“They were testing us, they were simply preparing for another attack. This also coincided with the developments on Khojalu and Mehriban Aliyeva’s appointment as the VP.”
“Armenians, our guys showed last year that they are able to show rather mighty, string opposition, and Russians have to take this factor into consideration. Russia’s history shows that they always respect power, powerful speech, powerful forces.”
“Central topic of today’s meeting is Armenia-EU new framework agreement. I can state with content today that the sides have finalized the negotiations. The new legal document—the comprehensive and extensive partnership agreement expresses real inclusion and depth of Armenia-EU relations.
“The sides attempt to increase soberness, they also use new measures regarding equipment and strategy, and this edifies if not wide-scale, then possibility of April escalation is rather high. Against its background we see that the international community is rather passive: yesterday OSCE MG issued another statement, which unfortunately, was about the same style, like after the developments on the frontline at the begging of the year.”
“Glory to our soldiers and commanders for being sober. However, it should be noted, that again escalation of military operations is taking place. This can’t be observed as a separate episode, this is continuation of the April War and prelude for new military operations. The April four-day War had certain sobering effect on our ruling elite, the authorities, political powers, our society.”
Today, on February 27, the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan finally released the names of its victims in the neutral zone, which resulted from its attempted offensive in the morning of February 25.
The list of political parties and their alliances participating in upcoming parliamentary elections have already been submitted. Armenia has entered the pre-election stage. What will the new Parliament be like? Which powers have more potential to appear in the National Assembly?
Armenia’s macroeconomic indices for 2016 were mainly disappointing. More or less consoling were data for external trade turnover. In 2016 export has grown by 20%, comprising USD 1 billion 782.9 million. From which: export to Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member countries has considerably grown.
The sides are not only ready to resist these minor military initiatives, but for wide-scale operations, as the sides have been intensively armed in the period of the last decade, and they continue observing the possibility of war resumption as a realistic scenario. He believes on account of tendencies of military science means one things—war is inevitable.
Defense Ministry of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) has released two separate footages and an audio recording proving the attempted subversive operation of the Azerbaijani units overnight to February 24-25.
