One of Europe’s most venerable human rights bodies has been warned it risks falling into irrelevance unless it sets up a robust investigation into allegations of vote-rigging in favour of Azerbaijan’s authoritarian regime, the Guardian reports.
A bipartisan group of United States senators said on February 2 they support additional sanctions against Iran over its ballistic missile tests, amid reports that the Trump administration will roll out financial penalties, The Hill reports. 22 senators sent a letter to US President Donald Trump, arguing that Iran “must feel sufficient pressure”.
Danielsson said the EU is facing economic challenges as well, as the worst recession was recorded in the period of 2008-2009, as a result of which several EU states suffered serious economic losses, unemployment has grown, however the EU still continues existing under those conditions.
“I can only reiterate that the EU has invested millions, over 7 million Euros, as well as great political veracity. We just expect that the upcoming elections will not fail to meet the standards widely practiced in Europe. Much depends on the fact how many people we go to the polls and how they will vote.
Armenia-EU negotiations are developing intensively. In future the sides will finalize works around new framework agreement. According to diplomatic sources of 168.am, one of the last phases of Armenia-EU negotiations—the tenth phase—will be launched this month.
The mother of the 22 year old Azerbaijani soldier, who was captured by Nagorno Karabakh forces when Azerbaijan attempted to infiltrate the line of contact, denied the Azerbaijani defense ministry’s report that the captive isn’t their serviceman, Istipress.com released footage.
Tbilisi has complied with all the benchmarks of its visa liberalisation plan, the text notes, underlining that “continuous fulfilment by Georgia of such criteria, especially on the fight against organised crime, will be duly monitored by the Commission.”
“The circumstance, that we have captured Azerbaijani special unit serviceman, is a good opportunity for MG Co-Chairs as well to have tougher position and hint the Azerbaijani side that a progress was recorded regarding trust mechanisms. In different platforms Azerbaijan attempts to create obstacles not only for the MG, but generally for the activity of OSCE. Azerbaijan is in a rather vulnerable situation on OSCE platforms, and this opportunity only provides the opportunity to show clear positions toward Azerbaijan.”
“Will the actions of the Defense Army [NKR forces] serve as a lesson? I think, yes, but not personally for Aliyev, because no one close to him dies, the deaths of soldiers aren’t a lesson for him. He wants similar actions to continue, he wants to inject another portion of anti-Armenian venom into his people and strengthen his leadership in that way.”
The Government of Armenia appointed Aramayis Grigoryan as Governor of Ararat province. Davit Lokyan, minister of territorial administration and development presented the confirmation at the Cabinet meeting.
