Former Ambassador of Armenia to the Vatican Mikayel Minasyan wrote the following on his Telegram channel:
“All us Armenians see that the war is not over. We understood that defeat is not suffered once. The lack of self-love of Nikol and his team and their flirting with the enemy aren’t letting the Armenian people come to their senses, self-organize and try to start from scratch.
Every day Nikol and his team continue to humiliate all us Armenians. Azerbaijan and Turkey make threats, but Nikol’s team talks about regional cooperation. Azerbaijan and Turkey hold new military exercises, but Nikol talks about the opening of borders. This has been going on for the past four months. Pasinyan and his capitulation team continue to be humiliated, deliver new territories, destroy the positions in the negotiations and any prospect for fixing the situation. They hope to be able to gain at least something by playing with Aliyev in order to help maintain power.
One of the steps of this game is the upcoming meeting of Director of the National Security Service of Armenia Armen Abazyan, Arayik Harutyunyan, Rustam Muradov and Chairman of the State Security Service of Azerbaijan Ali Nagiyev. The secret meeting that Armen Abazyan agreed on during his recent visit to Moscow will take place over the next few days on the line of contact, not far from Mataghis. Abazyan, Harutyunyan and Nagiyev are planning to discuss “infrastructure-related issues” and, in essence, the actions to integrate the remains of Artsakh into Azerbaijan.
We Armenians need to understand that this is not just another meeting, but the implementation of the plan for elimination of Armenian statehood for which Nikol is still in power. Armenia’s willingness to be humiliated only boosts the desire of Turkey and Azerbaijan to gain territories, concessions and guarantees from Nikol. One person can’t and must not cruelly humiliate his own homeland and people and remain unpunished. This means that the hour of historic, legal and moral liability is close, very close.”
A map predicting the expansion of the sphere of influence of Ankara — prepared by Stratfor — was shown on Turkey’s TRT1 national television network, including the influence on Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and several territories of the Russian Federation.
Stratfor predicts that Turkey will expand its sphere of influence towards the Balkans, North Africa, the Middle East, Transcaucasia, Central Asia and a part of Russia by the year 2050. Thus, the republics of the North Caucasus and Crimea, Krasnodar and Stavropol, Rostov and Astrakhan, Kalmikia and parts of other regions located in the south of the country’s European territory were seen in the zone of interests of Ankara on the map.
According to forecasts, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Greece, Cyprus, Armenia, Greece, Azerbaijan, Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and certain parts of the Asian republics of the former USSR will be in the zone of influence of Turkey.
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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 11, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian government will soon adopt a new decision on providing financial aid to the citizens of Artsakh.
During today’s Cabinet meeting Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Mesrop Arakelyan said in case of the adoption of the draft the Artsakh people will be provided with 68,000 drams for another 4 months starting from March.
“After the war over 15 billion AMD in assistance has already been provided to more than 100,000 citizens of Artsakh”, the minister.
In his turn Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan added that these projects are within the frames of his roadmap published on November 18, noting that the government is consistently implementing it.
Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan
Vazgen Manukyan, the joint candidate of Armenia's opposition Homeland Salvation Movement for interim prime minister, announced a new rally at the Liberty Square in Yerevan on Friday, February 12.
In a statement on Thursday, he urged people to “wake up” from the “hypnotic state”.
“The authorities have decided that from now on it is required to have the consent of Armenia’s national security agencies to cover various topics in some parts of Syunik Province.
“Yesterday it became known that there is a secret document, according to which the borders of Syunik and the communication links passing through it are determined to the detriment of Armenia. It’s yet unknown what other secret and illegal documents have been signed. After some time, we will wake up one day to find out that we have lost Syunik as it was the case on the night of November 9, 2020,” the opposition leader said.
“Armenia is getting smaller every day; our territories are controlled by foreigners. On our way to change the situation, we became convinced that we do not have police, because it, serving the current authorities, serves the interests of Azerbaijan and Turkey.
“Future generations will curse us. We will have an enslaved part of the people in this area, which is still called Armenia, while the rest will be scattered all over the world, becoming refugees,” Manukyan said, urging Armenians to “wake up and take hold of the country’s future”.
“Do not wait for the steps of political parties! All national political forces stand with you, but it’s for you to decide the future of the country.
“I urge you to gather at the Liberty Square tomorrow, February 12, at 3pm, to decide what further steps we have to take. We are losing our homeland,” he stated.
The Armenian authorities don’t rule out operation of the Amulsar gold mine. This is what Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of Armenia Suren Papikyan said in response to deputies’ questions during today’s question-and-answer session with government officials in parliament.
According to him, the current goal of the authorities is to create conditions for additional investments, particularly in the mining industry.
“The government needs to revisit the opportunities for solving the current problems and make the necessary decisions. If those decisions are in Armenia’s interests, they will also imply an opportunity for operation of the Amulsar gold mine,” Papikyan explained.
Touching upon ecology, the minister stated that the government will make only balanced decisions that will be in the interests of Armenia.
The football teams of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Western Armenia will participate in CONIFA Euro 2021, as reported on CONIFA’s website.
CONIFA Euro 2021 will take place from June 9 to 19 in Nice, France.
In June 2019, Artsakh hosted the championship.