“If my business had been left until September, Ilham Aliyev could have expected to hear new accusations at the next meeting of the UN General Assembly,” Ismayilova said. “And most importantly, the government of Azerbaijan does not have a lot of money as before to mobilise all the lobby groups to avert all the waves of pressure. When there is no money, you cannot pay off and silence [people] through bribes.”
“In principal, if president Putin, like president Medvedev used to be, were committed to creating a breakthrough and hoping to finalize the basic principles of the settlement, that would be great. I don’t believe what he wants to do, I believe what he wants to do is leave the impression among the presidents Sargsyan and Aliyev, that only he, president Putin is a real player in this.”
Armenia needs competition, a real one, in all the fields, however, first and foremost, in the field of foreign policy. Otherwise one nice day Russia will sell Armenia as a “fake product.” Like Samvel Aleksanyan sells everything fake.
Today, representatives of the Government of the United States and of the Republic of Armenia conducted a scheduled review of the 2008 U.S.-Armenia Joint Action Plan on Combatting Smuggling of Nuclear and Radioactive Materials.
’’Terrorism will spill over if you don’t speak up’’, said a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. Brussels and Paris, and now the USA became a vivid example of how dangerous threat the terrorism has become. According to US Department of State more than 13.000 terrorist attacks were recognized in 2014 with more than 30.000 fatalities.
Alina Romanowski, Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, during the hearings introduced the four main directions of economic assistance in the territory of Eurasia. In particular, they include strengthening of countries’ independence and sovereignty, helping countries to defend from external pressure, fight against corruption and provision of rule of law, strengthening of democracy and protection of freedom of speech, as well as maintenance of peace.
“Firstly, one should anticipate sharpening of situation on the contact line. It’s a good tradition of Ilham Aliyev to shell villages of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh prior to any meeting or summit linked to Karabakh-Azerbaijan conflict, launching unmanned aerial vehicles, attempt to anger the negotiating parties and mediators. I don’t have any expectation of a breakthrough outcome.”
We should do everything. I’m not saying there is no need for the time being, that need is always available, 24 hours a day. However, we have President, National Assembly, Prime Minister and they are all able to raise the issues in political instances and protect. If needed and the Catholicos interferes we will surely bring our participation as well.
After statue to Garegin Nzhdeh was unveiled in Yerevan, Moscow expressed its discontent through its analysts and historians, to which Armenia’s power circles dared to reflect by common formulations only, introducing as justification to the circumstance that it’s not the disposition of separate individuals and not that of official Moscow. So, Moscow says it’s such an official disposition, which is pronounced by the official representative of Russia’s Foreign Minister.
“Our attitude towards any manifestation of heroism, neo-Nazism, extremism of Nazism is well known as well. That attitude is enshrined in international documents. It’s unclear to us, why that statue was placed, as we all know about the deed of the Armenian people, it’s the immortal deed of Armenian people during the Great Patriotic War, World War II,” she said.
