cease-fire violations by azeris

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Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh: recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenia’s only political step – expert

20:40 • 28.04.16

Armenian political scientist Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan is sure that
official Baku is has clearly decided against a peaceful settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

In an interview with Tert.am, he stressed that Baku’s precondition has
for years been withdrawal of the Armenian army from the
Nagorno-Karabakh borders – a precondition the Armenian side will never
agree to.

“It is out of the question. I think that, even if Azerbaijan agrees to
resume negotiations, it will be a merely formal meeting. They have not
changed their approach for year, especially after the latest war.
Therefore, negotiations would be nothing, but an end in itself,” Mr
Melik-Shahnazaryan said.

In this current situation, the Armenian side needs political steps,
particularly recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence.

“This process should be launched for European states to gradually
recognize Artsakh’s [Nagorno-Karabakh] independence. I think that a
present this could be is Armenia’s only political step that could
produce some results,” Mr Melik-Shahnazaryan said.

No problem can b resolved by means of negotiations now, and Azerbaijan
will amass ammunition during this period.

“The final goal of this struggle is to cement Nagorno-Karabakh status.
No constructive approaches should be expected from Azerbaijan. That
country is clearly not going to display them. At this stage,
Azerbaijan is trying to correct the mistakes on the border on April 2,
while the Armenian side sees a good opportunity to resolve the problem
forever. There is also external pressure, particularly on the part of
Russia, which considers it a matter of honor to mediate peace. This is
the reason why a third stage of war is being delayed,” Mr
Melik-Shahnazaryan said.

If, after Armenia recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence,
Azerbaijan resumes attacks on the Nagorno-Karabakh borders, I would be
a good chance to resolve the problem on the battlefield. If Azerbaijan
does not attack, the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh’s status will be
resolved.

“And we can negotiate even for 100 years after that.”

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Karabakh President: We immediately got prepared after listening to
Azerbaijan’s statement


20:40, 28.04.2016


STEPANAKERT. - On the days of four-day April war, the Nagorno-Katabakh
authorities had accepted the Azerbaijani Defense Minister’s statement
to bombard Stepenakert and got prepared to counterattack in case of
such development, Karabakh President Bako Sahakyan said in an
interview with Artsakh Public Television and Mediaton company.

“We accepted that statement and immediately got ready for such
development. Calling their aims into question would mean that we
continue staying misled. Our child killed at school, the bodies of our
beheaded sons, our 90-year-old parents shot in their flat and other
atrocities [committed by the Azerbaijani armed forces] prove that they
were once again coming to behead all of us, tear into pieces the tombs
of our ancestors, as well as rape our women and sisters. Therefore, we
have to give relevant qualifications to their actions and carry out
all our further actions considering that cruel truth,” Sahakyan said.

He also noted that following that, he ordered to bring to the firing
positions anti-aircraft autocannons, multiple rocket launchers and
rocket systems, including long range multiple launch rocket systems.

“If Azerbaijan made such a step, we would immediately open fire and
the response would be adequate in case of such development,” he said.

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Long-Range War: Armenia, Karabakh harden positions after Azeri aggression

By Naira Hayrumyan -

April 29, 2016

Photo: Nazik Armenakyan /ArmeniaNow.com

A long-range war is continuing in Nagorno-Karabakh as both sides fire
at each other’s military positions from heavy guns and rocket
launchers. The Armenian side claims it has to defend itself and lays
down conditions for the resumption of negotiations with Azerbaijan.

The four-day war in April with its brutalities against Armenian
civilians and soldiers, some of whose bodies were decapitated and
mocked at, has led the Armenian side to changing its approaches to the
Karabakh settlement.

While earlier Armenia and Karabakh expressed their willingness to
conduct negotiations and reach compromises, then now they put forward
the only condition for the resumption of negotiations – conclusion of
a certain agreement to waive the use of force and provide security
guarantees.

After the meeting of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia’s (RPA)
executive body chaired by the party’s leader, President Serzh
Sargsyan, RPA spokesman Eduard Sharmazanov said that the Armenian
leader had put forward three conditions for the resumption of talks:
the introduction of mechanisms to investigate border (line of contact)
incidents, addressed statements as well as guarantees that Azerbaijan
will not commit a new aggression and terrorist acts against the people
of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Karabakh leaders have made about the same statements. First,
presidential spokesman David Babayan said that the negotiations will
have to be started from scratch, and the mediators need to introduce
measures for investigating line of contact incidents as soon as
possible. Later, President Bako Sahakyan himself called for an end to
“empty talk” about possible concessions of land. Earlier proposals
implied an Armenian withdrawal from certain territories around
Nagorno-Karabakh.

Sahakyan said that currently he sees no possibility of the negotiation
process. “What Azerbaijan allowed itself to do in no way indicates
that in the near future we will return to the negotiating table,” he
concluded.

The Karabakh leader noted that the barbaric actions of Azerbaijani
have forced Karabakh to resort to countermeasures, in particular, to
protect its capital.

“I have ordered to deploy at firing positions our anti-aircraft
missile systems, multiple rocket launchers and missile systems,”
Sahakyan stated, answering the question about how real the threat of
Azerbaijan regarding possible bombardments of Stepanakert are.

“The killing of a 12-year-old boy near his school, the decapitation of
the bodies of our men, the killings of our 90-year-old parents in
their houses, other atrocities [of Azerbaijan] show that they [Azeris]
once again came to behead us and desecrate the graves of our
ancestors, rape our women and children,” the leader of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic said.

Sahakyan stressed that the international community should give a more
accurate assessment to the actions of Azerbaijan, as it is also a
threat to the international community.

Experts are skeptical that it will be possible to force Azerbaijan to
sign an agreement on nonuse of force anytime soon. At the same time,
they note that this should be the task of the mediators, who now only
call for peace, not accepting Armenia’s proposals for the introduction
of mechanisms to investigate border and line of contact incidents.

However, even the international mediators acknowledge that without
securing the ceasefire renewed political negotiations are unrealistic.

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Opinion: There is honor in bravery, but let it be supported with arms

By SUREN MUSAYELYAN -

April 29, 2016

Photo: Nazik Armenakyan/ Armenanow.com

When Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan praised the fighting spirit of
Armenian soldiers in Nagorno-Karabakh last weekend, he said that no
one of them would flee the battlefield or retreat in the face of
Azerbaijani aggression earlier this month, fighting “till the last
bullet”.

After this figure of speech allowed in front of a group of journalists
at the Armenian Genocide Memorial at Tsitsernakaberd on April 24, the
defense chief hurried to make a clarification: “And I don’t mean that
they have been running out of ammo.”

Ohanyan’s clarification is symptomatic as it shows just how sensitive
the issue of proper armament and ammunition supply has been in Armenia
since the four-day war with Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh on April
2-5.

Ninety-two Armenian soldiers lost their lives and more than 120 were
wounded in fierce battles resisting Baku’s aggression against Karabakh
– the largest and most intense since a 1994 ceasefire.

Oil-rich Azerbaijan that has been stockpiling modern offensive
weaponry of Russian, Israeli and Turkish make in recent years due to
its petrodollars unleashed some of its deadliest force against the
Karabakh military as well as civilian population, using such lethal
weapons as TOS-1A heavy flame throwers, Smerch heavy multiple rocket
launchers, unmanned aerial vehicles, including Harop “kamikaze”
drones, and others.

Armenia’s civil society representatives and political circles,
including many pro-government lawmakers, have been critical of Russia,
Yerevan’s top military and political ally, for selling lethal weapons
to Azerbaijan. But what angered many and triggered a public debate in
Armenia was the statement made by President Serzh Sargsyan, who,
apparently trying to show the valor of Armenian soldiers and the
support that the military enjoys from society, said, while visiting
Germany on April 6, that Armenian soldiers were confronting Azerbaijan
with “weapons of the 1980s.”

Defense Ministry officials later explained that the Armenian armed
forces possessed all the necessary modern means to keep Azerbaijan at
bay, but the social media had already picked at the phrase, accusing
the country’s leadership of not doing enough to ensure a due defense
level.

On April 26, in a move apparently conditioned by recent hostilities in
Nagorno-Karabakh and related to public criticism, President Sargsyan
issued decrees dismissing three generals from their senior army
positions. Among the sacked officials was the deputy defense minister
in charge of material-technical procurements that includes the supply
of the armed forces with weapons and ammunition.

No official reasoning was presented for the move, but the political
and expert community had no doubts – the sackings reflected
frustration of the political leadership with some of the aspects of
the war preparedness. Many opposition members and civil activists
welcomed the move, calling for more dismissals.

Before issuing the orders, President Sargsyan, who, under the
Constitution, is also the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, on several
occasions also publicly praised Armenian soldiers. He also traveled to
Nagorno-Karabakh and personally awarded about three dozen soldiers and
officers with medals for bravery and heroism in the battlefields.

While criticizing the military, political and diplomatic leadership of
the country for mistakes and omissions during the four-day war, all
political and civil forces in Armenia appear to agree on one thing –
it was first of all the battlefield bravery that thwarted Azerbaijan’s
blitzkrieg attempt.

As the conflict seems to be returning to a more or less trench warfare
status after the early April escalation, there also seems to be an
increased sense in the Armenian society that while allies and
diplomacy are important, tranquility in the region and the very future
of the Armenian nation primarily hinge on the strength of the military
at the frontlines.

To this testify the various initiatives to provide financial, material
and moral support to conscripts, contractual soldiers and volunteers
carrying out their routine frontline duties that frequently include
skirmishes with the adversary.

In 1940, when Great Britain was fighting off Nazi Germany’s aggression
all but alone, the nation’s then prime minister Winston Churchill
famously said: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed
by so many to so few.”

These words of one of the Second World War’s victorious warlords
appear to resonate with the prevailing public sentiments in Armenia
and Nagorno-Karabakh today.

Addressing her colleagues in parliament earlier this week, opposition
lawmaker Zaruhi Postanjyan stated that while Armenia is a guarantor of
Nagorno-Karabakh’s security by the 1994-95 truce agreements, Armenia’s
security and existence today are, in fact, being “guaranteed” by
Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Will Armenia Awaken?

12:52, April 29, 2016

By Arto Khachikian

The escalation of early April and the clear and present danger to
Armenia’s survival that it underlined raise a number of important
questions for the Armenian leaders, opinion makers and members of the
general public both in Armenia and in the Diaspora. These questions
will need to be answered in a very short order. The situation is very
simple and no further analysis or discussion is required.

The questions are as follows.

Will Armenians be able to mobilize the necessary resources to
strengthen their defenses and procure modern armaments for the Army,
or will young recruits continue to pay with their lives on a daily
basis for the negligence and corruption of their leaders as these
leaders continue to build casinos, private castles and foreign bank
accounts? With the certain prospect of escalating and increasingly
aggressive Azeri attacks, will Armenians be able to mobilize and
modernize their forces? It’s a very simple question and the
consequences are very clear and simple. No further pseudo-geopolitical
discussions are needed.

Will the Armenian society be able to remove the ring of systemic
corruption that has brought Armenia to its knees, destroyed the
country’s economy, industry, science, and sent one third of its
population into economic exile? Or will it continue to sink deeper and
deeper into poverty, backwardness, and become an eventual failed state
with a semi-colonial status protected by another power? Is the
Armenian society going to show a level of consciousness that is
befitting a nation-state, or will it continue the current pattern of
inaction, division and self-destruction?

Will certain organizations in the Diaspora continue to turn a blind
eye to the abuses of Armenia’s rulers and the devastating effects of
systemic corruption, preferring instead to give all of their attention
to historical discussions, symbolic resolutions by foreign
parliaments, public gatherings, round table discussions and rallies in
front of foreign Embassies? Will they continue to distract the public
attention from the life and death decisions of the present day,
covering up and enabling Armenia’s rulers as they continue to bring
the country closer and closer to a national catastrophe? Or will the
Diaspora be able to stand up and say “this has got to stop!”?

Will Armenians continue to discuss what happened hundred, five hundred
or a thousand years ago, whether Obama said “genocide”, whether it was
Russia’s fault, what the Parliament of Uruguay decided, what Kim
Kardashian posted on her Facebook page, talk about historical maps and
otherwise continue the pattern of a massive national psychosis? Or
will the Armenian society awaken from self-delusion and
self-distraction and clear its mind?

In the event that there is no change in the behavior of the Armenian
leaders and public figures both in Armenia and in the Diaspora, the
prospects are very clear and no further discussion is needed. The
Azeri armed forces, emboldened by the recent limited success, will
continue to acquire modern armaments and eventually reach an even
greater military superiority. The attacks will become more aggressive
and the Armenians will sustain more losses and possibly face defeat.

With little leverage, Armenia will have to make major concessions and
the population of Karabakh may face a very grim future. Continuing to
grow weaker, isolated, faced with a united front from the East and the
West, Armenia will have to do what it has done many times in its long
history: turn to a third power, i.e. Russia, for protection, become a
client state, and become dependent on its unfriendly neighbors.

This is disappointing, this is sad, and this is exactly what will
happen if the Armenian society does not awaken in a very short time.
Will it?

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Azerbaijani military leadership burns bodies of soldiers in “Ural”

18:11 - 29/April/2016

The Azerbaijani military leadership hides the bodies of killed
soldiers in refrigerators of special stores of wine factories near the
Artsakh border.

Three days ago the owner of one of such factories dissatisfied that
his factory is being used for keeping bodies cut the electricity and
went home. On the next day a group of Azerbaijani military entered the
store and felt bad smell.

It appeared that three days ago bodies of other killed soldiers were
brought but as far as there was no electricity they started spoiling.
Of course they were not going to hand such bodies to the relatives and
decided burn them in a car “Ural”.

They put the 18 bodies of soldiers in the car and burnt it in the
court of the factory to clean the tracks. The relatives were told that
their sons are missing.

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Karabakh conflict: The Armenian formula of step-by step settlement

21:59, 29 Apr 2016
Siranush Ghazanchyan

“Armenia and Artsakh are not against the step-by-step solution of
theteh Karabaakh conflict,” Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh
Kocharyan said.

The comments come after Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar
mammadyarov’s stateemnt regarding the step-by-step solution.

Shavarsh Kocharyan stressed, that “within that framework Azerbaijan
should first of all recognize the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic, return the occupied territories of Nagorno-Karabakh and
start negotiations with the NKR on the clarification of borders.”

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Israel Charny refers to 4-day war in Artsakh: Would Israel sell drones to Hitler?

21:25, 29 April, 2016

YEREVAN, APRIL 29, ARMENPRESS. Suppose the Nazis were not murdering Jews but were murdering ‘only’, say, Slavs, Gypsies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses; and suppose our beloved State of Israel were in existence: Would you agree to our selling arms to the Nazis? With this rhetoric question executive director and co-founder of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, Israel Charny started his article “Would Israel sell a used drone to a Hitler?”

Charny makes a reference to the information that Israel is reported to have sold billions of dollars worth of arms, including to governments that are killing or threatening to attack civilians. He also reminds that last week there came reports that an Israeli drone in the hands of Azerbaijan – a huge arms customer of Israel – was responsible for the deaths of six Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. And most recently Azerbaijani military transport planes were reported to have landed in Israel (perhaps to pick up and deliver arms) during the war with Armenia.

“I am ashamed.

The Armenians were the victims of a major genocide 100 years ago that has even been called the “Armenian Shoah” by some Israeli scholars, including from Bar Ilan University. A great deal of their national and cultural ethos continues to focus passionately on the memory of that genocide (does that sound familiar to us Jews?). For many years now, we Israelis – whether led by Labor or Likud – have insulted and hurt the Armenian people by failing to recognize their genocide officially and formally. Would we ourselves tolerate another government – say the US or England – refusing to recognize the Holocaust because of their realpolitik interest with the perpetrator government?

One senior Armenian official has written several of us in Israel to express his deep pain as well as indignation, not only at our government’s cowardly and self-serving denials of the Armenian Genocide, but also at our thick military trade alliance with the Azeris, a Turkic people who adhere to Turkey’s bizarre and fascist tradition of rewriting history and denying the Armenian Genocide.

I am reminded of the prophet Natan crying out to King David for an earlier though more delectable murderous act of self-interest, or Elijah remonstrating Ahab about his murderous larceny: It’s bad enough that you killed him, are you also taking a profit from the sordid affair? (In the Hebrew: “Haratazachta v’gam yarashta?”)

In general, how willing are we Israelis to strengthen our economy by lucrative arms sales? Of course, “everyone” in the world is doing it, but do we have to also? Have we given up the vision of Israel as a moral leader of peoples on this planet? Is this idea tiresome, naïve, and childlike in a madly destructive and self-destroying world?

An alternative principle could be that we build arms first and foremost for the defense of Israel, and that we supply arms only to underdog peoples who are facing mass destruction and to allies like the US that are essentially committed to shared democratic values and to peace. Of course we will still make some mistakes, but at least our conscience will be more clear that we have not delivered arms to the ‘Nazis.’

To my Armenian colleagues and friends, I can only say that as a Jew and as an Israeli, I am mortified – and angry”, Israel Charny says.

Israel W. Charny is executive director and co-founder of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem and editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide.

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Azerbaijan’s Ombudsman hysterical about truth of NKR in EOI website

17:35, 30 April, 2016

YEREVAN, APRIL 30, ARMENPRESS. The statement published in the website
of the European Ombudsman Institute (EOI) about the large-scale
aggression of Azerbaijan against Nagorno Karabakh Republic has caused
Azerbaijan’s Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova hysteria.

The OEI had announced on April 11, 2016 that “it condemns the
violation of rights of the people of Nagorno Karabakh and attacks on
civilian facilities”.

“Armenpress” reports, citing Azerbaijani press, Suleymanova has sent a
complaint letter to head of OEI Josef Siegele, “demanding” to remove
the statement condemning Azerbaijan from the website.

Official Baku is enraged that the Ombudsman of NKR has published in
the website of EOI a report with many facts of Azerbaijani atrocities
in Nagorno Karabakh. Azerbaijanis are strictly worried that the
international community starts to get informed about their regular
atrocities against the Armenian people.

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Historian warns of Turkish-Azerbaijani attempts to deteriorate
Armenia’s relations with Middle East

22:15 • 02.05.16

The Azerbaijani media reports claiming Armenia’s complicity in the
Muslim pogroms in the Fergana Valley and the Kyrgyz province of
Turkmenistan are a blatant attempt to deteriorate the country’s
relations with the Middle East, says an Armenian historian.

“It is common knowledge that the Azerbaijani media have been recently
pursuing a targeted policy of deteriorating our relations with the
Kazakhs and the other nations in the Middle East. Very few in our
society know about Urkun, which is translated as revolt, upheaval or
the Kyrgyz genocide so to say. That's a false thesis,” Gevorg
Melkonyan, the director of the analytical center Arevelk (East), told
our correspondent, referring to the July 4, 1916 big anti-mobilization
rebellion in Kyrgyzstan (which was then part of the Russian Empire).

The historian noted that the period saw also rebellions and a civil
war, which the Turkish and German emissaries unleashed later in an
effort to undermine Russia. “The civil fighting and rebellion in the
province of Turkmenistan eventually ended in 1917, claiming tens and
thousands of human lives. And the Turkish efforts today are an attempt
to misrepresent it as a genocide against the Kyrgyz people, which
isn’t true. On the other hand, the Turks are attempting to react to
Russia’s stance on the Armenian Genocide,” Melkonyan said.

He noted that Kyrgyzstan’s government has created a special commission
this year to mark the centennial of the events which the country does
not recognize as a genocide (apart from several politicians facing the
Turkish influence).

“I don’t think the Turkish-Azerbaijani attempts to set the Middle East
nations against us will succeed, as that isn’t in those peoples’
interest. So their willful interpretation of history is an untimely
attempt. Most of the Kyrgyz people, for example, consider the 1916
events a civil war and do not share the Turks’ approaches. So we must
be very attentive and react rapidly to prevent the Turkish-Azerbaijani
attempts to deteriorate our relations with the peoples in the Middle
East,” he added.

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Azerbaijan augments ramil safarovs: Another gang of killers and
executioners awarded

20:35, 02.05.2016

The Azerbaijani authorities have awarded another gang of killers and
executioners as a sign of encouragement.

The President of that country, Ilham Aliyev, personally handed awards
to the Azerbaijani serviceman, who beheaded the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic (NKR) Defense Army Soldier, Yezidi Kyaram Sloyan.

Through this step, Azerbaijan continues the terrible policy of
encouraging killers and executioners, Ramil Safarov having become
their “prominent” example.

The latter beheaded the Armenian soldier Gurgen Margaryan, being later
handed by the authorities of Hungary to Azerbaijan. In his homeland,
Safarov was welcomed with honors and awards.

During the military actions unleashed by Azerbaijan on April 2, the
Azerbaijani military servicemen demonstrated criminal skills, cutting
off the ears of the killed old men, torturing the captives and
mistreating their bodies.

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Karabakh repairs 6 tanks neutralized in 4-day clashes with Azerbaijan

May 2, 2016 - 11:43 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - 6 out of 14 Karabakh tanks neutralized during the
April 2-5 clashes with Azerbaijan have been repaired,Karabakh’s
Defense Army said.

According to the Armenian side’s estimates, Azerbaijan has lost some 26 tanks.

5 Azerbaijani tanks were destroyed by a single Karabakh soldier, Marat
Petrosyan, with another serviceman, Shuli Hakobyan neutralizing three
more.

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Karabagh Is the Last Frontier of Armenian History
Editorial

Mirror Spectator
5-7 May 2016

By Edmond Y. Azadian

To visit Armenia in the immediate aftermath of the Azeri aggression during the first four days of April was a sad experience and still is — defiant and despondent at the same time.

Human losses were painful, as they were unexpected. Armenia had lulled itself for a long time into thinking that it possessed the most advanced weaponry; all the while Azeri petro-dollars were buying state-of-the-art Russian and Israeli arms. During the recent blitzkrieg Israeli attack drones proved to be most deadly. The fact that those drones could be guided remotely, from bases in Israel, meant that the Azeri forces did not need to be trained to use them.

Prof. Israel W. Charny, a Genocide scholar, wrote in a blog, “Last week there came reports that an Israeli drone in the hands of Azerbaijan — a huge arms customer of ours — was responsible for the deaths of six Armenians in the enclave of Nagorno Karabagh. …. I am ashamed.”

But who would give a damn about the call of a scholar and a humanitarian in the face of the multi-million-dollar trade of death machines?

Thus, one of the factors, which came forth conspicuously in the recent war, was the Israeli involvement in this conflict, despite the bond of victimhood of Armenia and Israel in the realm of genocide.

The other factor was Russian duplicity. Indeed, Moscow sold the most advanced weapons to Azerbaijan, while claiming Armenia as its strategic ally. Anti-Russian sentiments ran high in Yerevan and there were even protests in front of the Russian embassy.

Moscow’s silence coinciding with Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu’s visit to Baku further raised tempers in Armenia. And Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Yerevan exacerbated the situation.

Speculation ran high that Lavrov had arrived to implement the Kazan or Madrid Principles, in both cases requiring Karabagh to cede five regions in return for unspecified promises.

The Armenian government’s silence during Lavrov’s visit added fuel to these speculations, until it was announced that Lavrov had not brought any new papers. He was only in Yerevan to encourage negotiations which thus far have led nowhere, they said. The Armenian government made clear that negotiations could not continue while Azeri soldiers were shooting on the contact line in Karabagh and even into Armenia proper.

All of a sudden, it was revealed that Armenians were fighting with outdated weapons from the 1980s against Azerbaijan’s current, more advanced weaponry. That revelation also fanned the flames against the army brass, whose generals had engorged their bank accounts, developing businesses and constructing palaces. To defer that anger, the president demoted three key generals considered responsible for the deficiency in arms procurement.

Despite the disparity in armaments, the fighting spirit was high on the Armenian side. Azerbaijan suffered very high casualties, which will certainly help tone down Mr. Aliyev’s bellicose rhetoric for some time to come.

“Their purely military gains were insubstantial,” says BBC analyst Anatoly Karlin, “and attained at the cost of much higher losses in personnel and equipment than the worse-armed but far more motivated, skilled and dug-in NKR army. This was accomplished without any reinforcements from Armenia proper. Any hopes for a blitzkrieg campaign have been dashed.”

Volunteers and veteran fighters are moving towards the front for reinforcement. There is a patriotic fervor on the front along with some reckoning back at home.

Although Azerbaijan has learned at great cost what the diplomats have been advocating all along — that there is no military solution to the conflict — the Baku government may continue the provocations, in the hope that it can wear down the resilience of the Armenian side.

Given the military balance in the region, Turkey and Azerbaijan may refrain from an all-out war against Armenia, but they are convinced that a war of attrition may pay off in the long run.

By continually bombing the province of Tavoush in Armenia, they have scared away the border population. Turks and Azeris intend to render Armenia uninhabitable through constant hostility. That approach may gain validity if the situation in Armenia does not improve dramatically. How long can patriotism endure when army veterans return home for a life of misery, with high unemployment, disparity in living standards and rampant injustice in the application of the law?

We have to be mindful that the flow of emigration has not diminished and may have even hit a critical point.

At this time, the diaspora is mobilized. It is even alarmed that Armenian soldiers have to defend the borders with primitive weapons. Organizations as well as individuals are contributing generously. But as soon as a temporary calm is restored, this awareness and mobilization will fade away and the population will return to the grim realities of life.

Armenia is at war and we do not have the luxury of playing politics with its destiny. There is certainly corruption in the government but calling for a regime change in the midst of war can only benefit the enemy, and certainly not Armenia’s population. Even the staunchest critic of the current regime, former president Levon Ter-Petrosian, has lent his support to the administration he so often has called a “kleptocracy,” until we reach calmer seas for settling scores.

We lost our kingdom in Ani, in the eleventh century because of our internal quarrels. Similarly, the Cilician kingdom was overrun by Mamluks in 1375, because it was weakened as a result of princes fighting each other or even siding with enemy forces to spite internal foes.

The lessons of history are too stark to be ignored. Blood is being shed on the borders of Karabagh and Armenia and there cannot be any higher or nobler cause than to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Armenian soldiers, as Mr. Erdogan promises to stand shoulder to shoulder with his Azeri brothers.

Despite the war’s painful losses, Karabagh survived and the Armenian resolve deterred the enemy once again. Quoting the BBC analyst who concludes his article thus: “Now that the fog of war has cleared up, it has become clear that the Azeris even failed to retain the village of Talish. What a debacle,”

Let us rally around Karabagh until the final victory and until a permanent peace is restored.

Karabagh is the last frontier of Armenian history.

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Smells Like War: Armenian analysts do not rule out new Azerbaijani
aggression in Karabakh

By SARA KHOJOYAN -

May 4, 2016

Given the amassment of Azerbaijani troops along the line of contact
with Nagorno-Karabakh, military analysts and observers in Armenia do
not rule out another offensive by Azerbaijan at any time if it has no
constraining circumstances.

Defense Ministry spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan said on Tuesday that
during the past several days Azerbaijan has deployed more troops near
the frontline than before its April 2 attack on Nagorno-Karabakh that
triggered a four-day war in which at least 170 soldiers on both sides
were killed.

“I cannot give a clear assessment as to what will happen and when. It
is difficult to say,” Hovhannisyan said, commenting on speculations in
Armenian society about a possible new Azerbaijani offensive against
Nagorno-Karabakh on May 8-9.

Ordinary people, as well as many analysts and pundits, specifically
mention these dates considering that they coincide with the
anniversary of the Armenian liberation of the town of Shushi still
during the first Karabakh war in 1992.

Commenting on the recent maneuvers of Azerbaijani troops along the
heavily militarized line of contact with Nagorno-Karabakh, the Defense
Ministry spokesman said: “Troop movements, amassments are, in fact, a
constant process. The enemy has been conducting maneuvers all the
time.” Hovhannisyan added that this is one of the circumstances that
makes it difficult to make precise predictions about the possible
timing of the attack.

“These movements are in the center of the attention of the
reconnaissance units of Nagorno-Karabakh’s Defense Army. The
adversary’s actions are visible and understandable for them. Defense
Army units are put on a higher combat alert. The surprise factor is
minimized,” the military official said.

Journalist and analyst Tatul Hakobyan, who recently returned from the
frontlines in Nagorno-Karabakh, believes Azerbaijan is waiting for an
opportune moment to strike again.

“If until recently some doubted and were saying that Azerbaijan would
not attack, then the four-day war in April showed that Azerbaijan
would do that at every opportunity,” he told ArmeniaNow.

“It is difficult to say when the moment will be deemed right for them.
It could be May 8-9, it could be tonight, it could be in six months’
time. This is due to a number of factors,” Hakobyan added.

The author of the “Green and Black: The Karabakh Diary” book singles
out two main factors – the response of the Armenian side and the
reaction of the Russians.

“It is very important what the Russian reaction will be, because
Russia’s behavior is very important for Azerbaijan. If Azerbaijan is
certain that Russia will not interfere in any way, will not interfere
for a month, it will attack right away,” he said. “Secondly, as soon
as the Azerbaijani side feels that the Armenian sides are not
vigilant, it will try to strike, and perhaps will do it in an
unexpected way. It is not necessary that it be on the frontline, it
could be from [the exclave of] Nakhichevan or in the Tavush province
of Armenia, wherever they see a weak spot.”

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Azerbaijan Sees Red: Bill in Armenia on NKR recognition draws Baku’s wrath

By Naira Hayrumyan -

May 4, 2016

In a move that has been condemned as a “provocation” by Azerbaijan,
the government of Armenia on May 5 is going to discuss and provide its
conclusion on a bill dealing with the formal recognition of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s (NKR) independence.

After the government’s opinion the bill authored by opposition MPs
Zaruhi Postanjyan and Hrant Bagratyan (ex-prime minister) will be
debated in the country’s legislature where the final decision will be
made.

Postanjyan is known to have repeatedly suggested recognizing the
independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), but the bill
would not become law due to the position of the executive and the
parliament majority that a formal recognition of the NKR would mean
withdrawing from internationally mediated talks with Azerbaijan on the
conflict settlement and could trigger renewed hostilities. In the
current conditions following the April 2-5 war in Nagorno-Karabakh and
continuing tensions in the conflict zone, however, some experts do not
rule out certain progress of the bill.

Meanwhile, the bill proposed in Armenia has raised hysteria in
Azerbaijan where deputy chief of President Ilham Aliyev’s
administration Novruz Mammadov described it as “another provocation of
the Armenian leadership” aimed at “preserving the status quo.”

Meanwhile, the Armenian side does not hide that the bill is intended
to play a constraining role in the prevention of a new possible
aggression by Azerbaijan.

“If Azerbaijan starts a new military aggression, the issue of the
recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh will be included in the agenda,”
Armenia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan said.

Asked whether it was true that the Armenian government was ready to
endorse the bill on the recognition of the NKR at its upcoming
meeting, the senior diplomat said: “According to the conclusion of the
government, the recognition would be due to the further development of
the situation.”

Vladimir Hakobyan, a spokesman for the Armenian president, said,
meanwhile, that Armenia is closely following the “delusional
statements of Azerbaijani officials, which are not only surprising,
but also ridiculous”. He reminded that the bill was presented by
opposition MPs. “Let there be no doubt that in the event of
recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the public will learn
about it first from President Serzh Sargsyan,” the presidential press
secretary said.

In his turn, Chairman of the NKR Public Council on Foreign Policy and
Security, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the NKR Masis
Mailyan said: “Armenia must recognize the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Now the situation has changed. And politicians have revised their
approaches. Earlier in Yerevan they thought such recognition could
lead to a war or disruption of the peace process. But life has shown
that even without this recognition Azerbaijan started the war and
actually torpedoed the negotiation process, as well as violated the
ceasefire agreement of 1994.” Now, the diplomat added, there will no
longer be any fears on this matter, and Armenia must take more drastic
steps.

That Armenia may recognize the NKR and conclude with it an agreement
on mutual military assistance was first stated during the April war by
President Sargsyan. He said that if Azerbaijan continues aggression,
Armenia will make a move to formally recognize the NKR’s independence.

So far, Armenia has refrained from formally recognizing the NKR
because of its participation in negotiations under the auspices of the
OSCE Minsk Group. As part of these negotiations, the parties have been
discussing the so-called Madrid principles, which also imply
territorial concessions. And when the question of recognition was
raised, many Armenian politicians would wonder whether the recognition
should take place within the current NKR borders (with territories
gained during the 1992-1994 war) or within the limits of the
autonomous region that existed during the Soviet times. If the
recognition takes place within today’s borders, then the negotiations
and the Madrid principles can be regarded as finished.

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Expert: Karabakh conflict zone to experience even more escalation

by Nana Martirosyan

Wednesday, May 4, 14:29

The Karabakh conflict zone will experience even more escalation and
the peace process will be temporarily suspended, political expert
Alexander Markarov said at a press conference in Yerevan on May 4.

The expert thinks this is demonstrated by deployment of more
Azerbaijani troops near the line of contact with Artsakh. However,
Markarov cannot say whether Azerbaijan will launch an offensive on May
9. "Though many political experts say Azerbaijani armed forces will
launch an offensive on May 9, I think they are unlikely to do it. It
makes no sense to unleash hostilities in order to suffer another
defeat. In order to do that, Baku must be sure that it will succeed.
But after the fiasco in the latest aggression, there is no such a
guarantee," Markarov stressed. He noted that the Armenian side has
also toughened its stand. He thinks the international community can
contribute to reduction of tension in the conflict zone, however, it
is very passive.

Markarov stressed that common ground and acceptable proposals are
needed to continue the talks, but there are no such proposals at the
moment. "These may be either the Kazan documents or the updated and
improved Madrid Principles, however, there are no prerequisites yet to
continue the talks," he said. At the same time, the expert thinks
Armenia's recognition of Artsakh will mean that Yerevan sees no other
way to resolve the conflict. "Recognition of Artsakh's independence
and Artsakh's unification with Armenia would shift the conflict to
another level," he said, meaning that this would result in large-scale
military operations.

To note, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan says
that Armenia will recognize Karabakh in case Azerbaijan resumes its
large-scale aggression in the Karabakh conflict zone. In addition, the
Government of Armenia will discuss a bill recognizing the Republic of
Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) on May 5. The bill was submitted by the
opposition MPs Zaruhi Postanjyan and Hrant Bagratyan. For his part,
Armenian Defense Ministry Spokesman Artsrun Hovhannisyan says that the
adversary is deploying more troops along the line of contact.

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Richard Giragosian says Azerbaijan's new attack on Artsakh is a matter
of time only

by Nana Martirosyan

Wednesday, May 4, 17:16

Azerbaijan's new attack on Artsakh is a matter of time only, Richard
Giragosian, the head of the Center for Regional Studies, told RFE/RL
Armenian Service.

He believes that Azerbaijan's build-up along the Line of Contact means
that Baku plans a new attempt to break the status quo within the
coming days or weeks.

Giragosian is sure that no one and nothing can hold Azerbaijan from
launching a new aggression, considering that Baku assess the results
of the recent aggression as a victory. It is for the first time in 21
years that Azerbaijan managed to take a territory and keep it at least
temporarily. However, Richard Giragosian does not think that the new
aggression will be as heavy as the one unleashed in April, as
Azerbaijani armed forces are not prepared and armed enough to launch
such a serious offensive.

Nevertheless, the analyst anticipates attacks in the north and south
of the Line of Contact with a goal of causing damage and targeting the
civilian population.

Giragosian is sure that the tactics of the world community no longer
works. In fact, the real danger for Armenia does not come from
Azerbaijan. The real danger is that U.S. and France are insufficiently
involved in the activity of the Minsk Group, while Russia has betrayed
Armenia.

As for Turkey, the analyst does not think that it may directly
interfere in case of a new escalation in Karabakh, since there are
Russian troops on the borders of Armenia and Turkey is a NATO member.

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Armenia FM: Azerbaijan continues proclaiming murderers as national heroes

19:34, 04.05.2016

Azerbaijan continues to award and proclaim murderers as national
heroes, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian stated at a press-conference
following the EU Eastern Partnership and Visegrad Four Foreign
Ministers’ Meeting in Prague.

In his words, during the large-scale aggression of Azerbaijan, three
captured soldiers were beheaded, one of the murderers being later
awarded by the Azerbaijani president as a national hero.

Nalbandian noted that four UN resolutions were adopted with a goal to
stop hostilities. However, after the adoption of each of the
resolutions, Azerbaijan refused to respect them. “Azerbaijan doesn’t
respect them till now,” Nalbandian added.

The FM also stressed that the agreements of 1994 and 1995 have no time
limit and must be respected now.

He also referred to the notes sent by the Azerbaijani diplomats to the
OSCE office in Vienna and New York, through which attempt was made to
imply that the agreements of 1994 and 1995 had ceased to be in force.
“My colleague told the Co-Chairs that the Ambassador of Azerbaijan had
no instruction to do that: it was a unilateral personal initiative,”
the Armenian FM noted.

Armenia continues working with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to
restore environment for negotiations and to ensure there will be no
repetition of the events that happened in early April, as well as to
create mechanisms to investigate incidents and increase the capacity
of the personal representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, he said.

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[gamavor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1B9ozWLyhU

 

Hrashk dkherk en!

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Italian newspaper: War in Karabakh showed that Baku sponsors ISIL

22:22, 04.05.2016

The war in Nagorno-Karabakh showed that Azerbaijan is a state which
behaves like ISIL. This has already been confirmed by the presence of
the caliphate ex-fighters in the conflict zone. And this proves that
the republic governed by dictator Aliyev is the most genuine sponsor
of the Islamic State terrorists, Italian newspaper Sponda Sud writes.

The article reads:

“There exist no principles which can be followed during killings in
war, but there are unwritten military rules: soldiers fight against
other soldiers, but respect them and do not mistreat their bodies.
Moreover, they do not open fire at civilians.

Azerbaijan showed that it neither follows the international values nor
respects them. What does Europe do? Europe, the symbol of
civilization which always fought against terrorism, is doing nothing
now. When Armenians were burying their soldiers, the UN spoke about
the union between civil societies at the VII International
Humanitarian Forum, which was ironically held in Baku.

Apparently, there can be no ties between the civilization and
beheading of a soldier. And after all this, Aliyev even awarded the
soldier who did this, showing his army that this is the path to
awards.

It is not the first time Baku has awarded killers. We recall Ramil
Safarov. This name is associated with heroism and glory in
Azerbaijan. Whereas Safarov axed sleeping Armenian soldier Gurgen
Margaryan to death.

Azerbaijan supports terrorism. This is dangerous not only for Armenia
and its Diaspora, but also for the entire Europe. Baku’s actions aimed
at supporting terrorism should be stopped. Humanism is not merely
words. It is not merely a topic of international conferences. It is
first of all support to the countries which struggle for liberty and
refuse violence.”

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“It seems to people that the problems can be resolved by concession of
territories”

May 4 2016

Manvel Sargsyan sees our problems in our political philosophy

“Nothing has been changed, the international situation changed which
led and showed the insolvency of our approach,” said the Director of
the Armenian Center for Strategic and National Studies, Manvel
Sargsyan, in an interview with “Aravot”.

In 1992-1995, he was the resident representative of NKR in Armenia and
in 1992-1995, participated in the negotiations for the settlement of
the conflict. “Aravot” daily was interested to know his opinion about
the changes in the talks since the emergence of the NKR conflict, why
the winning side is constantly talking about concessions during the
negotiations, and on the other hand, the requirements of the loser and
constantly attacker in the negotiation process seems to be more
emphasized. “Today, people are trying to talk about concessions,
raising the question of territories whether to yield or concede. In
other words, it seems to people that by a concession of the
territories, the problems will be resolved. Do not understand why
because it has never been a condition for Azerbaijan to solve the
problem for 25 years. They have never said anything like that. They
have said, give the territories back to us, then we will talk with you
about other things. But there are people who until now think that they
can concede some things. They see the solution of the issue in
concession. They are convinced that the politics is a kind of trade,
they need to trade, and definitely they must concede something,” said
Mr. Sargsyan, noting that those who create politics in the country
actually absolutely have no idea what the politics, “They have no clue
about the force of law and the politics is generally a struggle for
the rights.

You must formulate your rights and demands to be reconsidered,” says
Mr. Sargsyan and brings the example of Azerbaijan. – Azerbaijan has
once already formulated its rights, saying the world that they offer
Armenia to isolate, forcing it by means of pressure or force to return
their territory, they cannot do it, they will do it by force. They
say, because you have given this right to us under Article 51 of the
UN Charter to use legal weapon, this right was also given to
Azerbaijan by the Republic of Armenia in 1991, and it is not changed,
not a single word is added to this text until today.”

Manvel Sargsyan also mentions the inactiveness of the political
leadership of Armenia and says that they do not try to express any
posture on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, “What is Karabakh for the
Republic of Armenia as a political matter? No one has formulated it,”
says the political analyst. Referring again to the talks about
concessions, he emphasizes that Azerbaijan has never talked about
concessions, it demands “its territories”, this word is only used by
the winner in the war. “Nagorno-Karabakh must be clarified for us. At
least one country, the UN, the OSCE member Armenia should recognize
Nagorno-Karabakh so that the world would believe us. They cannot do it
too. They say, as soon as we recognize, there is going to be a fight
as if now it is not a fight going on. They say that it is going to be
a great fight. No politics can survive with this psychology. If our
political class does not free itself from these complexes, no politics
will ever help us.”

According to the political analyst, our complexity of not standing for
our rights is displayed everywhere, “Our military ally is selling
weapons, inciting war against us, our enemy has forbidden our ally to
give us arms, they send a note and it does not give us weapons. No
diplomacy can help us as long as our nation does not have belief in
defending our rights. We do not believe that it is possible to stand
up for the rights. We say, let us find a sponsor to keep us. What
should the diplomacy do if the Karabakh parliament is afraid to voice
the word “independence”?” The political analyst is concerned that like
25 years ago and in these years, so as in the future, the country’s
political philosophy will not be changed. “During the war, a thousand
and one things were announced, the war ended, as if nothing has
happened and will never happen. The same situation is now, nothing has
been changed, – he says and then adds, – “Now, maybe there are things
that are changing. This war puts some things under suspicion. Some
fundamental convictions changed in every layer and every degree. As to
what to change, they do not make it clear yet.”

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Armenian government approves draft law on recognition of Artsakh

12:18, 05 May 2016
Siranush Ghazanchyan


The Armenian government approved today the opinion on the draft law on
Recognition of Artsakh submitted by MPs Zaruhi Postanjyan and Hrant
Bagratyan.

Co-author of the bill Zaruhi Postanjyan was present at the sitting.
“By recognizing Artsakh we’ll prevent a number of problem and become a
political factor in the world. Recognition is a bid for Armenian
statehood, which the world has to reckon with,” she said.

“The aggression unleashed by Azerbaijan was not condemned in any way,
therefore, we have to recognize Artsakh as there is no alternative.
The recent developments showed that aggression is on Azerbaijan’s
agenda,” Postanjyan said.

“They committed crimes against humanity, which went unpunished 100
years ago and 25 years ago, and this lead to the April aggression. We
have to rely upon ourselves,” she added.

Asked whether it won’t mean end to talks, Postanjyan said
“negotiations can still continue,” and added that “speaking about
talks at a time when Azerbaijan is applying aggression, would be a
mockery of the mankind.”

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