Let us also remind that during the rallies led by Pashinyan that were part of the velvet revolution in 2018, Pashinyan’s teammates helped an old man come up on stage, and he presented himself as the grandfather of deceased hero of the Four-Day Artsakh War (April 2016) Robert Abajyan and gave a speech.
Let us recall how Azerbaijan acted in the hottest phase of the interior political developments in Armenia — Azerbaijan supported Pashinyan and there was an agreement in Dushanbe. Now, Azerbaijan views that the time for Pashinyan to take a breath is over and is setting forth specific conditions.
The Foreign Ministerial Council Meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has kicked off in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
“The public also gets tired of ongoing revolutionary ideas and developments. The revolution served its goal, that is, shift of power. Now it is time to end it and start working on a regular basis,” he said.
We have not had the opportunity to discuss the issue in detail with the Government or the Justice Ministry of Armenia or other people.
The report comes ahead of the EU-Armenia Partnership Council on 13 June. It finds that Armenia has stepped up its efforts to reinforce and enhance its partnership with the EU, and that Armenia consistently acknowledged the significant role the EU can play in the smooth implementation of the country’s reform agenda.
“The impression that a certain outside force is manipulating through its assets within the Armenian political elite for negative polarization within the political elite (consequently within the scope of the public as well) is becoming more and more reinforced. In this period, artificial contrast between the sector of the Armenian political elite in Artsakh and the new generation of Armenian politicians is being directly or indirectly created.
Azerbaijan has violated the OSCE commitment by holding large-scale military drills without informing in advance, Armenian foreign ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan said during today’s press briefing.
“Listen, Armenians in Karabakh and Armenia are defending the territory that they want to keep under their control. On the one hand, when Pashinyan issued an order and dismissed the Minister of Defense of Karabakh from office, that was interference with the domestic affairs of Karabakh. On the other hand, Pashinyan states that Karabakh is a separate territory.
“Political stakeholders must refrain from actions and statements that could be perceived as exerting pressure on the judiciary,” said the co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Armenia, Yuliya Lovochkina (Ukraine, SOC) and Andrej Šircelj (Slovenia, EPP/CD), following the statement by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan calling on citizens to block the entrances and exits of courts, on 19 May. This call followed a judge’s decision to release former President Kocharyan from pre-trial detention.
