“For instance, lack of a resolution to Nagorno-Karabakh fuels corruption because it keeps Armenia’s borders closed and, when borders are closed, it is easier for powerful business people and others to control economic markets and close off competition,” Ambassador Mills said.
“The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs agreed to hold separate consultations with the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan mid February within the framework of the Munich Security Conference. If the ministers bring forward interest, we will organize their meeting,” Popov said.
“Last diplomatic year was full with challenges,” FM Edward Nalbandian told reporters today. The FM particularly pointed at the military operations unleashed by Azerbaijan on NK conflict zone.
“Among the failures of Baku, it is worth to also include the not-rarely observed insufficient seriousness towards settlement of the Karabakh conflicts in documents, which were signed in its presence.”
According to the document written on June 16, 1988 it’s meant for the US Vice President [the then Vice President was George H. W. Bush] the enmity between the two Soviet nations—Armenians and Azerbaijanis, fundamentally is based on religious and ethnic differences.
“The current issue is that he has many supporters, who like his this idea, and the other part of the society doesn’t like, as a result of which the country has been divided into two parts, and it isn’t clear what the developments are going to be like,” Harut Sassounian said.
Pedro Agramunt, who was re-elected PACE President yesterday, reflecting to priorities in the agenda of the Council of Europe, expressed regret that last year the organization failed to have a visible investment in NK conflict settlement.
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) initiated a “campaign for justice” on the occasion of the launch of Donald Trump’s tenure as the 45th US President.
s a result of the ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side, on January 22, as of 23:25, the NKR Defense Army soldier Karen M. Ulubabyan, born in 1995, was fatally wounded at one of the military units located in the eastern direction of the Defense Army. Investigation is underway to clarify the details of the case.
The Defense Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh informed on January 18, as of 14:00, Defense Army soldier Andranik S. Musikyan (born in 1997) was mortally wounded by Azerbaijani fire in one of the military units located in the southern direction of the Defense Army.
