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2021-02-26 16:48:38 Vazgen Manukyan, Artsvik Minasyan, Arthur Vanetsyan and Vahram Baghdasaryan met with Armen Sarkissian. According to Vanetsyan the President informed that he is going to meet with Onik Gasparyan and the leadership of the General Staff of the Armed Forces to hear from them the reasons behind such a statement. "There is a consensus that in reality Armenia is in a very abnormal situation, we are in danger of losing the state, so all possible forces must take joint steps to get out of this situation," Vanetsyan added. Open / Comment

2021-02-26 16:35:50 Today RA President Armen Sarkissian held meetings with the head of My Step factions Lilit Makunts, head of Bright Armenia faction Edmon Marukyan and secretary of Prosperous Armenia faction Arman Abovyan. The sides shared views and opinions regarding critical situation in Armenia, and discussed means to ease the tension and peacefully resolve the situation. The representatives of the parliamentary factions presented their approaches and views. Open / Comment

2021-02-26 16:11:20 Motherland Salvation Movement Co-ordinator Ishkhan Saghatelyan announced about their rally to be held at 6:00 p.m. at the Baghramyan Avenue. Open / Comment

2021-02-26 16:07:16 Question: The Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan issued a statement on the events near the town of Aghdam of 1992, once again voicing the traditional accusations against Armenia. How would you comment on that?

Answer: Azerbaijan has unleashed two large-scale wars against the right of the people of Artsakh to self-determination resulting in tens of thousands of casualties. Azerbaijan bears full responsibility for the losses and deprivations of the people of the region for three decades.

During the two wars unleashed against the people of Artsakh as well as the period preceding it, Azerbaijani side resorted to mass atrocities, including ethnic cleansing and war crimes. The murders of the Armenian civilians by Azerbaijani soldiers in the territories of the Hadrut region of Artsakh fallen under its control during the recent war have been described as war crimes by the respective international bodies, specifically the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. [Answer by the MFA Spokesperson Anna Naghdalyan to the question of Aysor.am news agency] Open / Comment

2021-02-26 15:57:55 “We are extremely concerned by recent developments in Armenia,” said PACE’s co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Armenia, Boriana Aberg (Sweden, EPP/CD) and Kimmo Kiljunen (Finland, SOC). “In particular, we found the statement issued yesterday by the office of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, calling for the resignation of a democratically-elected government, to be unacceptable.”

“We call upon all political forces and state actors to fully respect democratic principles and the Constitution of Armenia, and to take all necessary steps to immediately de-escalate the current situation,” they added.

“Armenia is going through a very difficult phase in its recent history and – more than ever – needs calm, restraint, wisdom and unwavering support for democratic principles by all concerned in order to resolve the political crisis it is facing.” |pace.coe.int| Open / Comment

2021-02-26 15:25:29 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey opposes all types of coup attempts regarding the attempted military takeover in Armenia against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.

"We are against all types of coups. We simply cannot accept coup attempts," Erdoğan told reporters in a brief news conference following Friday prayers in Istanbul.

He continued by saying that the Armenian military's attempt is "unacceptable," adding that the Armenian people should have the final say if the existing administration needs to be changed. |dailysabah.com| Open / Comment

2021-02-26 14:52:02 The announcement of the President of Azerbaijan leads to the violation of the process of exchange of prisoners mediating by the ICRC and the RF. There is no place Armenia has saboteurs or terrorists, these definitions once again prove that Azerbaijan is bargaining the issue of the captured persons. This kind of actions and announcements contradict to spirit and logic of the trilateral statement as of 9 November 2020, in particular, its Article 8, where it is noted that “an exchange of prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead is to be carried out”. [Office of Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan] Open / Comment

2021-02-26 14:34:46 RA President Armen Sarkissian held a meeting with the President of the RA National Assembly Ararat Mirzoyan. The meeting participants discussed the role the RA President and President of the NA may play in order to ease the tense situation in the country. Open / Comment

2021-02-26 14:04:17 On 27 February Deputy Prime Ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia will hold a meeting in Moscow. All three sides have confirmed their participation; this will be the third meeting in this format. Open / Comment

2021-02-26 13:49:04 Citizens, demanding Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation, are in front of the Presidential House at the moment. Co-ordinator of the Motherland Salvation Movement Ishkhan Saghatelyan announced that today at 3:40 p.m. their delegation would meet with the RA President Armen Sarkissian. They will demand the President to clearly articulate his position regarding the dismissal of the Head of the General Staff. Open / Comment