Alain Simonyan: These four villages are not the territory of Armenia
Armenia is not going to surrender the villages of Tavush region, Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan told reporters on March 27. According to him, the 4 villages in question are the territory of Armenia. "I am looking for those people who will come and prove that these villages are located on the territory of Armenia," he said.
Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated the need to return to Azerbaijan 4 villages of the Gazakh region occupied by Armenians in the early 90s.
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OPHRD), a joint program of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has called for the urgent release of activist Rufat Safarov from prison in Azerbaijan. It has launched a campaign in support of the Azerbaijani human rights defender. https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/arbitrary-detention-and-judicial-harassment-against-rufat-safarov
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This year, the laureate of the annual Nargiz Prize, awarded for efforts in the fight for democracy, was Akif Gurbanov, chairman of the board of the Resplatforma (Platform of the III Republic) movement, who is under arrest.
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The U.S. will prohibit the issuing of visas for nearly a dozen more individuals responsible for undermining democracy in Georgia, bringing the total number to over 100, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has expressed condolences to the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, following the tragic incident in the city of Magdeburg. "We are deeply shocked by the news of the deaths and injuries resulting from the tragic incident that took place at the Christmas market in Magdeburg," the message reads.
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