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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia criticized Pashinyan’s statement about “guaranteeing the safety of Nagorno-Karabakh”

March 17, 2023 By administrator

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova did not agree with the statement of the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan that “Russia is the guarantor of the security of Nagorno Karabakh”. These words were spoken by the Armenian Prime Minister on March 14 during a four-hour press conference for the Armenian media.

“According to the tripartite statement and the subsequent decision of the Federation Council, the President of the Russian Federation was given the opportunity to introduce peacekeepers to Nagorno-Karabakh,” he reminded. Mr. Pashinyan also admitted. Having suffered a defeat in the war of 2020, Yerevan cannot fulfill the functions of a guarantor for the Armenians of Karabakh. However, it is worth noting that there is no mention of guarantees from Russia regarding Karabakh in the tripartite statement dated November 9, 2020.

“All the obligations of our side are clearly written in the tripartite statement of the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia dated November 9, 2020. It is necessary to simply open this document and see what obligations our party bears and what obligations it does not,” said Maria Zakharova today, March 16, at a briefing for journalists, answering the question of “Ъ”.

“We consider such statements of the Armenian leadership as a continuation of the line that was taken at the summit in Prague in October 2022 under the auspices of the EU,” she added.

We remind you that they hinted earlier in Moscow that they were not satisfied with the course taken by Yerevan at the Prague meeting. There, Nikol Pashinyan and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev confirmed their commitment to the Alma-Ata Declaration adopted on December 21, 1991 (that is, less than a month after the Belovezh Agreements, which ended the existence of the USSR). This document stipulates the recognition of the borders between all fifteen republics as state, which means that it deprives Armenia of the right to seek any status of Karabakh outside of Azerbaijan.

Moreover, speaking at the briefing, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation answered the question of “Ъ” about whether Russia should “protect Karabakh even if Azerbaijan wants to take control of new territories that are now under the control of peacekeepers”. “Future 3D prototyping is simply inappropriate. There will be something that requires a response, we will give it,” she said.

Maria Zakharova reacted to one more statement of Nikola Pashinyan – that it is not Armenia that expresses its intention to withdraw from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), but, on the contrary, “the CSTO is withdrawing from Armenia”, to the displeasure of Yerevan. “When I saw this statement, quote, two other quotes immediately came to mind. Михаила Булгакова “Who was standing?” and Konstantin Stanislavsky’s “We must love art in ourselves, not ourselves in art,” she said metaphorically.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Nagorno-Karabakh

The Minsk Group urges the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to pull the heavy artillery out of the front line.

April 23, 2018 By administrator

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

YEREVAN, APRIL 23, ARMENPRESS. The OSCE Minsk Group has issued a statement on the situation in the region. “Armenpress” presents the statement completely.

“In the light of recent developments in the region and taking into account the possibility of tension in the line of contact, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs (Igor Popov of Russia, Stefan Visconti-France and Andrew Sheffern-USA) underline the importance of the ceasefire in this important period, keeping the heavy artillery away from the line.

The Co-Chairs urge the parties to take immediate action to alleviate tensions, as well as wait for the upcoming meeting of the parties to resume intensive negotiations to find a peaceful and lasting solution to the conflict. ”

On April 21, the Artsakh Defense Army stated that the enemy violated the ceasefire regime intensively at the line of contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces. In addition to violating the ceasefire violations in different parts of the contact line, particularly in the eastern and southeastern directions, active movement of live force and military equipment of the Azerbaijani army was observed.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Conflict, Nagorno-Karabakh

“Nagorno Karabakh Must Be the Primary Subject and Not an Object of the Peace Process” Say Prominent International Scholars

February 28, 2018 By administrator

Nagorno Karabakh Prominent International Scholars

By Kate Nahapetian

On February 27 the European Parliament deputies Michèle Rivasi (Verts/A LE) and Lars Adaktusson (EPP) hosted a public debate featuring prominent international scholars and diplomats who examined developments in international law, the status of the negotiations, and recommendations for achieving a peaceful resolution in Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh).

Speakers included Dr. Alfred de Zayas, UN Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Dr. Paul Williams, Professor of Law, American University’s Washington College of Law and co-founder of the Public International Law & Policy Group, Dr. Sergey Markedonov, associate Professor at Russian State University, Armine Aleksanyan, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Artsakh Republic and moderator Giro Manoyan, board Member of the Armenian Legal Center for Justice and Human Rights (ALC). The event was co-organized by ALC, Tufenkian Foundation and the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD).

Held at the European Parliament, the debate reviewed the findings of a colloquium held on Feb. 26-27 at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), with the participation of over a dozen distinguished international law experts and former diplomats. The colloquium was co-organized by the Armenian Legal Center for Justice and Human Rights and the Tufenkian Foundation.

The findings of the colloquium included the following:

– Nagorno Karabakh must be the primary subject and not the object of the peace process;

– Under well-established international legal precedents, people, including those in Nagorno Karabakh, have the right to declare independence;

– Under international law there is a duty not to respond with violence to a declaration of independence;

– Nagorno Karabakh is a functioning state based on the concept of earned sovereignty, since it has institutional capacity, a democratically elected government, control of its borders and a functioning civil society;

– International community should actively engage with Nagorno Karabakh regardless of its status;

– International law provides a framework, but by itself cannot serve as sole tool for resolving conflicts, one cannot ignore the role politics plays in a conflict resolution;

– Confidence-building is a key tool to peace and a final resolution;

– Escalation of Armenophobic rhetoric and war-mongering are not acceptable and must be discouraged, incitement to violence and hatred is prohibited by international law.

During his presentation Dr. de Zayas stressed that self-determination of peoples often misinterpreted as destabilizing, is in fact a crucial component of regional and international stability. Commenting on the four-day war in April 2016, he noted: “Azerbaijan’s aggression in April 2016 constituted a breach of peace and must be condemned as a violation of the UN Charter.”

To emphasize the need to create mechanisms for dealing with the right to self-determination, Dr. Williams noted that there were over 70 active self-determination movements in the world and the failure to create mechanisms to address them has resulted in over 20 million deaths in the past 50 years.

“Failure to adequately develop a plan to resolve self-determination movements is deadly,” explained Williams. He went on to propose the concept of “earned sovereignty” as a crucial mechanism that would prevent the deadly conflict. Earned sovereignty would require de facto states to build functioning state institutions and democracies rooted in respect for human rights before gaining recognition.

Dr. Markedonov, who provided an overview of recent developments, stated that the recent escalations of violence and war rhetoric has set the sides apart, making a negotiated settlement even more difficult. He also cautioned against the current focus only on the Karabakh-Azerbaijan border, since “one more important challenge is along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border which is not contested territory,” but experiences ceasefire violations.

Deputy Foreign Minister of the Artsakh Republic Aleksanyan noted, “Nagorno Karabakh is not merely a name of a conflict, it is a place where people live. These people were destined to fight for their right to live.” As proof of Artsakh’s determination to build a strong democratic state, Aleksanyan emphasized that the country has unilaterally signed several human rights treaties such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Geneva Conventions, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

The conference participants agreed that Nagorno Karabakh has a very strong claim for self-governance and that international community should become more heavily engaged with Nagorno Karabakh and the peace process to facilitate an appropriate solution to the conflict.

 

Armenian Legal Center for Justice and Human Rights

Tufenkian Foundation

European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy

 

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: Nagorno-Karabakh, Prominent International Scholars

EU: Parliament adopts by a large majority a resolution recognizing the “Nagorno-Karabakh region” the right to self-determination

July 7, 2017 By administrator

EU Parliament adopts  recognizing the "Nagorno-Karabakh region"On Wednesday 5 July (457 votes in favor, 124 against and 66 abstentions), the European Parliament adopted a resolution entitled “Recommendation of the European Parliament of 5 July 2017 to the Council on the seventy-second session of the General Assembly Of the United Nations, “in which paragraph (a) of the Peace and Security item refers to the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh as follows:

“Continue to advocate full respect for the sovereignty, internationally recognized borders and the territorial integrity of the countries of Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus, in particular Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, Violations of international law committed in those regions; Support and re-launch diplomatic efforts to achieve a peaceful and lasting settlement of these ongoing and long-lasting conflicts and the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and to enforce human rights on the ground. Human rights, territorial integrity, the non-use of force and the equal rights of peoples and their right to self-determination; Urging the international community to fully implement the policy of non-recognition of the illegal annexation of the Crimea; To actively strengthen the pressure on Russia as a permanent member of the UN Security Council to resolve the conflict in Ukraine in accordance with the Minsk accords and the problem of the occupation of the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Ossetia from South ; Seek a political balance that rejects all the aspirations of exclusive spheres of influence; “

MEPs explicitly recognize the right to self-determination of the “Nagorno-Karabakh region” and if they are committed to “respect for the territorial integrity of the countries of Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus”, they insist Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine “, three Eastern Partnership states that have signed an association agreement with Brussels. But they do not explicitly mention Azerbaijan and Armenia, as Nagorno-Karabakh. Since the question of Artsakh (Karabakh in Armenian) concerns in law, the principle of self-determination of the Armenians in this region, mentioning only “Nagorno Karabakh” shows at the same time That this Republic of Artsakh is a party to the conflict, that Armenia is not, as stipulated in the 4 resolutions of the UN Security Council and that Azerbaijan does not see its territorial integrity specially mentioned. At this stage, it is a step forward for the rights of Armenians in Arsatkh, presumably because Azerbaijan is multiplying human rights violations, aggression against Armenians and acts of intimidation against Members of the European Parliament. But this vote is also due to the fact that Armenia is about to sign an association agreement with Brussels in November 2017, if all goes well. And as Moscow and Brussels seek to overcome their differences, Armenia has in this perspective a card to play.

Writing

Friday, July 7, 2017,
Ara © armenews.com

Filed Under: News Tagged With: EU, Nagorno-Karabakh, recognizing, self-determination

Nagorno-Karabakh servicemen wounded in fresh Azerbaijani truce breaches – statement

July 7, 2017 By administrator

Nagorno-Karabakh servicemen wounded

Nagorno-Karabakh servicemen wounded

Three servicemen of the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Defense Army have been injured in intensive Azerbaijani ceasefire violations reported since Friday morning.

The heavy shellings saw the adversary shoot fire from firearms and heavy launchers (122-mm howitzer D-30 аnd 85 mm divisional gun D-44 ), and mortars and grenade launchers of different calibers.
The affected servicemen have been identified as Robert N Gasparyan (48), Hambardzum J Harutyunyan (20) and Vahe G Badalyan (19). All the three have received fragmentary injuries.

The frontline military units of the Defense Army have initiated retaliatory action to suppress the proactive raids.

In an official statement condemning the attacks, Nagorno-Karabakh’s Ministry of Defense blames the Azerbaijani authorities for military actions destabilizing the situation along the Line of Contact.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Nagorno-Karabakh, servicemen, wounded

The Alexander Lapshin Case: Extradited and Imprisoned in Azerbaijan over Telling the Truth about Nagorno-Karabakh

February 12, 2017 By administrator

Sunday, February 12, 2017
Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate and former US Army officer
Until a few weeks ago no one in North America even heard of journalist-blogger Alexander Lapshin. He lives primarily in Moscow but as a Russian-Israeli-Ukrainian citizen possessing three passports, Lapshin is a globetrotter who writes a blog called “Life Adventures” for the popular travel website LiveJournal. In Russia his on the road stories to off the beaten path, unusual places around the world (122 in all) have generated quite a following for their colorful and humorous portrayal of life as a foreign tourist visiting various diverse cultures and locations. But the 40-year old Lapshin is in political hot water now as a political prisoner sitting in a jail in Baku, Azerbaijan. His legal case has attracted international attention and involves high profile politics in four different nations.
On December 15th last year, Alexander Lapshin was detained in Minsk, Belarus. Viewing the blogger as a threat to “homeland security” based on his alleged “espionage,” the Azerbaijan prosecuting office had ordered the blogger’s arrest and requested extradition at the behest of Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. The travel journalist had made trips in 2011 and 2012 to Nagorno-Karabakh, sympathizing and identifying with the Armenians he met as reflected in his blog entries. Then on his social media account on April 6, 2016 and again on June 29th last year, Alexander commented on the unfairness of Azerbaijan’s territorial claims based on its attempted invasion of the disputed region, calling for recognition of the enclave’s independence, apparently a crime in violation of Azeri law code 281.2. Aware that the popular journalist’s messages were reaching a receptive audience of thousands of readers, the Baku government was growing nervous that his writings were contributing to the Nagorno-Karabakh movement for worldwide recognized independence. Thus, the reactionary oppressive state drew up a legal case against Lapshin, charging him with violating Azerbaijan’s “territorial integrity.” Baku was determined to set a harsh example of him to show the rest of the world what happens to journalists who publicly badmouth Azerbaijan.
Gloating over the victory of extraditing Lapshin and his current Baku incarceration, the deputy speaker for Azerbaijan’s legislature warned the rest of the world:
Those not reckoning with Azerbaijan, may share Lapshin’s fate.
The timing of the blogger’s detainment in Belarus came immediately following Lapshin’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s visit to Baku to close a $5 billion missile arms deal with Azerbaijan. With Azeri-Israeli relations never chummier, the Baku government seized the moment when in mid-December the traveling journalist landed in Minsk, a capital housing a government sympathetic to the Azeri cause.  
Another arbitrary Azeri law no one ever heard of apparently until the Lapshin case prohibits visitors from other countries to travel to Nagorno-Karabakh without authorized permission (code 318.2) from the Baku government. Of course thousands of individuals have gone to Nagorno-Karabakh since 1994, after Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a bloody six year warresulting in 30,000 deaths that Armenia won, leaving only Armenians who’ve been living there for many centuries. But since 1994 apparently Alexander Lapshin is the first and only person ever arrested for entering the disputed region without clearing the visit with Baku officials.
The long contested territory originated when Josef Stalin in 1920 gave Azerbaijan administrative control, despite Nagorno-Karabakh’s overwhelming majority population being Armenian since ancient times. And hence arose the controversy by the ruthless Soviet dictator acting by designed decree as a shrewd divide and rule strategist to facilitate autocratic control over his territorial Soviet colonies Azerbaijan and Armenia. Since the Armenians were still facing genocide, Stalin knew handing over power to the Turkish brethren the Azeris would result in further persecution of Armenian residents in Nagorno-Karabakh, otherwise known asArtsakh to the Armenians. This ancient Armenian land had been home to Armenians long before the Azeris as an ethnic group and culture ever came into existence.
The world’s first Christian nation of Armenia in 301 AD included what is a large portion of now eastern Turkey (Western Armenia), Artsakh, another Armenian enclave Nakhichevan as well as the current small nation Armenia (Eastern Armenia). Even prior to the breakup of the Soviet Empire in 1991, the residents of Artsakh submitted to Moscow a peaceful appeal for Armenian reunification back in 1988. As the pogrom killings of Armenians in Baku and other Azeri cities became more prevalent, eventually in self-defense, war broke out. Amidst the ongoing war, in 1991 Artsakh residents overwhelmingly voted for their own independence, declaring itself the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh. At one point Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was receptive to granting sovereignty, but the matter was delayed by bureaucracy in the face of the unstable, chaotic dissolution of the Soviet Union. Smaller than the state of Connecticut with a population near 150,000 Armenians, the mountainous region remains a global hotspot to this day that could potentially be the incendiary igniting World War III.
Continue Reading on: http://empireexposed.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-alexander-lapshin-case-extradited.html
Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate and former US Army officer. He has written a manuscript based on his unique military experience entitled “Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down.” It examines and focuses on US international relations, leadership and national security issues. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century. In recent years he has focused on his writing, becoming an alternative media journalist. His blog site is at http://empireexposed.blogspot.co.id/. His blog site is athttp://empireexposed.blogspot.co.id/. 
Joachim is also a regular contributor to Global Research (http://www.globalresearch.ca/),  Sott.net and LewRockwell.com. 

The Alexander Lapshin Case: Extradited and Imprisoned in Azerbaijan over Telling the Truth about Nagorno-Karabakh

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Alexander-lapshin, Azerbaijan, imprisoned, Nagorno-Karabakh

Top Armenian military rejects Minsk invite as he “has visited Karabakh”

February 10, 2017 By administrator

A top Armenian military official has rejected an invitation to participate in the 90th anniversary of the formation of Belarusian DOSAAF as he “has visited Nagorno Karabakh.”

DOSAAF is the Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Fleet.

Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (Komandos), who heads the Armenian DOSAAF, is currently supervising the training of specialists in the Armenian armed forces.

He is known as the “mastermind of Shushi liberation,” having been named commander of the operation (dubbed Wedding in Mountains) to seize the strategic town in Karabakh.

In a Facebook post, Komandos said he had to reject the invitation as he “had been to Nagorno Karabakh.”

The extradition by Minsk of Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan has strained diplomatic ties between Armenia and Belarus.

Lapshin, 40, divides his time between Israel and a few other places. He was arrested on December 15 in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, at the request of Azeri authorities who demanded his extradition. The arrest was made one day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

Lapshin was arrested following his visits to Karabakh as well as due to critical posts in his Russian-language blog against Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, Belarus, Nagorno-Karabakh

Russia does not object to the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh being renamed Republic of Artsakh

November 15, 2016 By administrator

karabakh-artsakhThe project to rename the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh by the name of the Republic of Artsakh, a historical reference already commonly used to describe this entity recognized to date by no state, will in no way change Russia’s position in the conflict, Namely the spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. Mr Zakharova took the opportunity to discuss the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council to be held in Hamburg on 8 and 9 November

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Nagorno-Karabakh, Republic of Artsakh

Armenian Soldier, who was wounded in Karabakh by Azerbaijan shots, is in serious but stable condition

October 12, 2016 By administrator

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Hayk Hambardzumyan

YEREVAN. – The serviceman, who sustained a gunshot wound at a Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh) Defense Army position on October 7, is in serious but stable condition.

The Ministry of Defense of Armenia Central Clinical Military Hospital, in capital city Yerevan, informed the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

They also noted that Hayk Hambardzumyan, 20, was wounded in the chest, and his liver was damaged.

On Monday, the wounded soldier was transferred from the NKR capital city Stepanakert Military Hospital to Yerevan, by a helicopter.

Hambardzumyan is from Yerevan. His mother is dead, and he lives with his father and elder sister.

As reported earlier, Hayk Hambardzumyan was wounded at a protection area of an NKR Defense Army unit located in a southerly direction of the line of contact, and as a result of the shots fired by the Azerbaijani armed forces.

The Defense Army had informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that an investigation is underway to find out the details of this incident.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Armenian, Nagorno-Karabakh, soldier, wounded

Nagorno-Karabakh contract servicaman wounded by Azerbaijani bullet

July 23, 2016 By administrator

soldier wondedA contract serviceman of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Defense Army was wounded in a military post in a series of intensive shootings released by Azerbaijan’s armed forces after midnight.
According to Nagorno-Karabakh’s Ministry of Defense, adversary committed a total of 18 ceasefire violations overnight, releasing 200 gunshots from sniper weapons.
The injured serviceman, Mher V Ziloyan, 25, was immediately hospitalized. His condition is estimated as satisfactory.
A probe has been launched into the incident. The advance military troops of the Defense Army keep the situation on the frontline under control, continuing their military vigil.

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh, soldier, wounded

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