Category: 2020

 21:20,

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS. The air defense units of the Defense Army of Artsakh have destroyed an Azerbaijani UAV in Stepanakert, press service official of the State Service of the Emergency Situations of Artsakh Hunan Tadevosyan told ARMENPRESS.

‘’A UAV was noticed in the skies of Stepanakert. Our armed forces managed to destroy it. The UAV fell in a nearby forest’’, Tadevosyan said.

 13:39,

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS. Yerevan has applied to Moscow for security consultations within the framework of bilateral treaties, not the CSTO, the Armenian Ambassador to Russia Vardan Toghanyan told RIA Novosti when asked to clarify the request.

“It’s about applying to the Russian President by citing our bilateral treaties,” the ambassador said when asked if the request was an application for the CSTO or a bilateral format only.

Earlier the ambassador hadn’t ruled out that during the consultations the issue of Russian provision of military support to Armenia will be discussed.

The CSTO is a military alliance between Armenia, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, its charter stipulates that member states are bound to protect one another if anyone of them gets attacked.

But the Armenian Prime Minister’s request to Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to the bilateral allied relations and the 1997 treaty on mutual aid. In response, Russia reiterated its commitments to the allied obligations to Armenia and said it will provide support in case of the fighting reaching directly the territory of Armenia.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

 16:05,

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS. On the background of factual proofs by the Armenian side about the presence of mercenaries in the Azerbaijani armed forces, Azerbaijan is making unsuccessful attempts to publish absurd “data”, with such a behavior “spitting” on the international community, Advisor to the Artsakh President on foreign affairs Davit Babayan told Armenpress, commenting on the Azerbaijani disinformation according to which there is evidence on European neo-Nazi participation by Armenia.

Babayan called this claim as another absurd statement by Azerbaijan. “Now they will start to release such absurd data, when we have factual evidence: Syrian militants whom we managed to capture. Neo-Nazi is Erdogan himself who officially states that Hitler has been the most effective figure”, Babayan said.

He said if Europe, Israel, some structures have responded in a right way, today the situation won’t be such, and some members of the Israeli government would not have been in a business deal with Nazis.

“With its actions Azerbaijan is spitting on the international community”, Babayan said, adding that the Azerbaijani behavior is not something new.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 16:59,

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS. In an interview to Al Arabiya, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan commented on the question what is his vision on the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

“Firstly, the military operations should stop because under the hostilities it’s difficult to imagine a diplomatic solution. After which substantive negotiations on solutions should take place, as envisaged in the October 10 statement in Moscow adopted by the foreign ministers of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan”, the PM said.

Pashinyan stated that the Armenian side has always been ready to the negotiations, is always ready to talks and has always been ready to mutual concessions. “The problem is something else: at the moment when any mutual concession becomes acceptable for Armenia, that mutual concession becomes unacceptable  for Azerbaijan. I can bring you the example of Kazan of 2011. You know, the status of Nagorno Karabakh, in particular the issue of the recognition of its independence, right to self-determination is a priority issue for the Armenian side. But during the so-called Kazan process in 2011 the Armenian side has agreed with the interim status of Karabakh, which was not a final status, but just an interim status. In other words, it made a step back from its initial bar with the logic to achieve compromise. But at the last moment Azerbaijan refused to accept that compromise and proposed stricter conditions to the Armenian side. It is this process which has not allowed and till now does not allow to achieve a diplomatic solution”, the PM stated.

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

 18:05,

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS. Foreign Minister of Armenia Zohrab Mnatsakanyan referred to the use of phosphorus munitions by Azerbaijan in Artsakh. ARMENPRESS reports FM Mnatsakanyan wrote in his Twitter micro blog,

‘’This time Azerbaijan used phosphorus munitions in Artsakh over forests close to residential areas with many civilians. What Azerbaijan is doing: total disrespect of its commitments, continued aggression, devastation of civilian population & use of banned weapons”.

This time “>#Azerbaijan used phosphorus munitions in over forests close to residential areas with many civilians.

What Azerbaijan is doing: total disrespect of its commitments, continued aggression, devastation of civilian population & use of banned weapons. Zohrab Mnatsakanyan (@ZMnatsakanyan)

Azerbaijan has also used cluster munitions against the cities of Artsakh