Month: May 2021

YEREVAN. – In recent days, cases are being recorded when individuals, various officials, and media representatives try to enter the Syunik and Gegharkunik [Provinces’] border areas in the direction of which the provocations of the Azerbaijani armed forces took place. The Ministry of Defense (MOD) of the Republic of Armenia (RA) has noted this in a statement.

"Due to security consideration, we convincingly call to refrain from traveling to the mentioned areas, where the RA Armed Forces is carrying out military service around the clock.

As it was announced earlier, in the absence of a peaceful solution to the situation, the RA Armed Forces reserve the right to resolve the issue by any means, including by force. In this case, the presence of civilians can only hinder the Armenian units from fully fulfilling the tasks before them.

The RA Police and the RA MOD Military Police forces carrying out service on location have been instructed to exclude the entry of civilians to the mentioned areas.

We urge to approach these restrictions with understanding, and not to create unnecessary problems for the armed forces," the MOD statement also reads.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia doesn’t know if there is a document or not, and it doesn’t have any information about the particular document. This is what acting nDeputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Avet Adonts told reporters in Syunik Province today.

According to him, the events are developing dynamically, and the addressee is the Government of Armenia.

“As acting Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, that’s all I can say. I haven’t seen the document and haven’t participated in the discussions,” he emphasized.

The official explained that representatives of the country’s power structures are the ones who are mainly leading the negotiations over the situation at Sev Lake.

“We are aware that the Azerbaijanis didn’t come yesterday. We’ll see what happens. Today’s processes are an encroachment on the sovereignty of Armenia and violate the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia. The Armed Forces of Azerbaijan must leave the territory of Armenia. This is a mandatory step to continue the negotiations,” Adonts added and welcomed the decision of the head of the EU delegation and ambassadors of EU countries to visit Syunik Province.

Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Armenia Andrea Wiktorin and EU countries’ ambassadors visited Syunik Province and the area near Sev Lake, as well as met with Governor of Syunik Province Melikset Poghosyan.

The President of Armenia has not been and is not involved in the processes and discussions related to the alleged document. This is stated in the statement issued by the Staff of the President of Armenia.

The statement also states the following: “Therefore, the President is absolutely unaware of the document, much less the specifics. The President of Armenia is certain that such processes need to be maximally public and need to be held through the involvement of all interested parties.”

Acting PM Nikol Pashinyan said Thursday he is negotiating a new document with Azerbaijan and Russia.

The paper was first published by Armenia's former ambassador to the Vatican Mikayel Minasyan. According to the latter, Pashinyan was going to sign a new agreement that would damage the interests of the country.

The acting PM also noted that Armenia has reached some agreements with its international colleagues. According to him, those solutions are 100% in line with the interests of Armenia.

Pashinyan added that he would not publish the document to be signed because it was not correct to publish a working document.

The government is obliged to terminate the unlawful exercise of the powers of Nikol Pashinyan. This is stated in the statement issued by the opposition Armenia alliance of political parties. The statement also reads as follows:

“Nikol Pashinyan [acting Prime Minister of Armenia], who is trying to maintain power at any price, has created chaos in the country and is ready to perform any conspiratorial action against the State and homeland. The Turkish-Azerbaijani aggression de facto continues.

Nikol Pashinyan, who resigned as Prime Minister and has de jure lost his powers, does not have the competence to sign any document on behalf of the Republic of Armenia.

Besides, any action prohibited by international, including any agreement reached by use of force or with threat of use of force is null and void.

Based on all this,

1. The government is obliged to terminate the unlawful exercise of powers of Nikol Pashinyan.

2.  Only the new authorities to be formed during the upcoming snap elections can ensure the vital interests of the Armenian people and the territorial integrity of Armenia.

3. it is the duty of the government to organize activities for restoration of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Armenia through all possible means.

20 May 2021”

After a long discussion during today’s special session of the National Assembly of Armenia, the text of the statement by the National Assembly was put up for a vote, but wasn’t adopted.

Before the vote, leader of the My Step faction of the National Assembly Lilit Makunts declared the following: “Vladimir Vardanyan from the My Step faction and Taron Simonyan from the opposition Bright Armenia faction held discussions on the text of the statement, and the My Step faction made substantive proposals. Since it was impossible to find a common denominator in regard to the text, the My Step faction will boycott the vote.”

Only 25 MPs voted in favor of the text of the statement.

As reported earlier, the National Assembly had convened a special session initiated by the opposition Bright Armenia faction, along with the opposition Prosperous Armenia faction. The possible signing of the new alleged document on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is on the agenda.

The factions had submitted the draft statement of the National Assembly titled “The actions being taken by the Government of the Republic of Armenia in the situation created as a result of violation of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia and the use of force against the Republic of Armenia”.

Acting PM Nikol Pashinyan said Thursday he is negotiating a new document with Azerbaijan and Russia.

The paper was first published by Armenia's former ambassador to the Vatican Mikayel Minasyan. According to the latter, Pashinyan was going to sign a new agreement that would damage the interests of the country.

The acting PM also noted that Armenia has reached some agreements with its international colleagues. According to him, those solutions are 100% in line with the interests of Armenia.

Pashinyan added that he would not publish the document to be signed because it was not correct to publish a working document.