The militants are now besieged in the northwestern corner of Mosul which includes the historic Old City center, the medieval Grand alNuri Mosque, and its landmark leaning minaret where their black flag has been flying since June 2014.
The President’s Office informed President Sargsyan expressed his support and condolences to President Rouhani, endurance and patience to the family and friends of the victims and speedy recovery to the injured.
The monitoring passed in accordance with the agreed schedule. No violation of the ceasefire regime was registered. From the Artsakh side, the monitoring mission was accompanied by representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defense.
“This is a very good chance for the Armenian community to be represented in the Tehran city council, we too can display our view in terms of the city’s development. The competition is going to be very difficult. Many have nominated candidacies. All three of the ethnic Armenians can enter the city council if they overcome the threshold,” he said.
“If they are willing to enter the EU, they are obliged to meet the criteria. However I absolutely don’t see this in Turkey. That’s why it is necessary for the talks to be suspended,” she said.
He believes the Armenian side should be ready to such developments. However, according to Aktar the situation from Azerbaijan’s perspective isn’t favorable for wide-scale military operations. “All incidents will be small-scale, not growing into dangerous clashes,” the expert said.
From the positions of the Defense Army of the Republic of Artsakh, the monitoring will be conducted by Field Assistant to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Mihail Olaru (Moldova) and Personal Assistant to the CiO Personal Representative Simon Tiller (Great Britain).
“Currently, when Turkey and Azerbaijan are intractable states regarding international responsibilities, they don’t hide, current occurrences are a glove to regional security, also to NATO, if such threat becomes a reality, of course, NATO will come across with no less complicated issues.”
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejoined the Justice and Development (AK) Party, the country’s ruling party, after a 33 month hiatus, Hurriyet reported. Erdogan signed his membership declaration during a special ceremony in Ankara on May 2.
The attackers painted ‘Kill Erdogan’ on the walls of a nearby building and bus stop. Turkey’s consul in Zurich Asiye Nurcan Ipekci said the attack was carried out by a group of 60 masked people.
