Ishkhan Saghatelyan
Baku/10.05.22/Turan: First ever since the opposition rallies began in late April, the political alliance of Armenian forces opposing Prime Minister N. Pashinyan has proclaimed an action plan it intends to implement by ousting the incumbent Armenian government.
On 9 May, at a rally in Yerevan's France Square, former National Assembly speaker Ishkhan Saghatelyan submitted an opposition's action plan: eliminate Pashinyan's authority, form an interim government and hold national elections in one to five years.
The opposition intends to attract strategic partner countries, to restore the Armenian armed forces, to create a new quality diplomacy, to reaffirm the commitment of the Republic of Armenia to be the guarantor of security and the right of Karabakh to self-determination, excluding the status of Karabakh within Azerbaijan and the enclave state without a secure land link with Armenia, to restore the negotiation process in the format and goals of the OSCE 1994.
Saghatelyan said that the new government should exclude the provision of corridors under the guise of unblocking communications at the expense of Armenian sovereignty and territorial integrity, border demarcation under the threat of force by Azerbaijan, in Armenia-Turkey relations "exclude any agreement that would cast doubt on the fact of depriving the Armenian people of their homeland and the recognition of genocide".
On France Square in Yerevan, David Apoyan, chairman of the Student Council of Yerevan State University, spoke of revanchist intentions: "We must create our future in Shusha and Hadrut. And "Rodina" Party chairman Artur Vanetsyan called on Armenians to restore the "liberation of Shushi" holiday celebrated by Armenians before the defeat in 2020.
The opposition's programme is made up of items rejecting the tripartite statement of 9-10 November 2020 signed by Prime Minister Pashinyan and Presidents Aliyev and Putin.
On May 4 the Russian Foreign Ministry urged Armenian politicians to actively promote the normalisation of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan "primarily through the implementation of all provisions of the trilateral statements of November 9-20, January 11 and November 26-21 and through the conclusion of a peace agreement between Yerevan and Baku"-0-
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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