By the way, we are talking also about the following: When we say that Azerbaijan will have communication with Nakhichevan, we say that it will also have communication with Turkey. In other words, it cannot be only about internal communications. We are also pursuing the topic of international communication so that we can reach speedy solutions there. This is the answer to the question of what the working group has done?
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced a powerful amendment that would end U.S. presidential waiver authority of Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act, an Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) -backed measure that would effectively block U.S. military aid to Azerbaijan.
The Armenian Genocide recognition bill will be debated in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Armenian National Committee of UK reports.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan held a meeting on November 3 with President of the Republic of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan, the PM’s Office reports.
On 5 October 2021, a new law went into effect in Armenia, raising the maximum threshold for “insults” and “defamation” fines by three times their previous amount. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joined their affiliate the Union of Journalists of Armenia (UJA) in denouncing this law and its impact on the right of freedom of expression.
The unified formation of the Armenian and Russian troops are holding tactical military exercises in Armenia. The drills kicked off on October 22, the commander of the formation Lt. General Tigran Parvanyan told Sputnik Armenia.
The Coordination Council of the Pan-Armenian Forum of Journalists held a session on October 21 to discuss the results of regional seminars and look into the possibility of organizing the pan-Armenian forum in spring of 2022.
Former US Ambassador to Armenia John M Evans (2004-2006) says Armenian Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan’s proposal to create demilitarized zone around the borders of Armenia, in particular on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, “is fully justified”.
This concerns the well-known amendments made to the Law on Advertising, as well as the sensational law on multiplying the sanctions imposed for insult and defamation which was also officially legitimized by the Constitutional Court recently.
It is important to note that the Constitutional Court decided to examine the constitutionality of this extremely important law through a written procedure in order to avoid public open discourse.
