The incumbent authorities of Armenia continue with their already overt practice of obstructing the professional activities of journalists, and this is targeted against freedom of speech and press freedom.
Just when you think the war is over, it actually is not. Multi-generational families are haunted by the dead. There are too many displaced persons, multitudes of refugee children uprooted from schools and homes, and continued mistreatment of POWs. The major economic dislocations and massive war debts are part of the ongoing and mounting negative tally. The competing legal terms national self-determination vs territorial integrity are brandished about in fervent ideological battles that further entrench the hardened positions of two combatant sides.
The ministry of foreign affairs of France has called for the release of all Armenian prisoners of war who are held captive in Azerbaijan.
“We call for the expeditious release of all Armenian detainees still being held. Azerbaijan’s release of three Armenian detainees yesterday is a step in the right direction”, the French foreign ministry said on Twitter, also sharing the statement made by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs on May 5.
France concerned over opening of ”trophy park” in Baku, which is against reconciliation desire.
Former president Robert Kocharyan will lead the Reviving Armenia and ARF’s election alliance in the expected early election of parliament, the Reviving Armenia party said in a statement.
Latvia has officially recognized and condemned the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Armenia’s Ambassador to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia Tigran Mkrtchyan, who is completing his mission, said on Facebook.
The entire Armenian nation is now obliged to have the understanding that the regeneration of Pashinyan’s regime poses essentially more real hazards to Armenia and Artsakh than the hypothetical threats coming from Azerbaijan and Turkey, first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan said in an article today, proposing the formation of a pre-electoral alliance with the second and third presidents.
US President Biden has notified Congress the administration is extending a waiver allowing US assistance to Azerbaijan that was originally restricted over Baku’s conflict with its neighbor Armenia and tension over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov will arrive in Yerevan on May 5 on a two-day visit to meet with the Armenian leadership. Then, Lavrov will also visit Azerbaijan May 10-11.
3 more Armenian prisoners of war have returned from Baku.
Azerbaijani servicemen tortured and killed 19 Armenian prisoners of war after the end of the recent Nagorno Karabakh war, Artak Zeynalyan, who represents the interests of the captives and POWs in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), said on social media today.
