The Armed Forces of Artsakh detected a reconnaissance penetration attempt by Azerbaijani forces overnight January 25 in the defense section of a military unit in the south-eastern (Kurapatkino) direction of the line of contact.
Azerbaijan’s maximalist and unrealistic expectations from the outcome of the negotiations is an obstacle to the negotiations over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said at PACE, in response to the question of one of the MPs.
Arpine Hovhannisyan, head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has delivered a speech in the assembly on the issues of football.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan urged an aggressively disposed Azerbaijani MP to calm down, relax and not to distort facts at PACE winter session.
Arpine Hovhannisyan, head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, has been elected as vice-president of the European People’s Party political group.
Armenia will soon, until spring, declare the Armenian-Turkish protocols, which were signed in Switzerland, as null and void, President Sargsyan said at PACE in response to a question from Turkey’s representative Yildirimn Tughrul Turkesh.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said Armenia’s relations with Iran with the history of 2 thousand years are vital for our country.
Lt. General Levon Mnatsakanyan, the defense minister and commander of the military of Artsakh held a press conference on January 24 in the country’s Army Information Center. The press conference was dedicated to the year results of the military for 2017.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on January 19 introduced Armen Sargsyan who is the candidate of the Republican Party of Armenia for the position of the country’s President. Taking into account the fact that the President of the country will be elected not by the people, but the parliament, Armen Sargsyan almost has no chances to lose the election.
During the period from January 14 to 20 the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime about 150 times by firing more than 1800 shots at the Armenian positions in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.