US President Biden has notified Congress the administration is extending a waiver allowing US assistance to Azerbaijan that was originally restricted over Baku’s conflict with its neighbor Armenia and tension over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Azerbaijani authorities’ ban on international organizations’ entry into the occupied regions of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) amounts to an act of cultural genocide which should receive an adequate reaction, says Hermine Mkhitaryan, an expert from the analytical center Hayatsk (Insight).
Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov will arrive in Yerevan on May 5 on a two-day visit to meet with the Armenian leadership. Then, Lavrov will also visit Azerbaijan May 10-11.
3 more Armenian prisoners of war have returned from Baku.
Azerbaijani servicemen tortured and killed 19 Armenian prisoners of war after the end of the recent Nagorno Karabakh war, Artak Zeynalyan, who represents the interests of the captives and POWs in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), said on social media today.
The Union of Journalists of Armenia congratulates all journalists and the representatives of all media outlets on World Press Freedom Day, wishing unobstructed activities and success in their careers.
Human Rights Defender of Armenia Arman Tatoyan has addressed a congratulatory message on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day.
If I knew what would be the consequences, I would take any measures to prevent what later happened. I just left to let those people build the country of their dreams. I could not think that they dreamed about something else, or that they would be so incompetent. I could not possibly imagine such a disgrace. And let me reiterate, I firmly believed that the country should have taken a slightly different turn, and please do not question that. But that such devastating consequences would those “dmb-dmb-hoo” chants have…
Amidst the memorials to other genocides in this chilly and rainy month, we pause on April 24 to remember the 1915 genocide of a million and half Armenians. We are also historical witnesses to the hundreds of thousands of other ethnic and religious minorities killed in the Ottoman Empire. Accordingly, we remember the Greek, Assyrian and other victims. The state-sponsored Young Turk mass deportations and killings were part of a long historical pattern of inequality, injustice, prejudice, discrimination, repression and massacres by an authoritarian regime. It should be noted that the Turkish leadership’s ethnic and religious persecution predated and postdated 1915.
According to the pastor, the Azerbaijani military servicemen first threatened him with their weapons, and then two of them pulled him and tried to take him to move to the trench in the direction of the Azerbaijani position by force. During all this time, Azerbaijani constantly cursed and threatened the pastor.
