Category: 2022

‘Our lives are in danger’: Peaceful protest against Azeri provocations held in Artsakh

Kajoyan Gevork
Panorama
Armenia –

A peaceful protest against the fresh Azerbaijani provocations was held in the Renaissance Square of Stepanakert, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) on Saturday.

The protest was organized by the Artsakh Women for Artsakh’s Future initiative, Artsakhtert reported.

The organizers called on the international community and institutions to prevent a new genocide by Azerbaijan and the eviction of Armenians from Artsakh. Pointing to the existential threats the Armenians of Artsakh are facing due to the terrorist actions of Azerbaijan, the participants of the rally also called for the recognition of the Artsakh Republic for its salvation and security.

“Our rights are violated, our lives are in danger. Violating the basic points of the November 9 trilateral statement, the Azerbaijani troops are carrying out terrorist attacks. We call on Armenians around the world to unite and to stand by the Artsakh Armenians,” said the members of the initiative.

Residents in Stepanakert ask international community to prevent Azerbaijani aggression

Nahapetian Zhanna

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 14:34,

STEPANAKERT, MARCH 26, ARMENPRESS. Residents of Stepanakert City gathered in the central plaza – the Revival Square – of the capital of Artsakh in a peaceful rally to address the international community to help ensure their safety.

The people of Artsakh called on the international community and international organizations to prevent a new genocide by Azerbaijan and the exodus of Armenians from Artsakh, ARMENPRESS correspondent reported from Stepanakert.

The residents of Artsakh also called on the international community to recognize the independence of the Republic of Artsakh for their salvation and safety.

The rally was organized by the Women of Artsakh for the Future of Artsakh initiative.

Artsakh State Minister: The Russian side has made significant efforts to ensure the ceasefire regime in its area of responsibility

Aram Torosian
ARMINFO
Armenia –
Marianna Mkrtchyan

ArmInfo. From noon on March 25 to the morning of March 26, the situation and positions along the line of contact of Artsakh did not change, and the Azerbaijani armed forces remain in the village of Parukh and on one side of the adjacent Karaglukh height, and a short while ago they made an unsuccessful attack attempt against our military unit. This is stated in the statement of the State Minister of the Republic of Artsakh Artak Beglaryan.

 

At the same time, he noted that the Artsakh Armed Forces are taking appropriate precautionary and containment measures to neutralize possible threats. “Yesterday, we had 3 killed and 15 wounded serviceman from Azerbaijani UAV strikes, the Azerbaijani side also suffered significant losses.

 

Strongholds of Russian peacekeepers continue to operate in Parukh and Khramort, and the Russian side has made significant efforts to ensure a ceasefire regime in its zone of responsibility. We hope that through Russian efforts, the Azerbaijani troops will be withdrawn to their starting positions and will no longer allow violations against the security of the people of Artsakh and the guarantees of the Russian Federation.

 

We stand firmly in our Motherland and are ready to face various challenges,” the statement said.

 

In turn, the Artsakh Defense Army refuted the statements of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry. “The message spread by the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan about an alleged attempt of sabotage by units of the Defense Army of the Republic of Artsakh is an absolute lie, pursuing a primitive goal to hide their own provocations,” the Artsakh Defense Army stressed.

 

It is noteworthy that today a number of telegram channels spread information that allegedly the order to withdraw the Armenian troops came from the commander of the Artsakh Autonomous Region on direct instructions from Yerevan.

 

Meanwhile, as it became known to ArmInfo from its own sources familiar with the situation, according to the agreements reached, there was no observation post of Russian peacekeepers in Parukh.  Moreover, the Armed Forces of the Artsakh Defense Army arbitrarily left their positions on this section of the line of contact due to unfavorable weather conditions and poor equipment of the posts, which was used by the Azerbaijani military. The peacekeepers arrived at this section of the line of contact only after the spread of information that control over the Armenian positions was taken by Azerbaijani forces.

In letter to OSCE PA colleagues, foreign relations committee chairman highlights importance to suppress Azerbaijan

Mary Lazarian

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 15:07,

YEREVAN, MARCH 26, ARMENPRESS. The Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Armenian Parliament Eduard Aghajanyan sent a letter to OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Margareta Cederfelt and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on South Caucasus Kari Henriksen over the latest Azerbaijani military actions against Artsakh and the humanitarian crisis which resulted after it cut off gas supply to Artsakh.

Aghajanyan noted in the letter that despite Azerbaijan claiming in the international arena that it wants to establish peace in South Caucasus, in reality Azerbaijan continues the psychological, humanitarian and military terror against the people of Nagorno Karabakh, with an aim to achieve a complete exodus of Armenians from Artsakh.

“I underscored the importance of the international community’s swift reaction to the situation and immediate suppression of Azerbaijan, and I reiterated Armenia’s readiness to re-launch the process of peaceful, negotiated and final resolution within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship,” Aghajanyan said in a statement on social media.

On March 24-25 the Azerbaijani troops attacked Artsakh military positions and invaded the Parukh village.

Azeri drone strikes killed 3 Artsakh troops and wounded 15 others.

President Harutyunyan signed a decree on temporary restrictions on rights and freedoms in the state of martial law

Elizabeth Jabejian
ARMINFO
Armenia –

ArmInfo. On March 26, President of the Artsakh Republic Arayik Harutyunyan signed a decree on temporary restrictions on rights and freedoms in the state of martial law declared in the territory of the Artsakh Republic.

Pursuant to the decree, during the term of martial law declared in the territory of the Artsakh Republic, under the statutory procedure:

1. the right to freedom of assembly is restricted;

2. strikes and other arrangements terminating or suspending the activities of organizations are prohibited;

3. activities of organizations, engaged in propaganda or other actions spearheaded against the defense capacity and security of the Artsakh Republic are suspended.

The responsibility for ensuring the application of temporary restrictions on the rights and freedoms defined by this decree rests on the Artsakh Republic Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Security Service.

Armenian Foreign Ministry calls on Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno Karabakh to demand Azerbaijan to pull back

Emil Lazarian

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 16:33,

YEREVAN, MARCH 26, ARMENPRESS. The international community must take practical and targeted steps to prevent the attempts of destabilizing the situation in South Caucasus, the Armenian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. At the same time, it added that it expects that the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno Karabakh will take concrete and visible steps to resolve the situation to not allow new deaths and combat operations.

“The recent statements issued by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense of Azerbaijan once again blatantly indicate that the objective of Azerbaijan’s policy of systematic violence and terror against Nagorno-Karabakh is ethnic cleansing of the Armenian settlements in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Thereby, on March 24, the invasion of Azerbaijani armed forces to the village of Parukh in Nagorno-Karabakh was preceded by constant shelling of Armenian settlements and civilian infrastructure, as well as the threats from the Azerbaijani side voiced for several days by loudspeakers and directed to the Armenian population of Khramort village, neighbouring the village of Parukh, urging them to leave their settlements.

In parallel with this invasion and provocation of hostilities, amid the unprecedented cold weather, Azerbaijan has been disrupting the operation of a vitally important gas pipeline for several weeks, putting the people of Nagorno-Karabakh on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. Moreover, in order to complete its pursuit of ethnic cleansing and to implement the policy of subjecting the Armenians of Artsakh to genocide with new vigor, Azerbaijan demands through its statements the withdrawal of the self-defense forces of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The statements of the Foreign and Defense Ministries of Azerbaijan also prove the pre-planned manner of the aggression carried out by Azerbaijan in the area of responsibility of the peacekeeping forces of the Russian Federation in Nagorno-Karabakh, which is a blatant contempt for commitments obliged by the Trilateral Statement of November 9, 2020, including the provision for the sides to stop in their positions.

The international community is obliged to undertake effective and targeted steps to prevent the attempts of destabilizing the situation in the South Caucasus. At the same time, we emphasize the importance of implementing proper investigation of the actions of the peacekeeping contingent during the invasion of the units of Azerbaijani armed forces into the area of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno Karabakh, as well as the peacekeeping contingent to issue a clear demand to Azerbaijani forces to return to their starting positions.

We also expect the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh to undertake concrete, visible steps to resolve the situation and prevent new casualties and hostilities,” the foreign ministry said in the statement.

Turkish press: Book features engravings on Ottoman-era tombstones

Tatoyan Vazgen
  • March 24 2022 07:00:00

Carved decorations in the form of figurative compositions appear on mosques, madrasahs and tombs across Anatolia, but now a book of detailed research features a series of aesthetic images of tombstones from different ethnic cultures that prevailed in Turkey’s northwestern province of Edirne for hundreds of years.

A book named “Edirne’s Tombstones’ written by Cem Altınel presents a large scale of data explaining the culture, art, science, literature, politics, military, economy, trade, bureaucracy and social life of the Ottoman city through examples of tombstones reflecting the most concrete practices of Turkish art.

The book also brings to light a series of examples of cultures from different ethnic groups, such as Turkish, Greek, Jewish, Armenian, Levantine and Bulgarian, who lived in the city for hundreds of years, reflected on the tombstones by stone carving masters in Edirne.

It also aims to showcase believers’ intensity of love and their longing for loved ones in the past, evaluating the inscriptions and patterns on tombstones from an aesthetic point of view.

The latest status of some burial stones that make up the content of the book is included in the work by comparing the images in Arif Dağdeviren’s archive.

International community’s unequivocal position to be collective contribution in stabilizing situation – Artsakh MFA

Mary Lazarian

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 17:17,

YEREVAN, MARCH 26, ARMENPRESS. The Foreign Ministry of Artsakh said in a that the unequivocal position of the world community in response to Azerbaijan’s attempts to create a humanitarian catastrophe in Artsakh and ignite a new war will be an important collective contribution to the stabilization of the situation.

“We welcome the reaction of the international community, both at the level of foreign ministries and individual political and public figures condemning Azerbaijan’s provocative steps to escalate tensions and terrorize the population of Artsakh.

We are convinced that the unequivocal position of the world community in response to Azerbaijan’s attempts to create a humanitarian catastrophe in Artsakh and ignite a new war will be an important collective contribution to the stabilization of the situation.

We are confident that Russia’s peacekeeping efforts, the clear-cut and adequate stance of the international community supported by political measures will deprive Azerbaijan of the opportunity to qualify systematic gross violations of the rights of residents of Artsakh as an internal matter,” the Artsakh foreign ministry said in a .

Russian Defense Ministry accuses Azerbaijan in violating Nagorno Karabakh ceasefire, urges to pull back troops

Emil Lazarian

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 20:54,

YEREVAN, MARCH 26, ARMENPRESS. The Russian Ministry of Defense accused Azerbaijan in violating the 2020 November 9 trilateral statement on March 24-25.

In a statement released on March 26, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that on March 24 and 25 the Azerbaijani Armed Forces violated the terms of the 2020 November 9 Statement of the leaders of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan, entered the area of responsibility of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno Karabakh and installed an observation post. “4 strikes were carried out on the armed formations of Nagorno Karabakh with Bayraktar TB2 UAVs in the section of Parukh village,” the Russian military added.

The Russian Ministry of Defense further said that the Russian peacekeeping contingent’s command is taking measures to resolve the situation and return the troops to their initial positions. “The Azerbaijani side was urged to pull back its troops,” the Russian Ministry of Defense said.

On March 24-25 the Azerbaijani troops attacked Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) military positions and invaded the Parukh village.

Azeri drone strikes killed 3 Artsakh troops and wounded 15 others.




Asbarez: Azerbaijani Forces Advance Toward Askeran’s Critical Karaglukh Heights

Hambik Zargarian
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Artsakh soldier at a position

After advancing their positions into the Parukh village of Artsakh’s Askeran region, Azerbaijani forces continued their breach of the line-of-contact toward the critically strategic Karaglukh Heights from different direction, the Artsakh Information Center reported.

“Several retaliatory attacks repelled the enemy’s diversion efforts,” added the statement.

At 5 p.m. local time the situation on the line-of-contact remained tense and negotiations continued with the Russian peacekeeping contingent to stabilize the situation there.

The attacks on Artsakh Army positions resumed Saturday morning and continued throughout the day

The Azerbaijani forces, which have been shelling Khramort and surrounding villages since late last month, stepped up their attack on Thursday and advanced their positions inside Artsakh, invading the Parish village in Askeran, with their eye on the Karaglukh village.

Artsakh State Minister Artak Beglaryan warned that Azerbaijani troops still have not pulled back after aggressively advancing their positions. Artsakh authorities reported that three Artakh soldiers were killed on Friday, while Artsakh Human Rights Defender Gegham Stepanyan announced that 14 people were injured during Friday’s attacks.

Beglaryan said the Russian peacekeepers continued to man their posts in Parukh and Khramort, and that “the Russian side made significant efforts to enforce the ceasefire in its area of responsibility.”

“We expect that through Russia’s efforts the Azerbaijani troops will pull back to their initial positions and will not continue further advances against the security of the people of Artsakh and the Russian Federation’s guarantees. We stand firmly in our homeland and we are ready to withstand whatever challenges may come,” Beglaryan said.