Congresswoman Speier stressed, that otherwise Azerbaijan will continue its policy of violence increase against Armenians. “I strictly condemn violence against the people, who simply want to live the life created as a result of self-determination,” Jackie Speier said.
Notes have been taken in the notebook of one of the pilots, made on March 31, “Black box is yellow. It’s written: the pilot should fly the helicopter from Kala airport of Baku to military airbase of Kurdistan. It’s written that he performed 2 flights: 6 and 11 minutes each, totally 148 liters of kerosene have been consumed.
The Armenian community in Jerusalem today protested Israel’s sale of weapons to Azerbaijan, which are reportedly being used against Armenians in the disputed Nagorno Karabakh region, albawaba.com reports.
The alliance between the two countries has a firm basis in geopolitical realpolitik. Azerbaijan takes special care to maintain its status as a secular state, while its two large neighbors, Turkey and Iran, are best characterized as Islamist regimes with imperial ambitions. Iran especially has a hard time coming to terms with the fact that a country on its border, particularly one with a majority Shiite population, maintains a modern Western, secular lifestyle. Azerbaijan also takes care to uphold a cautious policy of neutrality toward the two regional powerbrokers, Turkey and Russia, even while Ankara and Moscow are engaged in a heated diplomatic, near military, conflict.
RA police received a call, that an attack has been recorded on the house of Robert Kocharyan, second RA president, and a grenade was thrown. Information and Public Relations Department of Police of the Republic of Armenia informs about this.
What occurred throughout recent few days, was a real lesson to us. Starting from ordinary worker, to the highest state circle. We understood, that fight against corruption, rule of law, human rights protection, democracy and other values, are not just simple, nice words. Our fate and that of our country depend on them. Yes, it did cost us dear, but we realized that we need to have a powerful economy to have a powerful army, and for a powerful economy, we need to have a normal country and trust towards the state.
“Don’t speak.” Should be told to those, who in reply to DIRECT questions on arms sales to Azerbaijan by Russia, arms, which killed Armenian soldiers and children, start talking profusely and protect Russian interest within the boundaries of their thought and language flexibility.
The participants of the meeting presented to Serzh Sargsyan issues on the agenda of the Military Committee and their expediency in the strengthening of the military component of the CSTO. The parties exchanged views on the measures aimed at raising the effectiveness of the Joint Staff. Discussed were issues pertinent to the maintenance of security and stability in the CSTO Caucasian area, and particularly, the situation established here after the recent military aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan at the Azeri-NKR Line of Contact.
In Kh.Kokobelyan’s opinion, nobody can justify change of the Board Meeting of EEU Prime Ministers and nobody may say, that it wasn’t pouring water over Azerbaijan’s mill. He stressed that Russia should give adequate assessment to Azerbaijan’s activities and suspend supply of offensive weapons.
“I consider, they don’t imagine yet, what a great damage may be caused to Armenia-Russia relations, that realization lacks. They are more offended with information war, that our press elucidates or our social networks discuss, rather than what has happened,” MP Edmon Marukyan told at today’s joint sitting of the RA NA Standing Committee on Defense, National Security and Internal Affairs and the RF Federal Assembly Federal Council Committee on Defense and Security, in response to the question of 168.am: what bothering issue is observed in Russia’s behavior?
