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Panorama, Armenia

Sept 14 2017

Representative of Armenia Erna Mirzoyan (Erna Mir) leads the ‘New Wave 2017’ international music contest of young pop singers with 363 points after summing up the results of the first three days of the contest. Mirzoyan from the “Voices of Artsakh” music ensemble shares the first spot with representatives of Uzbekistan and Moldova.

The other representative of Armenia Syuzanna Melkonyan, who finished 3rd in the Armenian national selection in 2017 Eurovision song contest, comes the second with 357 points.

To note, the contest has been organized annually since 2002 by Russian composer Igor Krutoy and Latvian composer Raimonds Pauls. Young singers between the ages of 16 and 30 are eligible to compete in the festival. This year the festival is attended by 9 participants from 14 countries. The festival is held in Russia’s Sochi from September 8-14.

Panorama, Armenia

Sept 14 2017

The Pan-Armenian Orchestra, headed by Sergey Smbatyan, performed at the most prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Awards

On September 13 the Pan-Armenian Symphony Orchestra, headed by conductor Sergey Smbatyan, performed at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2017, the most famous and prestigious event. The glittering event took place in the stunning venue of Northumberland Avenue, London. During the concert the Pan-Armenian Orchestra presented compositions by Khachaturian, Shostakovich, Shor, Prokofiev and other composers. The performances of the orchestra and Sergey Smbatyan were warmly received.

The Pan-Armenian Orchestra was joined with some of the biggest names in classical music as Gramophone Award winners past and present take to the stage to celebrate the 40th anniversary of these prestigious awards. In previous years, Gramophone Awards ceremonies were conducted by famous conductors like Sir Colin Davis, Sir Antonio Pappano and others. This year’s honor was reserved for maestro Sergey Smbatyan, who studied with Sir Colin Davis in London.

For the second year running, the ceremony was live-streamed on medici.tv, so classical music lovers from all around the globe had the opportunity to watch all of the performances, acceptance speeches.
James Jolly, Gramophone’s Editor-in-Chief, noted that they were delighted to be joined by the Pan-Armenian Symphony orchestra, comprised of the Armenian musicians from the best orchestras all over the world. During the evening Jolly thanked Sergey Smbatyan and the Pan-Armenian Orchestra for performing composition by British composer Gustav Holst.

The Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, the conductor of the Pan-Armenian Orchestra Sergey Smbatyan in an interview with medici.tv informed that the Pan-Armenian Orchestra had a concert on April 24, 2017 in Yerevan, performing headed by several conductors.
“We are very happy. It’s a great honor to be here. We have great classical music traditions in Armenia. You can find great Armenian musicians everywhere. The idea was to unite them, so they can perform together”,-Sergey Smbatyan noted.

Maestro Smbatyan added that the musicians of the Pan-Armenian Orchestra are playing at the world’s leading orchestras. They were born and raised in Armenia, studied at the same Conservatory, thus they bear the same traditions. And such projects show that the Armenians can be united. Maestro Smbatyan hoped that the orchestra will perform more often.

Gramophone is the most significant classical music award, the same as the Oscar is in the field of cinema, the Nobel prize is in the field of science and the Booker prize in the field of literature. Gramophone Awards celebrate the very best of the last year of classical music. This year it celebrated its 40th anniversary.

Azernews, Azerbaijan

Sept 14 2017

16:00 (UTC+04:00)

By Rashid Shirinov

Today the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is the only conflict in the region, which has a real risk of escalating into an all-out war.

The presence of unresolved conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan challenges the regional security, as in case of new war regional powers, Russia and NATO member Turkey in particular, could become directly involved.

For over two decades, the OSCE Minsk Group established to broker a peace has failed to achieve any tangible result for the conflict resolution.

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan around Nagorno-Karabakh has reached a dangerous stage where the existing status quo is difficult to preserve due to Azerbaijan’s military successes and the inherent problems of Armenia’s dependence on Russia, stated a Canadian think tank.

The Toronto-Based Geopolitical Monitor, in its recently published report, has predicted a change in the status quo in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Geopolitical Monitor suggested that “as Moscow has a big geopolitical stake in the conflict, it will continue to supply arms to both Baku and Yerevan to keep the military balance, preserve the status quo, and deny any other power such as Turkey or Iran possibilities to increase their own influence in the conflict resolution process.”

The analysis stresses that unlike other breakaway conflicts across the former Soviet Union, the one around Nagorno-Karabakh has not been frozen since its inception in the early 1990s.

“Daily ceasefire violations at times reached more than 100 instances, increasing the difficulty of reaching any peaceful resolution to the standoff between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” it reads.” As the nearly war-type situation between the two sides showed in April 2016, the conflict is not static and rather is subject to changing geopolitical circumstances.”

“Beyond the immediate situation on the contact line, any progress to the resolution of the conflict is complicated by the many actors which have geopolitical interests in the South Caucasus,” the document reads.

Armenia broke out this lengthy war against Azerbaijan by laying territorial claims on its South Caucasus neighbor. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

Today Armenia refuses to implement four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions.

Although the ceasefire agreement was signed in 1994, Armenia does not comply with it. Not a day passes without ceasefire violations by Armenia’s armed forces in the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border and the frontline in Nagorno-Karabakh. Moreover, the Armenian militaries using heavy machine guns and mortars deliberately aim at Azerbaijan settlements near the frontline in order to hurt civilians living there.

Indeed, Azerbaijan has strongly developed its military capability over the years and the country is fully prepared to release its occupied lands from Armenian invaders. On the other hand, Azerbaijan prefers the conflict to be resolved peacefully and without further casualties.

AzerNews, Azerbaijan

Sept 14 2017

17:02 (UTC+04:00)

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By Rashid Shirinov

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian in his last statement has called on foreigners to violate international law and Azerbaijani laws, urging for illegal visits to Azerbaijan’s occupied territories, which in itself is a crime, said Hikmat Hajiyev.

“Armenia encourages foreigners, particularly politicians, to illegally visit the occupied Azerbaijani territories in exchange for funding, as well as by blackmail or fraud, and then turns them into tools of political propaganda,” the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman said.

Unauthorized visits to Nagorno-Karabakh and other regions of Azerbaijan occupied by Armenia are considered illegal, and any individuals paying such visits are included in the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s list of undesirable persons. Baku continues the work to prevent such illegal actions, and the foreign citizens should keep their eyes peeled in order not to be deceived by Armenian occupiers.

The recent story with arrest of blogger Alexander Lapshin due to his illegal visits to Azerbaijan’s lands occupied by Armenia has shown what non-compliance with the Azerbaijani laws may lead to. However, still Armenian authorities encourage foreigners to visit the occupied Azerbaijani lands, by breaching the international law.

Hajiyev noted that Azerbaijan informs the international community about the illegality and legal consequences of such visits, using the list of undesirable persons, preparing a report on illegal economic and other activities of Armenia in the occupied territories and other similar actions, including those related to the case of Alexander Lapshin, allowed exposing the policy pursued by Armenia to organize illegal visits to the occupied territories.

“As a result, the number of such visits has declined significantly,” Hajiyev said.

He added that many people, who were deceived and became victims of Armenia’s illegal actions, then appealed to the Azerbaijani side, apologizing for their actions, and requested removal of their names from the list.

The spokesman said that many world countries call to avoid illegal visits to the occupied Azerbaijani territories on the websites of their foreign ministries, and warn about the legal liability of such visits.

“Now, to justify itself, the Armenian side is trying to organize single visits of persons of Armenian origin from abroad and people directly connected with the Armenian lobby,” Hajiyev added.

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

The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.

News.az, Azerbaijan

Sept 14 2017

Thu 08:08 GMT | 11:08 Local Time

The amendment was passed with 290 voting against and 349 voting for, while its longer discussion was not allowed.

The amendment on Azerbaijan introduced to the European Parliament’s resolution dated , is yet another example of traditional nonobjective policy and political provocation carried by some forces within the European Parliament against Azerbbaijan.

The submission of this amendment on September 7, just two days after the publication of nefarious allegations of corruption set forth against Azerbaijan by some biased media outlets that disseminate false reports and are guided by the Armenian lobby and the Soros Foundation is the indication of pre-production and simultaneous implementation of this unwanted and ugly campaign.

The author of this amendment is Petras Austrevicius, a native of Lithuania. This person has solid anti-Islam and anti-Azerbaijani ideological views. There is a phrase in Azerbaijani, translated as ‘tell me who your friend is and I will tell you who you are.’ His closest friend is former Ambassador to Lithuania Renatas Juska. The same Juska whose voice record with the voice record of another responsible officer of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry Zenonas Kumetaitis came viral on youtube. In his voice record she expressed hate towards Azerbaijan and Muslims and his love for Armenia saying that Lithuania should support Armenians because they are Christian.

The amendment was passed with 290 voting against and 349 voting for. Its longer discussion was not allowed. This shows that there are pragmatic viewpoints in the European Parliament that work for the interests of Europe.

As it is stated in the general part of the resolution, while the volume of corruption in the European Union is EUR 179 bn annually, and its share in overall GDP makes EUR 990 bn, it is ridiculous and abusive to indicate Azerbaijan in the amendment to the resolution based on false information and slander.

The marginal person who is the author of this amendment consisting of several sentences and his close associates, being narrow-minded, traditionally pursue the anti-Azerbaijani policy .

They focus on discrediting international prestige of Azerbaijan, distracting the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict from substantial negotiations, creating conditions for continued occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia, and undermining Azerbaijan’s cooperation with EU ahead of the planned EU top summit of Eastern Partnership countries due in November of this year, and preventing the successful implementation of the TAP project. It should be taken into consideration that the adoption of the resolution comes at the time of the signing of the new agreement on the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli field by 2050.

Unfortunately, the dubious cooperation between the Armenian lobby and other circles in these European groups has not been investigated yet.

Despite the attempts and provocations of such circles, Azerbaijan will continue its independent and successful domestic and foreign policy for the sake of the people of Azerbaijan.

News.Az

Azernews, Azerbaijan

Sept 14 2017

18:11 (UTC+04:00)

By Rashid Shirinov

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the status quo that Armenia tries to preserve in Azerbaijan’s occupied lands create big problems to international cooperation in the region.

The presence of unresolved conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan also poses challenges for the regional neighbors.

“The Nagorno-Karabakh impedes the strengthening of the geopolitical axis Moscow-Baku. But Russia is a peacemaker in this conflict, and we strongly want to avoid renewal of hostilities,” ideologist Aleksandr Dugin said at the sidelines of Moscow-Baku conference in Moscow, adding that Russia is not satisfied with the status quo.

Baku has repeatedly expressed its consent to come to the negotiating table with Yerevan to resolve the conflict by peaceful means, but Armenia continues to play for time and avoids substantive negotiations. The reluctance of Armenia is the main reason why the OSCE Minsk Group, aimed at resolving the conflict by peaceful means, cannot make any tangible progress.

Yerevan does its utmost not to let the conflict settlement process move forward, as Armenian leadership knows that it will eventually have to withdraw from Azerbaijan’s occupied lands.

Dugin noted that Armenia controls Nagorno-Karabakh, but Russia, as well as the world community, recognizes Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.

“This problem has no military solution. But we came to a point when we need to move forward,” he added.

Answering the question about the way to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Dugin said that Armenia should return five occupied regions to Azerbaijan: “I repeat, we need to move forward.”

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations.

Armenia still controls fifth part of Azerbaijan’s territory and rejects implementing four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding districts.

                                        Wednesday, 
Armenian Lawyers Go On Strike
 . Artak Hambardzumian
 . Karlen Aslanian
Armenia - Lawyers hold a roundtable discussion in Yerevan, 13Sep2017.
More 180 Armenian lawyers went on strike on Wednesday to protest
against controversial security checks on attorneys representing
radical opposition members in three ongoing trials.
The defense lawyers have been required to walk through metal detectors
and have their bags checked before entering courtrooms. They say this
procedure amounts to searches not allowed by Armenian law. Many of
them have refused to attend court hearings in the trials of Zhirayr
Sefilian, the jailed leader of the Founding Parliament movement, and
his three dozen loyalists who seized a police station in Yerevan last
year.
"We hope that this one-day protest will be enough for state bodies to
look into the problem more thoroughly and find a solution acceptable
to everyone," one of the protesting lawyers, Tigran Atanesian, said at
a roundtable discussion in Yerevan. Or else, he warned, they will
continue to fight against the practice.
Armenia's Judicial Department insists that the security "inspections"
do not constitute searches and are therefore legal. The leadership of
the Chamber of Advocates, the national bar association, has sided with
the department.
The chamber's newly reelected chairman, Ara Zohrabian, reaffirmed that
position when he spoke during the discussion. "When nobody touches a
lawyer's bag there can be no talk of a search," he said.
Mushegh Shushanian, one of the lawyers representing the arrested
opposition gunmen, denounced that stance. "One has the impression that
the chairman of the Chamber of Advocates is tasked with campaigning
against independent lawyers," Shushanian charged.
The one-day strike disrupted the latest hearing in one of the two
trials of the gunmen. It was scheduled for Wednesday.
The presiding judge, Artush Gabrielian, cited the absence of 15
lawyers who joined the strike. "The court does not regard as positive
the lawyers' failure to attend today's hearing because they were
obliged to show up," Gabrielian said, adding that he could take fresh
disciplinary action against them.
Armenia Encouraged To Boost Exports To U.S.
 . Sargis Harutyunyan
Armenia - Armenian businesspeople are briefed on ways of capitalizing
on Armenia's mostly tariff-free access to the U.S. market, Yerevan,
13Sep2017.
A senior U.S. official encouraged Armenian businesspeople to take
greater advantage of Armenia's mostly tariff-free access to the
U.S. market during a visit to Yerevan on Wednesday.
Assistant Trade Representative Ed Gresser advised them on the
U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) at a meeting organized by
the American Chamber of Commerce in Armenia (AmCham) and the
U.S. Embassy in Yerevan.
Armenia is among 129 countries and territories included in the GSP
program, which fully or partly exempts many goods manufactured by them
from U.S import duties. Despite these trade preferences, Armenian
exports to the United States have been quite modest to date.
According to official statistics, Armenian companies exported only
about $39 million worth of goods -- mostly aluminum foil, jewelry
items and some foodstuffs -- to the U.S. last year. Those exported
jumped by 62 percent year on year, to almost $35 million, in the first
seven months of 2017.Sixty percent of them were covered by the GSP.
Gresser said that the preferential trade regime gives Armenian
exporters a significant competitive edge in the United States. "No
country in the European Union is eligible for GSP," he said. "Russia
is not in the GSP system, China is not in the GSP system, Iran is not
in the GSP system."
"So when buyers are choosing between Armenia products and those of
some neighboring countries or those of some very large exporters, the
savings GSP offers can be a pretty compelling argument for buying the
Armenian product," argued the U.S. official.
Armenia is already the world's fourth largest exporter of cherry jam
to the U.S., he said.
"One of my top priorities as ambassador for the last two years has
been to improve economic ties and trade between Armenia and the United
States," Richard Mills, the U.S. ambassador in Yerevan, told reporters
after the AmCham meeting. "That's why I am very happy to be welcoming
to Yerevan this week two senior members from the United States Trade
Representative's office."
"These two visitors are here to talk about the potential for expanding
Armenia's business community's use of the Generalized System of
Preferences that the United States has in place," he said.
The U.E. Embassy and the Armenian Ministry of Economy already
organized a seminar in March 2016 for Armenian manufacturing firms
interested in capitalizing on the GSP. Another senior official from
the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) was on hand to
present business opportunities stemming from the trade scheme and
legal procedures for qualifying for it.
Gresser met on Tuesday with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian and Deputy Economy Minister Garegin Melkonian. Official
Armenian sources said the talks focused not only on GSP-related issues
but also broader commercial ties between the two nations. In
particular, the two sides discussed preparations for a second session
of the U.S.-Armenia Trade and Investment Council.
The council was set up in line with the Trade and Investment Framework
Agreement (TIFA) signed by U.S. and Armenian officials in Washington
in May 2015. It is tasked with addressing obstacles to bilateral
trade.
Karapetian Defends Track Record
 . Ruzanna Stepanian
Armenia - Prime Minister Karen Karapetian speaks in the National
Assembly in Yerevan, 13Sep2017.
Prime Minister Karen Karapetian insisted on Wednesday that the
macroeconomic situation in Armenia has improved during his one-year
tenure.
Karapetian pointed to faster economic growth recorded this year when
he was asked about the impact of his government's policies on the
lives of ordinary citizens during a question-and-answer session in the
Armenian parliament.
"As for how our fellow citizens feel, we have presented you with
macroeconomic indicators that are -- I'm sorry if this sound immodest
-- are the best in the region, in the Eurasian Economic Union and the
CIS," he said, answering a question from a deputy from President Serzh
Sarkisian's Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).
"Does that mean that we have solved all our problems? Of course not,
because we have practically no people who don't want to improve the
quality of their life. So it's not that we will have lived up to
everyone's expectations within a year."
"But I think that the overall trend, the direction in which we are
moving satisfies us to a certain extent," added Karapetian.
Karapetian was tasked with easing socioeconomic hardship in the
country when Sarkisian appointed him as prime minister in September
last year. He pledged to do so through reforms that would improve the
domestic business environment and attract more foreign investment in
the struggling Armenian economy.
According official statistics, economic growth accelerated from 0.2
percent in 2016 to around 5 percent in the first half of this
year. Also, the government's tax revenue has risen by almost 7 percent
in the past year.
Opposition politicians and other critics of the government dismiss
these figures, saying that they have had no real tangible impact on
the population. They also remain highly skeptical about Karapetian's
reform pledges.
Karapetian has repeatedly indicated his desire to stay on as prime
minister after Sarkisian serves to his final presidential term in
April. The president has not yet clarified whether he plans to become
prime minister or replace Karapetian with someone else.
Press Review
"Zhoghovurd" blasts what it sees as a thuggish behavior of some
members of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) at Tuesday's
session of Yerevan's municipal council. "Instead of holding debates
with their opposition colleagues, they were making offensive remarks,"
the paper says. It says Yerevan Mayor Taron Markarian, who chaired the
session, did not even attempt to rein in them, meaning that he tacitly
supported them. "This is nothing but a disgrace," it says.
"Hraparak" says that when Karen Karapetian took over as prime minister
a year ago he made a grim assessment of the economic situation in
Armenia. "It was evident that Karapetian was invited to get the
country's economic out of a pit," writes the paper. "A pit into which
it was plunged by the HHK, its governments and their policies." It
claims that President Serzh Sarkisian and his entourage no longer
allow him to "single-handedly make decisions on important issues,
appoint or fire high-ranking officials." "Even on his political future
nothing explicit is being said right now, unlike in the initial period
of his tenure," it says.
"Haykakan Zhamanak" ridicules the minuscule volume of trade between
Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, a fellow member of the Russian-led Eurasian
Economic Union (EEU). Imports of Kyrgyz goods to Armenia stood at less
than $10,000 in the first half of this year, official data shows. "It
must be noted that Armenia's exports to Kyrgyzstan are much greater:
about $424,000," the paper says.
(Lilit Harutiunian)
Reprinted on ANN/Armenian News with permission from RFE/RL
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18:29 | September 13,2017 | Economy
Armenian:
Rus

In an interview with “Artsakhpress” correspondent, Karen Aghajanyan, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Artsakh, said that 156 hectares of about 2200 hectares of vineyards were gathered today.

The deputy minister said that the average crop yield was 50.2 centners.

“Taking into account the adverse weather conditions, this year’s grape harvest is not very successful,” said Mr. Aghajanyan. Speaking about prices, the deputy minister said that the market price of table grape varieties is 140-200 AMD.

“By the way, traditionally “Cardinal” grape variety is the majority of sold grapes in Artsakh,” Mr. Aghajanyan added.

Meanwhile, the grape harvesting is carried out by factories on average by 120-125 drams depending on the sweetness of the harvest.

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Armenia:

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According to the decree signed by RA President Serzh Sargsyan, RA Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Argentina, Estera Mkrtumyan, was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, the Republic of Chile, and the Republic of Peru.

“Guided by the 2005 amendments to Article 55, Clause 8 of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, I decide.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Republic of Argentina, Estera Mkrtumyan, was jointly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, the Republic of Chile, and the Republic of Peru (residence: Buenos Aires),” the decree signed by the president says.

Estera Mkrtumyan was appointed RA ambassador to Argentina in February 2017.

Date and place of birth

Born in 1976 on April 21 in Yerevan

Education

1993-1998 Department of Philology of Spanish and English Languages, Faculty of Romano-Germanic Philology of Yerevan State University

Work activity

2013-2017 Counselor, consul of the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in the Republic of Argentina

2012-2013 Head of the European Integration and Interparliamentary Relations Department of the RA NA Foreign Relations Department

2003-2013 Secretary of the delegation of the RA National Assembly to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Secretary of Armenia-Spain, Armenia-Portugal RA NA parliamentary friendship groups

2002-2012 Chief specialist of the RA NA Department of Foreign Relations

1999-2002 Leading specialist of the Department of Foreign Relations of the RA NA

Secretary of the RA NA delegation to the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Parliamentary Assembly

Class ranks of the RA state service

Advisor of the 1st class of the RA State Service

Rewards:

2012 On the occasion of the 21st anniversary of RA independence, he was awarded the “Mkhitar Gosh” medal

Foreign languages

Spanish, Russian, English

Marital status

Has a daughter

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Category: 2017

Music: Representatives of Armenia lead the New Wave 2017 song festival

Music: The Pan-Armenian Orchestra performed at the most prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Awards

Azerbaijani Press: Canadian think tank predicts change in status quo in Karabakh

Azerbaijani Press: Baku says Armenian FM’s call to visit Azerbaijan’s occupied lands is crime

Azerbaijani Press: Amendment to European Parliament resolution another political provocation against Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani Press: Expert: Armenia should return five occupied regions to Azerbaijan

RFE/RL Armenian Report – 09/13/2017

Artsakhpress: Grape harvest starts in Artsakh

Estera Mkrtumyan was appointed RA ambassador to Uruguay, Chile and Peru

RA Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobyan received Tony Moroyan