President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan on January 13 signed a decree on appointing Armen Soghomonyan member of the NKR State Board on Statistics with a 6 year term in office, press service of the NKR Presidential administration informed.
Zakharova also answered the question of an Azerbaijani reporter about the return of the corpse of the Azerbaijani diversionist eliminated on December 29 in Armenia’s Tavush Province as a result of an attempt of a subversive penetration by the Azerbaijani side.
“As the situation is tense on the border and on the contact line now, negotiations are at a deadlock, perhaps the Co-Chairs intend to show that they are concerned over the situation and NK issue is under their strict control and attention.”
From the positions of the NKR Defense Army, the monitoring will be conducted by staff member of the Office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Peter Svedberg (Sweden) and head of the OSCE High Level Planning Group Colonel Hans Lampalzer (Austria).
“Karabakh issue and Karabakh conflict settlement are different: serious changes haven’t been recorded, it’s been a few years that the Co-Chairs aren’t dealing with the Karabakh issue settlement. They attempt not to settle the conflict, but reduce violence risks.”
Commenting on the provocative actions that took place in the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Sergey Minasyan said Azerbaijan uses the holiday season and tries to show that the tension in the border continues, peace is not maintained, military threats still exist.
“At the same time, the issue isn’t the Armenian representative, but recently serious issues have emerged between Moscow and Minsk. Those issues relate to the crisis in Ukraine, then Belarus intends to raffle national elements, authorities of Belarus have arrested Russian bloggers, thus, restricting their activity.”
“Iran is a very crucial partner and neighbor in many dimensions—trade, transport, energy, geopolitics. I read the statement by Rouhani in Yerevan as a standard diplomatic formulation, in other context— Netanyahu’s visit to Baku.”
“For us Armenia and Azerbaijan are friendly states, and we hope that we will witness establishment of stable peace in the region which will benefit the entire region. Undoubtedly, this conflict has no military solution. We want to witness the peaceful settlement of the conflict,” Rouhani said.
And as Armenian authorities also stated on their readiness at least not to oppose to that plan, Ter-Petrosyan proposes implementation of the propaganda part of that deal, in all likelihood, in the forthcoming parliament, or, for certain engagement with the leadership system, which is the same.
