Category: 2021

The capitulator didn’t say a word about the independence of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), the mandatory exercise of the right to self-determination and even the need for a status. This is what Spokesperson of the Republican Party of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov wrote on his Facebook page, adding the following:

“In the way that is characteristic of him, he gave a vague formulation of the solution to the issue within the scope of the OSCE Minsk Group, but did not say a word about the Basic Principles and the right to self-determination.

However, he actually agreed on delimitation of borders without clarification and exercise of the right of the people of Artsakh to self-determination.

This [man] has totally stopped dealing with Artsakh.”

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev adopted a joint statement based on the trilateral meeting, as reported the Government of Armenia.The statement particularly reads as follows:

“We, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia N.V.Pashinyan, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan I.H. Aliyev, President of the Russian Federation V.V.Putin, met on November 26 in Sochi and discussed the implementation process of the declaration of November 9, 2020 on the complete ceasefire and termination of all types of military operations in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and the implementation process of the January 11, 2021 statement on unblocking all economic and transport infrastructures of the region.

We reaffirmed commitment to the further and consistent implementation and unconditional observance of all the provisions of the November 9, 2020 declaration and January 11, 2021 statement for the benefit of the stability, security and economic development of the South Caucasus. We agreed to intensify joint efforts aimed at the immediate solution of the remaining issues arising from November 9, 2020 and January 11, 2021 statements.

We mentioned the significant contribution of the Russian peacekeeping mission in stabilizing the situation and ensuring security in the region.

We agreed to take steps to increase the level of stability and security on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border, to push the process of establishment of a bilateral commission with the advisory participation of the Russian Federation based on the application of the sides, on delimitation, and afterwards demarcation, of the state border between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan.

We highly appreciated the activity of the trilateral working group on unblocking all economic and transport communications of the region, established in accordance with the January 11, 2021 statement under the joint chairmanship of the Deputy Prime Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation. We stressed the need to launch specific programs as soon as possible, aimed at identifying the economic potential of the region.

The Russian Federation will continue to provide the necessary assistance for normalizing relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia, building an atmosphere of trust between the Azerbaijani and Armenian peoples, and establishing good-neighborly relations in the region.”

The Corruption Prevention Commission of Armenia has rejected the application lodged by the Human Rights Defender to institute proceedings against Secretary of the Security Council Armen Grigoryan.

Grigoryan gave an interview to RusArmInfo news website, and the video recording of the interview was posted on the official website of the Security Council on October 21, 2021.

In the interview, Grigoryan said the following when he touched upon Arman Tatoyan [Human Rights Defender of Armenia].

“After the revolution, several circles presented themselves as members of the opposition, even though they need to be impartial, starting from the Constitutional Court and ending with several structures. If not structures, then certain people holding positions within those structures have tried to be counterrevolutionary, and this process is mainly over, even though not completely. Certain political circles have made statements, the person you mentioned made a political statement that the Ministry of Defense refuted; the Human Rights Defender, who has a bid to be a part of the opposition, tried to gain dividends by making political statements. He also has a few more months left before he gets involved in more overt political activities. His time is almost up, and I am certain that the “Civil Contract” faction will nominate its candidate. Have you heard any impartial statement from him? Those statements have been mostly political, at least in the post-revolution period.”

Before this, Tatoyan had issued a statement claiming that the Azerbaijani troops which had invaded the territory of Armenia months ago, are carrying out fortification and engineering works, but the Ministry of Defense refuted this. The Human Rights Defender opposed the refutation by claiming that this statement and other statements of the Human Rights Defender are based on reliable data obtained through fact-finding activities, and that the mentioned statement is based on facts that the Office of the Human Rights Defender has consistently gathered after daily monitoring and studies of alarming reports. Tatoyan stressed that “a campaign to discredit the activities of the Human Rights Defender of Armenia has been launched, and the Secretary of the Security Council has joined the campaign”.

On November 1, Tatoyan applied to the Corruption Prevention Commission, stating that Armen Grigoryan has violated the requirement of the Law on Public Service according to which public servants shall be obliged to observe the principles of conduct prescribed by law and the rules of conduct arising from those principles.

To reject the application, the Commission has presented the rationale according to which the Corruption Prevention Commission had not adopted a code of conduct for persons holding state positions when the video showing the interview of Armen Grigoryan including his statements on the Human Rights Defender was posted on the YouTube channel of the Security Council, and consequently, according to the decision, it is impossible to clarify whether there is a violation or not.