Yerevan / 25.08.14 / Turan- ArmInfo: No progress is observed at the negotiations on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict after 2011, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan told journalists. According to him, after the meeting of the Presidents of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan in Kazan in the draft document on the settlement of the conflict there were not any amends or additions.
Yerevan's position on this issue is known to all - Azerbaijan should recognize the right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to decide their own destiny. "There are no other issues we have, and we want it to happen peacefully, but not at the cost of human lives," he said.
He added that the recent sabotage on the contact line and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border had one goal - to show the international community that the war is not over, and the current status quo is unacceptable.
"Provocations and sabotage are organized not by the order of junior or middle command staff, but at the highest level, and the President of Azerbaijan does not hide this. They wanted to show us on more serious level that Azerbaijan has advantages. If they could succeed, they would have managed to further advance the thesis that the assignment of Azerbaijan in the negotiations is that Baku does not resume hostilities. This is not a justification, and direct blackmail," said Sargsyan.
However, the failure of Baku led to the fact that at the last meeting in Sochi, the Azerbaijani side was in a bad situation, said Sargsyan. -02D-
Politics
-
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
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
Leave a review