The Defense Ministry of Artsakh denied the statement of the Azerbaijani defense ministry claiming that the units of the Defense Army have opened fire from machine guns and rifles at the Azerbaijani positions on the outskirts of Shushi on July 13, at around 21:34-21:45.
Ombudsman of Artsakh Gegham Stepanyan has presented details from the shooting reported near Shushi overnight July 13.
The United States welcomes the release by Azerbaijan of 15 Armenian detainees and their return to their families in Armenia.
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) issue and the Armenian-Azerbaijani border standoff with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Tukey.
The ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Artsakh has issued a statement on May 12 on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the trilateral, termless agreement on a complete ceasefire and cessation of hostilities in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone.
Freedom house has called on the Azerbaijani authorities to fully cooperate with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and provide all requested information about the Armenian prisoners of war.
Just when you think the war is over, it actually is not. Multi-generational families are haunted by the dead. There are too many displaced persons, multitudes of refugee children uprooted from schools and homes, and continued mistreatment of POWs. The major economic dislocations and massive war debts are part of the ongoing and mounting negative tally. The competing legal terms national self-determination vs territorial integrity are brandished about in fervent ideological battles that further entrench the hardened positions of two combatant sides.
The Azerbaijani authorities’ ban on international organizations’ entry into the occupied regions of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) amounts to an act of cultural genocide which should receive an adequate reaction, says Hermine Mkhitaryan, an expert from the analytical center Hayatsk (Insight).
Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov will arrive in Yerevan on May 5 on a two-day visit to meet with the Armenian leadership. Then, Lavrov will also visit Azerbaijan May 10-11.
In November 2020 Armenian human rights advocate Ms. Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte, who is a former refugee from Baku and lives in the United States of America, informed the Human Rights Defender about an important Initiative spearheaded by her and her Foundation (www.Astvatsaturian.org).
