“There are reports in media saying the heads of our state agencies and provincial structures are using their administrative resources for campaigning, entering the pre-election stage. I am strictly warning everyone, such services will be considered as disservice, regardless which party it is aimed for. Pay special attention to this issue,” Karapetyan said at the Cabinet meeting.
“If in 2013 we were touching upon rapprochement, integration with the EU, currently we should realize that segmental relations and cooperation are meant, which globally may not have big influence neither on Armenia’s economy, nor on policy, i.e. Armenia was already deprived of its chance in 2013.”
“The Armenian National Committee of Australia calls on the Australian government, as well as all human rights and civil liberty organizations in Australia and internationally, to join us in condemning this blatant act of the Azerbaijani dictatorship in attempting to ‘export’ its repression of freedom of speech.”
I want to mention another circumstance as well. There is a situation, which not everyone in our country imagines well. He was arrested for visiting Karabakh. I mean he was blacklisted and visited Azerbaijan after it, and before that he had been in Karabakh.
President Trump cast doubt on whether Moscow is backing separatists engaged in the recent escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine, appearing to side with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who has long denied involvement in the conflict despite evidence to the contrary, the New York Times reports.
The arrest and extradition of Alexander Lapshin cannot have any significance for the work of reporters and human rights advocates in Nagorno Karabakh. This work has been considered and will always be considered as legitimate: this is the principle. A. Lapshin’s extradition fact is obviously linked with the infringement on freedom of speech.
During the phone talk the two Presidents talked about Turkey-US relations and reaffirmed their readiness to fight against terrorism. Trump said the US supports Turkey as a NATO ally and strategic partner.
Kara-Murza “knew that there was no moral equivalence between the United States and Putin’s Russia. I repeat, there is no moral equivalence between that butcher and thug and KGB colonel and the United States of America, the country that Ronald Reagan used to call a shining city on a hill,” McCain said. “To allege some kind of moral equivalence between the two is either terribly misinformed or incredibly biased. Neither, neither can be accurate in anyway.”
“This is a traditional procedure, when negotiations are finalized, negotiators do their work, the parties through official visits reconfirm their devotedness to the process, i.e. negotiations are strengthening by top officials. This means, negotiations basically have been finalized, or main decisions have been made, a vivid proof of which was visit of Danielsson to Armenia together with the European negotiator.”
Alexander Lapshin’s prosecution, his extradition to Azerbaijan is a severe violation of freedom of speech, freedom of movement, fundamental human rights, which once again shows the deep gap between a dictatorship and a democracy.
