On May 19, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the line of contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the eastern direction of Martakert, Press Service of the NKR MFA informed.
Speaking about the military operations of April, Dolzer regretfully noted that Germany’s ally: Erdogan’s Government, is pushing forward an unconstructive policy and is assisting Azerbaijan in many actions. “As a peaceful party, we are fighting for the peaceful solution of the conflict”, he said.
According to him, it is possible that this had a serious impact on Eurobonds of Turkey since Turkish leaders made different speeches over that issue during that time. “Azerbaijan’s Eurobonds were somehow influenced by it, however, we did not have any problems from that perspective”, Javadyan concluded.
“Assessments may be found in some media outlets, that Russia is losing the South Caucasus and etc. I consider, what happens now tactically can’t be qualified as success for Russian diplomacy, however, I wouldn’t consider this a complete failure, as the response of the Armenian society on armaments selling was rather sharp.”
On April 26, 2016, at a regular meeting of leaders of the factions represented in the City Hall of the Basque Country (Spain) Gipuskoa Province’s capital city of Donostia (San Sebastian), the following institutsoinal statement was issued, which was later approved by the Mayor on May 5.
Such case was most recently witnessed in early April when Azerbaijan launched large-scale military offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh, resulting in many killed and wounded, along with gross violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
“It was important that ministers of foreign affairs—Kerry, Lavrov and Desir, were present at the meeting, which showed that the governments highlight this issue, it was a pressure towards both Azerbaijan and Armenia, in particular, towards Baku.”
Ambassador says the fact that the sides are ready to work towards the installation of the investigative mechanisms in the Karabakh-Azerbaijani line of contact, shows their goodwill and readiness to that issue.
The Presidents reiterated their commitment to the ceasefire and the peaceful settlement of the conflict. To reduce the risk of further violence, they agreed to finalize in the shortest possible time an OSCE investigative mechanism.
Meeting of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and US Secretary of State John Kerry has kicked off in Vienna. Reports President’s spokesperson Vladimir Hakobyan made a note about this on his Twitter page.
