“Firstly, one should anticipate sharpening of situation on the contact line. It’s a good tradition of Ilham Aliyev to shell villages of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh prior to any meeting or summit linked to Karabakh-Azerbaijan conflict, launching unmanned aerial vehicles, attempt to anger the negotiating parties and mediators. I don’t have any expectation of a breakthrough outcome.”

We should do everything. I’m not saying there is no need for the time being, that need is always available, 24 hours a day. However, we have President, National Assembly, Prime Minister and they are all able to raise the issues in political instances and protect. If needed and the Catholicos interferes we will surely bring our participation as well.

After statue to Garegin Nzhdeh was unveiled in Yerevan, Moscow expressed its discontent through its analysts and historians, to which Armenia’s power circles dared to reflect by common formulations only, introducing as justification to the circumstance that it’s not the disposition of separate individuals and not that of official Moscow. So, Moscow says it’s such an official disposition, which is pronounced by the official representative of Russia’s Foreign Minister.

“Our attitude towards any manifestation of heroism, neo-Nazism, extremism of Nazism is well known as well. That attitude is enshrined in international documents. It’s unclear to us, why that statue was placed, as we all know about the deed of the Armenian people, it’s the immortal deed of Armenian people during the Great Patriotic War, World War II,” she said.

“The Headquarters doesn’t face the issue of cheap supply. I repeat once again, it faces the issue of qualified and well-timed provision of material resources,” Movses Hakobyan said.

The German resolution is also significant because of the shadow of the Holocaust. In the 1940s, the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide” chiefly to describe the Holocaust of the Jews. The term’s close association with the Holocaust leaves the other examples of genocide that Lemkin invoked—including the slaughter of one million Armenians—in an invidious position: they are constantly compared and contrasted with an even larger and more deliberate instance of mass killing.

“Restore Tourian’s face…accept the proposal or not? I have had many excitements in my scientific life, however, I confess what came over me at that moment is impossible to describe. No, it was not happiness or pride, maybe, first and foremost, it was fear. Yes, I was afraid of Tourian, his unique charm…”

However, it’s worth fixing the following fact: the Government did it upon its own initiative, without pressure of the opposition. Yes, the April war played its role here, which revealed the issue and made urgency of their settlement obvious. However, it’s worth stating once again that parliamentary opposition didn’t have its role here.

The Defense Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh informs that overnight June 9-10 the situation was relatively calm in Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.

The expanded powers are only meant to be employed “in those select instances in which their engagement can enable strategic effects on the battlefield,” the official said.