German politicians reacted with shock and anger. German justice minister Heiko Maas told broadcaster ARD that Mr Erdogan’s comments were “absurd, disgraceful and outlandish” and designed to provoke a reaction from Berlin.
“I exclude this, as there aren’t interested external players. Neither Iran, nor Turkey, nor the USA, Russia completely doesn’t need any war, Europe itself is sinking.”
The Armenian diaspora, estimated at 10 million, is three times the population of Armenia itself, with migrants and their descendants sprinkled across the continents from Russia to the United States, UK, Lebanon and Australia.
“We have many famous people like Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Levon Aronian. We have Olympic champions. But we can also be useful for the EU by exporting our products and not only. IT is also developing very fast in Armenia, and above all, we can be a friendly neighbor for the Europeans, a predictable neighbor at that.”
Russian government has submitted a draft bill, which anticipates imposing ban on turnover of goods of separate category supplied to Russia from EEU member countries, ministers’ cabinet website informs.
Jordanian firms Arab Potash and Jordan Bromine signed a deal in 2014 to import 2 billion cubic meters (around 70 billion cubic feet) of gas from Israel’s Tamar field over 15 years. At the time reports said the deal was worth $771 million.
Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova will apply to her Azerbaijani counterpart over Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin’s case who was extradited from Belarus to Azerbaijan, RIA Novosti reported. Moskalkova said she is going to apply to Azerbaijan’s Ombudsman with the request to check Lapshin’s detention conditions.
The new agreement comes after Armenia’s controversial accession to a Russian-led trade bloc, the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). The move in 2015 that has been widely credited to strong Russian pressure.
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag had been due to address expatriates in Gaggenau in support of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s controversial reforms.
“This decision is ridiculous, but it’s in full conformity with the nature of the state of Azerbaijan. It’s a dictatorship which functions merely according to the wins and wills of one family and this can also mean that they completely disregard any sort of international legal standard, while operating isolation of Artsakh.”
