If Pope Francis does go to the Turkish border, it will likely prove the visual news highlight of his visit, similar to his stop at the U.S. border during his February 2016 visit to Mexico, when he prayed for migrants who had died trying to cross the Rio Grande.
“Mammadov is known for rather inadequate statements, he says what serves to their propaganda. It’s just a statement of internal use. At large, he touches upon elements of Madrid and Kazan documents. We all know that negotiations are held around them, however, I’m sure that during this meeting likewise issues haven’t been discussed, mainly possibilities and ways of resumption of negotiations have been covered. Thus, any agreement couldn’t have been reached,” A.Arzumanyan said.
On the same day Presidents of the two Armenian states held in capital Stepanakert a consultation with the supreme command staff of the NKR Defense Army and discussed a wide range of issues concerning to the army building.
As a servant of the Gospel and messenger of peace, I want to be among you to support you in every effort in the pursuit of peace and walk the path of reconciliation that brings hope. Let the great saints of your nation, and the Doctor of the Church Gregory of Narek in particular, bless our meetings which I am anticipating impatiently.
According to the same expert, serious talks will be launched with Bako Sahakyan. At the same time, he didn’t clarify which concrete meetings will NKR president have in Moscow, however, he stated that by accepting Sahakyan, Moscow attempts to understand how it may influence on Stepanakert without Yerevan’s mediation.
“It’s their smash hit, they say the same every time, there is no sense even in commenting on it. Every time they say and we deny that information. They always say, as it’s their dream, they attempt to introduce their dream as a reality, however, as we know, dream is one thing, and reality is another,” David Babayan said.
“Alan Meale, representative of Great Britain, thoroughly introduced the situation in Armenia during his visit, which coincided with the period of military escalation initiated by Azerbaijan, saying, we understand, that peaceful civilians have been killed and it was filmed, they beheaded killed Armenian soldiers and boasted with such atrocities.”
“That official, Novruz Mammadov, has never participated in any negotiations. The St. Petersburg summit was not an exception. At the last meeting, he only participated in the working dinner during which only the issues related to the installation of investigation mechanisms of incidents and the increase of the scope of responsibilities of team of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office were discussed.”
“As the Pope had representatives in almost all the countries of the world, yet in the end of 19th century their reports on the condition of Christians have been gathered in the archive, including Armenian Christians. Pietro Kuchukyan, RA Honored Consul in Milano, supports the process of making the copies accessible to the Armenian side,” Amatuni Virabyan said.
“There are precedents, the US Embassy also has radio frequency, and today permission was granted to the Russian Embassy as well. It is a common practice, just like Armenian Embassies abroad are using the resources of given countries,” Gevorgyan said.
