In reply Armenian Premier Karen Karapetyan said, “I’m not sure that the deal will be concluded very soon, however, even in case of the deal I don’t observe a risk. As a 25% shareholder of the pipeline providing transit, we don’t observe any risk, that the Georgian side will behave not in accordance with the agreement.”

“Why am I against? I consider this isn’t a solution, as I think it fosters people’s approaches that they may escape to another country and then be back and pay the money. As a Defense Minister I can’t be enthusiastic about it,” the Minister said.

The Armenian Premier gave a laconic answer, “Yes”. Afterwards the PM stated again the gas tariff will not rise after election and Armenia will not compensate with any strategic facility.

“And we’ve also called for a full and frank acknowledgement of the facts of what happened around those deaths. And that remains our policy. I don’t want to get into terminology or how we referred to it. We acknowledged that 1.5 million Armenians were massacred, as I said, and we want to see a full historical accounting of those events.”

“I don’t consider Germany’s co-chairmanship completely lost, as two presidential meetings have been launched in that period, proposals, security mechanisms have been submitted, around which works still continue in OSCE. If a meeting is launched in Hamburg, maybe it’ll be possible to come to an agreement around these proposals,” Rahr said.

After spending time with people in Nagorno-Karabakh, it’s clear to me that the only way the nation will ever again be a part of Azerbaijan is if Azerbaijan conquers it. And despite Azerbaijan’s being vastly larger, I can’t imagine that ever will happen. Armenians had lived on this land for centuries before it was incorporated into Azerbaijan.

While on a working visit to the USA, Prime Minister of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Arayik Harutyunyan on December 5 had a meeting with the leaderships of two Armenian organizations in Washington and took part in the reception organized in the Armenian Embassy.

The Ministry’s announcement reads: “Overnight December 6-7 the Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime over 35 times by firing more than 400 shots from various caliber small arms at the Armenian positions in the Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.

We have always raised the issue of buildings and forgot about the human losses who must have restored this economy. We have lost a serious generation and now we feel this gap.

Trump may have asked Pence to make the call to Sargsyan due to his familiarity with Armenian issues during his 10-year tenure in the House of Representatives.