new promising era New Promising Era "President" & VP Nikol Pashinian

[MosJan]

 

[Yervant1]

Once the EU observers gone, according to this peace treaty fake sultan with erDOGan will attack Armenia!

 

Quote

 

OC Media

March 15 2025

 

What happened between Armenia and Azerbaijan last week?

 

 

On Thursday, Armenia and Azerbaijan made a historic step towards formalising an end to more than 30 years of conflict, when both sides agreed to sign a peace treaty.

Despite the promising moves forward, it was clear that putting to bed decades of grievances would not be a simple process. There are still roadblocks to the peace treaty actually being signed, and concerns that a new round of fighting could still arise in the interim — or even after the ink dries.

Here’s what you need to know about the developments between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the last week:

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov told journalists on Thursday that negotiations on the text of the deal had been completed.

Armenia’s Foreign Ministry later confirmed that they had agreed to Azerbaijan’s latest proposals, and that the agreement ‘On the Establishment of Peace and Interstate Relations Between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan’ was ready to be signed.

On Thursday evening, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said the deal was a compromise, adding that compromises were required for any such peace agreement.

The terms of the deal have not yet been made public.

However, Bayramov said that changes to Armenia’s Constitution that have long been demanded by Baku would occur ‘in the next phase’. Azerbaijani officials also insisted that the OSCE Minsk Group be dissolved. The Minsk Group, headed by co-chairs France, Russia, and the US, was the main venue for negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan prior to the 2020 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.

An unnamed Western official with knowledge of the topic told OC Media that the agreement included major concessions from Armenia, including the removal of EU monitors from the border and the dropping of lawsuits in international venues.

The official said the deal left out other sticking points, including changes to Armenia’s Constitution. They also said the issue of enclaves in Armenia and Azerbaijan that have been occupied by the other side since the fall of the Soviet Union was also not included.

The deal also reportedly does not include Azerbaijan’s demand for a corridor through Armenia connecting Azerbaijan to its exclave of Nakhchivan.

In a statement on Thursday evening, hours after the deal was announced, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry named amendments to Armenia’s constitution and the dissolution of the ‘obsolete and dysfunctional’ OSCE Minsk Group as preconditions to signing the deal.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has been actively pushing the need for a new constitution. In February, he again spoke in favour of adopting a new constitution through a national referendum in a speech dedicated to the ‘Real Armenia’ ideology developed by his government.

Despite the government insisting the change of constitution is an internal process and is not being done to meet Azerbaijani demands, critics have argued the move represents a bowing to pressure from Azerbaijani.

In February, Justice Minister Srbuhi Galyan said that the referendum would ‘most likely’ take place after the parliamentary elections in 2026, which means that the actual signing of the deal could be delayed until next year.

On Thursday evening, Armenia’s Public TV aired Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s interview with Turkish media outlets, an event Pashinyan called ‘unprecedented’. During the interview, Pashinyan discussed Armenia–Turkey relations, the ongoing trial of Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan, and the Armenia–Azerbaijan peace negotiations.

In specific regards to some of Azerbaijan’s demands, Pashinyan spoke at length about the so-called Zangezur corridor, connecting Azerbaijan with its exclave of Nakhchivan.

While noting that this statement is brought up repeatedly in the context of the Armenia–Azerbaijan peace negotiations, Pashinyan claimed that there is no mention of a ‘corridor’, with the _expression_ of the Lachin Corridor.

He therefore emphasised that the ‘Zangezur corridor’ — a proposal to link mainland Azerbaijan to its exclave of Nakhchivan — was not a part of such statement, and therefore ‘there is no such agenda for providing a transport connection between the western regions of Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan’.

‘Armenia and Azerbaijan must mutually open communications for each other, both external and internal, that is, from Armenia to Armenia through the territory of Azerbaijan, and from Azerbaijan to Azerbaijan through the territory of Armenia’, Pashinyan said, stating that Armenia had made a ‘very specific proposal’ to Azerbaijan on this topic.

Pashinyan also emphasised that Armenia perceives the _expression_ ‘Zangezur corridor’ to be a ‘territorial claim against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Armenia’, noting Azerbaijan’s repeated claims regarding what it calls ‘Western Azerbaijan’ make up ‘approximately 60-70%’ of Armenia’s sovereign territory.

‘Azerbaijan contradicts itself by the fact that they officially call 2021 and the following period a post-conflict period. But they speak the language of conflict every day’, Pashinyan said, before stating that, in contrast, ‘there is no _expression_ of Western Armenia in our constitution’.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev gave a speech at the 12th Global Baku Forum on Thursday, the same day that Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to sign a historic peace treaty that would end more than three decades of conflict.

Against the backdrop of the unprecedented step towards signing a treaty, Aliyev’s speech was nonetheless full of grievances, conspiracy theories, and attacks on Armenia, France, the EU, and Western media.

He also launched into a laundry list of historical grievances against Armenia, concluding that ‘that the level of trust to Armenia is close to zero’.

As a result, Aliyev said ‘we need documents; we need papers’, from Armenia in order to demonstrate that the efforts towards the peace treaty are genuine.

In an article rife with AI imagery and baseless claims, the Azerbaijani pro-government media outlet Caliber claimed on Wednesday that Armenia is preparing to launch a war against Azerbaijan in April with the help of the civilian EU Mission in Armenia.

The allegations were later repeated in Aliyev’s speech on Thursday, with the added accusation that France would be ‘pushing [Armenia] to war again’.

https://oc-media.org/what-happened-between-armenia-and-azerbaijan-last-week/

 

 

[Yervant1]

168.am

Մարտ 15, 2025

 

 

Ալիևը նախազգուշացրել է՝ եթե ՀՀ-ն չկատարի պայմանները, Ադրբեջանը կարող է դուրս գալ խաղաղության պայմանագրից. Վարուժան Գեղամյան

 

 

Թյուրքագետ Վարուժան Գեղամյանը գրում է. «Ադրբեջանը ժամանակ չի կորցնում, ու նորից առաջադրում է մեզ համար կործանարար պահանջների նոր ցանկը։

 

… Ալիևը նաև հայտարարել է, որ Հայաստանը պետք է բացի «Զանգեզուրի» միջանցքը, ստեղծի ապառազմականացված գոտի և ապամոնտաժի սահմանային ռազմական ենթակառուցվածքները։

Նա նախազգուշացրել է, որ եթե Հայաստանը չկատարի այս պայմանները, Ադրբեջանը կարող է դուրս գալ խաղաղության պայմանագրից։

 

Բոլոր կետերն էլ անխտիր մեր պետությունը վերացնելուն են ուղղված, բայց հատկապես վերջինները հուշում են, որ նպատակ է դրված ոչ թե խաղաղության հասնել մինչև 2026-ը, այլ քանի դեռ Հայաստանում դե-ֆակտո իշխում է հանձնողների թիմը, Հայաստանից պոկել ամեն հնարավորը՝ հետագայում մեր վերականգնում ու հզորացումը բացառելու համար»։

 

 

https://168.am/2025/03/15/2183498.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawJC20tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXkmnLNc1noSW1IrwDffygxULNpC06RVlPDjt61Ge4sB7hYc-mjqflfThg_aem_gnpluPcmbQ652gMcnqGN4w

[MosJan]

 

[Yervant1]

Armenpress.am

 

Politics11:41, 17 March 2025

Organizers in Armenia laud successful Turkish media tour

Read the article in: FrançaisՀայերենРусский

Turkish media outlets have been extensively covering the Armenian official stance over various foreign policy matters in the past several days. 

The coverage comes after a media tour organized by the Armenian government for Turkish journalists. 

“In the past 3-4 days, the official positions of Armenia around a broad circle of foreign policy issues have been presented with dozens of materials, articles and programs aired on numerous Turkish TV channels and published by online media outlets,” Gor Tsarukyan, Director of the Public Relations and Information Center of the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement. 

The media tour was organized by the Public Relations and Information Center.

Tsarukyan said there’ve never been so many mostly positive reports in the Turkish press about Armenia and the need for opening the border.

The analytical programs and reports by leading Turkish journalists who took part in the media tour were published by TRT World, NTV, Sözcü TV, Ihlas, Anadolu, T24, Medyascope, Hürriyet, Agos and others, Tsarukyan said.

In addition, the participants of the media tour have been presenting the visit during various radio and television programs.

“In total, around two dozen radio-television programs were generated, which almost entirely presented Armenia’s views on the Armenia-Turkiye normalization, opening of the border, Armenia-Azerbaijan normalization and unblocking of infrastructures,” Tsarukyan said.

The interviews with PM Nikol Pashinyan and special envoy for normalization with Turkiye, Ruben Rubinyan have been covered in all major media platforms, and the main messages have reached the most various segments of the Turkish society. 

“It is noteworthy that several Turkish media outlets did not avoid to circulate the key message that Azerbaijan is obstructing the Armenia-Turkiye normalization process,” Tsarukyan said.

 

 

 

Published by Armenpress, original at https://armenpress.am/en/article/1214594?fbclid=IwY2xjawJFYKNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeL70IcTq2GmaEXIvJmcIfLbfcqLqKH-LV56A-7yLsvRHs0rwI-ro-OxRg_aem_mqekRqCq1bE-dicfWaSX8w

[MosJan]

 

[MosJan]

RIP Ara Jan 

[MosJan]

 

[MosJan]

aliev has sign many many papers never kept his word

[MosJan]

 

[Yervant1]

Armenpress.am

 

Politics10:49, 18 March 2025

Armenian Armed Forces don’t have reason or order to violate ceasefire – Statement by Prime Minister’s Office

Read the article in: العربيةEspañolفارسیFrançaisՀայերենРусскийTürkçe简体中文

The Prime Minister’s Office of Armenia has released a statement about the ongoing Azerbaijani disinformation campaign falsely accusing Armenia of border shootings.

Below is the statement by the Prime Minister’s Office provided to Armenpress.

“From 16 to 18 March this year, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan spread six reports about alleged ceasefire violations by the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.

After the abovementioned reports, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia conducted inspection works and as a result of the inspection it refuted the claims about ceasefire violations by the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia.

In every refuting report, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia reminded the offer of the Prime Minister’s Office of the Republic of Armenia made on June 22, 2024, about creating a joint Armenia-Azerbaijan mechanism for investigating ceasefire violation cases and/or such reports, to which Azerbaijan hasn’t given a positive response to this day.

The 17 March, 2025 report of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia recorded that the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia is ready to investigate the facts substantiating the Azerbaijani reports, in case they are conveyed to the Republic of Armenia.

For the record, as of this moment, not a single fact or substantiation about ceasefire violation by the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia has been conveyed by the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Republic of Armenia.

The Prime Minister’s Office of the Republic of Armenia, reiterating its offer on creating a joint Armenia-Azerbaijan mechanism for investigating ceasefire violation cases and/or such reports, announces that the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia don’t have a reason or order to violate the ceasefire.

The Government of the Republic of Armenia is guided by the agenda of peace, with the steps aimed at finalizing the text of the agreement on peace and establishment of interstate relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan serving as undeniable evidence of this.

The finalization of the text of the peace treaty and conclusion of the negotiations around the finalization of the text is a step of utmost importance and the Republic of Armenia calls on the Republic of Azerbaijan to launch consultations about the date and venue for signing the agreement.
We find it noteworthy that the agreed-upon text of the draft agreement addresses the fundamental issues of peace and establishment of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan and envisages mechanisms for discussions of future tasks.

We find it necessary to note that in January 2025 the Republic of Armenia conveyed to the Republic of Azerbaijan in a written form a proposal for solving the issue of railway cargo transportation from Azerbaijan’s western regions through the territory of the Republic of Armenia to the NAR, the opposite direction and towards third countries and from the Republic of Armenia’s north-western regions through the territory of Azerbaijan to the southern part of the Republic of Armenia, the opposite direction and towards third countries, as well as a proposal on creating a bilateral mechanism for mutual arms control and is waiting for Azerbaijan’s positive response.

At the same time, we reiterate that the Republic of Armenia is ready to continue with the Republic of Azerbaijan the delimitation work of the state border in accordance with the regulation on joint activity of the Commission on Delimitation and Border Security of the State Border between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan and the State Commission on the Delimitation of the State Border between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia.”

 

 

 

Published by Armenpress, original at https://armenpress.am/en/article/1214696?fbclid=IwY2xjawJGhYdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcLNNZ4UIlnIn4A4aag1d4Yen4ZZIw49rBz_Vp4EcAWNZKsvZExOHzltTw_aem_3i5SLRSACVySW4D9ohO_3Q

[Yervant1]

---

OC Media

March 17 2025

 

Armenia rejects Azerbaijani preconditions for signing peace treaty

 

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

 

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has rejected Azerbaijani preconditions for the signing of a peace agreement, which were announced shortly after the two countries agreed to the terms of the deal.

‘We have never accepted their legitimacy or considered them part of the agenda’, Mirzoyan said of the preconditions in parliament on Friday.

‘We have never negotiated on them. There was an exchange of views — they stated their demand, and we stated ours, and we do not accept your demand’.

On 13 March, both Azerbaijan and Armenia separately announced that negotiations to a peace deal had been concluded. On the same evening, however, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry named amendments to Armenia’s constitution and the dissolution of the ‘obsolete and dysfunctional’ OSCE Minsk Group as preconditions to signing the deal, thereby negating the progress made to finally signing a historic deal.

‘We remain hopeful and ready to proceed with signing. [...] Unfortunately, parallel preconditions are being introduced. We need to work and find a solution’, Mirzoyan said, adding that the sides did agree to hold a meeting anytime ‘in the near future’.

What is in the peace treaty?

The terms of the deal have not yet been made public. It is known that it consists of 17 articles, the two of which remained unresolved until mid-March.

Mirzoyan considered the draft text ‘a very important milestone, [...] a basis for continuing our work towards a comprehensive settlement’.

‘We have significant achievements and records in the agreement’, Mirzoyan said, specifically naming ‘mutual recognition of territorial integrity, the inviolability of borders’. Another named example was regarding ‘avoiding the use of force and the threat of use of force is’, which he stated was, ‘of course, prohibited by the agreement’.

He said that the agreement ‘envisages mechanisms’ through which the two sides can solve any issues for the final settlement of relations.

Talking about the issues not included in the text, Mirzoyan named the Armenian Constitution, and underscored that the agreed text ‘does not contain any unilateral regulation’.

After being pressed by an opposition MP, Kristine Vardanyan, on what Azerbaijan conceded on the face of Armenia’s multiple concessions, Mirzoyan avoided naming any such concessions, only saying that ‘when speaking about such kind of issues that are fatal for states, it is probably not appropriate to measure by the number of demands’.

Instead, Mirzoyan said that ‘with the establishment of peace with this text, Armenia will emerge from a large and deep swamp, from which, if we do not emerge, we will sink and be buried’.

He said it had no provision on the return of refugees, or on a ‘so-called corridor’.

He also noted that ‘the resolution of humanitarian issues’, primarily the release of Armenians imprisoned in Azerbaijan, ‘is a very important component for a comprehensive settlement’.

The former two sticking points

The two sticking points were ‘exclusion of third-party forces’ on the Armenia–Azerbaijan interstate border, a reference to the removal of EU monitors (EUMA), and the dropping of lawsuits in international venues.

Armenia opposed both, underscoring the importance of the EUMA  in bringing stability to the region, though they did agree to withdraw them only from the delimited areas, which apparently was rejected by Azerbaijan.

Mirzoyan said Yerevan will discuss ‘acceptable and mutually beneficial agreements’ with the EU regarding the activities of the EUMA after the signing and subsequent ratification of the peace treaty with Azerbaijan.

‘At the same time, when the agreement [peace treaty] is signed and ratified and takes effect, naturally, peace and stability will become very institutional along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border’, Mirzoyan said.

In regards to the second sticking point, Mirzoyan said that when the treaty ‘will take effect, when the sides will withdraw the lawsuits, at the same time the two sides will assume obligation to not file lawsuits against each other in the future around the issues that had existed between the sides prior to signing the treaty’.‘It is assumed that in all disputes that we now have the sides must reconcile’, Mirzoyan said.

https://oc-media.org/armenia-rejects-azerbaijani-preconditions-for-signing-peace-treaty/

[MosJan]

 

[MosJan]

 

[MosJan]

 

[MosJan]

 

[MosJan]

 

[Yervant1]

Armenpress.am

 

Politics16:20, 20 March 2025

Former NATO chief Anders Rasmussen calls for int’l pressure on Azerbaijan to sign Armenia peace deal

Read the article in: FrançaisՀայերենРусскийTürkçe

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Secretary General of NATO and founder of Rasmussen Global, has called on the EU to use its strong energy levers against Azerbaijan to make it sign the peace agreement with Armenia.

Speaking at a press conference in Ijevan, Armenia, Rasmussen said that the EU maintains very close ties with Azerbaijan in the energy sector.

“In this regard I think the EU must use that lever effectively in order for Azerbaijan to sign the peace agreement with Armenia,” he said.

Rasmussen, a former Danish Prime Minister who led NATO from 2009 to 2014, expressed hope that the international community will exert maximum pressure on Azerbaijan in order to achieve the signing of the peace agreement.

“I think the international community will influence Baku and demand it to swiftly sign the agreement,” he said.

He said he shares the Armenian people’s disappointment that the international community’s calls on Azerbaijan remain without consequences. “I hope the international community has learned a lesson and will exert maximum pressure to make Azerbaijan sign the peace agreement,” Rasmussen said.

Days after Armenia and Azerbaijan announced that the negotiations around the peace treaty terms have been successfully concluded, the Azerbaijani government started a massive disinformation campaign falsely accusing Armenia of firing at its military positions across the border. The accusations have been numerously denied by the Armenian military. Furthermore, the Azerbaijani authorities refused to provide any evidence in support of their accusations. The report on border shootings was also denied by the EU monitoring mission in Armenia. 

On March 20, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reiterated readiness to sign the peace agreement with Azerbaijan.

 

 

 

Published by Armenpress, original at https://armenpress.am/en/article/1214985?fbclid=IwY2xjawJJJ-9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVeVzPtMz1GteeW4GyQHy7qrF82f8bxkds95gUZ68f1RSAVZKQ6vddtu9A_aem_RACtrDj0hgJIgVENkynuJg

[MosJan]

 

[MosJan]

he has a point .. it makes  no difference of these papers signed or not signed he's still going to be aggressive

[MosJan]

 

[MosJan]

🥵

[MosJan]

 

[MosJan]

Ehhhhhhh

[Yervant1]

OC Media

March 24 2025

 

After years of deterioration, Armenia’s relations with Russia appear to be warming

 

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

 

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include the announcement of the latest call between Mirzoyan and Lavrov.

Following the freefall in bilateral relations over the past few years, Armenia’s relations with Russia appear to be warming up, with the number of high-level contacts increasing in recent weeks.

On Monday, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan held a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that they ‘discussed current issues on the bilateral, regional, and global agendas’.

‘The progress in agreeing on the text of the peace treaty between Yerevan and Baku, which was highly praised in Moscow, was noted. The ministers discussed the schedule and substantive content of the upcoming interstate contacts’.

This marked the second call between Mirzoyan and Lavrov, with the previous one held on 21 March, during which Mirzoyan congratulated Lavrov on his birthday.

Mirzoyan wrote on X that during the call, they ‘touched upon upcoming engagements in our bilateral political dialogue’.

On the same day, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov commented on media reports that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had ‘instructed all his departments to “restore ties” with their Russian colleagues’.

The news was published by Hraparak, an Armenian tabloid media outlet, which did not specify the source of its information.

Peskov noted that Russia is ‘more than satisfied with such a mutual attitude of the Armenian side to the prospects of our bilateral relations and [is] ready to develop them in every possible way’.

Peskov also said that the relations between Russia and Armenia ‘have not been interrupted’ and that they ‘cannot be interrupted’.

‘Armenia is a friendly country for us. It is a sovereign state, but we have a lot in common — bilaterally, historically, and culturally. And in terms of joint participation in such an important integration association as the Eurasian  Economic Union’, Peskov said.

Before this, on 20 March, political consultations were held between the Armenian and Russian foreign ministries in Moscow, headed by Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Mnatsakan Safaryan and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Galuzin.

The two sides discussed a ‘broad range of issues’ focused on bilateral relations, including the development of trade and economic cooperation between Armenia and Russia.

Armenian and Russian foreign ministries hold talks in Moscow

Armenia’s relations with Russia have appeared to improve in recent months, following a deterioration over the past few years.

The freefall of the bilateral ties largely began following the lack of support from Russia and the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) during the Azerbaijani attacks on Armenia in 2021 and 2022. Another major reason was the ‘inaction’ of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh, when Azerbaijan placed the region in a nine-month blockade and forced it to surrender in a culminating lightning offensive in September 2023.

One of the signs that relations were improving came in January, when Mirzoyan and Lavrov held talks in Moscow in ‘a sincere and constructive atmosphere’.

Russian MP speaks in defence of Nagorno-Karabakh officials detained in Azerbaijan

Following the agreement on the text of the peace treaty with Azerbaijan on 13 March, Russian President Vladimir Putin was the first world leader that Pashinyan had a phone call with, ‘informing’ him of the development.

During the same call, according to the Kremlin, Pashinyan confirmed that ‘he accepted the invitation’ of Putin ‘to take part in the 9 May celebrations in Moscow marking the 80th anniversary’ of the USSR’s victory in World War II.

Sona Ghazaryan, an MP from the ruling Civil Contract party, in an interview with  CivilNet, stated that there is a ‘change in logic and content’ in bilateral relations with Russia.

‘For a long time, Armenian–Russian relations have become more honest, open, but at the same time based on the principle of mutual respect for sovereignty and independence. We are able to discuss complex topics, we are able to agree on complex topics, but at the same time I think that relations will benefit from this sincerity’, she said.

Ghazaryan also stated that Armenia ‘should be guided by having minimal enemies and developing interconnectedness with various states’, and that Armenia should not fall ‘from one extreme to the other’.

After the ruling Georgian Dream party claimed victory in the October 2024 elections — which were found by both local and international observers to have had serious violations — and continued its drift away from the West, Armenia was left as the sole state in the region actively pursuing integration with the EU.

With this geopolitical shift, political analysts foresaw a potential shift in Armenia’s pro-Western policy to pursuing more balanced relations with other countries, including with Russia.

https://oc-media.org/after-years-of-deterioration-armenias-relations-with-russia-appear-to-be-warming/