Prime Minister of Armenia NIkol Pashinyan visited on September 18 the front line of Artsakh accompanied by President of Artsakh Bako Sahakyan, Defense Minister of Armenia Davit Tonoyan, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia Artak Davtyan, Defense Minister of Artsakh Levon Mnatsakanyan.
Russia-based Azerbaijani billionaire businessman Telman Ismailov has been charged with the 2004 attempted kidnapping of pop singer Avraam Russo. Ismailov’s cousin Zaur Mardanov is also charged, Meydan reports.
Head of the Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Ms. Arpine Hovhannisyan has notified the monitoring committee of the institution on Azerbaijan’s cross-border gunfire at the Armenian village of Koti, the resulting civilian injury and the other shootings of several other Armenian civilian settlements.
An Armenian citizen (pictured left) has been arrested in Istanbul in suspicion of robbing a currency exchange office, according to Vatan newspaper.
A wildfire near the foothills of Mount Ararat in Turkey has spread due to strong winds on September 17, the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
President of Artsakh Bako Sahakyan has summoned a consultation today on the process of the ongoing trainings in accordance to the 2018 plan on the Defense Army’s mobilization readiness.
Armenia remains committed to the peaceful negotiations process of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, within the internationally accepted format, which is called Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship, Armenia’s foreign ministry Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told reporters in Artsakh, addressing his upcoming meeting with Azerbaijan’s foreign minister.
An inspection group of the Armenian Armed Forces will carry out inspections of announced locations in the territory of Turkey September 17-22 within the framework of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).
Armenian foreign minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan met with his counterpart from Artsakh Masis Mayilyan on September 17, the foreign ministry said.
Azerbaijan has again opened cross-border fire at the Tavush province of Armenia overnight September 16-17. However this time the shooting was insignificant compared to the previous days.
