The very fact that in the time of unprecedented humanitarian crises this body has continued its work and fulfilled its mandate, speaks about the centrality of human rights protection as one of the key deliverables of multilateralism.
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia Marise Payne has reaffirmed the Government’s support for the OSCE Minsk Group process, highlighting “equal rights and self-determination of people” as one of the three equal principles that must guide Nagorno Karabakh to permanent peace following the bloody war of 2020, reported the Armenian National Committee of Australia.
Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro urges to immediately release prisoners of war and civilians captured during the recent Nagorno Karabakh war.
The Azerbaijani authorities continue blocking Artsakh’s search and rescue teams from searching for the remains of the casualties in combat zones of the 2020 war.
It is important to note that this process of strategic analysis and planning of the RA defense system development until 2018 was carried out in accordance with modern international standards of the NATO Individual Partnership Action Program under the supervision of leading experts of the Russian Federation, the United States, CSTO and NATO. Based on the results of the SDR, medium-term plans for the development of the Armenian Armed Forces were elaborated. The latest SDR, which confirmed the high level of combat capability of the RA defense system, was conducted under the leadership of the RA ex-Commander-in-Chief S. Sargsyan and RA ex-Minister of Defense S. Ohanyan.[17]
ArmNews TV Channel has released the second part of the extensive interview with Serzh Sargsyan in which the third president elaborated on the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict settlement talks, the failures of the Armenian diplomacy, politics and military, including the causes and consequences of the capitulation, as well as the possible ways out of post-war situation and the future oriented programs.
Harutyunyan added that the searching works of bodies and survivors of the 44-day war still continue. ”In addition, we have started making joint efforts for discovering the bodies of Armenian and Azerbaijani victims of the war of the 1990s”, he wrote.
No bodies were found during search operations in Hadrut on February 15, the State Service of Emergency Situations said. But on the same day, the Azeri authorities transferred 1 body to Artsakh in the Madaghis region.
Third President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan gave an interview to ArmNews TV channel, referring to Negotiation process for the settlement of the conflict of the Nagorno-Karabakh, the diplomatic and military-political failures of the Republic of Armenia in the recent Artsakh war, the reasons and consequences of the capitulation, the way out of the current situation and future programs.
Azerbaijani authorities have barred a group of Armenian Christian pilgrims from entering the Dadivank monastery, demanding that from now on they should receive a manifest listing the identities of pilgrims beforehand.
