📞 Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan and Russia had a telephone conversation. The importance of resuming effective work on all ways of regulating Azerbaijani-Armenian relations on the basis of tripartite agreements between the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia was emphasized.
🇦🇲🇷🇺🇦🇿 During the conversation, it was mentioned that Moscow is ready to organize negotiations between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia on the draft peace treaty. [Russian Foreign Ministry] |tert.am|
🇦🇲🇷🇺🇦🇿 During the conversation, it was mentioned that Moscow is ready to organize negotiations between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia on the draft peace treaty. [Russian Foreign Ministry] |tert.am|
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🇦🇲🇦🇿 With the ongoing blockade of the Lachin Corridor, Baku demands the International Court of Justice of the United Nations to oblige Armenia to stop the "mining of Azerbaijani territories" and the use of the Lachin Corridor to "transport mines" to Nagorno…
🗣 As the legal advisors have shown, Azerbaijan's request for interim measures is an insincere and unrealistic request. It is designed to create a false impression of equality. Based on the oral presentations, Armenia respectfully asks the court to completely reject Azerbaijan's request for interim measures. [Armenian Representative for International Legal Affairs Yeghishe Kirakosyan] |armenpress.am|
🇦🇲🇮🇷 We had intelligence that Azerbaijan was preparing bigger attacks when it attacked Armenia last September. Iran's actions and statements helped to stop the further deterioration of the situation. RA Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan said this in an interview with Al-Monitor.
📌 He also noted that the issue of buying Iranian ammunition is not on Armenia's agenda.
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📌 He also noted that the issue of buying Iranian ammunition is not on Armenia's agenda.
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🇪🇺 The European Parliament in a resolution called on the European Commission to strongly condemn Azerbaijan's continuous policy of destroying and denying the Armenian cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh and its surroundings. [RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports]
🪖 Minister of Defense Suren Papikyan's tours to all military units and military units of the Defense Ministry have started. They will be continuous and will not be informed about beforehand.
🔸 The purpose of the sudden visits is to get to know the process of organizing the service, the discipline and morale of servicemen, the social and living conditions, the furnishing of the front line and the progress of construction works.
🔸 During the visits, the Minister of Defense will also have direct conversations with the soldiers, listening to their concerns and problems. [RA Ministry of Defense]
🔸 The purpose of the sudden visits is to get to know the process of organizing the service, the discipline and morale of servicemen, the social and living conditions, the furnishing of the front line and the progress of construction works.
🔸 During the visits, the Minister of Defense will also have direct conversations with the soldiers, listening to their concerns and problems. [RA Ministry of Defense]
📌 At the CSTO PA event held in Moscow, the Armenian delegation presented the situation around the Lachin Corridor. Head of the delegation Hakob Arshakyan, MPs Andranik Kocharyan and Eduard Aghajanyan took part in the event.
🗣 Hakob Arshakyan presented his comments on the official formulation of the relations of the CSTO PA with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the PA of the Turkic states.
"That wording is not acceptable for the Armenian side at the current stage, because the working bodies of these structures are taking anti-Armenian steps, clear assessments are being made in favor of Azerbaijan, including the issue of an armed attack against Armenia," said the NA Deputy Speaker. [National Assembly of RA]
🗣 Hakob Arshakyan presented his comments on the official formulation of the relations of the CSTO PA with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the PA of the Turkic states.
"That wording is not acceptable for the Armenian side at the current stage, because the working bodies of these structures are taking anti-Armenian steps, clear assessments are being made in favor of Azerbaijan, including the issue of an armed attack against Armenia," said the NA Deputy Speaker. [National Assembly of RA]
❗ In a conversation with the Canadian periodical The Hill Times, Artsakh Minister of State Ruben Vardanyan said:
🗣 Our entire economy is at a standstill because we cannot import any resources for production or export any products produced here. It is unacceptable to force 30,000 children to live without food, without education or without gas and electricity during the winter. Azerbaijan must accept that there must be a dialogue, this cannot be solved by military means or by subjecting 120,000 people to ethnic cleansing in their own homeland.
🗣 Our entire economy is at a standstill because we cannot import any resources for production or export any products produced here. It is unacceptable to force 30,000 children to live without food, without education or without gas and electricity during the winter. Azerbaijan must accept that there must be a dialogue, this cannot be solved by military means or by subjecting 120,000 people to ethnic cleansing in their own homeland.
🗣 The attacks on Armenians and the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem were carried out by a few extremists who in no way represent Israel's pluralistic and diverse society. As the immediate arrests of the suspects showed, Israel is committed to the freedom of worship of all religions. [Ambassador of Israel to Armenia Joel Lion] |armenpress.am|
Since December 12, 2022, Azerbaijan has closed the Lachin Corridor connecting Artsakh to Armenia, as a result of which 120,000 residents of Artsakh, including 30,000 children, are under siege. 1100 civilians, including 270 minors, cannot return to Artsakh from RA.
It is not possible to deliver 400 tons of food and medicine from RA to Artsakh every day.
9 children are in neonatal and intensive care units, 12 are in the intensive care unit, 5 are in critical condition. During this period, 58 Armenians and 4 foreigners in need of emergency medical care were transferred to RA through the mediation of the Red Cross. One of the patients died in Artsakh.
Fan power outages are implemented 3 times a day for 2 hours. There is a food coupon system.
Artsakh is under siege.
Photo from "News from Artsakh" page / Stepanakert / 31.01.2023 /
It is not possible to deliver 400 tons of food and medicine from RA to Artsakh every day.
9 children are in neonatal and intensive care units, 12 are in the intensive care unit, 5 are in critical condition. During this period, 58 Armenians and 4 foreigners in need of emergency medical care were transferred to RA through the mediation of the Red Cross. One of the patients died in Artsakh.
Fan power outages are implemented 3 times a day for 2 hours. There is a food coupon system.
Artsakh is under siege.
Photo from "News from Artsakh" page / Stepanakert / 31.01.2023 /
🚑 With the mediation and accompaniment of the International Committee of the Red Cross, 6 people from Artsakh were transferred to RA specialized medical centers. [Artsakh Ministry of Health]
🇷🇺🗣 The proposal to deploy a CSTO mission in Armenia is still not off the table. If our Armenian allies and friends are interested as before, that mission can be deployed within 1-2 days. [Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov] |ria.ru|
🇦🇲🇷🇺 On February 2, RA Minister of Foreign Affairs Ararat Mirzoyan received Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopirkin.
📌 During the meeting, issues related to regional security and stability, as well as Armenian-Russian relations were discussed. [RA MFA]
📌 During the meeting, issues related to regional security and stability, as well as Armenian-Russian relations were discussed. [RA MFA]
🇷🇺 Speaking about the non-acceptance of the text of the decision at the CSTO Yerevan summit, Lavrov said that the Armenian partners said that the decision would be acceptable only if it categorically condemned the actions of Azerbaijan.
🗣 "Not everyone was ready to take that step. And not only because they wanted to protect someone. Simply, the history of the entire Karabakh conflict goes back decades. And when RA occupied 7 territories of Azerbaijan for many, many years, and then, when it lost hope to solve the problem politically, Russia offered options that were not accepted so positively by the former authorities of Armenia, wanting to keep territories that they never pretended for. Here, yes, in any case, Azerbaijan has returned the lands that belonged to it," said the Russian Foreign Minister. |factor.am|
🗣 "Not everyone was ready to take that step. And not only because they wanted to protect someone. Simply, the history of the entire Karabakh conflict goes back decades. And when RA occupied 7 territories of Azerbaijan for many, many years, and then, when it lost hope to solve the problem politically, Russia offered options that were not accepted so positively by the former authorities of Armenia, wanting to keep territories that they never pretended for. Here, yes, in any case, Azerbaijan has returned the lands that belonged to it," said the Russian Foreign Minister. |factor.am|
🗣 "Everything is good with us in the field of economy, you know that the Russian Federation is the key partner of Armenia in the field of security but, unfortunately, we have not so good situation in the field of security. You know that Lachin has been blocked for more than a month, and according to the tripartite statement of the President of the Russian Federation, the President of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia, it should be under the control of Russian peacekeepers. Now it turns out that the Lachin Corridor is not under the control of Russian peacekeepers, which creates specific problems. You know that we are not only ready, but also interested in the opening of transport and economic infrastructure.”
[Nikol Pashinyan at the meeting with the Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin]
[Nikol Pashinyan at the meeting with the Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin]
❗ On January 30-31, the hearings on Armenia vs. Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan vs. Armenia cases were held at the International Court of Justice. Both parties justified their requests for temporary measures, and their justifications, and then presented objections to each other's requests.
🔸 The International Court of Justice left for the consultation room to make a decision in the cases of Armenia v. Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan v. Armenia. [Representative of RA on international legal issues]
🔸 The International Court of Justice left for the consultation room to make a decision in the cases of Armenia v. Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan v. Armenia. [Representative of RA on international legal issues]