European Council President Charles Michel released a statement after hosting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for trilateral talks in Brussels.
The 107th anniversary of the first ever genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide, is approaching. Over a century has passed since that tragic period, but the international community has not completely condemned the crime so far, has not either given an unbiased legal assessment to the events, leaving the perpetrators unpunished.
In recent years, April has often been described as the month of genocidal mourning for Armenians, Jews and Rwandans. Today we read the stark headlines and watch the horrific images of thousands of Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian armed forces in Moscow’s war of aggression against Kyiv. So many unarmed ordinary citizens targeted in Bucha, Mariupol and other cities. We agonize as to how and why such malevolent acts can occur in the 21st century.
We, the participants of the rally for the defense of Armenia and Artsakh, regardless of our ideological and political orientations, resolutely reject the agendas imposed by the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem.
Coming to power after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Lukashenko had ruled Belarus in a highly autocratic fashion for almost three decades, while seeking to navigate his country within Moscow’s sphere of influence. However, the aging leader’s arbitrary rule began to teeter and he faced a major challenge in the election of 2020. When skewed and rigged election results were announced, hundreds of thousands of voters of Belarus peacefully protested their strong objections.
Amongst the examples are: Transnistria splintering from Moldova in 1991, South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Georgia in the early 1990s, and Donetsk and Luhansk from Ukraine in 2014.
The Armenian government must take two important steps prior to opening the border with Turkey: 1) Forbid Turkish citizens from buying real estate in Armenia; and 2) Place tariffs on the import of products from Turkey.
The very charge made by the Aliev regime against Serzh Sargsyan is a mockery of justice while the accusations against him are cynical.
Armen Ashotyan, Deputy Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), believes that no one has caused so much damage to universal and European values in Armenia as the European Union (EU) Ambassador to Armenia Andrea Wiktorin.
Madam Ambassador, just open your eyes and stop applying double standards: Lilit Beglaryan
