Aircraft transporting Armenian POWs from Azerbaijan has landed in Yerevan. President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Avinyan and the relatives of the POWs met them at the airport.
The Foreign Ministry of Artsakh has issued a statement on the occasion of the Azerbaijani provocative actions in the directions of Hin Tagher and Khtsaberd of the Hadrut region and Mets Shen and Hin Shen of the Shushi region. As 168.am was informed from the press service of the MFAS Artsakh, the statements runs as […]
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan received on December 14 OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Stéphane Visconti of France, Andrew Schofer of the United States of America, Charge d’Affaires of the Russian Federation in Armenia Aleksey Sinegubov, and Andrzej Kasprzyk, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.
I fear there was no successful military outcome for Armenia. However, it did not have to be this bad.
Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has called on Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan to resign and allow parliament to elect a new leader.
“It is clear to everyone that there is an issue of Artsakh, but I must repeat again that we should not be guided by toasts. It is enough, and we are tired of those toasts and slogans. Who does not know that we must be strong, but who should strengthen the country, how should we become stronger? These are all questions. Therefore, to become stronger, we have take concrete steps in that direction, to create a normal country, to have a united society, great patriotism, pro-state. Only by this, we can get out of this situation in some way. Our biggest problem today is the lack of a pro-state mentality which is still at an unsufficient level. We are talking not only about the political elites, but also about the wider society which must be educated, brought up, we must be guided by our national value system.
What are the current realistic prospects for Armenia and Karabakh?
They range from bad to worse,
It expanded from intra-state clashes
within Azerbaijan,
The defeat of Armenia in the second Karabakh war dramatically altered the regional political arrangements that had shaped Armenia’s foreign and security policy. Prior to the independence of Armenia, a movement for the unification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, and then the victory in the 1990s defined the contours of Armenia’s foreign policy and international stance in general. But the 44-day war changed the facts on the ground. Henceforth, Armenian foreign policy will be implemented in a completely different environment and the revision of the core concepts of Armenia’s foreign policy is a matter of urgency.
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to mediate the return of Armenian POWs who are currently held in Azerbaijani custody after the war.
