Through the full use of administrative resources and with groups of people who were rather aggressive (for some unknown reason), today the “mourning” march led by Nikol Pashinyan kicked off from Republic Square, the most sacred place for the person occupying the seat of Prime Minister.
Yesterday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared that on December 19, Armenia will declare three days of mourning to commemorate those who fell in the war. Nikol Pashinyan said December 19th marks the 40th day following the agreement signed on November 9th and added that this is why the mourning will be declared on December 19th.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), as a result of the actions taken by the Office of Armenia’s Representative at the ECHR, has rejected the demand of the Azerbaijani government to eliminate the interim measure applied on September 29, 2020.
The United States believes that the presence of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno Karabakh risks “destabilizing” the situation in the region, according to US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs R. Clarke Cooper.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s father Vova Pashinyan has died at the age of 80 from a serious and long-lasting disease, the PM’s spokesperson Mane Gevorgyan told ARMENPRESS.
Azerbaijani forces attacked a church in the city of Shushi on October 8, 2020 during the Nagorno Karabakh hostilities, in what appears to be a deliberate targeting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said.
The President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan has confirmed that “several dozens” of troops were taken captive by Azerbaijani armed forces in the direction of the village of Khtsaberd.
The Human Rights Defender of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan says he contacted several organizations and servicemen on the ground regarding the information on the troops who went missing in Khtsaberd village. “According to the information that I gathered, a military unit consisting of around 60 servicemen went missing during these days in the direction of the village of Khtsaberd in Hadrut region, and it is highly likely that the video published by the Azerbaijani side shows this very unit,” he said.
The Ministry of Defense of Artsakh announced in a statement that in the evening of December 15, in unknown circumstances, it lost contact with the military personnel of several combat positions of the Defense Army deployed in the direction of the Hin Tagher and Khtsaberd villages of Hadrut.
John Gallagher has been appointed UK’s Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia, the UK government reports.
