James Warlick informed that the first stop of their visit was Baku, where they met Azerbaijani president and the FM, then headed for NK, where they met the de facto authorities, and arrived in Yerevan through Kelbajar today, for which Ambassador Warlick is ready. In his words, the co-chairs are waiting for their meeting with Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan, new Defense Minister, as well as FM.
“We’ll be able to agree greater part of the texts within these discussions,” Garegin Melkonyan said. The Deputy Minister also said that the document includes more than 10 fields—transparency, issues related to goods, trade, customs issues, trade technical hindrances—certification, sanitary, mental ability protection and other issues, moreover, the Armenian side anticipates to include the issue of investments as well.
“It’s symbolic, that the events week was launched with the meeting, devoted to business development. SMEs provide the majority of employees, thus, economic opportunities provided by SMEs should also be highlighted.”
“I know, that Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev is ready to work around negotiations and proposals on the table, as well as he is ready for further discussions with Armenia’s leader. We’d like to follow responsibilities, assumed in Vienna and St. Petersburg, although some details are available towards which it’s necessary to continue the work. We’ll discuss it at the forthcoming presidential meeting,” he said.
The draft on activity of Nairit Plant CJSC and defining a special management regime has been included in this week’s NA session agenda. It has been developed by PAP MPs Mikayel Melkumyan, Naira Zohrabyan and Lyova Khachatryan. The draft was approved by NA Standing Committee on Economic Affairs.
“We see that the tension hasn’t been eliminated, state of affairs on the negotiation table have more sharpened,” the analyst said, not excluding though that new outbreak on Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact may be recorded.
“Government’s action plan doesn’t solve challenges, which our country faces. Armenia really appeared in isolation, and if we don’t come out, no issue will be solved. Thus, situation improvement can’t be recorded, negative tendencies will proceed.”
Our sworn friend Russia and that much sworn enemies are in active socializations. A few days ago presidents of Russia and Turkey signed a document, the so-called “Turkish flow” on construction of a gas pipeline.
The National Assembly approved the action plan submitted by the Government with 85 for, 7 against and 6 abstained votes. Prior to the voting in his concluding remarks PM Karen Karapetyan reflected to speeches by the MPs.
During the confrontation with the sabotage unit the Defense Army did not sustain losses. In addition to the sabotage infiltration attempts, overnight October 20-21 Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire regime more than 50 times, firing around 2800 shots at Armenian positions from various caliber small arms.
