"Terrorist attack against me was to make us to turn away from the path of self-determination," said Paruyr Hayrikyan, leader of "National Self-Determination", the presidential candidate of Armenia at a news conference in Yerevan.
An attempt was made on his life on February 1.
Referring to what has happened, he noted that in reality, the attacker was a professional, and did not make any mistake. Hayrikyan stressed that he miraculously survived.
Referring to his previous statements that the attack on him was organized by the former KGB, and now secret services of Russia, Hayrikyan repeated his accusations.
"These forces have made everything so that the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline was not complete; these are the forces that organized the massacres in Sumgait, who previously gave Karabakh, so that we do not have normal relations with neighbors; these are the forces that agreed with Ataturk," said Hayrikyan.
"I appreciate all the positive in the Russians, I have a Russian friends, but it is necessary to speak about negative things," said Hayrikyan. -02D-
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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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