“I have made one of the most important and difficult decisions of my life and I announce that I stop my membership to the Republican Party of Armenia. I have thought quite long on making this decision. Frankly, it was not an easy decision for me since I have devoted significant part of my life to the party, nearly two decades.”
On January 25, at 08:50 the body of Private Shavarsh Galstyan was discovered in the territory of an unspecified military position of the Defense Ministry. The body had a gunshot wound to the jaw.
The Armenia-Iran and Armenia-Georgia power transmission lines will be commissioned in 2019, which will raise Armenia’s energy system to an entirely new level. The abovementioned programs will enable electricity transits, seasonal mutual supplies and exchanges, as well as other commercial transactions,” Serzh Sargsyan said.
“We observe extra-Syrian powers, which have their own interests and attempt to bring their interests and goals into life. Those contrasts have so deepened, actors are so different, their interests are so diverse that I’m not optimistic regarding the results at this stage. Just the contrary, contrasts more deepen with time.”
“The current issue is that he has many supporters, who like his this idea, and the other part of the society doesn’t like, as a result of which the country has been divided into two parts, and it isn’t clear what the developments are going to be like,” Harut Sassounian said.
“This issue has always been under his control, throughout these years Armenia-Turkey relations have been influenced by the policy pursued by Erdogan, thus, I consider results of the forthcoming elections won’t influence on Armenia-Turkey relations.”
“We had a rather constructive reflection from the Armenian side, and we hope in the forthcoming weeks and months that negotiations of the priorities of the partnership will also be finalized.”
“We hope, that international criteria will be applied. We should pay attention to official launching of the campaign, so that the process was pure, sincere, in compliance with international criteria.”
It’s difficult for me to comment, as it turns out that Russia needs Armenia, the latter’s partnership in the military field, the latter’s permits, which it provides to Russia disinterestedly, for that not putting forward claims, meanwhile under current state of affairs, I believe, those claims would have positive implications for the Armenian side. Russia can’t ignore complaints of Armenia’s society and authorities if they are properly expressed.
s a result of the ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side, on January 22, as of 23:25, the NKR Defense Army soldier Karen M. Ulubabyan, born in 1995, was fatally wounded at one of the military units located in the eastern direction of the Defense Army. Investigation is underway to clarify the details of the case.
