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Original Title: Pashinyan takes a shot at Russia's "corridor" demands, exposes Aliyev's peace obstructionism and lies about Armenia's Constitution \ Lithuanian ex-prez's advice to Armenia \ Big drama in Yerevan & Goris \ Medicine purge \ Economy \ Explosion at smelter: casualties \ AM-HU; Black Sea \ and...
12 minutes of Armenia coverage in Transcaucasian Telegraph's Sep/10/2024 edition.
first-ever international "Yerevan Dialogue" launched on Tuesday, attended by public officials and experts from 61 countries with 40% of panelists being women
Most of what PM Pashinyan said was a repetition of the information he shared during the September 2 press conference, which the followers of Transcaucasian Telegraph read here.
... Pashinyan about peace agreement
He repeated that it's possible to sign a peace agreement today because most of the text, including the important parts, is already mutually acceptable by both parties and that the remaining parts can be discussed later once diplomatic relations are established between the two states as stipulated under the peace treaty. Azerbaijan refuses to sign it under various pretenses.
... Pashinyan about communication routes
Pashinyan wants to open the regional communication routes so Armenia can gain railway access to Iran and Turkey, while Azerbaijan can connect to Turkey. This can be achieved under the Crossroads of Peace.
Pashinyan took a shot at Russia and Azerbaijan for attempting to open only the Nakhijevan-Azerbaijan route and hand over its control to Russia, as opposed to opening every communication route and allowing states to manage the routes passing through their territories. "Such modus operandi is not understandable to us, and to speak directly is unacceptable to us," said Pashinyan about the RU-AZ efforts.
... Pashinyan about the terms of the Nov 9 ceasefire agreement violated by Russia and Azerbaijan, and the ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh
Pashinyan criticized Russia and Azerbaijan again by accusing them of violating the November 9 ceasefire statement: "Paragraph 7 of the statement provides that internally displaced persons and refugees return to the Nagorno Karabakh territory and the adjacent regions under the supervision of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. As you can see, after November 9, 2020, when the President of the Russian Federation and the President of Azerbaijan and myself signed this document, the Armenian refugees that left Nagorno Karabakh and the adjacent territories not only did not return to Nagorno Karabakh and the adjacent regions, but as a consequence of other events that unfolded a year ago, Nagorno Karabakh was fully emptied of Armenians, as a result of ethnic cleansing."
... Pashinyan criticized Azerbaijan for not freeing the ethnic Armenian hostages held in Baku prisons
PASHINYAN: Paragraph 8 of the November 9, 2020, trilateral statement provides that the exchange of POWs, hostages, and other detained persons, as well as the bodies of the deceased, shall be carried out. To date, there are POWs, hostages, and other detained persons in Azerbaijan. They have not been returned to date despite the provision that can be found in the November 9 trilateral statement. As you can see, it has not been implemented.
... Pashinyan about Russia's double standards and pro-Azerbaijan stance
PASHINYAN: None of the partners has any basis for accusing Armenia of failing to implement any of the provisions of the November 9 statement. However, as you can see Armenia and any independent and objective observer have grounds to say that our other partners, the signatories of the November 9 statement, have not at least fully fulfilled their obligations.
... Pashinyan exposes Azerbaijan's bad faith arguments about Armenia's Constitution supposedly being an "obstacle" because it "contains territorial demands" against Azerbaijan
PASHINYAN: The Constitution of the Republic of Armenia says nothing about the claims that are being attributed to it. This is similar to the situation with the November 9 trilateral statement, where an attempt is made to attribute something [Zangezur Corridor] that is simply not written.
On the contrary, Article 5, Point 3 of the Constitution of Armenia stipulates that “In case of contradiction between the norms of international treaties ratified by the Republic of Armenia and domestic laws, the provisions of international treaties shall apply.” This is another key principle. The peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan as to be ratified by the Armenian Parliament, would mean that this agreement does not contradict the Constitution of Armenia. The moment it is ratified, it becomes superior over all other possible laws. This is a factor that must also be considered.
... "The reality is that the Constitution of Azerbaijan contains territorial demands against Armenia": Pashinyan
PASHINYAN: How is this substantiated? The constitutional act adopted by Azerbaijan in 1991 is the foundation of the Constitution of Azerbaijan and this is stated in the Constitution of Azerbaijan. The constitutional act, in turn, refers to and is based on the declaration of the establishment of the first Azerbaijani Republic in 1918. That is, the Constitution is based on the 1991 Independence Act, and the Independence Act of 1991 is in turn based on the 1918 Declaration of Independence. The 1918 Declaration of Independence proclaims that the territories of Azerbaijan shall include Eastern and Southern Transcaucasia. Moreover, in 1919, maps were submitted to the Paris Peace Conference and the League of Nations for the registration of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan contained the entire Syunik and Vayots Dzor regions of the Republic of Armenia, as well as parts of Ararat, Armavir, Gegharkunik, Tavush, Lori, and Shirak regions.
All of this makes obvious that the Constitution of Azerbaijan does contain territorial claims against the Republic of Armenia. But it is also important to note that we do not make this a topic of negotiation; we do not raise this issue because we believe that in the text of the peace treaty we agreed upon there is a provision that we see as follows: None of the parties can invoke the provisions of its internal legislation as justification for its failure to carry out the international agreements.
The text of the peace treaty fully addresses this problem and the international treaty provides that the parties may not invoke their domestic legislation as justification for failure to comply with their obligations under the international agreement.
full text with additional details, video, video,
Dalia Grybauskaitė, former president of Lithuania, spoke about her country's path to the EU and the Kaliningrad route
GRYBAUSKAITE (Yerevan Dialogue): We have not always been clever but we've always had our future, independence, and statehood in mind. This helped us make the right choice on who our friends are and what path to choose. Lithuania joined the EU only 20 years ago, and during these 20 years, we have been able to reach almost 90% of the European standard of living. We started from very very low. We are very similar to your country, with almost no energy resources, 3 million people, and practically no minerals. It was our people, education, resilience, and willingness to fight for ourselves and to invest in our country. We started by cooperating with Baltic states, we created the Baltic Council, and of course, we received immediate and very serious support from Nordic countries and cooperated with them closely and then later with the European Union. The decision to enter the EU's economic security club was very useful for us, but of course that meant a lot of reforms, a lot of responsibility, and to build resilience. It's about economic resilience. Economic resilience means energy resilience. Today Lithuania is not overly dependent on any single country for energy, while 20 years ago we were 100% dependent on Russian gas. Today it's 0%. That required huge efforts, expensive efforts, but our whole nation was united and understood that political independence ...
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