Expert: Azerbaijan is nest of Al-Qaeda in South CaucasusMay 4, 2011 - 14:36 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Political analyst Sergey Shakaryants said that modern Azerbaijan is not anyhow inferior to Al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Azerbaijan has been implementing a state terror in the South Caucasus since 1988, as a result of which three Artsakh servicemen were killed recently at the line of contact between the NKR and Azerbaijani armed forces, Shakaryants told a press conference in Yerevan. According to him, Azerbaijan is a nest of Al-Qaeda in South Caucasus. Shakaryants added that the Armenian sides have the right to terminate the negotiations and set a condition before the OSCE Minsk Group that it prevents Aliyev from provocative actions. “It is high time for mediators to deal with terrorist Azerbaijan, telling it that if Baku continues acting the same way, the Armenian side may act in compliance with the 1994 principle - kill 10 Azerbaijanis in response to any Armenian victim,” he concluded. Top stories President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. Partner news | Lemkin Institute petition seeks release of Armenians in Azerbaijan The Lemkin Institute is deeply concerned about the continued illegal detention of political prisoners from Karabakh in Azerbaijan. Armenian Catholicos calls for national unity against threats Karekin II issued a message on Republic Day marking the anniversary of the First Armenian Republic. Opposition leader, supporters spend night at Sardarapat memorial Police made nearly 300 arrests the day before as Galstanyan and his supporters continued to demonstrate in Yerevan. Armenia designates flood-hit communities as disaster areas The emergency situation was created by floods caused by heavy rains in Armenia’s north on May 25-26. |