The settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is among Russia’s foreign policy priorities, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said in an interview to the Rossiya Segodnya news agency.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) indicates that every Armenian who would fall under the control of the Azerbaijani authorities, regardless of his or her status, is subjected to a life threat, Foreign Ministry of Armenia said in a statement made over the ECHR ruling on “Saribekyan and Balyan vs Azerbaijan” case.
“First of all, ‘word game’ is not a word that the VC uses. The word was twisted. However, first of all, I would like to state the truth. I’m not a government official and am not very concerned about Armenia’s relations with international partners. I’m also not a Member of Parliament or a member of the political team to be concerned about the parliamentary diplomacy, etc. I’m a judge of the Constitutional Court, and I would like to be very sincere to citizens in my response to the question. First of all, the impartiality of certain officials of the VC regarding this and other issues isn’t very unequivocal for me,” Vahe Grigoryan said.
”We will say ”yes” to the revolution, to freedom and to bright future on April 5, and will slam the door in the face of corruption”, he wrote.
President of the Venice Commission Gianni Buquicchio has issued another statement on the events surrounding the Constitutional Court and calls on the parties to show restraint, and this statement has been the topic of discussions in the Armenian domain of Facebook since last evening.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on February 13, the German federal government said in a statement.
Party of Armenia: · Acknowledges that the entire responsibility for the process thus initiated is borne by Nikol Pashinyan, as well as all persons involved in this, yet another, act of state capture; ·
“The Armenian Parliament decided to hold an extraordinary session on 6 February in order to discuss a series of amendments that would remove the requirement for the Constitutional Court to check the compliance of draft legislation with the Constitution of Armenia. Among other things, this would change the procedure of revision of the Constitution itself. In addition, a constitutional amendment that seems to aim at ending the terms of several members of the current Constitutional Court with immediate effect has been tabled,” said the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for the monitoring of Armenia, Andrej Šircelj (Slovenia, EPP/CD) and Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC).
Late last night, the Court of Appeals, presided over by Judge Sergey Marabyan, examined the lawyers’ appeal against the detention of former Minister of Finance and SRC Chairman Gagik Khachatryan. After the session, Yerem Sargsyan, member of the Khachatryans’ legal team, told the reporters that state law enforcement bodies violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights in Khachatryan’s case.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan reminded the 6 pan-national consensuses proposed by him in Stepanakert on August 5, 2019, as a pillar and formula for the pan-Armenianism and the national unity.
