The only consoling fact is that the EU has already warned Trump that it won’t support those sanctions and Trump’s anti-Iranian campaign, which means sanctions won’t be extended. As the USA, the EU and Iran concluded nuclear deal as a result of complicated negotiations lasting for decades, didn’t they?” Ali Salami said.
“Yes, I’m in the black list. Of course, I can pose that question to me, although, as compared to Lapshin, I don’t have citizenship, I have a diplomatic passport. But I don’t know where the border of friendship between Alexander Lukashenko and Ilham Aliyev ends.”
“There are reports in media saying the heads of our state agencies and provincial structures are using their administrative resources for campaigning, entering the pre-election stage. I am strictly warning everyone, such services will be considered as disservice, regardless which party it is aimed for. Pay special attention to this issue,” Karapetyan said at the Cabinet meeting.
“If in 2013 we were touching upon rapprochement, integration with the EU, currently we should realize that segmental relations and cooperation are meant, which globally may not have big influence neither on Armenia’s economy, nor on policy, i.e. Armenia was already deprived of its chance in 2013.”
Extradition of blogger Alexander Lapshin by Belarus to Azerbaijan will negatively impact those two states and not only in terms of reputation, Edward Nalbandian, Foreign Minister of Armenia told at the National Assembly during parliament-government question and answer session.
I want to mention another circumstance as well. There is a situation, which not everyone in our country imagines well. He was arrested for visiting Karabakh. I mean he was blacklisted and visited Azerbaijan after it, and before that he had been in Karabakh.
“The most important is official information of Artsakhi Defense Army. Even if we suffer losses, which is regretful, one casualty, one wounded soldier is an awful phenomenon to us, we never hide, thus, as long as respective information isn’t provided by respective bodies, one should refrain from disseminating unconfirmed information,” Babayan said.
Gegham Manukyan, a 38 year old soldier of Nagorno Karabakh was fatally wounded by Azerbaijani ceasefire violations at 11:00, February 8, in a military post located in the northern direction of the Defense Army, the ministry of defense of Nagorno Karabakh informed.
“This is a traditional procedure, when negotiations are finalized, negotiators do their work, the parties through official visits reconfirm their devotedness to the process, i.e. negotiations are strengthening by top officials. This means, negotiations basically have been finalized, or main decisions have been made, a vivid proof of which was visit of Danielsson to Armenia together with the European negotiator.”
Alexander Lapshin’s prosecution, his extradition to Azerbaijan is a severe violation of freedom of speech, freedom of movement, fundamental human rights, which once again shows the deep gap between a dictatorship and a democracy.
