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Hasty peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan could lead to new conflicts, warns Russia
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YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. An attempt to hastily conclude a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan at the expense of careful preparations and planning will only lead to more conflicts in the future, Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Fourth CIS Department Denis Gonchar told TASS in an interview.

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A hastily concocted, raw peace treaty will not be able to bring about a lasting peace in the region. On the contrary, it will create potential grounds for new conflicts and future tragedies. It is not speed that should be viewed as a priority, but, instead, a careful preparation of balanced and mutually acceptable solutions
," the diplomat said.

Gonchar noted that a number of Western countries claim that Baku and Yerevan may sign a peace treaty almost as early as in coming weeks or months.

In the Russian diplomat’s opinion, the timeframe for the signing should be determined by the sides themselves.

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A responsible mediator’s task is not to expedite the negotiating process for the sake of timeserving considerations, but to facilitate solid and long-lasting agreements
," Gonchar added.

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Moscow offers compromise solutions to Yerevan and Baku to ease tensions

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YEREVAN, AUGUST 4, ARMENPRESS. During the trilateral meeting between Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan in Moscow the Russian side has made some suggestions to Armenia and Azerbaijan on how to de-escalate the tension, Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Fourth CIS Department Denis Gonchar told TASS in an interview.

“The last contacts at the level of foreign ministers of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia that took place in Moscow on July 25 happened amid an extremely difficult situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. Without revealing sensitive details, I can say that we have proposed compromise solutions for de-escalation of tensions, which the parties have taken ‘to study at home.’ We hope that humanitarian considerations, caring for ordinary people will prevail over the political differences between Baku and Yerevan,” he said.

The official drew attention on the fact that Russia actively participated in the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at all stages and reminded about the trilateral agreements signed in 2020-2022 with the mediation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Gonchar also noted that the Russian side continues active mediation efforts in all directions, including the unblocking of economic and transport communications in the region, the start of the process of delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the finalizing of a peace treaty between Yerevan and Baku, the development of dialogue between public representatives and experts.

"Not everything is going as fast as we would want to, but it is understandable, taking into account the series of problems and contradictions that have accumulated during the years of the conflict," Gonchar added.

 

 

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Who were the other passengers aboard Prigozhin's crashed plane?

 

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed when his plane crashed in the Tver region of Russia, Russian authorities confirmed.

While authorities say they are investigating the crash, they revealed that all 10 people on board the plane were killed: three crew members and seven passengers. Russia's Federal Air Transportation Agency published the list of the passengers listed on board the flight: Wagner commander Dmitry Utkin, 53, Sergei Propustin, Evgeny Makaryan, 38, Alexander Totmin, 30, Valery Chekalov, and Nikolai Matyuseev. Aircraft commander Alexei Levshin, co-pilot Rustam Karimov, and flight attendant Kristina Raspopova were also on board, TASS reported.

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Yevgeny Makaryan
Makaryan fought with Wagner in 2018, when he was wounded in Syria after coming under withering US air raids that killed dozens of Wagner fighters in what became known as the Battle of Khasham, according to the Dossier Center.

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Yerevan “confused and disappointed” over Russian Foreign Ministry blaming Armenia for situation in Lachin Corridor

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YEREVAN, AUGUST 31, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova who claimed that the situation in the Lachin corridor is a consequence of the fact that referring to the Alma-Ata Declaration, in Prague, October 2022 Armenia recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan.

The Armenian foreign ministry said that Zakharova’s comments cause “confusion and disappointment.”

Below is the full statement by Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ani Badalyan.

“Another comment by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia of similar content claiming that the situation unfolded in the Lachin corridor is a consequence of the fact that referring to the Alma-Ata Declaration, in Prague, October 2022 Armenia recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, and after that, the task of the Russian peacekeepers became the possible influence on the issues of rights and security of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, causes confusion and disappointment.

We are compelled to recall the following, already well-known chronology and important circumstances.

  • The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has never been a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In essence, it has always been and remains an issue of the rights and security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh.

     

  • In August 2022, Armenia agreed to Russia’s draft proposal on the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, according to which the discussion of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh was supposed to be postponed for an indefinite period. Azerbaijan rejected the proposal, simultaneously announcing (as it did on August 31 in Brussels) that it is not going to discuss anything related to Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, and days later, on September 13, it launched military aggression against the sovereign territory of Armenia.
  • Russia not only did not pursue its proposal after Azerbaijan's refusal, but also showed absolute indifference to the aggression against the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, leaving Armenia's official letter to support the Republic of Armenia on the basis of the bilateral legal framework unanswered. Moreover, Russia conditioned the lack of stating the fact of the attack on Armenia and the resulting inaction under the false excuse that the interstate border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is not delimited. By this approach it either intentionally or not supports the obviously false and extremely dangerous thesis which claims that there is no border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, therefore, attacking the border and the invasion into the territory of Armenia are difficult to verify. With the same mindset, Armenia's similar application in the framework of the CSTO did not receive a proper response either.

     

  • Under these conditions, on October 6, 2022, in Prague, Armenia and Azerbaijan reaffirmed their loyalty to the Alma-Ata Declaration, which was signed back in 1991 by the former Soviet republics, including Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, who recognized each other's territorial integrity along the former administrative borders of the Soviet states. Therefore, nothing new was decided in Prague: as of October 2022, the Alma-Ata Declaration had been in force for about 31 years. The agreements in Prague did not change anything in the text of the Trilateral statement of November 9, 2020, either. The only novelty was that, based on the results of the Prague meeting, the EU decided to deploy a monitoring mission on the Armenian side of the interstate border between Armenia and Azerbaijan to contribute to the stability at the border.

     

  • The Russian Federation recognized Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan multiple times, including after the signing of the Trilateral statement of November 9, 2020, and the most recent and perhaps most significant one: it stated that it recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan in the document on establishing strategic relations with Azerbaijan.

     

  • On December 12, 2022, the Lachin corridor was blocked, under the false pretext of protests organized by the authorities of Azerbaijan in the area of the control of the Russian peacekeeping contingent. Already in April 2023, in the presence of Russian peacekeepers, Azerbaijan installed an illegal checkpoint in the Lachin corridor. Although these actions were a clear and gross violation of the Trilateral statement, the Russian Federation took no counteractions. Instead, Russian peacekeepers on June 15, 2023, actively supported the attempt to raise the Azerbaijani flag on the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, which is outside the scope of their mission and geographical area of responsibility. This was immediately followed by the total blockade of the Lachin corridor, bringing the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh closer to a true humanitarian catastrophe.

     

  • In the conditions of such arbitrariness in the presence of Russian peacekeepers, the Azerbaijani side resorts to steps such as the abduction of residents of Nagorno-Karabakh at the illegal checkpoint in the Lachin corridor: the case of abduction of Vagif Khachatryan on July 29, followed by the case of three students on August 28.

     

  • Unfortunately, such practices of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh are nothing new. On December 11, 2020, the violation of the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh, the illegal occupation of Khtsaberd and Hin Tagher villages, the capture and transfer of 60 Armenian servicemen to Baku took place in Nagorno-Karabakh with the presence and permission of representatives of the Russian peacekeeping contingent. At that time, the agreements of October 6, 2022, were not reached. The same applies to the events of Parukh on March 24, 2022, and Saribab on August 1, 2022, when Azerbaijan again violated the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh. The logical continuation of this are the shootings by Azerbaijani armed forces in the presence of Russian peacekeepers towards people carrying out agricultural works, one of which ended with the killing of a tractor driver from Martakert; the intimidation of the Nagorno-Karabakh population with night lights and loudspeakers again in the presence of Russian peacekeepers; the thousands of violations of the ceasefire regime by the Azerbaijani armed forces again in the presence of Russian peacekeepers.

We advise the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry to refrain from maneuvering the circumstances of the situation and thereby further complicating it in the absence of actions from Russian peacekeepers towards the prevention of the blockade of the Lachin corridor or its opening afterwards.

We also reiterate that the Republic of Armenia is faithful to its commitment towards establishing stability in the region on the basis of mutual recognition of territorial integrity and borders. At the same time, we consider imperative for lasting peace the reopening of the Lachin corridor in accordance with the Trilateral statement of November 9, 2020, and in line with the Orders of the International Court of Justice, the prevention of a humanitarian catastrophe in Nagorno-Karabakh and addressing of all existing problems through the Baku-Stepanakert dialogue under international auspices.”

 

 

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Let's see if this one will be any better?

 

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Russia appoints new commander of peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh
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YEREVAN, AUGUST 31, ARMENPRESS. Major-general Kirill Kulakov of the Russian Armed Forces has been appointed as the new Commander of the Russian Peacekeeping Contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh, according to ARTSAKHPRESS news agency.

Kulakov is replacing Colonel General Alexander Lentsov, who was serving since April 2023.

 

 

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Actions speak louder than words, we'll wait and see! Wait how long? Who knows!

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Russia - Sept 5 2023
Russia cannot 'turn back on' South Caucasus region, no such plans envisioned — Kremlin
Dmitry Peskov noted with confidence that Russia would continue acting as a guarantor of security and stability in the region, particularly in Nagorno-Karabakh

MOSCOW, September 5. /TASS/. Moscow disagrees with remarks by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who accused Russia of distancing itself from the South Caucasus region, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

"We cannot agree with these statements by Mr. Prime Minister [of Armenia Pashinyan]. Russia is an inseparable part of this region, so it simply cannot turn its back and walk away from anywhere in the region. Russia simply cannot walk away from Armenia," he emphasized.

"There are more [ethnic] Armenians in Russia than there are in Armenia itself, and the majority of them are absolutely model citizens and patriots of our country," Peskov added. He noted with confidence that Russia would continue acting as a guarantor of security and stability in the region, particularly in Nagorno-Karabakh, and that Moscow would keep working toward aiding the process of deconflicting the tense situation there.

Earlier, Pashinyan said in an interview with Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper that Russia had become estranged from the South Caucasus. According to the Armenian premier, Russian peacekeepers are either reluctant to or incapable of controlling the disputed Lachin Corridor.

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