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Judge Gassia Akparian of the Orange County Superior Court talked to CivilNet about the Center for Truth and Justice, a U.S.-based nonprofit that works to collect evidence of Azerbaijani war crimes and atrocities. Judge Akparian explained how such evidence can then be used in the courts and argued it is high time Armenia started using legal channels to hold Azerbaijan accountable for human rights violations.
On September 27, after a minute of silence in Artsakh’s capital Stepanakert, a cross procession to the Yeghbayrakan memorial-pantheon started from the yard of St. Jacob’s Church in memory of those who died in the 44-day Karabakh (Artsakh) war.
By Mark Dovich Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stressed at a press conference Monday that “it is necessary to sign an Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty,” while former President Levon Ter-Petrossian warned of “painful solutions” to the conflict in a widely publicized interview. Speaking alongside French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, Pashinyan said remarks by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and other officials in Baku suggesting that “there is no precise border between Armenia and Azerbaijan because the border is not delimited and demarcated (have) nothing to do with reality.” “The administrative borders between Soviet Armenia and Soviet Azerbaijan became state borders” when […]
By Mark Dovich French President Emmanuel Macron and the UK embassy in Yerevan issued separate calls for Azerbaijan to withdraw from Armenian territory Monday, in some of the strongest language to come yet from Paris and London about Azerbaijan’s unprecedented attack on Armenia earlier this month. “France demanded that Azerbaijani forces return to their initial positions,” Macron said at a press conference in France Monday alongside Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. “The fact that the border is not demarcated cannot justify any advance into the territory of another country.” “France is convinced that the use of force cannot be a […]
By Mark Dovich Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract party won eight out of 18 municipal elections held across the country Sunday, according to preliminary results from the Central Electoral Commission. That includes seven out of 16 elections where Civil Contract competed against other parties, plus one race where Civil Contract ran unopposed. Parties other than Civil Contract claimed victory in four other races, plus one independent candidate who saw off a challenge from a Civil Contract nominee. In four other municipalities, no single party garnered the support of the majority of voters. Two additional municipalities, Jrvezh and Chambarak, held elections over […]
The ruling Civil Contract party won in 8 out of 18 communities up for grabs in local elections, according to preliminary results. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is set to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris for “important negotiations.” Armenia’s economic activity index grew by nearly 14% from January to August, according to the country’s Statistical Committee.
Ambassador James Warlick, a former U.S. co-chair to the OSCE Minsk Group, a body set up in the 1990s to work toward a negotiated settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, talked to CivilNet about the current state of the group. Warlick discussed Washington’s engagement in the region, the impact of tensions between the West and Russia on the Minsk Group, and the United States’ recognition of Armenia’s vital security arrangements with the Kremlin.
By Mark Dovich Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministries again traded accusations of ceasefire violations Saturday, with each side blaming the other for initiating shoot-outs Friday evening along the two countries’ border, marking the fourth straight day that one or both sides made such allegations. “On September 23 at around 7:30 p.m., a unit of the Azerbaijani armed forces resorted to provocations, attempting to infiltrate the rear of an Armenian combat position located in the eastern direction of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border zone,” Armenia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday. “Thanks to the skillful actions of the units of the Armenian armed forces, the […]
