“No country recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh,” he said. “We continue to urge the sides to come to the negotiating table in good faith in order to reach a lasting settlement.”
“President IlhamAliyev—a tough authoritarian leader known for his falsifications of elections, pressure over civil freedom, persecution of journalists, oppositionists, civil activists, actual repression of the opposition and the civil society in the country—actively spreads the cult of his father.”
“Davutoğlu stated that Turkey is ready to solely launch land operations in the territory of Syria. It’s clear, clash there will be recorded not only/not with the troops of Assad, but also with Russia.”
“That question is always in my mind, and secondly, throughout 1.5 day of military operations about 100 special squad soldiers, moreover, they were not simple soldiers, but young men prepared for the special unit.”
“Here only the possibility of escalation of the so-called frozen conflict is available. And rather sharp throughout the recent period. And, unfortunately, aggravation of armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh won’t reduce as well,” Bordyuzha stated.
It’s conditioned not only by assessments of a moment, but Azerbaijani authorities simply intended to choose a new strategy, essence of which is the following: to exert more and more pressure over Armenia, and that pressure is applied militarily. Azerbaijani aggression won’t stop. We may conclude that it’s a pressure by one more degree—military actions every night, and this pursues the goal of upsetting functioning of OSCE MG.” according to him, Azerbaijan and Turkey have decided that Minsk Group mediation isn’t in line with their interests and decided to stop its functioning, “They attempt to create a new negotiation format based on Turkey’s mediation, i.e. Turkey’s forced engagement with mediation process is on.”
He announced that a parliamentary commission needs to be set up to investigate the 1915 massacre of the Armenian members of the then Ottoman parliament. He demanded to locate their corpses and properly bury them. Paylan compared Talaat, Enver and Djemal Pashas with Hitler.
“Why doesn’t Azerbaijan hold direct negotiations with Karabakh. Presently we lose both sides. And why don’t we want to observe recent reports on beheading of Armenian soldiers? Why don’t we want to notice footages, telling about torturing of Armenian hostages…I realize, it’s important to take into consideration interests of each side, and doesn’t the truth, as a party, interest anyone?” he said, adding that a clear answer should be given to what had happened.
In the Line of Contact of Nagorno Karabakh–Azerbaijan opposing forces another Azerbaijani drone was destroyed on April 4.
“In Mataghis, from the surroundings and intermediates of their own positions, they are removing the corpses of the soldiers destroyed by their barring troops,” Artsrun Hovhannisyan, RA MOD Press Speaker, wrote about this on his Facebook page.
