Karabakh to hold nationwide minute of silence to honor war victimsSeptember 24, 2021 - 15:42 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - A minute of silence will be held throughout Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) at 11:00 am on September 27, to honor the memory of the victims of the 44-day war unleashed by Azerbaijan in fall 2020, the presidential press service reports. At 10:30 am of that same day, the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church will serve a funeral Mass in all the churches of Artsakh for the heroes who died defending the homeland. Azerbaijan launched a large-scale war against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) almost exactly a year ago – on September 27, 2020. At least 4000 Armenians were killed in the hostilities, tens of thousands were displaced and left homeless. On November 9, the Armenian, Russian and Azerbaijani leaders signed a statement to end the war in Karabakh after almost 45 days. Under the deal, the Armenian side returned all the regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, having lost a part of Karabakh itself in hostilities. Top stories The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. London’s Armenian community has been left feeling “under attack” after the city’s Genocide monument was vandalised. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |