CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas discussed the situation in Armenia’s Syunik province during the telephone conversations with Armenia’s caretaker defense minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan and caretaker foreign minister Ara Aivazian, the CSTO reports.
The Executive Body of the Republican Party of Armenia expresses its concern about the created situation around Syunik Province, particularly the fact that Azerbaijani troops have trespassed the state border in the sector of “Sev Litch” (Black Lake) and the fact that they have advanced at a depth of 3.5 kilometers.
Azerbaijani servicemen were spotted close to the Syunik region early on Wednesday in what was believed to be “border verification activities” at a section lying in the vicinity of Armenia’s southern region.
“The incidents related to the illegal entry of Armenian servicemen into the territory of Azerbaijan at the end of November last year, the death and wounding of Azerbaijani servicemen in December are a war crime committed against Azerbaijan. As a result of the operations carried out by the Azerbaijani special services, some of the Armenian servicemen who carried out provocative and subversive operations were killed and some were arrested. Investigations into them are ongoing.”
Former president Robert Kocharyan will lead the Reviving Armenia and ARF’s election alliance in the expected early election of parliament, the Reviving Armenia party said in a statement.
The entire Armenian nation is now obliged to have the understanding that the regeneration of Pashinyan’s regime poses essentially more real hazards to Armenia and Artsakh than the hypothetical threats coming from Azerbaijan and Turkey, first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan said in an article today, proposing the formation of a pre-electoral alliance with the second and third presidents.
3 more Armenian prisoners of war have returned from Baku.
Azerbaijani servicemen tortured and killed 19 Armenian prisoners of war after the end of the recent Nagorno Karabakh war, Artak Zeynalyan, who represents the interests of the captives and POWs in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), said on social media today.
If I knew what would be the consequences, I would take any measures to prevent what later happened. I just left to let those people build the country of their dreams. I could not think that they dreamed about something else, or that they would be so incompetent. I could not possibly imagine such a disgrace. And let me reiterate, I firmly believed that the country should have taken a slightly different turn, and please do not question that. But that such devastating consequences would those “dmb-dmb-hoo” chants have…
According to the pastor, the Azerbaijani military servicemen first threatened him with their weapons, and then two of them pulled him and tried to take him to move to the trench in the direction of the Azerbaijani position by force. During all this time, Azerbaijani constantly cursed and threatened the pastor.
