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Macedonia FYROM president says ‘no amount of pressure’ will change his mind on name deal

July 6, 2018 By administrator

The president of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Friday issued a statement saying that “no amount of pressure or blackmail” will make him change his mind and support the name deal signed with Greece last month.

The statement from the office of Gjorge Ivanov was issued in response to an interview on Thursday by FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with Greek state broadcaster ERT, in which the moderate leftist premier suggested that he is confident of the president’s support for the agreement renaming the country “North Macedonia” once it passes a public referendum in the fall.

“With his inconsistent, contradictory and confusing statements, Prime Minister Zaev continues to lie to and manipulate not only the Macedonian public, but also the public in Greece and the international community,” the statement from Ivanov’s office said.

“The Macedonian president will not endorse an agreement to the detriment of the Macedonian national identity and to the interests of the Republic of Macedonia,” it added.

On Thursday, FYROM’s main conservative opposition – the VMRO-DPMNE party, which backs Ivanov – filed treason charges against Zaev, Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov and House Speaker Talat Xhaferi over the name deal.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: former, Macedonia, Republic, Yugoslav

Former defense minister Michael Harutyunyan has been involved in the March 1 case as an accused. announced a search

July 3, 2018 By administrator

Former defense minister Michael Harutyunyan

On July 3, 2018, a criminal case was initiated by the head of the investigative group on the criminal case on the events of March 1-2, 2008, in Yerevan, in accordance with the Article 1 of the Article 300.1 of the RA Criminal Code, the chief executive officer of the executive body, the minister of defense and other persons for violating the constitutional order of the Republic of Armenia from February 23, 2008 till March 2, 2008 s SIS press service informed “Armenpress” about this.

The criminal case has been merged with the criminal case on the events of 1 and 2 March 2008.

On July 3, 2018, on the basis of sufficient evidence obtained by the preliminary investigation, a decision was made to convey the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, Colonel General Mikael Harutyunyan as part of Article 1 of Article 300.1 of the RA Criminal Code, has overthrowed the constitutional order with the prior consent of individuals.

Thus, it was found out that during the preparation and conduct of the election of the President of the Republic of Armenia held on February 19, 2008, such violations were filed, which, according to the majority of the society, violated the Article 4 of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, the basic principles that resulted in people being deprived of the opportunity to exercise their power through free elections.

Large-scale violations committed by non-governmental organizations, different human rights organizations and citizens have been attributed to the incumbent President Robert Kocharyan and incumbent Prime Minister, incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan, and the majority of the public has been fired since February 20, 2008 at Yerevan’s Liberty Square Massive public peaceful events, rallies, and round-the-clock rallies of thousands of citizens supporting the other presidential candidates were organized. handles.

Discontent in the wider public and the involvement of new people in peaceful assemblies have caused serious concern to the current authorities. After a series of police raids and calls to impede the rallies of seemingly unlawful assemblies, a number of high-ranking officials, including RA Minister of Defense Mikael Harutyunyan, carried out peaceful rallies aimed at overthrowing the constitutional order of the Republic of Armenia actions which have been expressed in fact by removing the provisions of Articles 1 to 5 of the Constitution and the provisions of Article 6, termination of their validity in the legal system.

Thus, RA Defense Minister Mikael Harutyunyan and other officials violated Article 8.2 of the RA Constitution, which states that “the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia ensure the security, defense and territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia, the inviolability of its borders. The Armed Forces maintain neutrality in political matters and are under civilian control “, Article 55 § 13 of the Constitution states that in case of an armed attack on the Republic, its immediate threat or war, the President may declare martial law and only after the declaration of a martial law can a decision be taken of the use of the armed forces.

Armenian Defense Minister Mikael Harutyunyan and other officials, in violation of the Constitution of Armenia, have confirmed the martial law in Armenia, the armed forces used political issues against citizens participating in peaceful demonstrations.

Particularly, on February 23, 2008, Armenian Defense Minister Mikael Harutyunyan signed a clandestine order No. 0038 on the execution of the tasks set by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, in which peaceful demonstrators were described as “political” destabilizing the situation. forces “, and the whole staff of the RA Armed Forces was moved to the barracks to ensure the” normal development of the country “. Officer groups were set up with tabular guns. By the decree, the Armed Forces have also been created with high mobility and able to operate effectively in complicated situations by armed units equipped with firearms. It was instructed to replenish these units with more trained, psychologically stable employees.

The Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Armenia

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It is time for international community to welcome Artsakh into the community of nations – John Evans

March 12, 2018 By administrator

John Evans is a former US ambassador to Armenia (2004-2006)

John Evans is a former US ambassador to Armenia (2004-2006)

In 451 AD, Armenian warriors, having just lost a fierce battle with the superior Persian Empire, retreated into the forests of Artsakh in the South Caucasus. They had lost the war, but preserved their Christian faith, and thus considered it a victory. Armenia was the first nation to embrace Christianity, in the year 301.

In 2018, a small but determined Armenian democratic republic, the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (or “Artsakh,” as Armenians call it) is attempting to survive, threatened by a militarily superior power that wishes to crush it. Professor Audrey Altstadt, in her recent article about Azerbaijan did not mention Nagorno-Karabakh, but perhaps ought to have, as the plight of the citizens of that unrecognized de facto state constitutes a serious violation of human rights.

This week, the democratically-elected president of Artsakh, Bako Sahakyan, will visit Washington. He will not be received by the administration, in part because the United States is silent on the question of whether Artsakh should eventually be independent of Azerbaijan, to which it was allocated by Josef Stalin in 1921. Washington does not recognize Artsakh—in fact no country yet does—but President Sahakyan’s predecessor who visited in 1999 and 2002 met with State Department officials at the working level, and there is an unofficial representative of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh resident in Washington. For this visit, Sahakyan will have to be content with meetings on the Hill and a private lunch at the Center for the National Interest.

Along with France and Russia, the United States has been attempting to mediate the dispute between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh for more than twenty years. Although the talks, sponsored by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, have not yet produced a settlement, in the meantime the people of Karabakh have built a thriving democracy based on market principles, free and fair elections and respect for human rights. A fragile cease-fire reached in 1994 under Russian auspices was flagrantly violated in April 2016 when Azeri troops attempted to reverse the victory achieved in the early 1990s by Karabakh Armenians fighting for their right to self-determination as the Soviet Union started to collapse. Nagorno-Karabakh has never in fact been part of modern Azerbaijan except as a part of the USSR, when it was an autonomous region, with the right of secession. Nor was it a part of the short-lived Azerbaijan that briefly existed prior to the establishment of Soviet power in the South Caucasus.

The four-day war in 2016 has changed everything. It was a brutal campaign launched in the middle of the night on multiple sectors of the Line of Contact that divides the Armenian and Azeri forces. Some four hundred casualties resulted before a shaky cease-fire was restored. Azeri forces carried out multiple atrocities, cutting off the ears of an elderly Armenian couple, torturing and mutilating the bodies of Armenian soldiers, and, in at least one case, decapitating them, ISIS-style. These atrocities—some twenty-eight of them—have been documented by the Ombudsman for Artsakh and reported to the UN Commission on Human Rights. The blitzkrieg destroyed what little confidence the Armenians in Artsakh may have had in the peace talks and in Baku’s intentions toward them, which some observers say were tantamount to genocidal.

As I saw with my own eyes when I visited in July after the April 2016 war, the people and the de facto authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic have built a functioning democracy despite being “unrecognized” by the world. They have demonstrated all the attributes of a state outlined in the Montevideo Convention except the last: the capacity to conduct state-to-state relations. In fact, they do have the capacity; it is only the opportunity that they have been denied. Azerbaijan punishes anyone who visits Karabakh without its consent, so the opera singer Monserrat Caballé, celebrity cook Anthony Bourdain, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius and many others are now on Baku’s “black list.” Full disclosure: I am on that list myself.

According to experts on international law who met recently in Brussels to discuss the issue, the right to self-determination trumps the principle of territorial integrity, which can be invoked only “externally,” that is, in defense of the state against external threats, but not to thwart the rights of an internal minority seeking to exercise its rights. Leaving aside the fact that Nagorno-Karabakh legally seceded from the USSR at the same time as Armenia and Azerbaijan did, there can be no doubt that the conflict with the government in Baku began as an internal one. It is also true that Armenia came to the support of its cousins in Artsakh, as did Armenians from California and around the world. And it has to be said that self-determination can sometimes be exercised within a state, as Quebec has chosen to do within Canada. But when the “parent” state employs violence against what it considers its citizens, it forfeits its right to rule over them, and there arises the question of what has been termed “remedial secession.”

As Professor Paul Williams of the American University Washington College of Law reminds us, there are some seventy active self-determination movements in today’s world. These conflicts, he points out, are “deadly, durable and destabilizing.” They tend to last, on average, about thirty years. But as another international law expert, Alfred de Zayas, points out, self-determination is a form of democracy, and ought to be viewed as a factor for long-term stability.

It is time for the international community to welcome the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh—Artsakh—into the community of nations. As the deputy foreign minister of Artsakh, Armine Aleksanyan, put it recently at the European Parliament, “Karabakh is a country, not a conflict.” The people of Artsakh just want to live their lives in peace and freedom. Even though the status of the Republic of Artsakh has not yet been finally determined, the people of Artsakh possess, and should enjoy, the same rights as all the rest of us, and ought not to be quarantined by the rest of humanity.

Re-published from The National Interest
John Evans is a former US ambassador to Armenia (2004-2006)

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