KARABAKH

Armenia refuses to recognize any „Karabakh government in exile“, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said, Trend reports.

He noted that some circles displaced from Azerbaijan's Karabakh are taking actions posing a threat to the national security of Armenia, stating about “governments in exile”, and so on.

„Such statements are a threat to national security“, the prime minister pointed out.

Azerbaijan and Armenia may sign a peace treaty in the first half of 2024, Trend reports, via “Fitch Solutions” (“Fitch group” company).

“We believe that a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia could be concluded as early as the first half of 2024”, “Fitch Solutions” stated.

Yerevan is ready to cooperate with Azerbaijan in clarifying the fate of persons reported missing, the statement of Armenia's Interdepartmental Commission on Captives, Hostages and Missing Persons reads, Trend reports.

"Armenia has repeatedly stated, including on high and highest levels, that it is ready to cooperate with Azerbaijan to clarify the fate of persons reported missing," the statement reads.

There's no longer a need for any mediation between Azerbaijan and Armenia, former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza told Trend.

Talking about the agreement reached between the two countries on mutual release of detained military servicemen, he noted that this is a landmark agreement of historical importance.

The State Building and Law Commission of the Armenian Parliament rejected a bill criminalizing Armenia's renouncement from Azerbaijan's Karabakh, Trend reports via the Armenian media.

The bill put forward by the opposition provided for amendments to the Criminal Code in connection with the refusal to recognize “Karabakh’s right to self-determination”.

Three years after the last war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Armenian-majority separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh has suffered new Azeri strikes. Baku says its intention was to target military infrastructure as part of an “anti-terrorist operation” and to spare civilians, but observers on the ground have reported a heavy human toll: At least 32 civilian deaths in the space of 24 hours. This Wednesday, the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh accepted a ceasefire with Azerbaijan, after mediation by Russian peacekeeping forces.

Implementation of the project covering transfer of green energy from Azerbaijan to Romania and Hungary through Georgia and the Black Sea continues, Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov said, Trend reports via the ministry.

Shahbazov made the remark within the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue conference during a roundtable dedicated to perspectives for a future energy partnership.

Reports are being circulated in the media and social networks on behalf of the “Russian community of Nagorno-Karabakh” about the mythical 5,000 Russians and citizens of Russia suffering from the alleged blockade of the Lachin road. The so-called “Secretary of the Assembly of Russian Compatriots” of the puppet “NKR” Andrei Sergeev makes statements about the “hardest test” of “more than 5,000 Russian compatriots” living in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

Illegal exploitation and looting of Azerbaijani natural resources continues in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, where Russian Federation peacekeepers are currently stationed.

The facts about the illegal exploitation of minerals, metals, timber, drinking water and other water resources are reflected in the reports and resolutions adopted by the OSCE, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Environment Program (UNEP) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

During the night of September 12-13, the situation at the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border worsened significantly. According to the official information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, on September 12, units of the Armenian armed forces carried out large-scale provocations along the Azerbaijani-Armenian state border. The sabotage groups of the armed forces of Armenia mined the sections between the positions of the Azerbaijani military units and the supply roads.