168.am’s correspondent sat down for an interview with Member of the German Bundestag (Christian Democratic Union), Vice-Chair of the Germany-South Caucasus Parliamentary Friendship Group and President of the German-Armenian Forum Albert Weiler.
Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination. We honor the victims of the Meds Yeghern so that the horrors of what happened are never lost to history. And we remember so that we remain ever-vigilant against the corrosive influence of hate in all its forms.
Turkey, as a major investor in Azerbaijan, will definitely demand its share from that country for the large-scale assistance offered during the second war against Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), a Yerevan-based political analyst said today, warning of the possible impact on the regional context.
According to 168.am newspaper’s information, institution of the criminal case by the National Security Service (NSS) regarding the sensational case of obstruction of justice on the part of Anna Vardapetyan, NikolPashinyan’s assistant, was suspended underNikolPashinyan’s instruction.
President Armen Sarkissian refused to sign into law the bill on increasing the fines for public defamation and insults which passed parliament earlier in March.
A discussion was held on April 12 at the European Parliament relating to the issue of the release and return of the Armenian prisoners of war from Azerbaijan.
The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stephane Visconti of France, and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America) released the following statement today:
The truth is that Serzh Sargsyan had promised that the Armenian side would never give up the territories considered as a security zone should Ilham Aliyev not comply with the demands of the Armenian side to determine the status of Nagorno-Karabakh outside Azerbaijan, ensure a reliable land border / inland communication between Armenia and Artsakh, and provide a pledge for internationally guaranteed security for the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
President Armen Sarkissian will apply to the Constitutional Court to dispute the conformity of the recently proposed amendments to the Judicial Code with the Constitution of Armenia.
The Italian town of San Vito dei Normanni has unanimously adopted a resolution recognizing the independence of Artsakh, the Armenian Embassy in Italy reports.
