Director of the National Security Service of Armenia Artur Vanetsyan assures that a lot of money will be returned to the state budget within the frames of several scandalous cases that are under investigation, he said during the session of the parliamentary standing committee on defense and security affairs, asked whether there are predictions in connection with the money to be returned to the budget in 2019.
Azerbaijan’s commencement of large-scale offensive-type military drills without prior notification is a violation of international obligations envisaged by the OSCE tools.
I want to inform you that at the moment there are, at least are discussed with the Government 89 investment projects totaling 2.7 billion USD. 42 out of the 89 projects (774 million USD) are in fact in various stages of implementation, the others are under active discussions.
This is constantly in the dimension of our discussions. In the part there was a practice when both Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh were bound to return people who were lost and trespassed the border within a week.
There is no need to wait at all. It’s just necessary to work consistently in the diplomatic process because, frankly speaking, what is stated publicly, is not something new both for the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and Azerbaijan.
We are fully ready to cooperate within the frames of the whole agenda of reforms. The EU leaders also expressed readiness to assist the implementation of all these programs.
The issue of the Iranian gas transit via Armenia has been one of the key points of the agenda of the recent visit of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to Iran: earlier this issue has also been discussed with the Russian, Georgian and Turkmen leaders, PM Nikol Pashinyan said during today’s press conference with reporters.
On March 16, at 01:30, the Armenian Armed Forces have detected and were forced to neutralize an unknown person, who violated the state border of Armenia, for ignoring the warnings, Armenian defense ministry’s spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan said on Facebook.
The return of the Republic of Artsakh to the negotiation table for the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict cannot lead it to a deadlock, Armenian foreign minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told reporters, commenting on the statement of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev that the change of negotiation format is unacceptable.
Prime Minister Pashinyan reaffirmed Armenia’s commitment to an exclusively peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmanship and presented Armenia’s approaches and principled position on this issue.
