Official Ankara considered unacceptable the Pope’s statements. In particular, the Turkish MFA’s announcement says the visit to the Armenian Genocide Memorial, the statements on the Genocide, the joint statement with Catholicos of All Armenians once again show “Pope Francis’ unconditional commitment to the Armenian stories which do not correspond with the 1915 historical realities.”
In his words planning of a military training “is an attempt to show power.” “To some extent this is also manifestation of blackmail to the international community. It’s incomprehensible why both military trainings and Formula 1 are being launched there. Probably this is also an attempt to attach the attention of more people and introduce Azerbaijan as a powerful state,” the spokesman said.
Turkish city of Tuzluca in Igdir Province has demounted the Armenian signboards reading “Welcome” and “Good bye” at the entry and exit of the city.
“First and foremost, EEU is an economic organization, we shouldn’t politicize our economic integration, as any politicization will lead to economic integrating issues, and EEU won’t provide the outcome we anticipate to have.”
“Unfortunately, such conflicts are never settled at the wish of one party. We would be glad if we managed to make progress today towards the implementation of the agreements that we have achieved, in other words, to create mechanisms of investigating ceasefire violations. This would create a good working climate for talks,” Sargsyan said.
Military trainings will be launched in the bordering units, Nakhchivan and Azerbaijani part of the Caspian Sea. Artsrun Hovhannisyan said there is no need to worry. “We will thoroughly touch upon it. We follow all the steps by Azerbaijan. I don’t see any reason to worry,” he said.
“I am impatiently waiting for this meeting. We hope the sides will sum up the OSCE agreement on implementing investigative mechanisms and will restore talks for comprehensive peace agreement,” he said.
“We are convinced, that all those crisis situations would be more easily settled in case of overcoming systemic shortcomings in the field of pan-European cooperation, annulation of maintained dividing line,” he said, calling to initiate a common economic and humanitarian domain, which will stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and will be based on equal and inseparable security architecture.
Gagik Beglaryan, Minister of Transport and Communication, informed that agreements have been signed, however, we should be able to provide transit from the West to the Black Sea, he stated that this month Iranian specialists will arrive on occasion of the railway, technical survey is ready, however, funds are necessary for its construction.
NATO is a productive tool to repress Russia, many in Georgia and Ukraine refer to this structure only from this perspective. On the other hand, according to Kapitonenko, NATO is the “monster” around which Russia builds its foreign policy in the post-Soviet area.
