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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and former President Levon Ter-Petrosian have traded accusations over their handling of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
In an interview with Armenian Public Television aired late on Thursday, Ter-Petrosian again blamed Pashinian for the autumn war with Azerbaijan and its outcome. He also accused the current authorities of failing to understand and cope with post-war security challenges facing Armenia.
“I’m sure that Russia is frankly telling Pashinian what it is going to do in this region and about the future of Armenia and Karabakh in general,” said the 76-year-old ex-president. “Pashinian’s problem is that he doesn’t understand what the Russians are telling him.”
The European Union on Friday expressed serious concern about mounting tensions on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and backed the deployment of international monitors there proposed by Armenia.
Russian, Armenian Defense Chiefs ‘Agree’ On Border Crisis
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Russia - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu meets with his Armenian counterpart Vagharshak Harutiunian, Moscow, May 28, 2021.
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Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutiunian and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu agreed on how to deal with Armenia’s ongoing border dispute with Azerbaijan when they met in Moscow on Friday, according to the Armenian Defense Ministry.
A statement on the talks released by the ministry said Harutiunian briefed Shoigu on “details of Azerbaijani army units’ intrusion into Armenia’s territory” and measures taken by the Armenian military in response.
“The sides looked into possible ways of resolving the situation and reached agreement on necessary steps,” it added without elaborating.
Pashinian Confirms Draft Border Deal With Azerbaijan (UPDATED)
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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian on Thursday admitted that Armenia and Azerbaijan are close to signing a Russian-brokered agreement on the demarcation of their border but denied a prominent critic’s claims that it will be heavily tilted in favor of Baku.
Mikael Minasian, a former Armenian ambassador to the Vatican, publicized on Wednesday what he described as a copy of the first page of a draft joint statement by Pashinian and the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia.
The opening paragraph of the hitherto unknown document calls for the creation of an Armenian-Azerbaijani commission on border delimitation and demarcation. The rest of the page posted by Minasian on Facebook is blacked out.
European Parliament Again Slams Turkey’s Role In Karabakh War
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The European Parliament has again condemned Turkey for supporting Azerbaijan during last year’s war in Nagorno-Karabakh with “provocative rhetoric” and jihadist fighters recruited in Syria.
In a resolution adopted on Wednesday, the European Union’s legislative body also renewed its calls for Turkey to recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. It said Ankara must also end “anti-Armenian propaganda and hate speech” and protect Turkey’s Armenian cultural heritage.
The extensive resolution is highly critical of the Turkish government’s human rights record and foreign policy, saying that they have brought the EU’s relations with Turkey to a “historical low point.” It says that the EU should formally suspend accession talks with Ankara unless the latter reverses a “continuous and growing distancing from EU values and stand