Armenia has assurances that the EU will maintain the common stance over the NK conflict settlement issue in the framework agreement with Azerbaijan, which is under negotiations, Armenia’s deputy FM Karen Nazaryan said during parliamentary debates on ratifying the Armenia-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement in response to a question from the opposition Yelk bloc.
Russia plays a key role in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, new President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian said in an interview to TASS.
Russia considers the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to be one of its priorities in the post-Soviet territory, minister of foreign affairs Sergey Lavrov said in response to Armenian news media.
During the period from April 1 to 7 the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact by nearly 300 times firing more than 3000 shots at the Armenian positions.
Investments in the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey, which is under development by Russia’s Rosatom, have reached nearly 3 billion dollars, Russia’s energy minister Alexander Novak said, TASS reported.
Aram Mkrtchyan, one of the HALO Trust deminers who were wounded in the accidental detonation of an anti-tank landmine in Ghazanchi area of Artsakh, has been discharged from hospital.
The Azerbaijani Movement for Democracy and Prosperity has demanded from the country’s central electoral commission to release the property and income declarations of presidential candidates for the upcoming snap elections, which incumbent President Ilham Aliyev ordered to take place April 11, Azerbaijan’s Turan News Agency reported.
The first delivery of the Russian S-400 air defense missile systems to Turkey is scheduled in July 2019, Turkish Undersecretary for Defense Industries Ismail Demir said on Twitter, TASS reports.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has launched proceedings over Grigor Narayan and others vs. Azerbaijan, a case concerning the killings of three Armenian soldiers in December of 2016 committed by Azerbaijani troops during an incursion in Chinari, Tavush province, Armenia.
Nearly 130 Turkish products have been discovered in Azerbaijan that pose danger to human health.
