Category: 2022

ArmInfo. European Union (EU) Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia, Toivo Klaar, held a regular meeting with Secretary of the  Armenian Security Council Armen Grigoryan and Head of the  Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiyev.

The EU Special Representative wrote about this on hisTwitter page. "  Good and substantive discussions in Brussels today on Armenian  -Azerbaijani relations and EU engagement with Hikmet Hajiyev and  Armen Grigoryan," he said. 

ArmInfo.The National Security Service of Artsakh opened a criminal case against blogger Roman Baghdasaryan for perjury. This is stated in the message of the  department.

The NSS notes that on December 1, 2021, the Prosecutor General's  Office of Artsakh sent a video recording with the participation of  Armenian citizen Roman Baghdasaryan to the NSS of the republic, in  which he stated about the murders allegedly committed during the war  by the military personnel of the Artsakh Defense Army and former  generals who gave the relevant orders.

According to the results of operational-search and criminal procedure  measures taken by the National Security Service, Roman Baghdasaryan's  statements were refuted, on the basis of which a decision was made to  refuse to initiate a criminal case on the grounds that there was no  corpus delicti. Taking into account these circumstances, the National  Security Service initiated criminal proceedings against Baghdasaryan  for perjury 

ArmInfo. A well-known Armenian businessman, member of the RA National Assembly Khachatur Sukiasyan demands to bring to justice those responsible for spreading  lies regarding the alleged involvement of the businessman's family in  the explosion in the Surmalu shopping center.

<After the explosion in the Surmalu shopping center on August 14,  slanderous materials appeared on social networks, as well as in some  media, that the explosion in the shopping center was organized by MP  Khachatur Sukiasyan and members of his family. Some users on social  networks, as well as from fake user accounts, launched an organized  campaign against the Sukiasyans with similar content. This is done  for political purposes and with specific instructions to sow hatred  towards the Sukiasyans and tarnish their good reputation", the MP  said in a statement on his Facebook page.

According to the parliamentarian, since the abovementioned  information, in addition to being a blatant lie, also contains signs  of a clear crime associated with a false accusation of a serious  crime, he expects that the law enforcement agencies will find and  bring the perpetrators to justice, preventing the repetition of "a  vile act against the family or others people in the future. "We offer  our condolences to the relatives of the victims," the businessman  said in a statement.

The explosion in the Surmalu shopping center took place on August 14  at 13:23. A possible cause was a fire in a pyrotechnics warehouse,  where, according to head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations  Armen Pambukhchyan, up to 4 tons of explosives were stored. 16 people  died, 1 citizen is considered missing, 62 people were hospitalized, 4  of them continue treatment in medical institutions of the republic.  The General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic initiated a criminal  case on the fact of the explosion and its consequences.

ArmInfo.The European Court of Human Rights reaffirms, that interim measure against Azerbaijan to protect the rights residents of a number of settlements in Artsakh is  still in force. 

As the office of the representative of the Republic of Armenia on  international legal matters reports on its facebook page:

"Upon the request of the Armenian Government to apply an interim  measure against Azerbaijan for the protection of the Convention  rights of the civilians of several settlements of the Republic of  Artsakh, on the European Court of Human Rights  reaffirmed that the interim measure applied on 29 September and later  enhanced on 3 November 2020 is still in force. The Court invited the  parties to comply fully with their engagements under the Convention  and to refrain from such actions that may lead to the violation of  the rights of the civilian population guaranteed under Articles 2, 3  and 8 the Convention. The Court has also held that its decision of 29  September 2020 which is still in force covers the incidents indicated  by the Armenian Government in the request, that is the Azerbaijani  armed attacks towards the peaceful settlements and the threat to  displace the population of Berdzor and Aghavno."