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.
During their meeting in Yerevan today President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian and Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili discussed issues relating to the settlement of regional conflicts.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Miroslav Lajčák, expresses readiness to do everything to help finding a solution for settling the Nagorno Karabakh conlfict.
A serviceman of the Armenian Armed Forces has died while on-duty at the north-eastern border of the country, the military reported.
Allow me to welcome the joint session of the security councils of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh, which is an unprecedented event during the entire period of existence of our republics.
There are a number of key provisions in Nagorno-Karabakh’s negotiations for which authorities must have a predefined position before the negotiations start. It is clear that Aliyev easily gained a stronger position over Pashinyan.
A 19 year old on-duty soldier of the Artsakh military has died after sustaining a gunshot wound in circumstances that are yet to be determined, the Ministry of Defense of the country reported.
