Azerbaijani forces, once again, opened fire on Armenian positions in Yeraskh, two days after 38-year-old Armenian soldier Samvel Alaverdyan was killed by Azerbaijani forces there.
Armenia’s Defense Ministry reported Friday that the Azerbaijani forces began shooting at Armenian positions in Yeraskh at 11 a.m. local time, adding that Armenia’s Armed Forces took the necessary counteroffensive measures.
Yeraskh, which is located near the Armenia-Azerbaijan border in the Ararat Province, borders Nakhichevan, from where the shots were fired.
“Our residents, thank God, have a strong will and is ready at any moment to stand by our soldier if need be,” Yeraskh community leader Radik Oghikyan told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service on Friday.
In this uncertain climate, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry announced that it would open another military station in occupied Agdam on the border of Artsakh, the third such facility in the last month and a half.
“In order to organize military command and service at the highest caliber, a modular military station has started operations in Agdam,” announced the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry.
Azerbaijan’s military leadership also announced that since the conclusion of military operations from the 44-day war, 20 new military stations have been established in territories surrendered to Azerbaijan as a result of the November 9 agreement.
As Azerbaijan continues to illegally station its troops—1,000 by official accounts—on Armenia’s sovereign territory in the Gegharkunik and Syunik provinces, the country’s president, Ilham Aliyev, threatened Armenia on Wednesday saying that Yerevan must “come to its senses” and sign a peace agreement with Azerbaijan.
Artsakh’s Human Rights Defender Gegham Stapanyan said in a Facebook post on Friday that Aliyev’s statement were fraught with irreversible consequences and “endangers the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people of Artsakh—first and foremost their security, life, and dignity.”
“The international community must finally realize that there can simply be no peaceful co-existence with a people who for years have been nourished by an indescribable ‘poison’ of Armenophobia; who a few months ago committed the most heinous war crimes, targeting almost all the civilian settlements and population of Artsakh; tortured and inhumanely treated Armenian prisoners of war and the bodies of the killed servicemen,” said Stepanyan, who emphasized that the Karabakh conflict is far from having been resolved.
I have said it a dozen times and say it again.
It is time to mobilize globally with MONEY and fighters.
WE HAVE NO CHOICE..
Otherwise start writing new patriotic songs for the next 500 years of occupation.
The major powers implement plans for their own interests and not of Armenia
If we as an Armenian nation do not stand up now, I believe we will not have a nation.
All it takes is $10 a week per Armenian adult, and from roughly 4 million adults in the diaspora that is $40 Million a week or just over $2 Billion a year. Just imagine in 2years the weapons we can buy to defend our nation..
Very good idea!
The first thing that has to happen is that Armenia must be cleaned of internal enemies who are the reason behind most of what is happening these days. Armenia has to have a solid foundation in order to be able to implement such plans or any other for that matter. To accomplish this Armenian today. more than ever, needs a nationalist (ազգայնական) leadership that concerns itself with the national interests of the Armenian nation and one that is not subservient to a agents of foreign state. Our nation, collectively, has to have trust and belief in its government. A government that is transparent and serves the national interests of our nation exclusively. Once such structure is in place I have no doubt Armenians worldwide will not only do what you are suggesting but that they will do it in many folds.
ARMENIA FILLED WITH GANGSTER!! MAFIA!!! CORRUPT POLITICIANS!!! $40 MILLION A WEEK WILL BE STOLEN AND WASTED!!!
ARMENIA NO DIFFERENT THAN CORRUPT AFRICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN HELL HOLES!!!!!!!!!
SEROP!!!!
$10 MILLION A WEEK TO BE STOLEN AND WASTED!!!!! 30 YEARS PASSED AND BILLIONS WERE STOLEN AND WASTED INSTEAD OF INVESTED!!!! ARMENIA IS WEAK POOR AND EMPTY!!!!!! ARMENIA IS LIKE THIRD WORLD AFRICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY!!! ALL CORRUPT!!!!!!!!!!
I agree 100% with Hagop
This is a practical idea but ( a) the existing organizations will get in the way and not accept a new channel to act for all , and (b) are we assured where the money will go ?
We must solve this problem with a decisive military victory that will be written in history books. Surely we must have seen all the cards exposed.