Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in an interview with the agency "Bloomberg" has made it clear that he considers meaningless are any negotiations with Azerbaijan without guarantees of non-resumption of hostilities. According to him, the war could start at any moment. Russia's mediation in this matter "may not prevent a wide-scale war involving hundreds of tanks and 30,000 artillery shells," he said.
Under such a situation, Armenian has "no reason" to resume the negotiations with Azerbaijan without any security guarantees, he said.
Referring to the recent visit of Russian Foreign Minister, Sargsyan said that Lavrov "did not bring new proposals", as he realizes that it makes no sense to talk about the negotiations after a 4-day war.
Speaking about the possibility of deploying Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh, Sargsyan said that currently it is impossible. "If there is no negotiation how peacemakers can appear in Karabakh?" he said. -02D-
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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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