Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR has set up a petrol station on the Goris-Kapan road, which Nikol Pashinyan handed over to Azerbaijan with verbal agreement.
A video of the station was released by News.am.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan participates in the 30th meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund in Yerevan.
As the press service of the Armenan government told NEWS.am, President Armen Sarkissian, President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan and others are also participating in the meeting.
The meeting began with a minute of silence in memory of the Armenians who died in the name of security and protection of the Motherland, after which those present began to discuss issues on the agenda.
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Traffic is paralyzed in the Verin Khotanan section of the “Goris-Kapan” alternative road.
The video posted by deputy of the opposition “Armenia” Faction of the National Assembly of Armenia Artur Khachatryan shows several trucks and passenger cars stuck on the alternative road with poor visibility, and the traffic is actually paralyzed.
By Trend
The Russian side hopes that during the meeting of the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia in Sochi, it will be possible to outline promising areas for the normalization of relations between Baku and Yerevan, Trend reports on Nov. 26 citing TASS, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said.
“We, like all people who live in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, the South Caucasus region, expect that the long-awaited peace and stability come very soon to the region,” Rudenko said.
According to him, the meeting as a whole is aimed at summing up certain results of the past year after the signing of the trilateral statement [between Russian, Azerbaijani and Armenian leaders to end the second Karabakh war] on November 10, 2020, to see what has been done and can be done next to advance the peace process and the process of normalization between countries in general.
The diplomat also stated that in the process of settlement in the Karabakh region, there remain commonly known problems.
“They relate to the opening of transport communications, the delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, where, unfortunately, we periodically witness certain armed incidents and even death of people,” added the deputy minister.
The capitulator didn’t say a word about the independence of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), the mandatory exercise of the right to self-determination and even the need for a status. This is what Spokesperson of the Republican Party of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov wrote on his Facebook page, adding the following:
“In the way that is characteristic of him, he gave a vague formulation of the solution to the issue within the scope of the OSCE Minsk Group, but did not say a word about the Basic Principles and the right to self-determination.
However, he actually agreed on delimitation of borders without clarification and exercise of the right of the people of Artsakh to self-determination.
This [man] has totally stopped dealing with Artsakh.”
16:28,
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 25, ARMENPRESS. International transportations via the links in South Caucasus which could potentially be reopened will be implemented based on international agreements and the national legislations of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said at a press briefing when asked whether or not customs control will be carried out on the roads in the event of communications being unblocked between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“We are in favor of a consistent implementation of the high level agreements of November 9, 2020 and January 11, 2021,” Zakharova said. “They pertain to the unblocking of economic and transport links in South Caucasus. A trilateral working group co-chaired by the deputy prime ministers of the three countries is dealing with these important issues. The entire complex of these issues was discussed with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk during his visits to Yerevan and Baku. We see good prospects for unblocking of communication, of course taking into account the balance of interests of all sides. We also proceed from the position that international transportations through the routes which will be reopened will be implemented based on international agreements and the national legislations of Armenia and Azerbaijan,” she said.
Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan
A gathering of “Liberation movement” initiative is underway at the Republic Square in Yerevan. The participants call on authorities to refrain from signing any agreement of the demarcation and delimitation of the border with Azerbaijan contrary to Armenian interests. They also demand the publication of the document that is reportedly to be signed. Lecturer at Yerevan State University Tigran Baloyan addressed the public during the gathering.
“They want to impose peace on us, on a country which suffered defeat. Ideally, we should have accepted that peace. Azerbaijani and pro-government media labeled us revanchists, however we are not crazy and know what we want. We do not want to conclude peace agreement as along as we are not ready for that peace. We are not ready for peace agreement with Turks who continue killing us. A peace agreement is signed when reconciliation is in place between peoples. The peace imposed on us is an Azerbaijani agenda and of those who follow that,” said Baloyan.
Turkey believes Armenia ‘needs to take advantage of the opportunity provided for the establishment of peace and fully maintain the ceasefire regime’. This is stated in the statement that the National Security Council of Turkey made after its session held in Ankara and chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Anadolu reports.
“Armenia needs to assess the extended hand for peace as a chance, fully maintain the ceasefire and be loyal to cooperation,” the statement of the National Security Council of Turkey reads.
18:31,
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexei Overchuk and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko. Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan also attended the meeting, ARMENPRESS was informed from the Office of the Prime Minister.
Issues related to the agenda of bilateral cooperation between Armenia and Russia, as well as the activities of the trilateral working group of the Deputy Prime Ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan were discussed.
The sides touched upon the prospects of restoration of transport communications in the South Caucasus region, the further course of the work carried out within the framework of the January 11 statement of the Prime Minister of Armenia, the President of Russia and the President of Azerbaijan.