Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia Marise Payne has reaffirmed the Government’s support for the OSCE Minsk Group process, highlighting “equal rights and self-determination of people” as one of the three equal principles that must guide Nagorno Karabakh to permanent peace following the bloody war of 2020, reported the Armenian National Committee of Australia.
Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro urges to immediately release prisoners of war and civilians captured during the recent Nagorno Karabakh war.
“The capitulating government, which has led the two Armenian republics to a national disaster and is the only reason for the embarrassing defeat in the recent war in Artsakh, persistently continues its criminal policy of depriving the Armenian people of their homeland and state, but its efforts to deprive the Armenian people of their determination, hope and will to struggle for dignity and justice with phony criminal cases, false accusations and through the illegal use of the resource of power structures, are in vain.
It is important to note that this process of strategic analysis and planning of the RA defense system development until 2018 was carried out in accordance with modern international standards of the NATO Individual Partnership Action Program under the supervision of leading experts of the Russian Federation, the United States, CSTO and NATO. Based on the results of the SDR, medium-term plans for the development of the Armenian Armed Forces were elaborated. The latest SDR, which confirmed the high level of combat capability of the RA defense system, was conducted under the leadership of the RA ex-Commander-in-Chief S. Sargsyan and RA ex-Minister of Defense S. Ohanyan.[17]
California State Assembly member Chris Holden introduced the Stop Investment in Turkey Act, AB 1019, that will mandate the state to stop all new investments or renew existing investments issued or owned by Turkey using the full force of the California government to pressure Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide and takes steps towards justice to its victims, Asbarez reports.
Through the collective efforts of the Armenian Assembly of America the anti-Armenian and anti-truthful billboard on Philadelphia’s I-95 was removed, the Assembly said on social media.
Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Gakharia has resigned, he announced his decision during a press briefing.
Kapan city of Syunik region, Nerkin Hand, Shikahogh, Srashen villages were visited by a fact-finding team headed by Armenia’s Human Rights Defender on February 16, 2021. The visit recorded violations or dangers for residents’ right to life, property, and other vital rights, Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan said in a statement.
ArmNews TV Channel has released the second part of the extensive interview with Serzh Sargsyan in which the third president elaborated on the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) conflict settlement talks, the failures of the Armenian diplomacy, politics and military, including the causes and consequences of the capitulation, as well as the possible ways out of post-war situation and the future oriented programs.
Harutyunyan added that the searching works of bodies and survivors of the 44-day war still continue. ”In addition, we have started making joint efforts for discovering the bodies of Armenian and Azerbaijani victims of the war of the 1990s”, he wrote.
