Armenia is interested in the opening of the railway through Abkhazia and the construction of the Yerevan-Batumi road, said the Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan in his interview with Interfax. He stated that for these purposes the Asian Development Bank provided a loan of 500 million dollars, and will help to ease the blockade of Armenia by Azerbaijan and Turkey. The opening of the railway will also contribute to it, he said.
Asked about the Karabakh settlement, prime accused Azerbaijan of disrupting the negotiation process by pardoning Safarov.
Responding the question of the fate of the airport in Khojaly and the first fly to Karabakh from Yerevan Sarkisian said that Nagorno-Karabakh is a vital corridor and technical problems, navigation, service-related transportation, providing standards of carriages by air are being solved now. "As soon as these works complete, the flights will begin", he said.
Sarkisian made it clear that the prevention of international mediators, in particular, the U.S. State Department, will be ignored.
Official Baku announced it would not allow operation of the airport in Karabakh, and it will be regarded as a violation of Azerbaijan’s sovereignty.-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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