If Turkmenistan does not act before the EU lines up alternate sources of gas, the Trans-Caspian Pipeline project will become unviable, Allan Mustard, co-founder and co-head of the Trans-Caspian Resources energy startup, Former US Ambassador to Turkmenistan, told Trend.
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).
As the Secretary General of the Turkic Council, I welcome the signing of the Shusha Declaration on Allied Relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Turkey on 15 June 2021 in Shusha city, one of the ancient cradles of the Turkic culture.
The Secretariat of GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development (ODED GUAM) made a statement on the liberation of Azerbaijani Shusha city from Armenian occupation, “Trend” reports citing GUAM.
The liberation of Shusha city has a very important geostrategic significance, President of the „Caucasus International Center for the Study of Geohistory and Geopolitics“, Guram Markhulia told „Trend“.
The expert congratulated the entire Azerbaijani people with the liberation of the city of Shusha.
“Finally, the refugees of Azerbaijan will be able to return to their native lands”, Markhulia notes.
Azerbaijan’s liberation of Shusha is maybe the most important military victory in Azerbaijan’s history, former OSCE Minsk Group co-chair from the US Matthew Bryza told Trend.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced that the Azerbaijani troops liberated Shusha city, Russian political analyst Sergei Markov wrote on his Facebook page.
“This is the main moment of the war,” Markov said. "One can say that the second Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh war ended with the complete victory of Azerbaijan."
It is necessary to discuss the decades-long Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict from the prisms of restorative justice. In conflict resolution literature, “restorative justice” envisages a set of actions for soothing hostilities between the conflicting parties. The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict started with an armed military assault launched by Armenia against Azerbaijan in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
