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2022-09-01 15:07:23 Ruben Vardanyan's statement on moving to Artsakh, creating a security and development front in Artsakh and renouncing the Russian citizenship.

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2022-09-01 15:02:49 Death penalty for treason in Armenia: the Prosecutor General proposes to create constitutional and legal grounds for the application of the death penalty for treason, taking into account the materials of criminal proceedings initiated in cases of manifest treason recorded during and after the 44-day Artsakh war.

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2022-09-01 13:56:38 After the 2020 ceasefire, Azerbaijan committed more than 112 crimes in Artsakh.

3 civilians and 15 military servicemen were killed, 126 persons were subjected to attempted murders (48 civilians, 78 militaries), 65 people (14 civilians, 51 militaries) were wounded, Artsakh Ombudsman reported.

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2022-09-01 13:54:58 On the evening of August 31, a fight between Armenians and tourists from Turkey took place in the city of Vedi, Ararat Province. This was reported in the Information and Public Relations Department of the Armenian Police, commenting on rumors about a clash of Turkish tourists with the local population in Vedi, Sputnik Armenia reports.

According to eyewitnesses, the Turks were drunk and insulted the Armenians.

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2022-08-31 19:24:15 Charles Michel's statement to the press following the trilateral meeting with Pashinyan and Aliyev

As agreed during our last meeting in May, today I received President of Azerbaijan Aliyev and Prime Minister of Armenia Pashinyan. It was our fourth discussion in this format. Our discussions focussed on the latest developments in the South Caucasus and relations between the EU and both countries. Our exchange of views was open and productive, and I would like to thank both leaders for that.

Today we agreed to intensify substantive work to promote the peace treaty regulating interstate relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and instructed the Foreign Ministers to meet within a month to work out the draft texts.

We also discussed in detail humanitarian issues, including demining, prisoners and the fate of missing persons. Chairman Michel stressed the importance of further release of Armenian prisoners for Azerbaijan. The EU will continue to deal with these issues.

We have reviewed progress on all issues related to border delimitation and how best to ensure a stable situation. We agreed that the next meeting of the border commissions will be held in Brussels in November.

We have familiarised ourselves with the discussion of the conditions for unlocking transport messages. In all these discussions, I would like to emphasise that it is important to prepare people on both sides for long-term sustainable peace. The exchange of public statements is crucial in this matter - in such a delicate situation, every word spoken in public is obviously listened to by the other party and weighed. The EU is ready to continue to strengthen its support for long-term sustainable peace. The EU will also continue to insist on accelerating economic development for the benefit of both countries and their populations. We agreed to meet again in this format by the end of November.

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2022-08-31 18:57:51 The press service of the Armenian government informs.

Issues related to the release of prisoners and finding out the fate of missing persons, demarcation and security of borders, unblocking of the region, settlement of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, Nagorno-Karabakh problem were discussed at Pashinyan and Aliyev's meeting in Brussels.

An agreement was also reached to continue substantive negotiations at the level of foreign ministers and to develop a peace treaty.
The meeting of foreign ministers will be held within a month. And the next meeting of the heads of state will take place in November.

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2022-08-31 18:21:17 According to media reports, the trilateral meeting of Pashinyan-Michelle-Aliyev is over.
The negotiations lasted about four hours.

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2022-08-31 16:13:53 The upper part of the village of Taghavard, Martuni district of Artsakh, which was under the control of Azerbaijan after the 44-day war, was in smoke yesterday.
The Azerbaijani occupiers set fire to meadows, gardens and several other houses belonging to internally displaced residents of this part of the village. At least 8-10 houses were set on fire.

"Pastinfo" was reported by Taghaward resident Rudik Badasyan.

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2022-08-31 15:45:01 The Artsakh Human Rights Defender published an extraordinary report in three languages on violations of the rights of the people of Artsakh by Azerbaijan in August 2022, which was sent to the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, structures with a priority mandate to protect human rights and international human rights organisations.
The report presents facts about systematic and continuous crimes committed by Azerbaijan against the people of Artsakh after the adoption of a tripartite statement.

The report is available at the following link: https://artsakhombuds.am/en/document/951

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2022-08-31 15:28:25 Ex-commander of the Artsakh Defence Army Mikael Arzumanyan is at large: however, today at 19:00 the issue of detention of Mikael Arzumanyan will be discussed in the hall of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan.

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