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.
The diplomat said the Co-Chairs are unaware of any date set for the meeting of the two Presidents. Hoagland also talked about the trilateral meeting of Foreign Ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan held in Moscow, stating that it was organized by the initiative of the Russia said.
Turkey’s Vice-PM said the party will convene a council on May 2, where Erdogan will join the party’s ranks. Later on May 21, Justice and Development will convene an extraordinary congress where the President will be re-elected as Chairman.
