Russia has just sent Syria the largest shipment of missiles between the two countries to date, the latest delivery between the two allies that could further change the stakes in the Middle East, U.S. officials told Fox News on Wednesday.
“It is a significant technical issue but does not constitute a nuclear accident,” Olivier Marmion, director of the prefect’s office, told AFP, adding that the explosion occurred outside the nuclear zone.
President Donald Trump is considering adding Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard to the list of prohibited terrorist organizations as part of a wave of new executive orders, the Daily Mail reports.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus for the first time commented on the extradition of Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan, stating that the Belarusian side by this fulfilled its legal obligation, MFA Spokesman Dmitry Mironchik said at a briefing, Sputnik News reports.
“There are reports in media saying the heads of our state agencies and provincial structures are using their administrative resources for campaigning, entering the pre-election stage. I am strictly warning everyone, such services will be considered as disservice, regardless which party it is aimed for. Pay special attention to this issue,” Karapetyan said at the Cabinet meeting.
“If in 2013 we were touching upon rapprochement, integration with the EU, currently we should realize that segmental relations and cooperation are meant, which globally may not have big influence neither on Armenia’s economy, nor on policy, i.e. Armenia was already deprived of its chance in 2013.”
Extradition of blogger Alexander Lapshin by Belarus to Azerbaijan will negatively impact those two states and not only in terms of reputation, Edward Nalbandian, Foreign Minister of Armenia told at the National Assembly during parliament-government question and answer session.
“The Armenian National Committee of Australia calls on the Australian government, as well as all human rights and civil liberty organizations in Australia and internationally, to join us in condemning this blatant act of the Azerbaijani dictatorship in attempting to ‘export’ its repression of freedom of speech.”
I want to mention another circumstance as well. There is a situation, which not everyone in our country imagines well. He was arrested for visiting Karabakh. I mean he was blacklisted and visited Azerbaijan after it, and before that he had been in Karabakh.
“The most important is official information of Artsakhi Defense Army. Even if we suffer losses, which is regretful, one casualty, one wounded soldier is an awful phenomenon to us, we never hide, thus, as long as respective information isn’t provided by respective bodies, one should refrain from disseminating unconfirmed information,” Babayan said.
