Politics

The Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mamediarov announced yesterday that at the present the Azeri are waiting for a response from Yerevan concerning the Karabagh peace settlement due to the fact that President Robert Kocharyan had called for a time out in order for the “exchange of both Foreign Ministries and an analysis on the …

“The people living in Karabagh are the ones who must give a final resolution concerning the Karabagh peace settlement. After all, it is their issue. We must do everything we can so that Karabagh participates in the peace settlement,” announced Pierre Lelush yesterday, who is the member of the “Transitional Democracy Project” and representative of …

“168 hours”: What can you tell us about Vazgen Sargsyan?” Vladimir Gasparyan: “What can I say about Vazgen Sargsyan? Everything has already been said and I do not want to repeat anything. I do not wish to talk about him. There is a lot to say and at the same time not so much to …

There are rumors spreading that Armen Sargsyan will soon be released from jail. Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan said the following to one of the journalists: “In general, I think that anything is possible. If they release Samvel Babayan from jail, then it is possible that they release Armen Sargsyan after a while”. Armen Sargsyan’s brother-in-law, …

Administrative member of the Voluntary Union of Land Defenders and National Assembly deputy Hakob Hakobyan believes that the “Land Defender” could not do anything to prevent the events of October 27 from taking place. What can the “Land Defender” do in the first place? The “Land Defender” is not a lawful body that can defend …

“168 hours” weekly tried to clear some issues with President of the “New Times” political party and political analyst Aram Karapetyan. Had he analyzed the events of “October 27”, why did those events take place and who were the people interested in the events? He replied: “I had done some analysis about that before I …

Gagik Jhangiryan, who is the military prosecutor of the investigation of the October 27 events, visited Yerablur yesterday with Manvel Grigoryan and Seyran Saroyan. In response to our question of whether he had anything to say about the unrevealed events after five years, Mr. Jhangiryan replied: “Investigation is going on right now. The unfinished part …

After the terrorist acts of October 27, Suren Abrahamyan was the only official who resigned from office. All the officials who were working during that time until now visited Yerablur in three groups. We asked S. Abrahamyan if he regretted his resignation and told him that he could have been in the groups too. To …

Yesterday, at 12 o’clock, former Vice Defense Minister of the Republic of Nagorno Karabagh Samvel Babayan visited Yerablur (cemetery) with some of his bodyguards. We found out from one of the women working there that this was not Babayan’s first visit after being released from jail. He had come on October 12 to Yerablur and …

Armen Sargsyan was the first one who visited Vazgen Sargsyan’s grave in Yerablur on October 27. Some workers of the colonial department accompanied him there at 1 a.m. in the morning. According to the on-duty workers at Yerablur, they have opened the Yerablur church at night because Armen wanted to light a candle for Vazgen. …