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Stepanakert-Shushi-Berdzor interstate road open on both sides

Arpi Talalian
Panorama, Armenia
Nov 8 2021

The Stepanakert-Shushi-Berdzor interstate road is now open on both sides after the traffic on the Stepanakert-Berdzor road was stopped due to the incident at the crossroad near Shushi, Armenpress news agency reported, citing the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Artsakh.

To remind, at around 15։00 on Monday the Azerbaijani side opened fire at a group of civilians working on a water pipe at a crossroad near occupied Shushi town. As a result of the incident one worker identified as 22-year-old E.M died, other three – identified as 41-year-old S.A., 31-year-old M.G. and 43-year-old D.G are treated at Stepanakert hospital. 

The source reminds that the traffic on the Stepanakert-Berdzor road was suspended. The Stepanakert-Shushi-Berdzor interstate road is now open on both sides for all types of vehicles. 

Armenian authorities have taken over Azerbaijan’s role, says opposition MP

Arpi Talalian
Panorama, Armenia
Nov 12 2021

MP Tigran Abrahamyan from the opposition With Honor faction says the Armenian authorities are trying to hide the truth, pushing the key issues to the background and focusing on the secondary ones.

Speaking at a news conference on Friday, he blamed the authorities for the failure to deal with the security issues and respond to Azerbaijan’s audacious actions.

His comments came after the news on the installation of Azeri checkpoints on the Goris-Kapan road section from Thursday midnight.

“The authorities say, ‘we have built a bypass road, it is a really good road and is of higher quality than the one where Azerbaijan has wedged in, it is safer and meets international standards.’ But what does the quality of the road have to do with what we are talking about? Apart from invading different parts of the Republic of Armenia and taking control of our important infrastructures, Azerbaijani forces pose a serious threat to our settlements,” the lawmaker stated.

Tigran Abrahamyan stressed that instead of preventing the Azerbaijani aggression or minimizing the security threats, the authorities are trying to legitimize the Azerbaijani provocations by claiming that the actions of Azerbaijan stem from the realities emerged after the war and are in accordance with the Soviet maps.

“The Armenian authorities have undertaken the role that Azerbaijan was supposed to play, i.e. they justify, legitimize Azerbaijan’s steps, further narrowing down our negotiation opportunities,” Abrahamyan said.

Minister of Defense of Armenia participates in the session of CIS Defense Ministers Council

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YEREVAN, 10 NOVEMBER, ARMENPRESS. Minister of Defense of Armenia Arshak Karapetyan on November 10 participated in the regular meeting of Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS, ARMENPRESS was informed from the Ministry of Defense of Armenia.

During the session more than 20 issues included in the agenda, including development of multilateral defense partnership, joint computer command and staff exercise “Regional Security-2022” of the  joint air defense system, the fight against pandemic of the RChBD forces, humanitarian demining of joint engineering units, joint training of military personnel for the armed forces, the results of the international army games held this year, etc.

The members of the CIS Defense Ministers Council exchanged opinions about military-political situation and security issues as well as highly appreciated the 30-years experience of CIS framework and development directions.

At the end of the session all decisions of the Council of Ministers of Defense of CIS member states were signed, including the 2022 working plan.

President of Artsakh pays tribute to memory of heroes fallen at 2020 war

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 13:06, 9 November, 2021

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 9, ARMENPRESS. President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan visited today the Stepanakert Memorial on the occasion of the first anniversary of the statement which put an end to the 2020 war, his Office reports.

The President of the Republic also visited the military pantheon and laid flowers at the tombs of the servicemen fallen at the Artsakh wars.

 

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Artak Zakaryan: We all renounce ‘the Artsakh and Armenia of tomorrow’

Arpi Talalian
Panorama, Armenia
Oct 27 2021

Armenia’s former Deputy Defense Minister and member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Artak Zakaryan states the power in Armenia does not belong to the people.

“Armenia and Artsakh are falling victim to the conformist indifference of the rich, the ignorance of the poor, the silent obedience of those receiving salaries from the budget and the total disorganization of the compassionate,” he wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.

“The power in the Republic of Armenia belongs not to the people, but to Turkish-Azerbaijani (as well as other foreign) circles.

“Today, we all, led by Nikol the capitulator, renounce the Artsakh and Armenia of tomorrow. We need to drive out the main conspirator as quickly as possible, and only after that to put things in order in the Armenian House,” Zakaryan said.

Turkish press: Erdoğan to visit Azerbaijan for 3rd time since Nagorno-Karabakh war

Arpi Talalian
 ANKARA DIPLOMACY 
OCT 25, 2021 8:05 AM GMT+3

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is welcomed by Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev in Shusha, Azerbaijan, June 15, 2021 (AA Photo)

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Azerbaijan for the third time on Tuesday since the Nagorno-Karabakh region was liberated from Armenian occupation.

Erdoğan will meet his counterpart Ilham Aliyev and attend the inauguration of Fuzuli International Airport.

The Turkish leader’s last trip to Azerbaijan was in June, when he visited the historic Karabakh town of Shusha, the country’s cultural capital that had been occupied by Armenia for 28 years.

Erdoğan and Aliyev signed the Shusha Declaration during that trip, a pact focused on defense cooperation and establishing new transportation routes.

The agreement also affirms that Turkey and Azerbaijan will work together in the face of any external threat.

Fuzuli International Airport which has been completed in eight months, will be opened on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2021 (AA Photo)

The Turkish president was also a guest of honor at a special parade held in December 2020 to celebrate Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh victory.

In his address at the event, Erdoğan reaffirmed Ankara’s unwavering support for Baku’s security and development goals, vowing that the two countries will make the region a “prosperous, developed and more livable place for our children.”

Relations between the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia have been tense since 1991 when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent regions.

New clashes erupted on Sept. 27, 2020, with the Armenian army launching repeated attacks on civilians and Azerbaijani forces, violating several humanitarian cease-fire agreements.

During the 44-day conflict, Azerbaijan liberated several cities and some 300 settlements and villages that were occupied by Armenia for nearly three decades.

The fighting ended on Nov. 10, 2020, after the two countries signed an agreement brokered by Russia.

47 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Artsakh, 14 patients are in critical condition

Arpi Talalian
News.am, Armenia
Oct 24 2021
13:19, 24.10.2021

A total of 142 COVID-19 tests were conducted Saturday in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), and from which 47 new cases of the coronavirus were confirmed, Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned from the Artsakh Ministry of Health.   

At present, 105 people are receiving inpatient treatment in Artsakh for COVID-19, and doctors say 14 patients are in critical condition, while 52 others, including young people—in severe condition.

A total of 15,637 coronavirus tests have been conducted in Artsakh so far this year, and the results of 1,641 of them have come back positive.

Azerbaijani press: French court annuls "treaty" with illegal Armenian regime in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh

Arpi Talalian
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By Trend

An illegal agreement signed by the French Department of Isere (Grenoble, France) with the separatist Armenian regime in the previously occupied Azerbaijani Hadrut district [illegally established by the regime in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh and liberated from the Armenian occupation in the 2020 Second Karabakh War] was canceled, the Azerbaijani Embassy in France told Trend.

According to the embassy, the court of the French city of Grenoble annulled the so-called “Charter of Friendship between the Department of Isere and the Hadrut district”, signed on September 20, 2019 by representatives of the separatist regime during a visit to Isere.

Azerbaijani side twice filed claims on illegality of this act – in February and November 2020, the embassy said.

“The decision of the court, which was adopted on September 27 of this year and was officially handed over to the Azerbaijani side today, states that this document [“Charter of Friendship”] was signed by the president of the municipal council of the Isere department in violation of Articles 5, 14, 20, 52 and 55 of the French Constitution, according to which only the president of the country has the right to make decisions on its foreign policy issues,” the embassy said.

“The decision also emphasizes that by signing the illegal charter, the president of the council violated article L. 1115-1 of the Code of Local Self-Government, which presupposes that the principle of respect for France’s international obligations applies to all aspects of the activities of local self-government bodies,” added the embassy.

The Department of Isere with a population of 1.2 million people is the largest department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Part of this region (with the capital in Lyon) accounts for the majority – 15 out of 28 – of illegal acts and agreements signed by the heads of local self-government bodies (departments, cities, communes) with the authorities of the separatist regime.

This is already 11th illegal document annulled by the French courts. Another two claims are in the courts of France. Work continues on the annulment of the remaining illegal documents and decisions adopted in support of the separatist regime in the previously occupied territory of Azerbaijan’s Karabakh.

Azerbaijani press: Azerbaijan developing preliminary conceptual design of railway route to liberated Kalbajar [PHOTO]

Arpi Talalian
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By Trend

Specialists of the Azerbaijan Railways CJSC are developing new directions for the construction of railway lines in the territories liberated from Armenian occupation as a result of the 2020 Second Karabakh War, and one of them is the Dalimammadli-Kalbajar route, Trend reports citing the CJSC.

According to the company, a preliminary conceptual design of the route [to be laid from Goranboy district’s Dalimammadli city to Kalbajar district] has been already developed.

Azerbaijan Railways continues to reconstruct the Barda-Aghdam, Horadiz-Aghband railway lines and work on the construction of a new Fuzuli-Shusha railway.

“The length of the Barda-Aghdam railway, the reconstruction of which began in accordance with the order of President Ilham Aliyev on November 24, 2020, is 47.1 kilometers. Within the framework of the project, the Barda and Kocharli stations will be repaired, and the Tazakand and Aghdam stations will be rebuilt,” the company noted.

“It’s also planned to build 114 engineering structures on this railway line. Currently, the design and work on demolition of the upper structure of the railway line in the direction of Barda-Kocharli-Tazakand is completed, work continues on the construction of an earth embankment, engineering structures and design in the direction of Tazakand-Aghdam.”

“The Horadiz-Aghband railway, the foundation of which was laid by President Ilham Aliyev on February 14, 2021, is 110.4 kilometers long. The single-track railway will have eight stations. It’s also planned to build about 300 engineering structures on it within the project. Along with Horadiz station, Marjanly, Mahmudlu, Soltanly, Gumlag, Minjivan, Bartaz and Aghband stations will be also rebuilt,” the company said.

The length of the single-track electrified railway under construction in the direction of Fuzuli-Shusha is 84.6 kilometers. Within the framework of the project, it is planned to build two new stations – Fuzuli and Shusha, as well as design and construction of about 200 engineering structures,” added the company.