Even under these conditions the EU continues working with the Armenian side, attempting to conclude another comprehensive document to replace the Association Agreement.
In her first public address as Aurora Prize Laureate, Marguerite Barankitse will discuss how grassroots initiatives in conflict-afflicted communities are influencing humanitarian engagement and shifting the rules of engagement.
The European Union is set to miss an end-June deadline to grant visa-free travel to Turkey because of a dispute over Turkish anti-terrorism law, barring an improbable sudden concession by President Tayyip Erdogan, EU officials and diplomats say.
“The meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan held last week in Vienna was a productive one with the concrete agreements and commitments, including unconditional implementation of 1994-1995 cease-fire agreements, creation of investigation mechanism, and enhance the capacities of the office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.”
The Syrian Arab Army’s 137th Artillery Brigade of the Republican Guard – backed by the 104th Airborne Brigade of the Republican Guard – imposed full control over the Armenian Cemetery of Deir Ezzor after a violent battle with the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) on Sunday.
“Azerbaijani diplomacy wasn’t able to convert its resources into the politics, and the Armenians, by having nothing, were able to maintain their positions. It’s a fact.”
Yesterday the session of a structure was held in Yerevan, for the membership to which the April war was developed, and due to which more than hundred Armenian soldiers died.
“However, we observe, that every day Putin’s Russia in Syria publicly “wipes its feet” on the USA, doing what it wants: bombs civilians, bombs rebels, who cooperate with the West, moreover, each Kerry-Lavrov meeting is a humiliating interrogation, a spate of requests to exert pressure over Assad, which Moscow is not going to do. “
Last month’s deadly skirmishes along the line of conflict in Karabakh (April 2–5), the so-called “four-day war,” highlighted the need for a reinvigorated international mediation effort.
The Prime Ministers of the Union member states introduced their proposals and priorities, as well as discussed issues of deepening the existing partnership. Establishment of a common crude and oil market, cooperation with third countries, rapid adoption of the EEU Customs Code were the main issues of the agenda.
