“We have already informed that based on the ongoing investigation results in the Police, as well as the orders of the Police Chief, several police officers, including Ashot Karapetyan have been subjected to disciplinary penalties. According to Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan’s decree Ashot Karapetyan today has been dismissed from his post,” the statement said.
“The report has been sent to the international structures with the purpose of spreading more information, bringing attention in order for people to pay much attention to the NKR events and follow the developments. In other words, in this case this is not a formal situation, it will be formal, for instance, in case of the international tribunals,” Ruben Melikyan said.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on dismissing Hrant Yepiskoposyan from the post of First Deputy Director of the National Security Service of Armenia.
The Armenian President will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. The sides are going to discuss political, trade-economic, humanitarian issues, key issues of bilateral mutual cooperation, as well as issues related to the development of integration processes in the Eurasian area.
“Overnight August 2-3 the Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime for 31 times by firing more than 350 shots from various caliber weapons at the Armenian positions in Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.”
Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian says the peaceful settlement of the situation in the Police station was possible thanks to the Armenian leadership’s prudent, patient and balanced approach.
“Yerevan isn’t Beirut or Aleppo. Let no one attempt to import the solutions of the Cold War era of the previous century to Armenia from the Middle East. Let those who don’t understand this study the history of Lebanon’s civil war or the consequences of the ongoing Syrian civil war and make conclusions”.
“I would like to speak about another issue, which we have spoken about on many occasions. It is about the Karabakh issue and so called “surrender of lands.” My personal statements with regard to our clear-cut position on that are probably numberless. I repeat once again: there will be no unilateral concessions in the resolution of the NK issue. Never. Nagorno Karabakh will never be part of Azerbaijan.”
“Yerevan is neither Beirut nor Aleppo. Let no one aspire to import Near East solutions of the previous century, of the Cold War to Armenia. Let those who don’t comprehend this need to look at the history of Lebanon’s civil war or at the consequences of the civil war going on the moment in Syria and draw conclusions.”
The Human Rights Defender’s representatives are conducting visits to the Detention centers of the Police to see Varuzhan Avetisyan, Arayik Khandoyan, Artur Soghomonyan, Garnik Hovakimyan and other detainees, to get acquinated with the conditions of their detention, as well as to observe the provision of rights.
