Author: Kajoyan Gevork

US ANALYST: CHANGING THE MINSK GROUP FORMAT WOULD BE DESTRUCTION

APA
Dec 8 2011
Azerbaijan

Washington. Isabel Levine – APA. The US Helsinki Commission has
gathered on December 7 in Washington DC to discuss the progresses,
outcomes and fails of the frozen conflicts in the South Caucasus,
APA’s US correspondent reports.

Prominent experts, some officials and Congress members, Diasporas’
members, lobbyists and media gathered at a briefing to discuss the
three existing conflicts, including the Nagorno-Karabakh.

Congressman Michael C. Burgess, who chaired the meeting, mentioned
that the conflicts in the Caucasus strike the region’s development
potential and the people’s lives.

“Unfortunate, it has been 20 years that the people were struggling
to find a peace, where the two principles of the Helsinki Act clash,”
he said.

Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, said although
there are different expressions of the Caucasus conflicts, such as
“frozen”, “protracted” or “unresolved”, these conflicts are have
always been actual. She believes that Russia is still a key country
for the resolution of the problems in the region.

During the briefing the participants were seeking an answer to a
question, why 20 years after the Soviet Union collapsed, there is
still no solution to those conflicts?

Tomas de Waal from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
reminded that all the three conflicts – Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia
and Abkhazia – started before the Soviet Union’s days were over.

He believes that internal and geopolitical factors are making those
conflicts even more complex. According to the analyst, changing the
Minsk Group format would be destruction.

Wayne Merry from American Foreign Policy Council mentioned that despite
the long mediation the results of the peace process in Nagorno-Karabakh
have been disappointing. He called on Azerbaijan, Armenia and George
to not give up on peaceful initiatives in the region.

AZERBAIJANI TOP OFFICIAL: DOUBLE STANDARDS APPLIED IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT

Trend
Dec 8 2011
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan calls on the OSCE Minsk Group member states to abandon
double standards in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Head of
the Foreign Relations Department at the Azerbaijani Presidential
Administration Novruz Mammadov told Trend on Thursday. He was
commenting on the outcome of the OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting
held in Vilnius.

He said it is disappointing that some Western countries, OSCE member
states, international organizations, and co-chair countries, analyzing
the processes occurring in the 21st century, and considering the
fact that this conflict is a great threat to the European security,
approach it within the norms of international law created by them.
“I think they should give up an offer “agree by yourselves, so that
we could support you”, Mammadov said.

He said that they should themselves realize that making such proposals,
supporting the Armenian side by various ways, holding various secret
negotiations with it, various proposals, bringing together various
ministers and signing protocols with them, etc., does not help the
common deal – resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Unfortunately, today double standards are evident in many global
processes, including in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Mammadov said.

The OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting in Vilnius, held on the
Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, was to say its say,
he added.

“In the document adopted by the organization the co-chairs encouraged
the parties on resolving the conflict to be more active. And this
is natural, since the OSCE has a reason for such an appeal. In the
process of negotiations Azerbaijan has taken all the positive steps
in the peace talks over the past seven years, whereas, it previously
hardly agreed to them. After Azerbaijan accepted the Madrid principles
and defined confidence-building measures in certain circumstances,
the Armenian side refuses all and does not want to join the confidence
building measures,” Mammadov underlined.

At the same time, the Vilnius statement should not be the only step,
he added.

“OSCE member states, co-chair countries realize that no matter how
many steps are taken, how many statements are issued and proposals
are made, Armenia, as you see, does not renounce its evil plans,
attempting to delay the negotiation process and profit by all of the
opportunities for this purpose,” Mammadov said.

The joint statement by the OSCE Minsk Group’s three co-chair countries
and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict parties issued in Vilnius calls for
continuing negotiations to resolve the conflict within the Minsk Group.

With regard to the perspectives of the Azerbaijani and Armenian
presidents’ meeting, Mammadov said that it is necessary to the
negotiation process in any case.

“It will be more difficult to resolve the conflict without it. Despite
the fact that Azerbaijan’s will in the negotiation process is
focused on the peaceful settlement of the conflict, the country has
more patience. The country should return its territories back by
all means. Now crucial and important task associated with it falls
on the co-chairs. On the one hand, unresolved conflict imposes great
responsibility on Armenia. The Armenian leadership in the eyes of the
world confirms who and what they are. On the other hand, following
this way, they lead themselves to the edge of a collapse. They have
only one purpose – to extend their stay in power,” Mammadov said.
Mammadov believes that it is necessary to continue the negotiation
process in any case.

However, he expressed concerns over Armenia’s possible attempts to
delay the process.

“The co-chair countries are experiencing certain processes – financial
crisis and presidential elections and all these factors may influence
the negotiations. Azerbaijan is ready to continue the negotiation
process in all cases,” Mammadov said.

With the hope for the efficiency of the co-chairs’ activity, it is
necessary to take certain steps to organize such a meeting [Azerbaijani
and Armenian presidents]. From a theoretical point of view, such a
meeting within an informal CIS summit in Moscow is possible, since
the two presidents will attend it. There is a need for such a meeting,
Mammadov underlined.

“But were the co-chairs able to carry out sufficient work in this
regard? Is the Armenian side ready to take certain steps to continue
the negotiations?” he said.

With regard to possible involvement of new structures and organizations
to the negotiation process, Mammadov said of course, Azerbaijan has
not always pleased with the activity of the OSCE Minsk Group, but at
the same time, one should admit that the co-chairs are also trying
to address the problem.

“In fact, the Minsk Group represents diplomats from three countries
and they do not have such high mandates and resources. I believe
that the OSCE and these countries’ leaders should grant them these
mandates. On the other hand, it is necessary to slightly change the
attitude as the conflict is a problem for the European security. As
you know, after the Second World War, the countries, which are now
entering this Minsk Group, prepared the so-called mechanism of norms
of international law to use them in interstate relations.

Unfortunately, today I observe some indifference to these norms of
international law and some doubt on the use of international law in
the activity of international organizations and the co-chairs. And I
cannot understand it. It is time to abandon the principle of “agree
by yourselves and we will support”. The conflict has broken out, one
of the conflict sides has some responsibility, another side should
answer – it is necessary to define and express a position. In this
case, of course, it will be easy to reach resolution of the conflict,”
Mammadov said.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994.
The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. –
are currently holding the peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.

AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION: INT’L ORGANIZATIONS MUST STRENGTHEN PRESSURE ON ARMENIA

Trend
Dec 7 2011
Azerbaijan

The UN Security Council must definitely voice its position at the
failure of fulfilling the resolutions adopted on the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. The international organizations must strengthen the
pressure on Armenia, Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Political
Analysis and Information Provision Department head Elnur Aslanov told
journalists on Wednesday.

“Azerbaijani Foreign Minister said yesterday that Baku is ready to
begin working over a big peace agreement,” he said. “This comes from
the fact that Azerbaijan supports peaceful coexistence of Azerbaijanis
and Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.”

Every person, living in Nagorno-Karabakh, is an Azerbaijani citizen,
he said. This is de jure so.

“Azerbaijan is a country recognizing the rights of other peoples,”
he said. “Azerbaijan thinks about the restoration of post-conflict
areas, the future of Nagorno-Karabakh. It is ready to exchange views
on the principles of coexistence.”

Azerbaijan will never deviate from its principles and abandon its
lands, Aslanov said.

“This corresponds to the principles of international law,” he said.

“This meets today’s realities.”

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.

Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994.

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group – Russia, France, and the U.S. –
are currently holding the peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council’s four
resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the
surrounding regions.

ARMENIAN FICTION WRITER ARMEN OHANYAN TAKEN TO POLICE?

Tert.am
08.12.11

Fiction writer Armen Ohanyan, who currently works at the Hayastyan
All-Armenian Fund, has been reportedly taken to a police station.

Tert.am contacted the Fund to verify the report, the employees turned
out to be unaware of details.

The Press Service of the Police promised to give further information
a little later.

The online news outlets reported earlier that Ohanyan was taken to
the police this morning.

PHILIPPE LEFORT DISCUTE DU CONFLIT DU KARABAKH A EREVAN
Stephane

armenews.com
jeudi 8 decembre 2011

Un Representant de l’Union Europeenne a eu une serie de reunions a
Erevan avec des hauts fonctionnaires pour discuter d’une large gamme
de questions dont celle du conflit du Nagorno-Karabakh.

La visite du Representant Special de ‘lUe pour le Sud Caucase
et la crise en Georgie Philippe Lefort arrive au moment où la
tension a grimpe entre l’Armenie et l’Azerbaidjan. Les violations
du cessez-le-feu de 1994 ont augmente dramatiquement au cours de la
recente periode.

Philippe Lefort et le ministre armenien des Affaires Etrangères Edouard
Nalbandian ont discute des relations entre l’UE et l’Armenie ainsi
que de l’etape actuelle dans le règlement du conflit du Karabakh. Les
questions concernant le retour a la confiance etaient a l’ordre du
jour de leur reunion.

” Dans ce sens le representant special de l’UE a porte une attention
particulière a la propagande anti-armenienne et au raciste existant en
Azerbaïdjan au niveau de l’etat ” a declare le ministère des Affaires
Etrangères dans un communique de presse.

Le conflit du Karabakh a aussi ete evoque pendant les reunions de
Lefort avec le President armenien Serge Sarkissian et le Ministre de
la Defense Nationale Seyran Ohanian.

Le Ministère de la Defense Nationale armenien a cite le fonctionnaire
europeen affirmant que ” l’Union Europeenne ne veut pas voir une
nouvelle guerre au Sud Caucase “.

En attendant, la troïka du Groupe de Minsk de l’OSCE est arrivee a
Erevan dans le cadre d’un nouveau tour dans la region.

LA CHUTE DU REGIME ASSAD OU LA FIN DES CHRETIENS D’ORIENT ?
Jean Eckian

armenews.com
jeudi 8 decembre 2011

Enlevements, assassinats, intimidations, attentats … c’est le
resultat de la nouvelle politique occidentale envers les chretiens
d’Orient depuis l’invasion americaine de l’Iraq, qui met encore une
fois cette communaute dans une periode d’instabilite et d’inquietude.

” Tout est bien pour les faire partir ” , une reponse choquante a
une question posee a l’un des responsables du parti CHP en Turquie,
sur l’avenir des chretiens d’Orient. Elle s’ajoute aux discours des
hommes politiques occidentaux qui nous racontent et repètent chaque
jour , depuis le debut de la ” revolution arabe “, de l’importance
d’un islam modere en prenant l’exemple d’Ankara, oubliant que le
regime turc, soit disant laïc, est l’exemple meme de la repression
contre les minorites vivant en Turquie.

Mais les resultats des elections legislatives en Egypte, en Lybie
et en Tunisie nous montre que les partis islamistes ” salafistes ”
vainqueurs, sont très loin, par leurs ideologies et leurs discours
politiques, des islamistes moderes. D’où ” la crainte de transition
” qui represente une menace pour les chretiens d’Orient. Ce qui
explique la position des chretiens syriens qui ont annonce clairement
leur soutien au regime Assad et la position ” pro-Assad ” des deux
representants, politique et religieux de la majorite des chretiens au
Liban : le General Michel Aoun et le Patriarche Maronite Mgr Bechara
Rai qui ont defendu et soutenu le president Assad durant sa dernière
rencontre avec le president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Alors, Il faut le repeter inlassablement, cette terre est aussi et
d’abord une terre chretienne, avant d’etre musulmane. Les chretiens
d’Orient et specialement les armeniens ne peuvent plus etre neutres
durant ce vaste mouvement de protestation qui se transforme jour
après jour en une guerre civile, essayant de diviser l’alliance des
minorites du proche-orient jusqu’au Caucase, formees de Chiites,
Maronites, Alaouites , Armeniens et autres communautes chretiennes.

Ainsi le rôle des Armeniens, au Liban, en Syrie et en Iraq, doit
se transformer de ” neutralite politique ” en un ” catalyseur de
resistance politique “. Cela sans ignorer les initiatives de la
communaute internationale, mais aussi sans accepter les interventions
etrangères. Tous les regards sont braques sur nous. Nous devons agir
avec un sens national loin des calculs et des interets personnels,
en essayant de ne pas transformer le printemps arabe en un hiver pour
les chretiens d’Orient.

Hagop Abrilian

Etudiant, Chercheur a l’IFG (Institut Francais de Geopolitique)

LA CENTRALE METSAMOR NE FERMERA PAS EN 2017
Laetitia

armenews.com
mercredi 7 decembre 2011

Le président Serge Sarkissian a donné mardi plus d’indications sur la
centrale nucléaire de Metsamor qui devait initialement fermer en 2017.

Serge Sarkissian a déclaré que le sort du réacteur Metsamor est
étroitement lié avec des délais pour la construction prévue
d’une nouvelle usine sur le même site a environ 40 kilomètres a
l’ouest d’Erevan.

Erevan a été sous la pression des Etats-Unis et l’Union européenne
et a dÔ fermer l’usine qui date de l’époque soviétique depuis
que l’un de ses deux réacteurs construits dans les années 1970 a
été réactivé en 1995. Les fonctionnaires arméniens ont insisté
pour que le réacteur, qui fournit environ 40% de l’électricité de
l’Arménie, puisse continuer a fonctionner au moins jusqu’en 2016.

Le gouvernement a annoncé en 2005 qu’il avait déja entamé les
préparatifs pour le lancement du processus de déclassement. Il a
déclaré que le processus était coÔteux et qu’il sera achevé
a temps pour la construction d’une nouvelle usine aux normes de
sÔreté des réacteurs modernes. Les fonctionnaires a Erevan ont
insisté par la suite pour que l’installation débute en 2012.

Le chef de l’Arménie du Comité d’Ã~Itat sur â~@~Kâ~@~Kla sÔreté
nucléaire, Ashot Martirosian, a annoncé que cette date butoire
n’était pas réaliste l’année dernière. Il a suggéré pour que
le déclassement Metsamor soit reporté.

” Sarkissian semblait l’écho de ce point de vue : il est évident
que dans le cas d’un retard concernant l’introduction de la nouvelle
génératrice, nous aurons a résoudre aussi la question des
opérations de [fonctionnement] de la station nucléaire arménienne
de la deuxième unité génératrice de puissance ”, a-t-il dit a
l’organisme dirigé par Adolf Berghoffer, un scientifique nucléaire
allemand.

Sarkissian a insisté sur le fait que cette énergie est vitale pour
la sécurité énergétique de l’Arménie. ” Nous sommes obligés
d’avoir une centrale nucléaire et l’énergie atomique au cÅ”ur de
notre système énergétique ”, a-t-il dit. ” Par conséquent,
nous devons être capables de combiner ce qui est bénéfique pour
nous avec la sécurité. ”

Le retard éventuel reconnu par le président reflète l’échec
du gouvernement arménien qui a recu 4,5 milliards de dollars des
investisseurs étrangers et qui sont nécessaires a la construction
de la nouvelle usine.

Selon le ministre de l’Energie et des Ressources naturelles, Armen
Movsisian, la corporation russe Rosatom Energy est prête a investir
jusqu’a la moitié de la somme requise.” Il y a des candidats de
différents pays pour les 50% restants ”, a déclaré Movsisian lors
d’une interview a RFE / RL.

” Nous poursuivons les négociations avec d’autres investisseurs ”,
a déclaré M. Sarkissian de son côté. Il a noté dans ce contexte
qu’il a discuté de l’implication des entreprises francaises dans ce
projet ambitieux.

Ni Sarkissian, ni Movsisian n’ont mentionné de date pour le début
de la construction de la nouvelle usine.

Dans un développement connexe, Movsisian a annoncé que le
gouvernement arménien va bientôt prendre en charge la gestion
financière de Metsamor de RAO Unified Energy Systems (UES.

Une filiale d’UES, Inter RAO, a pris le contrôle des finances de
Metsamor en 2003 pour rembourser sa dette de 40 millions de dollars a
la Russie, fournisseur du combustible nucléaire. Inter RAO a déclaré
le mois dernier qu’elle souhaite résilier le contrat de gestion qui
devait expirer en 2013.

” Il ya eu des changements structurels dans Inter RAO et sous
ses nouveaux statuts, il n’a aucun droit d’exploiter d’autres
installations.”

REFUSING TO BACK DOWN
By Scott Jaschik

Inside Higher Ed

Dec 6 2011

A historian at the University of California at Davis has become the
latest target of Turkish-American groups that have criticized —
and in some cases made legal threats against — researchers of the
Armenian genocide that took place as the Ottoman Empire collapsed. He
is refusing to back away from the statement that led to this conflict,
and says that the university is backing him against what he and others
see as an attack on academic freedom.

In this case, letters sent to various officials at Davis have asserted
that Keith David Watenpaugh, an associate professor of religious
studies, should apologize for a reply he wrote in the Davis alumni
magazine to a letter about an article on his research. Watenpaugh’s
research is about how the Armenian genocide led to the first
international humanitarian relief effort and changed the way many in
the world viewed suffering from being inevitable to being something
that should be prevented.

Watenpaugh — consistent with a consensus among historians — refers
to the genocide as fact. (A handful of American historians argue that
the genocide didn’t happen or that evidence is inconclusive.)

After the Davis magazine wrote about Watenpaugh’s research, Gunay
Evinch, an alumnus who is a Washington lawyer and is a past president
of the Assembly of Turkish-American Associations, sent a letter
to the editor that argued that scholars should examine the wide
suffering that took place in the Ottoman Empire during World War I,
and recognize that many groups were hurt, not just Armenians.

Watenpaugh replied in the same issue, arguing that while suffering
was widespread, genocide was not — and was limited at that time
to the Armenians. Then in the paragraph that has been the subject
of the controversy, he wrote the following: “What is most important
to understand is that the Assembly of Turkish American Associations
has been at the forefront of a Turkish government-sponsored effort
in the United States to deny that what happened to the Armenians
was genocide. The attack on my work in Mr. Evinch’s letter is part
of that project and should be understood in this light. At UC Davis,
we teach our students that history is more than just a collection of
facts, but rather is the starting point for an ethical relationship
with the past.”

The president of the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, Ergun
Kirlikovali, then wrote to the editor of the Davis magazine and the
head of Watenpaugh’s program at Davis, saying that his statement had
been “reckless” and “extraordinarily harmful.” Further, the letter
compared the statement to one over which an emeritus professor who
has argued against evidence of genocide sued the Southern Poverty Law
Center, prompting a retraction of portion of an article published by
the center about groups that deny the Armenian genocide.

The Watenpaugh statement was “defamatory,” Kirlikovali wrote, because
it suggested that his organization was an agent of the Turkish
government — something it is not. (Agents of foreign governments
are required to register, and lack of registration would be a crime,
the letter noted.)

In that Southern Poverty Law Center case, the dispute was over
whether a professor who does not believe genocide took place was
supported financially by the Turkish government — a brief statement
in an article published by the center and something that the center
acknowledged it could not prove (the statement was eventually
retracted).

But in the Davis case, Watenpaugh said that he is being accused
of something he did not say. While he charges that the Turkish
government has encouraged the general effort to deny the Armenian
genocide, Watenpaugh did not say that the Turkish-American group
was an agent of the Turkish government. The next issue of the Davis
magazine will feature a statement to this effect from Watenpaugh:
“These individuals misconstrued my statement as suggesting that the
ATAA is part of the Turkish government, or is financially supported
by the Turkish government. I make no representations one way or the
other in this regard. To be clear, what I meant is that the ATAA
is at the forefront of the effort to deny in the United States that
what happened to the Armenians as the result of Ottoman government
policies was genocide, which parallels the actions of the Turkish
government in our country to do the same.”

Watenpaugh said he viewed the letters to Davis as an attempt to limit
his academic freedom, and said he was glad that his university has
defended his rights and not retracted anything.

He noted that other scholars have also faced legal pressure from groups
that do not agree with the historical consensus on what happened to the
Armenians. The Turkish Coalition of America has sued the University of
Minnesota over a website (since changed) that declared the coalition’s
information about the Armenians to be unreliable. A federal judge
ruled that the university’s site was protected by academic freedom
and free expression principles, but that decision has been appealed.

The Middle Eastern Studies Association last month wrote to Kirlikovali,
saying that it viewed his letters as making legal threats against
Watenpaugh and Davis, and that these were based on an incorrect
interpretation of what Watenpaugh wrote.

“Your organization, and those who hold perspectives different from
those expressed by Professor Watenpaugh, certainly have the right to
participate in open scholarly exchange on the history of the Armenians
in the late Ottoman Empire or any other issue, by presenting their
views at academic conferences, in the pages of peer-reviewed scholarly
journals or by other means, thereby opening them up to debate and
challenge,” the letter said. “However, we feel compelled to express
our concern when non-academic organizations initiate, threaten or
justify legal action against scholars and/or academic or research
institutions because of their findings or views on historical issues.

We do not believe that legal action is the proper way to resolve
disputes about historical interpretation, and we fear that legal
action of this kind, or the threat thereof, may undermine the ability
of scholars and academic institutions to carry out their work freely
and to have their work assessed on its merits, in conformity with
standards and procedures long established in the world of scholarship.”

Kirlikovali, via e-mail, said that his group “wants open, free, and
complete debate on whether the Armenian case constitutes genocide and
on the options for reconciliation.” And he said that he hoped that the
Davis magazine “will make all required corrections to exonerate itself
from this false statement, and we hope Mr. Watenpaugh will apologize.”

He said that the Middle East Studies Association was “wrong to
define the ATAA’s motive and intent, and thereby the legal issue,
as an attempt to limit freedom of speech on the perspective that the
Armenian case constitutes genocide.” Rather, he said, the association
is focused on a matter of principle that is not covered by academic
freedom. “MESA might be pleased to learn that ATAA agrees with MESA
that more information and debate is necessary on this legitimate
historical controversy,” he said. “However, we are not in agreement
that academic freedom should include defamation of an organization
or an author for challenging the orthodoxy on a controversial subject.

Indeed, freedom of speech does not include defamation. Defamation is
an important exception to freedom of speech.”

UNMANNED JETS USED IN SEPARATIST NAGORNO KARABAKH DURING MILITARY EXERCISE

news.az
Dec 6 2011
Azerbaijan

Armenian-made unmanned jets have been used in Karabakh for the
first time.

The separatists of Nagorno Karabakh used unmanned Krunk jets of
Armenian production for the first time during the military exercise
in the occupied lands of Azerbaijan.

The jets are used for collection of reconnaissance data.

Unmanned jets of Armenian production were first demonstrated during
the military parade on occasion of the 20th independence of Armenian
on 21 September 2011.

‘ARTSAKH: GARDEN OF ARMENIAN ARTS AND TRADITIONS’ BOOK PRESENTATION TO BE HELD IN PARIS

news.am
Dec 6 2011
Armenia

YEREVAN. – Paris will hold a reception on the occasion of the 20th
Independence Anniversary of Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] on Wednesday.

Artsakh: Garden of Armenian Arts and Traditions book presentation
will be held during the reception.

Many French MPs, Senators, journalists, and intellectuals will be among
the guests, French Embassy in Armenia informs Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The event is organized by the initiative of Nagorno-Karabakh mission
in France.

The book was published in France by the Artsakh mission and Support
Nagorno-Karabakh organization in France. The book features history,
archeological treasures, and architecture of Artsakh.