April 8, 2026
The logic of periodic dismissals of high-ranking officials is directly related to the illogical flow of cases and events that we have been witnessing in recent years.
In other words, all this is in a logical chain of illogical, defeatist processes leading to the abyss.
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Armenian Ambassador, French Foreign Ministry Secretary General discuss bilater
The Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to France, Arman Khachatryan, met with the newly appointed Secretary General of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Martin Briens, the Armenian Embassy to France said in a statement.
The parties exchanged views on issues related to the multifaceted Armenia–France agenda.
The sides stressed the importance of upcoming high-level visits in the context of further deepening relations between the two countries. Ambassador Khachatryan touched upon the peace established between Armenia and Azerbaijan, emphasizing the importance of further strengthening it and promoting the agenda of interdependence.
They also highlighted the need to exchange best practices in organizing the activities of the Armenian and French foreign ministries, as well as opportunities for training diplomats.
Khachatryan presented the major international events to be held in Armenia in the near future, in particular the 8th Summit of the European Political Community, the inaugural Armenia–EU Summit, and the “Yerevan Dialogue” conference.
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Iran is consolidating long-term dominance in the Strait of Hormuz
In response to the attacks on Iran’s petrochemical industrial infrastructure, tonight the Iranian side hit the world’s fourth largest petrochemical plant of “Saudi Basic Industries Corporation” in Saudi Arabia.
Iran’s actions in the war have the nature of an operational response, and the long-term Iranian strategy implies maintaining complete control over the Strait of Hormuz even in the post-war period, to which the parliament of this country is taking legislative steps on the one hand, and diplomatic work with the Omani Foreign Ministry on the other.
Yesterday, when the action of evacuating the pilot of a shot down American plane from Iran was presented at the White House, General Kane, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a remarkable statement from which conclusions can be drawn about the behavior of ordinary Iranians in this war. In particular, he noted that during the evacuation operation, every Iranian among the local residents who had even a small firearm opened fire on the American helicopters.
Iranologist Vardan Voskanyan
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Belarus urges ‘careful and accurate’ CSTO approach toward Armenia amid frozen
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has called for a “careful and accurate” approach by the CSTO toward its treaty ally Armenia, which has effectively frozen its participation in the bloc for over two years.
Lukashenko made the comments during a meeting with Taalatbek Masadykov, the new Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), BelTA reports.
He noted that the organization has both achievements and challenges, which he has repeatedly discussed on international platforms. According to Lukashenko, one of the issues requiring special attention is the relationship with Armenia.
“We need to be more correct and precise in our work with Armenia. You know that Armenia seems not to support work within the CSTO, yet at the same time remains in the organization,” BelTA news agency quoted the Belarusian president as saying.
He added that the situation in Armenia is complex, especially in the context of electoral processes.
“We must be very careful. The situation in Armenia is difficult in this regard, particularly during the election period. It is a very complicated situation. Therefore, we need to be extremely cautious in our relations with Armenia,” Lukashenko stated.
Back in February 2024, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that Armenia had frozen its participation in the CSTO, citing the organization’s failure to fulfill its obligations to Armenia.
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Asbarez: Groups Urge Yerevan to Engage Switzerland as ‘Protecting Power” for A
Former Artsakh leaders were paraded in a Baku military court on Jan. 21
Relatives and representatives of Armenian detainees unlawfully being held in Azerbaijan sent a letter to Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and other international leaders to engage Switzerland to act as what is known as “protecting power” over the detained Artsakh Armenians.
The request was also sent to Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis and President of International Committee of the Red Cross Mirjana Spoljaric Egger.
This development was reported by attorney Siranush Sahakyan, who is the representative of Armenian captives at the European Court of Human Rights and leads the Center for International and Comparative Law.
The letter warned that “time is of the essence,” and expressed “deep concern following the complete closure of the International Committee of the Red Cross office in the Republic of Azerbaijan. This development has gravely exacerbated the already dire situation of our relatives, leaving us in a state of profound uncertainty regarding their fate and wellbeing.”
“Considering these circumstances and recalling the obligations set forth under international humanitarian law, we respectfully but firmly urge the Government of Armenia to extend a formal invitation to the Government of the Swiss Confederation to assume the role of Protecting Power. Such an intervention is both necessary and urgent to ensure that the rights, safety, and dignity of our relatives are safeguarded through internationally recognized mechanisms of protection,” the groups said in the letter.
“Azerbaijan’s continued incommunicado detention of Armenian captives, without access by their families, independent lawyers, or impartial humanitarian actors, constitutes a flagrant breach of its obligations under international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions,” the letter states in part,” charged the signatories.
Noting that at least 19 individuals are currently being held in Baku, their relatives emphasized that this situation has created a “serious vacuum in the protection of rights, resulting in a high risk of violence, ill-treatment, and even enforced disappearance.”
A protecting power is a country that represents another sovereign state—the protected power—in a third country where the protected power lacks its own formal diplomatic representation (e.g., lacks an embassy or consulate). The protecting power also inquires into the welfare of prisoners of war and looks after the interests of civilians in enemy-occupied territory.
The institution of protecting power dates back to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and was formalized in the Geneva Convention of 1929. Protecting powers are authorized in all four of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. In addition to sovereign states being appointed as protecting powers, the International Committee of the Red Cross may be appointed a protecting power.
Thus, the signatories are urging the Armenian government to extend an invitation to Switzerland to assume the role of the “Protecting Power” with respect to all Armenian captives currently being held in Azerbaijan.
They are also calling of the Swiss government to accept the invitation, “thereby ensuring the captives’ rights, dignity, and protection to the fullest extent possible, and providing the guarantees that Azerbaijan has unlawfully denied,” the letter said.
The signatories also are calling the ICRC to support the Swiss appointment and assist its government in fulfilling the Protecting Power function.
“Time is of the essence. Continued inaction risks further aggravating the suffering of those unlawfully detained and increasing the threats to their lives and physical integrity. We therefore respectfully call upon the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the Government of the Swiss Confederation to take timely and appropriate measures within their respective mandates, and invite the International Committee of the Red Cross to extend its support, with a view to ensuring that international law is effectively upheld and that the rights of ethnic Armenians are duly protected in the face of ongoing violations,” the letter concluded.
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The 44-day war was not stopped because of a cowardly populist. Serzh Sargsyan
April 4, 2026
The results of the April war are evidence of the power of our army and effective diplomatic work, nationwide will and unity, announced the Chairman of the RPA, the 3rd President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan at the 18th Congress of the RPA.
According to the president, the enemy’s goals failed because he failed not only to break our defensive front line, but also our unity, faith and dignity.
Serzh Sargsyan announced that after the seizure of power in 2018, as part of the deliberate discrediting and weakening of the army, the rulers of Armenia continued to make disgusting speculations about the April four-day war, then created an investigative commission and had to come to terms with the reality that all of that was a lie, fake, poison and blasphemy.
“The feats of our boys, our victory and our unity were real,” said Serzh Sargsyan.
The 3rd President of Armenia emphasized that, unfortunately, the war of 2020 was large-scale, had disastrous consequences and was not stopped because of a cowardly populist and dragged on for 44 days, why not call him a traitor.
“There is an unwritten law in the world: the leader of a capitulated country must leave. Otherwise, the country suffers irreparable and disproportionate losses. Alas, the ruler of Armenia chose to keep his seat instead of defending the state, and we unfortunately lost a part of our homeland. And the other side, the Republic of Armenia, continues to be in danger,” stated Serzh Sargsyan.
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Armen Ashotyan knows about the disgraceful arrest applied to Davit Minasyan
April 1, 2026
Armen Ashotyan writes on his Facebook page that he properly informed his colleagues of the European People’s Party about the disgraceful arrest applied to student Davit Minasyan.
“Let the European capitals know well how Nikol Pashinyan is “preparing” for the EU-Armenia summit in May,” wrote Armen Ashotyan.
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Vote-buying in Armenia: ‘Strong Armenia’ party disguised bribes as salaries a
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Blackmail and mutually beneficial deal between Pashinyan and Aliyev, if Pashinyan is not elected, Aliyev
March: 30, 2026
On March 27, a Facebook live with the caption “Peace is dignity”. ether Nikol Pashinyan, referring to the claims of his political opponents that the peace established between Armenia and Azerbaijan is not dignified, said:
“With what? are justification they that the thesis, of justifications one it is, that Azerbaijan, note having 2021, 2022, 2023 of years the events, invasion is implemented RA: sovereign area: First՝ that place is had no or of peace, other of conflict in the situation: Preceding of the region all the invasions two from the sides place are had no or of peace, other of conflict because of, of war because of»:
In other words, the leader of Armenia is not referring to 2020. A tripartite signed after the 44-day war to the announcement, the first point of which clearly defines that after November 10 “the parties stop at their positions”, and emphasizes that Azerbaijan has not fulfilled the points of the tripartite declaration, justifies Baku’s steps beyond that. Even if we accept that the tripartite declaration of November 9 was a cease-fire document, and in fact it was, then why didn’t we immediately try to restore the losses of the army after the war, why didn’t the state live in the conditions dictated by the unfinished conflict?
In addition to this, Pashinyan does not mention in the text of his justification that it is about the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, and whether there was a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, whether Armenia officially declared war on Azerbaijan, or vice versa. Were the sovereign territories of RA the subject of negotiations, if we do not count some topics related to Meghri, but it was in the context of the Karabakh conflict, we are talking about something else.
Accordingly, can we say that Pashinyan legitimizes Baku’s illegal military operations against Armenia, in the event that after the 44-day period, Armenia did not invade the sovereign territory of Azerbaijan, and the fact that in the 1990s and after that both sides made positional improvements cannot be compared to the Azerbaijani invasions of 2021-2023? Սա՝ first:
Secondly, can we say that Pashinyan admits that the invasions of Baku into the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia were aimed at military, military-political and political pressure on Armenia in the context of the Artsakh issue, especially when Pashinyan himself in the background of the September 2022 military operations had confessed.
«Thus, Azerbaijan expresses its dissatisfaction with the results of the 44-day war, taking into account that NK has a contact line, the protection and security of which is guaranteed by the Russian Federation. Now I can’t say many details…”
Another confession of Pashinyan had done 2021 in the context of the May Azerbaijani advances, that the army was given a political order not to fight, because the extraordinary NA elections were ahead. 2021 Azerbaijani invasions in May and 2022 between the September battles there were also the November 2021 battles. And the coordinated military operation of the Azerbaijani-Turkish tandem on November 16, 2021 was also in the context of aspirations related to the corridor of Nakhichevan, Zangezur and Lachin. As a result of the combat operations of those days, according to information published in the Azerbaijani media maps,the enemy’s armed forces were able to go to key and strategically important heights in the direction of the Eastern Sevan mountains or the mountain range towards Karvachar, and also captured several Armenian positions as a result of the battles around the Kilisali mountain. Azerbaijan aimed to keep the Lachin Corridor under its visual control, which, perhaps, it partially succeeded. Did the current government of RA not calculate all this? Why did Azerbaijan manage to carry out 3 such military operations in the sovereign territory of RA after 44 days? Are we dealing with a deal or criminal indifference – the conflict is not settled, we lived only for the finished in military and political conditions.
Third, although actual peace has been established at the cost of territorial and human losses, but if there is no final peace agreement, plus there are unresolved issues between Armenia and Azerbaijan, can we say that Baku can take local military steps that Pashinyan will justify?
And Pashinyan also mentioned in the above-mentioned live Facebook broadcast that the former military-political leadership of Artsakh appeared in Baku again due to the conflict, when Artsakh was depopulated and Baku could not kidnap people. Baku considers their trial and verdicts with fabricated articles as “Nuremberg”, when Pashinyan already claimed that peace has been established. And Pashinyan, in fact, justifying Aliyev’s “Nuremberg”, went too far and began to “play” the issue of their return.
“Continuation of the conflict reduces many times, if not makes it impossible to release them, and peace increases many times, if not guarantees their release.” he emphasized.
Yes, the release and return of the former military-political leadership of Artsakh is a political issue, and Pashinyan, in fact, says that if he does not win the upcoming elections, there should be no hope for their return at all. And giving back certainly comes at a price. In other words, the fact that the CP members say that they are working towards their return is actually what Pashinyan said in the broadcast of March 27. both Aliyev and Pashinyan are trying to turn the issue of the return of the former military-political leadership of Artsakh into a mutually beneficial deal.
And on March 30, Pashinyan made another Facebook post during the live broadcast declared that before the peace he established, we only had a postponement of the war at the cost of casualties, injuries, lack of economic development and loss of independence.
Yes, it was possible to postpone the war, for better or for worse, but why couldn’t he do the same, why couldn’t he prevent the occupation of the sovereign territories of RA at the cost of several thousand casualties and territorial losses during the 44-day war? Moreover, Pashinyan says, after the four-day war in 2016, it became clear that “that means of payment has been exhausted.”
And why did he “get under it” or did he find out after coming to power, and when – before or after the 2020 war? Of course, before, which Pashinyan publicly admitted only after the war, it was necessary.
By the way, Pashinyan, considering today that after 2016, a different logic was operating, outside of the negotiation logic, on March 29, 2019, after meeting with Aliyev for several hours at the “Bristol” hotel in Vienna, he announced that in the negotiation language, the parties should try not to harm each other, not to look for winners and losers, because the conflict has deep roots, it is not a simple situation.
And days after that, in a conversation with Armenian journalists, the same Pashinyan claimed that The formula “new war, new territories” in no way casts a shadow on the peaceful settlement process, on the contrary, it emphasizes the importance of a peaceful settlement, although this caused the anger of Baku. In other words, Pashinyan transferred the statement made by the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia in military logic to the political dimension and did not see any danger in the conditions of an unsettled conflict. But today he sees the danger of war from every word, when, as he says, we have established peace, there is no longer a post-2016 situation. Isn’t it a paradox?
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Ambassador Mkrtchyan attends “Armenian Art and the World” annual lecture
Armenian Ambassador to the United States Narek Mkrtchyan attended the fourth annual lecture, “Grace and Paul Shahinian: Armenian Christian Art and Culture,” held at The Catholic University of America under the theme “Armenian Art and the World,” the embassy said in a statement.
Ambassador Mkrtchyan delivered welcome remarks, highlighting the importance of Armenian culture and art as integral parts of national identity and emphasizing the need for such lectures to raise awareness about Armenia within American academic and cultural circles.
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