16:15, 26 May 2022
YEREVAN, MAY 26, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Super Heavyweight boxer Davit Chaloyan won over Juraj Soldo of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Yerevan EUBC Men’s Elite European Boxing Championship preliminaries.
The ringside judges scored the bout 5:0.
Heavyweight Narek Manasyan of Team Armenia will face Slovakia’s David Michalek later tonight.
“It is really heartening to see how much the program has grown,” said Movses Pogossian, the founding director of the Armenian Music Program and professor of violin. “To begin with such a modest ensemble and to now embrace the scope that we have is gratifying.” For Pogossian, the real thrill is in sharing a full range of artistic cultural forms, from folk to jazz to classical.
Tuesday’s concert is the culmination of nearly a decade’s worth of ambitious work in programming, community outreach and global touring. At the center has been the VEM Ensemble, consisting of the VEM string quartet and a vocalist, composed of UCLA students. VEM, which means “rock” in Armenian, has performed around Los Angeles, North America and Europe to critical acclaim. Most recently, VEM was featured on Modulation Necklace: New Music from Armenia by the Naxos-distributed label New Focus Recordings.
VEM will be joined by the UCLA Armenian Music Ensemble. The ensemble is composed of students who enroll in the two-quarter class; the course is open to any UCLA student regardless of their major. Students who enroll learn to play Armenian music on traditional Armenian instruments.
Featured in the concert will be special guests. Folk singer Hasmik Harutyunyan has been a leading Armenian folk singer for two decades. Her voice has been heard on iconic recordings of Armenian music and she has performed worldwide to great acclaim. Jazz pianist Vardan Ovsepian, whose recordings of jazz have been noted for their warmth and improvisational inventiveness, will also perform. Both guest artists will lead workshops discussing their Armenian roots and musical paths.
The concert and the workshops will be free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed. After the workshops, concertgoers are invited to reunite outside Schoenberg Hall for a communal dance class and book fair.
World-famous musicians won’t be the only special guests.
“We are thrilled to have students from Armenian schools in the area,” said Pogossian. “They will be treated to a campus tour, pizza, folk dancing, and the opportunity to speak with our volunteers from the UCLA Armenian Student Association. And, of course, they will be treated to the main event, the big concert at Schoenberg Hall.”
Community outreach has long been an important part of the Armenian Music Program and is part of its mission. Certainly, the program still focuses on cultivating scholarship and art music at the highest level, but this has always included bringing Armenian culture into contact with a wider audience. The recent appointment of Melissa Bilal, an ethnomusicologist working on the intersection of music, memory, and gender in the Armenian community of the late-Ottoman Empire, as associate director of the Armenian Music Program, will enhance both aspects of the mission.
“Our concert is possible not only thanks to the wholehearted support that we’ve received from the very inception by my colleagues in Ethnomusicology and by the leadership of the School of Music, but also thanks to our generous donors and numerous partnerships with various Armenian organizations,” said Pogossian. These supporters include the Lark Musical Society, the Armenian General Benevolent Union, the Tekeyan Cultural Association, the Armenian Assembly of America, the Armenian Educational Foundation, the Armenian Allied Arts Association, the UCLA Armenian Student Association, and the UCLA Promise Armenian Institute.
“Their support for the arts, and facilitating the lasting and meaningful connections with the Armenian community of the greater Los Angeles has been invaluable,” Pogossian said.
The concert marks a milestone for the Armenian Music Program, demonstrating its substantial growth over the past decade. But the program is still poised to grow.
“We aspire to become the leading center of performance, scholarship and research in Armenian music,” said Pogossian. “There is still so much good work to do.
Aliyev’s statements seriously question the sincerity of Azerbaijan’s intentions to achieve peace. MFA Armenia
12:02,
YEREVAN, MAY 28 ARMENPRESS. The statements made by the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on May 27 once again testify to the continuation of the policy of un-constructiveness of the Azerbaijani side, the arbitrary, incorrect interpretations of the agreements, and the aggressive, belligerent policy, ARMENPRESS reports, reads the statement of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia.
“The aspirations for the sovereign territory of the neighboring state, the use of force to achieve these goals are nothing but contempt for the norms of international law, and seriously question the sincerity of Azerbaijan’s intentions for peace in the region.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia considers it necessary to reaffirm the principled position of the Armenian side that the talks on normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan should be held on the basis of proposals of both sides, which should address the whole agenda of issues, including the final settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict”, reads the statement of MFA Armenia.
According to the Foreign Ministry, “with the speculations of the Azerbaijani side, an attempt is made to present the Nagorno Karabakh issue as a territorial dispute, while it is about the realization of the rights of the Artsakh Armenians and excluding the danger of ethnic cleansing”.
“In this regard, we remind you that the international mandate of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs received in 1995 to support the comprehensive settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict continues to exist.
We call on the leadership of Azerbaijan not to torpedo the discussions in the existing dimensions with belligerent, maximalist rhetoric.
At the same time, we call the attention of the international community to the statements made by official Baku, expect the unequivocal attitude of international partners, in the conditions of which it will only be possible to achieve stability and peace in the South Caucasus,” the statement reads.
TEHRAN, May 24 (MNA) – A senior Armenian government official denied Baku’s new remarks about an agreement on the opening of a corridor, saying that no road or transport route can function as a “corridor” in the territory of Armenia.
Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan told Armenpress on Tuesday that there have been no changes in Armenia’s stance on the matter.
Grigoryan’s remarks came after Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in a phone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that during a May 22 meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the two sides reached an agreement on the opening of a “corridor” through Armenian territory, including the construction of both railways and highways.
“No road or transport route can function as a corridor in the territory of Armenia. All agreements reached in Brussels related to the opening of regional connections. They fit in the framework of the public statements made previously by representatives of Armenia,” Grigoryan said.
“You can see in the statement of the President of the European Council that the agreements in the context of the opening of regional connections relate to the border and customs control, road fees and organizing international transit. These are important issues for realizing the Armenian Crossroads project and the Government of Armenia will consistently move in this direction.
Earlier, Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported that Aliyev spoke over the phone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and updated him on a trilateral meeting between himself, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and European Council President Charles Michel in Brussels on Sunday.
“The president of Azerbaijan touched on the preparation of a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the presentation by Azerbaijan of five principles based on international law, the normalization of relations between the two countries, the opening of transport corridors, and the delimitation of borders discussed during the meeting,” Azerbaijan’s Presidency statement read.
“Aliyev gave a positive assessment to the results of the trilateral meeting,” it added.
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Charles Michel’s statement on the results of the trilateral meeting held recently in Brussels is a reason for bewilderment from the point of view of distorting the essence of the settlement of the Karabakh problem and heritage, 4 factions of the Artsakh Parliament said in a statement.
The statement says, in part:
The unified position of the people and authorities of Artsakh was presented in the statement of the National Assembly dated April 14 of this year, thereby confirming that the agendas of discussions and negotiations held in international instances are acceptable to us only if they are comparable with the provisions set out in the above statement.
Charles Michel’s statement on the results of the recent trilateral meeting in Brussels is a reason for bewilderment from the point of view of distorting the essence of the settlement of the Karabakh problem and the legacy accumulated over 30 years of the negotiation process.
For the first time in the negotiation discourse, an attempt is made to abandon the political and geographical concept of “Nagorno-Karabakh” and the phrase “ethnic Armenian population of Karabakh” is introduced into circulation. All this is completely in tune with the theses spread by the leadership of Azerbaijan before the Brussels meeting and recently in general and testifies to the retreat of the current authorities of Armenia from the foreign policy vector.
The active role of the Council of Europe in the issue of opening the “epoch of peace” between Armenia and Azerbaijan at an accelerated pace could be understood if the response to the aggression provoked by Azerbaijan against the people of the Republic of Artsakh in September 2020 would be heard with the same consistency. The emphasis on security and protection of rights during the 44-day war would be acceptable to some extent for the people of Artsakh, who are defending their sovereignty.
In the current circumstances, the authorities of Armenia are obliged to act solely from the standpoint of promoting and protecting the right of the Artsakh people to self-determination in international instances, based on the decision of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia on July 8, 1992, according to which “any domestic or international document is unacceptable for Armenia, in which Nagorno-Karabakh is celebrated as part of Azerbaijan.”
For the authorities acting both in Artsakh and Armenia, the priority should be declarations on the proclamation of two Armenian republics, the values enshrined in the decision of September 2, 1991, and the independence referendum of December 10, 1991. Not a single official, not a single political force is authorized to independently decide the future of the Motherland, for the formation of which thousands of the sons of our people did not spare their lives.
We are faced with the imperative of making historic decisions, and no one can evade responsibility to generations.
16:08, 19 May, 2022
YEREVAN, MAY 19, ARMENPRESS. Various football clubs are interested in signing Armenian football star Henrikh Mkhitaryan as his contract with A.S. Roma is ending, according to Italian news media reports.
According to the reports Inter Milan is interested in the Armenian midfielder.
Mkhitaryan could also return to the English Premier League.
Meanwhile, according to other sources, Aston Villa, Tottenham and Napoli are also eyeing Mkhitaryan.
Earlier on May 10, it was that A.S. Roma offered Mkhitaryan to renew his contract.
17:18,
YEREVAN, MAY 20, ARMENPRESS. Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Gnel Sanosyan received Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Armenia Bedrich Kopecky, the ministry said in a news release.
During the meeting the engagement of Czech companies into energy and transportation sectors was discussed.
The sides emphasized the importance of the cooperation of the Armenian NPP with the Czech companies in the field of nuclear technologies.
The discussion also focused on the issue of production of small aircrafts by the Czech Balus Tech company in Armenia’s Stepanavan town. The Czech Ambassador highly appreciated the readiness of Armenia to cooperate with the Czech companies.
Other issues of mutual interest were also discussed.
Wednesday,
Armenian Opposition Slams U.S. Envoy
Armenia - U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy speaks to journalists in Syunik province,
September 15, 2021.
Opposition groups trying to topple Armenia’s government denounced the U.S.
ambassador in Yerevan on Wednesday for seemingly touting the outcome of last
year’s parliamentary elections won by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party.
In an interview with the state-run Armenpress news agency, Ambassador Lynne
Tracy voiced support for the government’s “democratic and economic reform
agenda” amid continuing daily demonstrations held by the country’s leading
opposition forces.
“We are committed to continue helping the Armenian people build a future based
on shared democratic values, a path they chose in 2018 and to which they
recommitted themselves during the 2021 parliamentary election,” said Tracy.
Ishkhan Saghatelian, an opposition leader and the main speaker at the more than
two-week protests, criticized her comments when he addressed thousands of
supporters rallying in Yerevan’s France Square. He said that voters did not give
Pashinian a mandate to “cede” Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan.
“If some circles think the Armenian people will cater for their interests, they
are deeply mistaken,” Saghatelian told the crowd. “The Armenian people stand in
this square to prevent that. This is not a fight for power. This is a fight for
Armenia’s sovereignty. And let nobody contrast democracy with security.”
Saghatelian went on to accuse the United States and other Western power of
turning a blind eye to what called the Armenian authorities’ pressure on the
judiciary, the existence of “dozens of political prisoners” and other human
rights abuses.
“With you silence, you are contributing to dictatorship in Armenia,” he charged
before the protesters again marched through the city center to demand
Pashinian’s resignation.
Armenia - Parliament vice-speaker Ishkhan Saghatelian leads an opposition
demonstration in Yerevan, .
Saghatelian also stressed that for the Armenian opposition Russia is a
“strategic ally” while the U.S. and the European Union only “important partners”
of Armenia.
Reacting to the protests last week, the U.S. State Department spokesman, Ned
Price, urged the authorities to “exercise restraint.” He said at same the time
that the protesters should “refrain from violence and respect the rule of law
and Armenia’s democracy.”
The peaceful protests were sparked by Pashinian’s statements on the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict made after his April 6 talks with Azerbaijani
President Ilham Aliyev.
Addressing the parliament on April 13, the prime minister said the international
community is pressing Armenia to scale back its demands on the status of
Karabakh and recognize Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity. He signaled Yerevan’s
intention to make such concessions to Baku.
Both the U.S. and the EU hailed Pashinian’s speech. U.S. Secretary of State
Antony Blinken praised his “courage and flexibility.”
Pashinian and his political allies have rejected the opposition demands for his
resignation. They say that they won in the June 2021 elections a popular mandate
to continue to rule Armenia.
Armenian Opposition Lawmakers Risk Losing Parliament Seats
• Astghik Bedevian
• Artak Khulian
Armenia - Ishkhan Saghatelian (second from right) and other opposition lawmakers
lead an anti-government rally in Yerevan, .
The leadership of Armenia’s parliament has threatened to strip its opposition
members boycotting sessions of the National Assembly and leading ongoing
anti-government protests in Yerevan of their seats.
The 35 lawmakers representing the opposition Hayastan and Pativ Unem alliances
began the boycott last month in advance of the daily demonstrations demanding
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s resignation.
Under Armenian law, a lawmaker can lose their seat if they skip, for
“non-legitimate” reasons, at least half of parliament votes during a single
semi-annual session of the National Assembly. The final decision to that effect
is to be made by the Constitutional Court at the initiative of the parliament’s
leadership or at least one-fifth of the deputies.
Parliament speaker Alen Simonian said on Tuesday that he is considering
initiating such an appeal to the court.
Armenia - Opposition supporters march through Republic Square, Yerevan, May 17,
2022.
“There is a law which I believe must be enforced,” he told RFE/RL’s Armenian
Service. “We will hold a discussion and make sense [of the situation.]”
Simonian said the parliament majority representing the ruling Civil Contract
will discuss the matter after the ongoing spring session of the 107-member
assembly ends on June 17. Thirteen of the opposition lawmakers can be formally
accused of absenteeism at this point, added the pro-government speaker.
Ishkhan Saghatelian, a senior opposition parliamentarian and the main speaker at
the opposition rallies launched on May 1, dismissed Simonian’s threats.
Armenia - Parliament deputies fromt the opposition Hayastan alliance attend a
session of the National Assembly, Yerevan, August 4, 2021.
“Let them start [such proceedings,]” said Saghatelian. “This is so secondary, so
tertiary for us. They don’t understand and control the situation.”
Saghatelian and other opposition parliamentarians continued to lead on Wednesday
groups of opposition supporters blocking roads and staging sit-ins at street
intersections across Yerevan in a bid to step up the pressure on Pashinian’s
government.
Riot police arrested more than 350 protesters in the morning. Police officers
also tried to detain one of the lawmakers, Artsvik Minasian, but let him ago
after realizing that he is a member of the parliament. They tore Minasian’s
shirt in the scuffle.
Prosecutors Again Block Trial Of Former Armenian Police Chief
• Naira Bulghadarian
Armenia -- Armenian police chief Vladimir Gasparian at a meeting in Yerevan,
February 17, 2017
Prosecutors have again refused to give the green light to the trial of Vladimir
Gasparian, a former chief of the Armenian police facing corruption charges,
saying that a criminal investigation conducted by another law-enforcement agency
was flawed.
The Anti-Corruption Committee (ACC) charged Gasparian with six counts of illegal
enrichment, embezzlement, fraud and other crimes in December. In particular, it
claimed that he acquired over 2 billion drams ($4.2 million) worth of assets “by
criminal means” when holding high-level positions in Armenia’s security
apparatus from 2000-2018.
Gasparian denies the accusations. But he has avoided publicly commenting on them.
The ACC completed the investigation and sent its findings to prosecutors for
approval in January.
The Office of the Prosecutor-General sent the case back to the investigators,
however. The ACC condemned the decision as “illegal and unfounded.” It
subsequently requested another endorsement from the prosecutors.
It emerged earlier this week that a prosecutor overseeing the probe refused for
a second time to pave the way for Gasparian’s trial. The Office of the
Prosecutor-General insisted that the investigators have still not submitted
sufficient evidence in support of the accusations brought against Gasparian.
The development highlighted tensions between the two law-enforcement agencies
that have been increasingly visible in the last few months. In January, the
prosecutors refused to put their seal of approval on corruption charges leveled
by the ACC against Aram Harutiunian, a fugitive former environment minister.
Gasparian, 63, headed the Armenian police from 2011-2018, during former
President Serzh Sarkisian’s rule. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian sacked him
immediately after coming to power in May 2018.
Gasparian had served as military police chief from 1997-2010 and as deputy
defense minister from 2010-2011.
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ArmInfo.The situation in the South Caucasus was discussed at the meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers’ Council in Dushanbe, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov told reporters on Friday.
“Our Armenian and Azerbaijani partners highlighted Russia’s role in implementing the agreements of November 2020 and the later agreements between the Russian, Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders reached in 2021, particularly the ones on trilateral cooperation in unblocking transport communications, in border delimitation and demarcation and normalization of relations between Yerevan and Baku,” Mr Lavrov said.
12 Mai 2022, 19:03
Dans une tribune publiée le 11 avril dans la Tribune, Sébastien Boussois se pique de revenir à nouveau à la charge contre l’Arménie tout en dressant en contrepoint un portrait flatteur de l’Azerbaïdjan. Faut-il le préciser ? Ce n’est pas la première fois que ce polémiste se fait le relais de la propagande de la pétrodictature azerbaïdjanaise, ni qu’il tente dans un même mouvement de noircir l’image de l’Arménie, seul État démocratique de la région. Notre auteur est coutumier du fait. Et ses articles anti-arméniens sont naturellement repris et cités par la presse « officielle » azerbaïdjanaise. Y en a-t-il d’ailleurs une autre dans ce pays positionné à la 163e place sur 180 au classement de RSF sur la liberté de la presse ?
Mais la capacité d’indignation de notre auteur ne se mobilise pas pour de telles peccadilles. Ce qui l’intéresse, c’est le blason terni de l’Azerbaïdjan qu’il s’agit de redorer. Il faut dire qu’il y a de quoi faire : cet État occupe le bas du tableau de toutes les ONG spécialisées dans la défense de droits de l’homme. Le dernier rapport de Freedom House le situe dans la catégorie des Etats les moins libres du monde et Transparency International dénonce non seulement « la corruption endémique » qui y sévit, mais également son exportation qui « mine les institutions démocratiques de l’Occident, comme le Conseil de l’Europe, mais aussi l’intégrité des marchés financiers et autres ».
Selon les révélations de l’enquête internationale « La lessiveuse azerbaidjanaise » publiée en 2017, sur la simple période comprise entre 2013 et 2014, 2,5 milliards de versements ont eu lieu pour « acheter » des amitiés à l’étranger. Mais qu’importe. Pour M. Boussois, l’« urgence » est ailleurs. Il s’agit de « dénoncer et condamner le soutien de l’Arménie à la Russie dans la guerre contre l’Ukraine ». Car l’on s’imagine bien que ce « soutien » allégué d’un petit pays exsangue comme l’Arménie pourrait peser d’un poids décisif dans la bataille… Tout cela est bien sûr cousu de fil blanc. L’Arménie n’a jamais apporté la moindre aide militaire à la Russie dans cette guerre. La légende des 4 avions de combat de type SU-30 qu’elle aurait envoyée, selon M. Boussois, pour participer aux bombardements contre l’Ukraine, constitue une pure fake news, fabriquée de toute pièce par le régime Aliev et propagée à dessein sur les réseaux sociaux pour discréditer l’Arménie. On s’étonne que l’auteur de ces accusations ne se soit pas donné la peine d’en vérifier la véracité, alors que des attachés militaires de l’OTAN et des pays de l’UE qui ont effectué une mission en ce sens à Erevan le 31 mars ont formellement démenti ces calomnies.
On s’étonne également que M. Boussois dénonce la mini-manifestation pro-russe organisée le 19 mars 2022 à Erevan, mais qu’il ne pipe mot de celle, beaucoup plus massive, contre la Russie, organisée à l’appel de l’Alliance démocratique nationale le 9 avril. On regrettera enfin que notre docteur en sciences politiques ne se soit pas donné la peine de regarder les votes de l’Arménie à l’ONU. Il aurait pu constater qu’elle n’a pas été avec la Russie, mais qu’elle s’est abstenue lors du scrutin à l’Assemblée générale du 3 février 2022 sur l’agression contre l’Ukraine, et qu’elle n’a pas pris part au vote, comme d’ailleurs l’Azerbaïdjan, lors de la consultation du 7 avril suspendant la Russie du Conseil des droits de l’homme de l’ONU. Cette forme de neutralité diplomatique courageuse aurait au contraire mérité d’être mise en valeur. D’une part parce que la sécurité de l’Arménie est très largement tributaire des forces d’interposition russes qui bloquent pour l’instant les velléités azerbaïdjanaises d’envahir ce qu’il reste de la République du Haut-Karabakh ainsi que le sud de l’Arménie. Ensuite, parce que si le peuple et les médias ukrainiens se sont majoritairement montrés pro-arméniens, il n’en a pas été de même du régime de Zélinsky, proche allié d’Erdogan et d’Aliev, qui a défendu l’offensive militaire anti-arménienne de l’automne 2020.
Les contrevérités et les omissions de M. Boussois se devaient d’être dénoncées, alors que le régime d’Aliev fait feu de tout bois pour améliorer son image considérablement noircie par l’opération de nettoyage ethnique lancée contre les Arméniens durant l’automne 2020, mais aussi par « les actes de dégradation et de profanation du patrimoine culturel arménien, les églises et autres lieux de culte, monuments, sites, cimetières et artefacts » condamnés par la Cour de Justice internationale le 7 décembre dernier. Un jugement qui a également enjoint Bakou à « prendre toutes les mesures nécessaires pour empêcher l’incitation et l’encouragement à la haine et à la discrimination raciales, y compris par ses agents et ses institutions publiques ». Car il s’agit bien d’un racisme promu par l’Etat dont il est ici question et non de simples expressions spontanées émanant d’une société civile chauffée à blanc par la guerre.
On ne peut en tout cas laisser passer ce renversement des rôles qu’opère M. Boussois qui entend visiblement occulté le fait que l’agression du 27 septembre, préparé de longue date avec la Turquie, visait à casser le processus de négociation placée sous l’égide du Groupe de Minsk, seul détenteur d’un mandat international pour résoudre le conflit et à réaliser par la force ce qu’il était devenu impossible d’obtenir par des moyens légaux et pacifiques. Comment dès lors ne pas s’offusquer, lorsque M. Boussois justifie cette attaque aussi meurtrière qu’inégale par le droit de l’Azerbaïdjan à récupérer son territoire, alors qu’il s’agissait surtout selon le mot d’Aliev d’en « chasser les Arméniens comme des chiens », eux qui avaient eu l’audace d’opposer à sa dictature leur droit à l’autodétermination sur le Haut-Karabakh, ex-république autonome de l’URSS où ils ont toujours été largement majoritaires ?
Faut-il rappeler que cette terre, berceau de la nation arménienne depuis l’antiquité, a été machiavéliquement octroyée par Staline à l’Azerbaïdjan en 1921, afin de diviser pour mieux régner ? Faut-il également se souvenir que l’Azerbaïdjan et la Turquie formant deux Etats pour un même peuple, selon leurs propres termes, ne cessent ne conspirer à la perte de l’Arménie, considérée comme un verrou géographique culturel et religieux faisant obstacle à leur jonction territoriale ?
N’était-ce d’ailleurs pas l’objet du génocide du 1915, à l’égard duquel Ankara comme Bakou, pratique un insupportable négationnisme d’Etat ?
A l’heure où l’Azerbaïdjan entend justement mettre à profit la focalisation de l’attention mondiale sur l’Ukraine pour pousser son avantage militaire contre l’Arménie à qui et à quoi sert la « tribune » du 11 avril de M. Boussois ? La réponse se trouve peut-être sur le site officiel de l’Azerbaïdjan, Azertag, qui a publié le 12 avril un long article d’Aslan Aslanov, porte-voix officieux du président Aliev, qui y dresse le bilan des raisons de la victoire de l’Azerbaïdjan. Ils les résument notamment en ces termes : « Nous pouvons dire sans exagérer que cet avantage dans la guerre de l’information a été l’un des facteurs qui ont assuré le triomphe au Karabakh et a joué un rôle aussi important dans notre victoire que les armes et les batailles ». Diffusés le lendemain de l’article de propagande de M. Boussois, ces propos se passent de tout commentaire.