In this context, the Co-Chairs urge the sides to refrain from statements and actions suggesting significant changes to the situation on the ground, prejudging the outcome of or setting conditions for future talks, demanding unilateral changes to the format without agreement of the other party, or indicating readiness to renew active hostilities.
Well, that’s it — a troop of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia was deployed to Syria yesterday. After months of political discourse, the issue is now at the level of realpolitik, and this has only deepened the concerns of public and political circles in Armenia.
Yesterday marked the launch of the humanitarian mission that was initiated by the new government of the Republic of Armenia and was discussed and criticized for months. According to the press release issued by the Ministry of Defense, a group of 83 Armenian specialists comprising humanitarian deminers, doctors and security personnel has arrived in the Syrian city of Aleppo to provide humanitarian aid to the Syrian people.
Artsakh’s status and security remain priority issues for Armenia, Foreign minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told reporters today in the Yerablur Military Pantheon, adding that his talks with Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov have been and will be over this.
Azerbaijan has breached the ceasefire in Artsakh more than 80 individual times from November 11 to November 17, the defense ministry of Artsakh said.
Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan is startled at the fact that President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told about the details of the behind-doors session of the CSTO Collective Security Council to the Ambassador of Azerbaijan.
Russian bloggers Natalia Anokhina and Anton Frolov published an article about Artsakh in their blog after their visit touching upon its cuisine.
President of Artsakh Bako Sahakyan has arrived in Paris, France on a working visit on November 14, Sahakyan’s office said.
On November 14, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the border of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, in the eastern direction of the Hadrut region.
The Azerbaijani armed forces have not captured any territory in the Nakhijevan section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, caretaker minister of defense Davit Tonoyan told a news conference today.