Vartkes Ergun Ayik, the chairman of the executive board of Saint Giragos Armenian Church Charitable Foundation in Diyarbakir has announced that the largest Armenian Church in the Middle East, St. Giragos Church, has been looted, ARMENPRESS reports Turkish T24 informs.

Arms sales in a conflict zone can only aggravate the conflict and escalate the situation, Foreign Minister of Artsakh Karen Mirzoyan said during the topical discussion “Foreign policy agenda” in the sidelines of the 6th Armenia-Diaspora conference, answering a question about the Russian arms sales to Azerbaijan.

A group of nationalists attacked with stones Armenian believers coming out of St. Hovhannes Armenian Church, ARMENPRESS reports, citing artigercek.com, Istanbul-Armenian public figure Yervand Ozuzun informed.

The ruling regime of Turkey, refusing to bring into life the Zurich protocols signed in 2009, once again proved that establishing peace in the region does not stem from its interests, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said in his speech at the Armenia-Diaspora 6th conference.

The recent scandalous revelations linked with Azerbaijan prove that there can be no normal interaction with Aerbaijan as a state, and above all no EU agreements with it, MEP from Luxemburg Frank Engel told ARMENPRESS commenting on the recent loud developments over Azerbaijan, particularly the “Azerbaijani Laundromat” corruption scandal which the European Parliament will investigate.

He added that Azerbaijan does everything to leave Artsakh out of negotiations. “They understand very well that the full participation of Artsakh in the negotiations will shake the false ideas that they have raised for years”, Artsakh’s Foreign Minister said.

“The next Armenia-Diaspora Forum will come as a pan-Armenian discussion of the “4 million Armenia” program and the real start of its implementation. This is what we should agree upon here and right now”, President Sargsyan said.

Serzh Sargsyan added that there can be no peace unless the leadership of Azerbaijan puts up with the existence of the principles put forward by the international community. “We are convinced that for the preservation of the international peace and prevention of conflicts it’s important to implement the human rights, including the one about the equality of people and right to self-determination, sine almost in all the cases the limitation of that right creates political crisis”, the Armenian President said.

Paylan is in Armenia to participate in the Armenia-Diaspora 6th conference.

Pavlo Klimkin said the meeting will also focus on the US assistance to implementing reforms in Ukraine.