Category: 2022

ArmInfo. After the 44-war war, especially during the 2021 parliamentary elections, the government put into circulation an obviously false wording, “era of peace,”  Tigran Abrahamyan, a member of the opposition faction With Honor,  writes in a Facebook post.

Speaking of countries in post-war periods, especially of the ones  defeated in the war, he said that the factor of peace is an urgent  issue, and the government is using it to blackmail and presenting as  “a dilemma between war and peace” in the government-opposition  confrontation. 

According to him, the government-proposed “peace” has no real  grounds. 

“In other words, all the ways to peace are ‘mined’. Moreover, the  government admits it is their desire. But the other negotiator has an  entirely different attitude. Can we succeed? No guarantee. Peace is  not one-way traffic, but the result of cooperation. We do not have  illusions, we can see those wiling to destroy us are many more we can  imagine. The ‘peace agenda’ is an attempt to destroy us. No one can  guarantee it will succeed,” Mr Abrahamyan wrote. 

The government-proposed “era of peace” is actually an agenda of  peaceful surrender of Armenia and Artsakh, which must be opposed, Mr  Abrahamyan wrote.

ArmInfo.Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev assures that the declaration resulting from the trilateral meeting between EU Council President Charles Michel, him  and Prime Minister Pashinyan in Brussels clearly shows that the  rights and security of the Armenian population in Karabakh will be  taken into account.

Thus, the permanent leader of Azerbaijan, speaking at the opening of  the IX Global Baku Forum on the topic “Threats to the global world  order”,  threatened Armenia with new military operations in case of  failure to fulfill the Azerbaijani agenda.

Aliyev Jr. suddenly started talking about the Azerbaijani  constitution, which allegedly will take into account the interests of  the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh in the future. “Our Constitution  ensures the rights and security of the entire Azerbaijani people. For  many years, our Constitution ensures the equal rights of all peoples,  including the Armenians living in Azerbaijan (who not only cannot  live there, but they are even forbidden to enter this country, ed.  note). Therefore, Of course, we will take care of their rights and  security,” Aliyev stressed, keeping silent about the atrocities that  the Azerbaijani authorities have committed and are committing against  Armenians, not remembering this Constitution.

At the same time, the Azerbaijani leader went further and called  Armenia’s statements about the status of Nagorno-Karabakh  unproductive. In this vein, he threatened Armenia with a new war, in  case of any reference to this issue. According to him, the Armenian  government “should understand this and stop trying to rewrite  history.” Apparently Aliyev meant Azerbaijani mythical history, far  from reality. He apparently does not know that, according to the same  history, Nagorno-Karabakh held a referendum and left the Soviet Union  according to all the procedures by which all the countries of the  USSR left it, and almost the entire population of Nagorno-Karabakh  voted through a plebiscite for secession from the Azerbaijan SSR and  declaration of independence.

“Therefore, if Armenia demands a status for the Armenians of  Karabakh, then why shouldn’t Azerbaijan demand a status for  Azerbaijanis from Western Zangezur? Because only Azerbaijanis lived  there. Thus, this can create a hopeless situation. I think that the  Armenian government should not forget the lessons of the Second  Karabakh war, should learn these lessons well and give up any  territorial claims against Azerbaijan,” Aliyev said, forgetting that  the Azerbaijani nationality as such formed only in the early 1920s.

Referring to the normalization of relations with Armenia, Aliyev said  that negotiations will begin as soon as Yerevan establishes a  commission on a peace treaty. “Azerbaijan has already established a  peace treaty commission on its part, and we expect that the same step  will be taken by Armenia. If this is done or as soon as this is done,  negotiations will begin,” he said.

At the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity to manipulate  the territory of the Syunik region in Armenia, Aliyev assured that it  would be very difficult to talk about peace without opening a  corridor.  “Azerbaijan’s efforts aimed at a normal neighborhood with  Armenia will be in vain.” Thus, it turns out that Aliyev is trying to  get peace, while seizing the sovereign territories of Armenia in the  Syunik and Gegharkunik regions, otherwise threatening to start a new  war. And all this is happening against the backdrop of the inaction  of the international community, which, in the pursuit of  petrodollars, does not notice Azerbaijani encroachments and threats  against Yerevan.

“If we are not given this entry-exit (through the Armenian Syunik  edition), then it will be very difficult to talk about peace, and all  the efforts of Azerbaijan aimed at normal coexistence, normal  neighborhood with Armenia will be in vain. This is another important  issue, and Azerbaijan has the right to demand it. The Armenian  government signed a corresponding statement. Secondly, Azerbaijan, as  a country that “won” the war, has the moral right to demand,” Aliyev  assured.

In conclusion, he traditionally lashed out at the OSCE Minsk Group  and assured that Azerbaijan had settled the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict  and there was no need for this international format anymore. The head  of state noted that, in particular, “after the Russian-Ukrainian war,  everyone understands that it is impossible to hold a meeting with the  participation of all three co-chairs of the Minsk Group.” “We have  already been informed that the institution of the co-chairs of the  Minsk Group will no longer function. It is time for them to retire.  Thus, I want to express our position that any speculation in Armenia  about the Minsk Group or in some another country only causes  irritation in Azerbaijan. We have settled the conflict. The Madrid  principles developed by the Minsk Group have been resolved. Now we  need to think about ways to normalize relations with Armenia, sign a  peace treaty,” Aliyev concluded.

ArmInfo. Deputy director of the authoritative French Le Figaro magazine, journalist Jean-Christophe Buisson criticized UNESCO for its inaction against the backdrop of  the destruction of the Armenian cemetery by the Azerbaijanis in the  occupied territories of Artsakh. 

“Hello UNESCO! Can you solemnly ask the Baku authorities why the  Armenian cemetery in the village of Hin Shen of Artsakh  (Nagorno-Karabakh) occupied by Azerbaijan since November 2020 has  disappeared?  If not, what are you doing?” Buisson wrote on his  microblog on Twitter.  It should be noted that despite the trilateral  agreements at the level of the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and  Russia dated November 9, 2020, so far the UNESCO mission has not been  able to visit the region.  Azerbaijan is torpedoing the visit in  every possible way, while at the same time erasing the traces of the  Armenian presence in the territories of Artsakh seized as a result of  the war.  Back on November 20, 2020, UNESCO Director General Audrey  Azoulay announced the readiness of the organization to send a mission  to Karabakh to help restore the cultural and historical heritage of  the region.  And already in December of the same year, Deputy  Director General of UNESCO Ernesto Ottone noted that the organization  “so far is only waiting for Azerbaijan’s response so that UNESCO can  continue to work with sending a mission to the field.” In turn, the  Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, in a communique issued on December 22,  2020, called on UNESCO not to politicize the issue of protecting  cultural heritage in Karabakh and stated that Baku “is open to a  constructive dialogue to discuss the details of organizing the  mission.” The Russian Foreign Ministry has also repeatedly stated  that Moscow expects a UNESCO mission to visit Nagorno-Karabakh in the  near future.

ArmInfo. ” We act in cooperation with Azerbaijan in the process of normalizing relations with Armenia,” Efkan Ala, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development  Party (AKP) vice-chairman, stated.

According to him, meetings within the process of normalization of  relations with Armenia continue.

“Meetings of special representatives took place. We expect  improvement in relations. I hope that the other side is also focused  on this. Results will be achieved that are useful not only for the  two countries, but also for all states of the region,” Ala said,  Haqqin.az reports.

It should be noted that on May 3 the third meeting of the Special  Representatives of Armenia and Turkey to normalize relations, RA NA  Vice Speaker Ruben Rubinyan and Ambassador Serdar Kilic took place in  Vienna. The special representatives confirmed that the ultimate goal  of the talks is a full-fledged settlement between Armenia and Turkey,  which was agreed upon during their first meeting in Moscow on January  14.

The start of the normalization process was announced on December 13,  2021 by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. At the same time,  he stressed that Ankara will act in coordination with Azerbaijan  regarding steps to normalize relations with Armenia.

At the same time, Yerevan considers it unconstructive to link the  normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations with the processes  between Armenia and Azerbaijan.