The Islamic Republic of Iran does not accept any change in the region; the territorial integrity of the regional countries should be maintained, Mojtaba Zolnour, the chairman of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign affairs committee, has said, commenting on the current situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the recent illegal incursion of the Azerbaijani armed forces into Armenia.
French President Emanuel Macron made a post in Armenian on his Facebook page after a telephone conversation with caretaker Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.
US Congressman Adam Schiff is deeply concerned by recent reports that Azerbaijani troops have reportedly crossed into Armenian territory.
Just when you think the war is over, it actually is not. Multi-generational families are haunted by the dead. There are too many displaced persons, multitudes of refugee children uprooted from schools and homes, and continued mistreatment of POWs. The major economic dislocations and massive war debts are part of the ongoing and mounting negative tally. The competing legal terms national self-determination vs territorial integrity are brandished about in fervent ideological battles that further entrench the hardened positions of two combatant sides.
Latvia has officially recognized and condemned the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Armenia’s Ambassador to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia Tigran Mkrtchyan, who is completing his mission, said on Facebook.
US President Biden has notified Congress the administration is extending a waiver allowing US assistance to Azerbaijan that was originally restricted over Baku’s conflict with its neighbor Armenia and tension over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
If I knew what would be the consequences, I would take any measures to prevent what later happened. I just left to let those people build the country of their dreams. I could not think that they dreamed about something else, or that they would be so incompetent. I could not possibly imagine such a disgrace. And let me reiterate, I firmly believed that the country should have taken a slightly different turn, and please do not question that. But that such devastating consequences would those “dmb-dmb-hoo” chants have…
Amidst the memorials to other genocides in this chilly and rainy month, we pause on April 24 to remember the 1915 genocide of a million and half Armenians. We are also historical witnesses to the hundreds of thousands of other ethnic and religious minorities killed in the Ottoman Empire. Accordingly, we remember the Greek, Assyrian and other victims. The state-sponsored Young Turk mass deportations and killings were part of a long historical pattern of inequality, injustice, prejudice, discrimination, repression and massacres by an authoritarian regime. It should be noted that the Turkish leadership’s ethnic and religious persecution predated and postdated 1915.
In November 2020 Armenian human rights advocate Ms. Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte, who is a former refugee from Baku and lives in the United States of America, informed the Human Rights Defender about an important Initiative spearheaded by her and her Foundation (www.Astvatsaturian.org).
United States President Joe Biden is preparing to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide on April 24, the New York Times reported citing “officials familiar with the internal debate.”
