Yesterday Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared that on December 19, Armenia will declare three days of mourning to commemorate those who fell in the war. Nikol Pashinyan said December 19th marks the 40th day following the agreement signed on November 9th and added that this is why the mourning will be declared on December 19th.
The President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan has confirmed that “several dozens” of troops were taken captive by Azerbaijani armed forces in the direction of the village of Khtsaberd.
The Human Rights Defender of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan says he contacted several organizations and servicemen on the ground regarding the information on the troops who went missing in Khtsaberd village. “According to the information that I gathered, a military unit consisting of around 60 servicemen went missing during these days in the direction of the village of Khtsaberd in Hadrut region, and it is highly likely that the video published by the Azerbaijani side shows this very unit,” he said.
The Ministry of Defense of Artsakh announced in a statement that in the evening of December 15, in unknown circumstances, it lost contact with the military personnel of several combat positions of the Defense Army deployed in the direction of the Hin Tagher and Khtsaberd villages of Hadrut.
The overhead power line extending from Armenia to Artsakh through the territory of the Kashatagh region is restored, the acting Minister of Economy and Industrial Infrastructures of Artsakh Armen Tovmasyan told ARMENPRESS. “It is noteworthy that prior to the war the electric-energy network of Artsakh was feeding from two-circuits from Armenia. The second line was […]
The Foreign Ministry of Artsakh has issued a statement on the occasion of the Azerbaijani provocative actions in the directions of Hin Tagher and Khtsaberd of the Hadrut region and Mets Shen and Hin Shen of the Shushi region. As 168.am was informed from the press service of the MFAS Artsakh, the statements runs as […]
Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has called on Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan to resign and allow parliament to elect a new leader.
“It is clear to everyone that there is an issue of Artsakh, but I must repeat again that we should not be guided by toasts. It is enough, and we are tired of those toasts and slogans. Who does not know that we must be strong, but who should strengthen the country, how should we become stronger? These are all questions. Therefore, to become stronger, we have take concrete steps in that direction, to create a normal country, to have a united society, great patriotism, pro-state. Only by this, we can get out of this situation in some way. Our biggest problem today is the lack of a pro-state mentality which is still at an unsufficient level. We are talking not only about the political elites, but also about the wider society which must be educated, brought up, we must be guided by our national value system.
The defeat of Armenia in the second Karabakh war dramatically altered the regional political arrangements that had shaped Armenia’s foreign and security policy. Prior to the independence of Armenia, a movement for the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, and then the victory in the 1990s defined the contours of Armenia’s foreign policy and international stance in general. But the 44-day war changed the facts on the ground. Henceforth, Armenian foreign policy will be implemented in a completely different environment and the revision of the core concepts of Armenia’s foreign policy is a matter of urgency.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to mediate the return of Armenian POWs who are currently held in Azerbaijani custody after the war.
