“The sides attempt to increase soberness, they also use new measures regarding equipment and strategy, and this edifies if not wide-scale, then possibility of April escalation is rather high. Against its background we see that the international community is rather passive: yesterday OSCE MG issued another statement, which unfortunately, was about the same style, like after the developments on the frontline at the begging of the year.”
The European Council adopted a regulation on February 27 on visa liberalization for Georgians travelling to the European Union. EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos released a statement.
“In particular, the recent statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs is concerning. In case when the Armenian side presented clear proofs which side provoked a tension and launched sabotage infiltration attempts, the Minsk Group Co-Chairs issued another non-sense, balanced and inadequate statement to Azerbaijan’s actions.”
Given the outbreak of new conflicts between the two countries’ forces, Qasemi said, Iran invited its two northern neighbors to self-restraint and recommend both sides to do their best to stabilize the situation on the ground through dialogue and negotiations.
“Glory to our soldiers and commanders for being sober. However, it should be noted, that again escalation of military operations is taking place. This can’t be observed as a separate episode, this is continuation of the April War and prelude for new military operations. The April four-day War had certain sobering effect on our ruling elite, the authorities, political powers, our society.”
“Based on the rules of procedure of the Parliament, Ishkhan Zakaryan’s powers are suspended,” he said. He also informed that President Serzh Sargsyan proposed the candidacy of Levon Yolyan for the post of the Chairman of the Control Chamber.
Today, on February 27, the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan finally released the names of its victims in the neutral zone, which resulted from its attempted offensive in the morning of February 25.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has won the best foreign language Oscar in Los Angeles, for a second time, for domestic drama “The Salesman.” Farhadi, 44, did not attend the ceremony because he said that the conditions that would be attached to a potential entry visa were unacceptable.
“I informed secretary of Defense Mattis with regret that I respectfully withdraw from consideration as Nominee for the 76th secretary of the Navy,” Bilden said in a statement Sunday.
The US President Donald Trump has tweeted that he managed to decrease the US total public debt by US$ 12 billion during his first month in office while the former President Barack Obama increased it by US$200 billion over the same period.
