Protest March to the Embassy of Russia (Live)
“We continue to insist on strict respect of the ceasefire and moving forward with peace talks. In particular, targeting civilians must be ceased. However, evidently, we aren’t able to agree upon the status quo and our political purpose must be resumption of negotiations for a comprehensive settlement of the conflict by the sides”, Mogherini stressed.
From April 2 it became finally clear, that Armenia, not having foreign policy, moreover, doesn’t have a ministry of foreign affairs, and in particular, a minister called the one. Edward Nalbandyan is the living edifice to absence of Armenia’s foreign policy. After April 2, however, processes have been developed on public-political platform, directed to restoration of lost sovereignty.
“Many people claim that power of the small isn’t power at all. In fact, it’s not so, even AMD 1000 is a big support. Just let me bring one indicator—Total amount of investors up to 100 000 drams comprises AMD 15 million. And I’m thankful from him/her as well, I didn’t write this to mock at, I wrote this, so that we understood big power and possibilities of small people,” A.Khurshudyan wrote, adding that one shouldn’t think and wait for the small number of the rich to solve our problems.
“An attempt is made to change the current status-quo. However we can’t say that a new status has been established on the conflict zone. Who benefitted from this? It’s needless observing some secret documents and extraordinary facts to understand what has happened and why. The status quo was inadmissible for Baku, this has been repeatedly stated, and still there was a chance for military settlement and an alternative to fail the political process. Political settlement is more beneficial for Armenia, it’s in favor of the country, as time works for Armenia. Although there are some other issues: economic development, impossibility to enter an external world, regression, migration.”
“The Armenian nation is more powerful, than it used to be 25 years ago, when it was in USSR, there was war, but there were only volunteers, freedom fighters, and there were no unmanned aerial vehicles and a regular army in the Republic of Armenia, support from abroad was reaching by unknown ways, it was impossible to connect to Armenia. Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh are states now, “on their feet,” have armies, new ways, the Diaspora and Armenia have interests as well, currently we are more powerful , but under those conditions, we won the war 25 years ago, i.e. I have no doubt that we’ll win the war if it continues, however, I wish, it didn’t. God willing, it didn’t happen, but if it occurs, we’ll win. Karabah is our Sparta, and we all should be united around the concept of Sparta. There is no other way out. When a nation is at war, there is no any way out.”
“As there is no settlement, each side has its own disposition, the situation would better be frozen, rather than shifted to a hot stage. Although I insist, that regional conflicts are hazardous even at a frozen condition, but there is no way out, and it’s completely in line with the logic of Russia-led policy” Alexander Rahr said.
“Wide-scale Karabakh-Azerbaijan clashes on the Line of Contact remind me of 1973 Arab-Israeli scenario, the so-called Yom Kipur War. As, surely, many people aren’t familiar with the scenario, it’s worth introducing its essence in a couple of words. The war unleashed unexpected for Israel, initiators of which were Egypt and Syria. And although, in the end, the Arabian side was defeated, at the initial stage of military operations, due to the recorded serious success, authorities of Egypt, represented by president Anwar Sadat saved his image, and turning it into a document, boldly concluded a Peace Treaty and established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1979 in Camp David, as a result returning Sinai Peninsula. “
The bodies of 18 servicemen of the NKR Defense Army, fallen as a result of the large scale military aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan in April 2-5, were transferred to the NKR side during the exchange. At the presence of the representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the NKR State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons registered that all bodies of the deceased transferred by the Azerbaijani side had signs of torture and mutilation.
“The four-day war” showed that blitzkrieg is impossible, and only a wide-scale war is possible. And the latter isn’t in line with the interests of the trio—the USA, Russia and the EU. Are they ready for steps to urge Azerbaijan agree on terms of the new accord on cease-fire? This depends on many factors. The first practical steps by mediator countries will show how far they’re able to go, not to permit new escalation.”
