visit every major city in Armenia from north to south, from lake Arpi in the north to Tatev monastery in the south. The trip was supposed to be about 1000 km according to the distance calculated through the internet, but it happened to be over 1200 km according to our odometers. We begin planning for the trip about 3 months before the departure, everything from emergency supplies to food prep to medications, and the schedule of our travel was well planned”, stated Aakash Pannu and Kshitij Sao who are 6th-year medical students in the General Medicine faculty at Yerevan State medical university participants.

"We commenced our journey from the from the Yerevan state medical university’s administrative building and we were honoured by the company of His excellency the ambassador of India to Armenia and Georgia Mr. K.D. Dewal for our first ride. Honorable vice rector of our university{ Yerevan State medical university after Mkhitar Heratsi} Dr. Y.S.Sahakyan, Honorable dean madam Dr. G.Avetisyan, vice dean Dr. K.Margaryan and Head of department for International students’ affairs Dr. Rahul A. Sethi showed us the green flag" they further added.

The aim of the expedition is to promote friendship and mutual understanding between the two countries.


http://everythingexperiential.businessworld.in/article/Ambassador-KD-Dewal-flags-off-Indo-Armenia-Bicycle-Expedition-/18-08-2022-442825/





CivilNet: Yerevan residents lay flowers at Surmalu blast site as Armenia mourns victims

Lilit Nahapetian
CIVILNET.AM

17 Aug, 2022 10:08

Flags have been flying at half-mast across Armenia as the country is holding two days of mourning for the victims of Sunday’s explosion at Yerevan’s Surmalu shopping strip, which left 16 dead and 62 injured. The authorities in Stepanakert also declared two days of mourning in response to the blast. 2 people remain unaccounted for following the tragedy, according to a tally kept by the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Former Armenian Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan released from jail

Lilit Nahapetian
NEWS.am
Armenia – Aug 15 2022
17:46, 15.08.2022

Former Prosecutor General and former head of the Investigative Committee of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan was released and the required bail has already been paid, Hovsepyan's lawyer Erik Aleksanyan wrote on his Facebook page on Monday.

"Hovsepyan will remain in a medical facility, where he is being prepared for surgery," he wrote.

The court decided on Thursday to replace the arrest of former Prosecutor General and former head of the Investigative Committee Aghvan Hovsepyan with a bail of 100 million drams.

He was charged under Article 310, Article 311, paragraph 2, paragraph 4, Article 38-308, paragraph 1, paragraph 3, Article 38-179, paragraph 1, paragraph 3, Article 190 – 2 episodes, and Article 190, paragraph 1, paragraph 2.

Armenian Defense Minister highly appreciates Russian presence in South Caucasus

Lilit Nahapetian

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 13:52,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 16, ARMENPRESS. Minister of Defense of Armenia Suren Papikyan had a meeting with the Minister of Defense of Russia Sergey Shoygu within the framework of the Moscow Conference on International Security, RIA Novosti reports.

Issues related to the activities of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno Karabakh were discussed, among other issues.

During the meeting the Russian Defense Minister said: “We have issues to discuss, among them are traditional issues related to our military-technical and military cooperation. Of course there are also issues related to our peacekeeping contingent which is carrying out its objectives in Nagorno Karabakh. As before, we are sure, as well as you, that the main stabilizing factor is the ceasefire regime along the entire length of the line of contact.”

Shoygu thanked Papikyan for participation in the opening of the Army 2022 International Military-Industrial Exhibition and the International Army Games 2022 tournament, as well as the Moscow Conference on International Security.

In turn, Armenian Minister of Defense Suren Papikyan said that the August 16 meeting with Shoygu is already their second meeting this year, which shows the high level of the Armenian-Russian collegial bilateral partnership.

“This meeting is very important for us. We highly appreciate the level of the Armenian-Russian parternship, as well as the role of the Russian presence in South Caucasus,” Papikyan said.

AP: Fireworks blast at Yerevan market kills 2, injures 60

Lilit Nahapetian
Associated Press
Aug 14 2022





YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — A strong explosion at a fireworks storage area tore through a popular market in Armenia’s capital on Sunday, killing at least two people, injuring 60 others and setting off a large fire.

Firefighters labored into the night after the early afternoon blast at the Surmalu market to put out the blaze that sent a towering column of thick smoke over the center of Yerevan. Rescue workers and volunteers searched amid still-exploding fireworks for victims who might be trapped under slabs of concrete and twisted metal.

Emergencies Minister Armen Pambukhchyan said the ministry has received 20 reports from people who said they could not locate their relatives after the blast. Ten injured people and one dead victim were pulled from the rubble, according to the national health ministry, which also gave the casualty toll.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw two people pulled from the rubble — a woman with an injured leg and a young man who appeared to be unconscious.

The market, located 2 kilometers (over a mile) south of the city center, is popular for its low prices and variety of goods.

There was no immediate word on what caused the fireworks to ignite.

https://apnews.com/article/explosions-fires-armenia-2d94cc280698d6ab327dc9186409e302

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Two more ships depart from Ukraine – Turkey’s defence ministry

Lilit Nahapetian

Two more ships depart from Ukraine – Turkey's defence ministry

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 15:10,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 13, ARMENPRESS. Two more ships left from Ukraine's Black Sea ports on Saturday, bringing the total number of ships to depart the country under a U.N.-brokered deal to 16, Reuters reports citing the Turkish Defense Ministry.

The Barbados-flagged Fulmar S left Ukraine's Chornomorsk port, carrying 12,000 tonnes of corn to Turkey's southern Iskenderun province, it said. The Marshall Island-flagged Thoe departed from the same port and headed to Turkey's Tekirdag, carrying 3,000 tonnes of sunflower seeds.

The statement added that another ship would depart from Turkey on Saturday to Ukraine to buy grains.

Ukraine's infrastructure ministry said on Saturday that 16 ships carrying 450,000 tonnes of agriculture products had departed from Ukrainian sea ports since early August under the deal which ensured safe passage for vessels.

Iranian Foreign Ministry says widely circulated tweet falsely attributed to former envoy

Lilit Nahapetian

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 11:36,

YEREVAN, AUGUST 12, ARMENPRESS. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said that their former ambassador to Armenia Seyed Kazzem Sajjadi, who is now an advisor to the Iranian FM, does not have any social media accounts and that the Twitter account by his name should not be attributed to him.

The Iranian foreign ministry made the clarification after a statement in a Twitter account using the former ambassador’s name was widely circulated in the Armenian press, including in ARMENPRESS.

ARMENPRESS has since removed the article after it became known that the account is fake. 

The statement made in the Twitter account said that Turkey’s transfer of terrorists from Syria to Azerbaijan and their presence near the Iranian borders are inadmissible. “After Greece, Cyprus, Armenia, Syria and Iraq, Turkey is now planning malign actions near Iranian borders. Turkey must know that it is playing with fire,” the statement said.

Military experts call escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh a “knife in back” for Russia

Lilit Nahapetian
Caucasian Knot
Aug 4 2022
Russia justifiably accused Azerbaijan of violating the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh and would similarly react to the escalation from the Armenian side, as Russia treats attempts to aggravate the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh during the special military operation in Ukraine as a “knife in the back”, Russian military experts point out.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on August 3, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) blamed Azerbaijan for violating the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Russian MoD supported the Armenian side of the conflict because Azerbaijan really violated the ceasefire, military expert Alexander Khramchikhin believes, while “the escalation of the conflict in South Caucasus is extremely disadvantageous for Russia in connection with the special military operation in Ukraine.”

“The violation [by Azerbaijan of the ceasefire] is an objective reality. And the actions of Azerbaijan are a stab in the back for Russia. Russia absolutely does not need the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh to arise now, when the hostilities are taking place in Ukraine. And Azerbaijan is namely uses it,” Alexander Khramchikhin told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

When commenting on the escalation of the conflict, military expert Alexander Perendjiev has emphasized that the reaction of the Russian MoD to such actions by both Baku and Yerevan will almost always be negative, since Russia takes a neutral position. “The mission of peacekeepers is always thankless. And both sides of the conflict will have claims against those who are trying to separate them,” Alexander Perendjiev said.

According to the military expert, the negotiation process on Nagorno-Karabakh “has reached an impasse and must be modernized.”

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on August 4, 2022 at 01:25 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

See earlier reports:
Azerbaijan claims calm border after "Retribution" operation, Russia's MoD accuses Azerbaijan of breaking ceasefire regime, Baku threatened to toughen its actions in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Author: Oleg Krasnov Source: CK correspondent
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