Armenia

Russia has \u2018betrayed\u2019 Armenian people by standing aside in Nagorno-Karabakh - Charles Michel<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//03//20//armenias-biggest-challenge-on-its-eu-path-is-escaping-russias-pull/">Armenia's biggest challenge on its EU path is escaping Russia's pull <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//05//27//armenians-demand-prime-ministers-resignation-following-village-handover-to-azerbaijan/">Armenians demand prime minister's resignation following village handover to Azerbaijan<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Armenian authorities accused Russian peacekeepers who were deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh after a previous round of hostilities in 2020 of failing to stop Azerbaijan\u2019s onslaught. Moscow, which has a military base in Armenia, rejected the accusations, arguing that its troops didn\u2019t have a mandate to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin, in turn, has been angered by Pashinyan\u2019s efforts to deepen Armenia's ties with the West and distance his country from Moscow-dominated alliances.<\/p>\n<p>Russia was particularly vexed by Armenia's decision to join the International Criminal Court, which last year indicted Putin for alleged war crimes connected to Russian actions in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow, busy with the Ukrainian conflict that has dragged into a third year, has publicly voiced concern about Armenia's westward shift but sought to downplay the differences. <\/p>\n<p>Pashinyan\u2019s move comes as he faces a wave of large protests demanding he step down over his government\u2019s decision to turn over four border villages to Azerbaijan as part of an effort to negotiate a peace agreement with its long-time 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Tavush have assessed the aftermath of some of the heaviest flooding in recent decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia has reportedly sent troops to help authorities pick up the pieces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least four people have died in the overflowing of the Debed, Tashir and Aghstev rivers following heavy rain, a regional official said on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8444464\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//05//18//europe-hit-by-severe-floods-in-the-north-and-heatwaves-in-the-south/">Europe hit by severe floods in the north and heatwaves in the south<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>More than 269 people were evacuated from the area, while entire towns and villages were cut off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some fifteen bridges collapsed in the northeast of the country, as a result of the floods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people were cut off from water, gas and electricity supplies.\u00a0Officials said emergency food and clean water deliveries were underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the town of Alaverdi, shops were flooded and utilities were cut, business owners were forced to get rid of much of their stock which was destroyed by the floods.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flash flooding also forced the suspension of rail services between Armenia and Georgia and the closure of their shared border crossing.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1716883409,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1716908583,"firstPublishedAt":1716908585,"lastPublishedAt":1716908583,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/46\/30\/98\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_1ef8da43-e17a-5e81-811b-438c093c29d7-8463098.jpg","altText":"M-4 highway, Dilijan area, Armenia 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demonstrators held a protest on Sunday in Armenia , calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan after Yerevan agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan. \n\nThe demonstration was the latest in a series of weekslong gatherings led by Bagrat Galstanyan, a high-ranking cleric and archbishop of the Tavush diocese in Armenia's northeast, from the Armenian Apostolic Church. \n\nHe spearheaded the formation of a movement called 'Tavush For The Homeland' after Armenia agreed to cede control of four villages in the region to Azerbaijan in April. Although the villages were the movement's core issue, it has expanded to express a wide array of complaints about Pashinyan and his government. \n\nThe decision to hand over the villages in Tavush came after a rapid military campaign in September, during which Azerbaijan's military pressured ethnic Armenian separatist authorities in the Karabakh region into surrendering. \n\nAfter Azerbaijan took full control of Karabakh, about 120,000 people fled the region, almost all of its ethnic Armenian population. \n\nEthnic Armenian fighters backed by Armenian forces had taken control of Karabakh in 1994 at the end of a six-year war.\u00a0 Azerbaijan reclaimed some territory through fighting in 2020 that ended with an armistice, bringing in a Russian peacekeeping force, which began withdrawing this year. \n\nPashinyan has said Armenia needs to quickly define the border with Azerbaijan to avoid a new round of hostilities . \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Tens of thousands of demonstrators held a protest on Sunday in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//tag//armenia/">Armenia, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan after Yerevan agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration was the latest in a series of weekslong gatherings led by Bagrat Galstanyan, a high-ranking cleric and archbishop of the Tavush diocese in Armenia&#039;s northeast, from the Armenian Apostolic Church.<\/p>\n<p>He spearheaded the formation of a movement called &#039;Tavush For The Homeland&#039; after Armenia agreed to cede control of four villages in the region to Azerbaijan in April. Although the villages were the movement&#039;s core issue, it has expanded to express a wide array of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//05//10//thousands-of-armenians-demand-resignation-of-pm-over-border-dispute/">complaints about Pashinyan and his government.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//45//99//90//808x539_cmsv2_7226ec63-39fe-5358-b0a8-0831715c92f8-8459990.jpg/" alt=\"Archbishop of the Tavush diocese in Armenia&apos;s northeast Bagrat Galstanyan addresses a crowd during a rally against PM Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan, Armenia, May 26, 2024.\" 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The meeting took place a day after Putin began his fifth term at a glittering Kremlin inauguration, which the Armenian leader did not attend. \n\nPutin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was quoted Thursday by Russian state news agency Tass as saying the two leaders had agreed to the removal of Russian forces from some Armenian regions. \n\nIn brief remarks at the start of the talks, Putin said that bilateral trade was growing but acknowledged \u201csome issues concerning security in the region.\u201d \n\nPashinyan, who last visited Moscow in December, said that \u201ccertain issues have piled up since then.\u201d \n\nWhile Pashinyan was visiting Moscow, Armenia\u2019s foreign ministry announced that the country would stop paying fees to the CSTO, a Russia-dominated security pact.\u00a0 \n\nArmenia has previously suspended its participation in the grouping as Pashinyan has sought to bolster ties with the European Union and NATO. \n\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Thousands of people took to the streets of the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on Thursday, demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan&#039;s resignation\u00a0over his government&#039;s decision to hand over control of border villages to Armenia&#039;s long-time rival Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>That decision came after Azerbaijan in September waged a lightning military campaign in Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority-ethnic Armenian region inside Azerbaijan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That caused tens of thousands of people to stream into Armenia, sparking demonstrations as protesters called for the prime minister to be ousted.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters led by a senior cleric in Armenia&#039;s church walked a distance of around 160 kilometres from villages near the border with Azerbaijan to Yerevan, where they gathered Thursday in Republic Square.<\/p>\n<p>Videos shared on social media showed thousands of people waving Armenian flags. 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The Armenian State Symphony Orchestra performs under the baton of Artistic Director Sergey Smbatyan alongside a lineup of world-renowned solo musicians. \n\nThe 2023 edition of the Khachaturian International Festival saw celebrations like never before, to mark the 120th anniversary of Aram Khachaturian's birth. Yerevan Municipality, with the deep involvement of Mayor Tigran Avinyan, initiated several major projects which attracted thousands of spectators from around the world, highlighting the significance of the event on the international stage. \n\nFeatures of the 2023 festival included a special jazz concert modernising Khachaturian\u2019s compositions and outdoor performances of the composer\u2019s famed ballets, including \u201cGayaneh\u201d and \u201cSpartacus\u201d. Renowned international musicians also shared the spotlight, including cellist Astrig Siranossian, violinist Stella Chen and pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian. \n\nArmenia\u2019s cultural riches \n\nArmenia offers a full spectrum of arts and culture stretching back millennia, from prehistoric engravings and magnificent old architecture to exquisite miniature paintings and intricately coloured carpets. Each art form tells the story of Armenian resilience, as well as their creativity, self-expression and national values. \n\nAlongside the Greeks and the Romans, Armenians hold some of the world\u2019s oldest theatre traditions and ceremonial performances dedicated to ancient gods were common in the old kingdom. Hand-in-hand with Armenia\u2019s theatrical prowess come impressive dance customs, as told through the spirited Kochari war dance and the fortress-imitating Berd, performed throughout the ages. \n\nMusical accompaniment was a significant feature of ancient and medieval theatre in Armenia, which offered a seductive blend of Eastern and Western influences. 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Whether it\u2019s folk sounds accompanied by upbeat dance during folk music festival TARAZfest, or jazz ensembles performing at concert halls and clubs in Yerevan for International Jazz Day, Armenia\u2019s arts and culture scene has something tuneful to offer all year-round.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of Armenia\u2019s musical calendar is the Khachaturian International Festival, a classical music festival dedicated to Armenia\u2019s famed 20th century composer, Aram Khachaturian.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most widely celebrated classical music events in the region, the Khachaturian International Festival aims to promote cross-cultural dialogue through music while raising awareness of Khachaturian&#039;s legacy to music fans around the world, from late November to mid December 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>An homage to Armenia\u2019s famed composer<\/h2><p>Organised through the Aram Khachaturian Cultural Foundation in collaboration with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, the Khachaturian International Festival is a vibrant showcase of the works of Armenia\u2019s most prized composer. The Armenian State Symphony Orchestra performs under the baton of Artistic Director Sergey Smbatyan alongside a lineup of world-renowned solo musicians.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 edition of the Khachaturian International Festival saw celebrations like never before, to mark the 120th anniversary of Aram Khachaturian&#039;s birth. Yerevan Municipality, with the deep involvement of Mayor Tigran Avinyan, initiated several major projects which attracted thousands of spectators from around the world, highlighting the significance of the event on the international stage.<\/p>\n<p>Features of the 2023 festival included a special jazz concert modernising Khachaturian\u2019s compositions and outdoor performances of the composer\u2019s famed ballets, including \u201cGayaneh\u201d and \u201cSpartacus\u201d. Renowned international musicians also shared the spotlight, including cellist Astrig Siranossian, violinist Stella Chen and pianist Jean-Paul Gasparian.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6653550683904815\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//34//93//32//808x539_cmsv2_7e714993-071a-5bcf-bacc-cf14e967de5a-8349332.jpg/" alt=\"Violinist Stella Chen\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/384x255_cmsv2_7e714993-071a-5bcf-bacc-cf14e967de5a-8349332.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/640x426_cmsv2_7e714993-071a-5bcf-bacc-cf14e967de5a-8349332.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/750x499_cmsv2_7e714993-071a-5bcf-bacc-cf14e967de5a-8349332.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/828x551_cmsv2_7e714993-071a-5bcf-bacc-cf14e967de5a-8349332.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/1080x719_cmsv2_7e714993-071a-5bcf-bacc-cf14e967de5a-8349332.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/1200x798_cmsv2_7e714993-071a-5bcf-bacc-cf14e967de5a-8349332.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/1920x1277_cmsv2_7e714993-071a-5bcf-bacc-cf14e967de5a-8349332.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Violinist Stella Chen<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Armenian State Symphony Orchestra<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Armenia\u2019s cultural riches<\/h2><p>Armenia offers a full spectrum of arts and culture stretching back millennia, from prehistoric engravings and magnificent old architecture to exquisite miniature paintings and intricately coloured carpets. Each art form tells the story of Armenian resilience, as well as their creativity, self-expression and national values.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the Greeks and the Romans, Armenians hold some of the world\u2019s oldest theatre traditions and ceremonial performances dedicated to ancient gods were common in the old kingdom. Hand-in-hand with Armenia\u2019s theatrical prowess come impressive dance customs, as told through the spirited Kochari war dance and the fortress-imitating Berd, performed throughout the ages.<\/p>\n<p>Musical accompaniment was a significant feature of ancient and medieval theatre in Armenia, which offered a seductive blend of Eastern and Western influences. This is said to have inspired the birth of opera and given rise to many successful<\/p>\n<p>composers and conductors, such as the 19th century\u2019s Tigran Chukhajian, founder of the Armenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable musicians to come out of Armenia include \u2018Master of the Duduk\u2019, Jivan Gasparyan, whose music is famously featured in the movie Gladiator, and Artemi Ayvazyan, a Soviet conductor and the founder of the Armenian State Jazz Orchestra.<\/p>\n<h2>Yerevan: A cultural symphony<\/h2><p>A capital in tune with modern culture and traditional roots, Yerevan pulsates with a vibrant musical scene, having hosted distinguished musicians from around the globe, including Svyatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, and Pl\u00e1cido Domingo. It was in Yerevan that English composer Benjamin Britten presented his concert series, and Soviet-Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich devised his 14th symphony.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to Yerevan can easily soak up the city\u2019s exciting musical heritage, with impromptu performances on the street or in restaurants across the city. If you\u2019re searching for more, the city\u2019s jazz clubs or cocktail lounges can provide, as can bigger venues such as the resplendent Yerevan Opera Theatre and Aram Khachaturian Concert hall, which offer busy performance schedules year round.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6652727272727272\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//34//93//32//808x539_cmsv2_86f303b5-2997-5ceb-8da1-19f17b15c3ff-8349332.jpg/" alt=\"Artistic Director Sergey Smbatyan\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/384x255_cmsv2_86f303b5-2997-5ceb-8da1-19f17b15c3ff-8349332.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/640x426_cmsv2_86f303b5-2997-5ceb-8da1-19f17b15c3ff-8349332.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/750x499_cmsv2_86f303b5-2997-5ceb-8da1-19f17b15c3ff-8349332.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/828x551_cmsv2_86f303b5-2997-5ceb-8da1-19f17b15c3ff-8349332.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/1080x718_cmsv2_86f303b5-2997-5ceb-8da1-19f17b15c3ff-8349332.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/1200x798_cmsv2_86f303b5-2997-5ceb-8da1-19f17b15c3ff-8349332.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/93\/32\/1920x1277_cmsv2_86f303b5-2997-5ceb-8da1-19f17b15c3ff-8349332.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Artistic Director Sergey Smbatyan<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Armenian State Symphony Orchestra<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>The 20th Khachaturian International Competition<\/h2><p>This year, Yerevan will also host the 20th Khachaturian International Competition, launching on June 6th to coincide with Khachaturian&#039;s birth date. This international competition is designed to reveal young musical talents in a number of classical disciplines, with the 2024 jubilee edition focusing on the violin category.<\/p>\n<p>Visit Armenia during the Khachaturian International Festival to be a part of this classical music extravaganza and witness the very best of Armenia\u2019s arts and culture scene. Book your Armenia trip and concert tickets early to avoid disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>Ready to experience the vivid soundscape of Armenian classical music in person? Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Armenian State Symphony Orchestra website:<\/strong> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.armsymphony.am//en//festival//khachaturian__international_festival/">View here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Khachaturian International Competition information page:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////armsymphony.am//en/">Armsymphony.am/n

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Ancient religious sites, delicious cuisine and a vibrant culture are abundant in Armenia and experiencing them all is easy, thanks to Armenia\u2019s petite size (the landlocked country is less than 30,000 km2) . \n\nSusanna Hakobyan, Deputy Head of the Tourism Committee for Armenia, recommends heading into Armenia\u2019s rural regions to experience the best of the country. \u201cIt's better to get out of the capital city because in the regional areas we have this authentic feel,\u201d she explains. \u201cWe have authentic food and culture and exploring these things will help visitors to dive deep into the real Armenian tradition, history and way of life.\u201d \n\nHere are just a few reasons to give Armenia a go in 2024. \n\nArmenia\u2019s local cuisine might surprise you \n\nThe country\u2019s complicated history of kingdoms and conquerors has moulded Armenian cuisine over the years. But the rich soil has always yielded lentils, wheat, figs, and apricots. \n\nBread is big here, and the traditional \u2018lavash\u2019 has been deemed a significant cultural icon, so its creation is on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. \n\nThe thin flatbread can be made leavened or unleavened and is often infused with poppy seeds. It\u2019s used prolifically for wraps, particularly around the various meat in \u2018khorovats\u2019, Armenian barbecue. It dries out fast, but is sometimes stacked dry and then softened with water for later use. \n\nOther traditional foods include \u2018dolma\u2019: a vine or cabbage leaf wrapped around ground beef or lamb blended with rice, herbs and spices. The dish is celebrated annually in a festival called Uduli in the city of Armavir, which showcases a wide range of dolma alongside cooking classes and competitions. \n\nThose lucky enough to attend a celebratory Armenian event such as a wedding or Christmas party might sample \u2018ghapama\u2019. A pumpkin stuffed with rice and dried fruits such as apricots, figs and raisins, this traditional dish is delivered to the table whole, then opened by slicing its sides. \n\nArmenia\u2019s ski slopes are underrated \n\nArmenia isn't a destination many skiers likely consider when planning a snowy escape, but with peaks higher than the Alps and long sunny days in the winter, it\u2019s set up well for piste fans. \n\nNew to the country\u2019s ski scene is Myler Resort in the Aparan region of Armenia. Here, skiers, snowboarders, snowshoers and skaters can explore 100 marked pistes, a skiable vertical drop of 972 metres and three resort villages. Bars and eateries abound, providing guests with great apres options and thrilling skiing. \n\nAnother popular ski resort is Tsakhkadzor, the largest ski area in the country, which is just 40 minutes by car from Yerevan. Thirty kilometres of pistes await (60 per cent of which are black), the highest of which starts at 2,819 metres. \n\nSkiing in Armenia is best enjoyed between December and March when the temperatures are suitably cold to ensure ideal slope conditions. \n\nImmerse yourself in an Armenian festival \n\nFestivals are a great way to get a sense of a country\u2019s cultural traditions and history, and Armenia has a ton of them. There are year-round festivities from food and wine celebrations to hot air balloon and jazz festivals if you know where to look. \n\nYerevan Wine Days is one of the most popular. Drawing over 160,000 visitors and featuring 17,000 bottles of wine last year, this vibrant festival takes place in early June and is designed to celebrate Armenia\u2019s more than 6,000-year history with the drink. \n\nSaryan Street is the centre of the event, with wine producers from all over the country offering samples of their libations. A stage hosts continuous live music while street food vendors provide visitors with a taste of their delicious, local cuisine. \n\nYerevan Jazz Day, the communal water-splashing of the Vardavar Festival, the festival of honey and berries, and an international film festival are just some of the other many and varied events on offer throughout the year. \n\nArmenia\u2019s UNESCO Heritage Sites will wow \n\nAs the world\u2019s first Christian nation, Armenia has serious historical significance; much of it is written across its landscapes. UNESCO deemed Three sites culturally significant, and the country has five more on its \u2018tentative\u2019 list. \n\nAll are well worth visiting, but one of the highlights is the Etchmiadzin Cathedral. Considered the mother of the Armenian Apostolic Church and claimed by some to be the oldest cathedral in the world, this beautiful building caught UNESCO\u2019s eye as a prime example of the central-domed cross-hall style of the church, which defined the architecture in much of the region. \n\nCloser to Armenia\u2019s northern border, in the Lari Province, lie the Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin. Byzantine monasteries dating back to the 10th century, these mostly intact, historic monuments are a testament to the seamless blending of Armenian and Byzantine architecture. They are 16 kilometres apart, so visiting them via a guided tour is often easiest. \n\nAnother striking monastery (and Armenia\u2019s third UNESCO site) is a collection of tombs and churches cut into the rock of the Upper Azat Valley. Just an hour east of Yerevan, the\u00a0 medieval buildings cut a striking pose against their steep cliff surroundings. On the way in, take a minute to toss a stone on the ledge in a cliff wall and make a wish. Locals believe if it stays on the ledge, your wish might just come true. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Armenia has ranked within the top 10 safest destinations in the world, according to Numbeo\u2019s safety index for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Caucasus country came eighth out of 146 nations, rated according to survey responses addressing topics including violent crime, property crime and perceived safety.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia\u2019s historic capital, Yerevan, also performed well, landing 19th out of 333 cities.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an attractive proposition for holidaymakers, but there are reasons other than peace of mind to visit Armenia. Ancient religious sites, delicious cuisine and a vibrant culture are abundant in Armenia and experiencing them all is easy, thanks to Armenia\u2019s petite size (the landlocked country is less than 30,000 km2) .<\/p>\n<p>Susanna Hakobyan, Deputy Head of the Tourism Committee for Armenia, recommends heading into Armenia\u2019s rural regions to experience the best of the country. \u201cIt&#039;s better to get out of the capital city because in the regional areas we have this authentic feel,\u201d she explains. \u201cWe have authentic food and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//12//13//a-melting-pot-of-cultures-what-makes-tokyos-arts-scene-so-special/">culture and exploring these things will help visitors to dive deep into the real Armenian tradition, history and way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few reasons to give Armenia a go in 2024.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//30//20//86//808x539_cmsv2_3cd36b88-bcd9-5dfc-9420-0d40ab8bf56d-8302086.jpg/" alt=\"Armenia is one of the world\u2019s safest countries\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/384x256_cmsv2_3cd36b88-bcd9-5dfc-9420-0d40ab8bf56d-8302086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/640x427_cmsv2_3cd36b88-bcd9-5dfc-9420-0d40ab8bf56d-8302086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/750x500_cmsv2_3cd36b88-bcd9-5dfc-9420-0d40ab8bf56d-8302086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/828x552_cmsv2_3cd36b88-bcd9-5dfc-9420-0d40ab8bf56d-8302086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/1080x720_cmsv2_3cd36b88-bcd9-5dfc-9420-0d40ab8bf56d-8302086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/1200x800_cmsv2_3cd36b88-bcd9-5dfc-9420-0d40ab8bf56d-8302086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/1920x1281_cmsv2_3cd36b88-bcd9-5dfc-9420-0d40ab8bf56d-8302086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Armenia is one of the world\u2019s safest countries<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Armenia Tourism Committee<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Armenia\u2019s local cuisine might surprise you<\/h2><p>The country\u2019s complicated history of kingdoms and conquerors has moulded Armenian cuisine over the years. But the rich soil has always yielded lentils, wheat, figs, and apricots.<\/p>\n<p>Bread is big here, and the traditional \u2018lavash\u2019 has been deemed a significant cultural icon, so its creation is on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The thin flatbread can be made leavened or unleavened and is often infused with poppy seeds. It\u2019s used prolifically for wraps, particularly around the various meat in \u2018khorovats\u2019, Armenian barbecue. It dries out fast, but is sometimes stacked dry and then softened with water for later use.<\/p>\n<p>Other traditional foods include \u2018dolma\u2019: a vine or cabbage leaf wrapped around ground beef or lamb blended with rice, herbs and spices. The dish is celebrated annually in a festival called Uduli in the city of Armavir, which showcases a wide range of dolma alongside cooking classes and competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Those lucky enough to attend a celebratory Armenian event such as a wedding or <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//01//19//uk-shoppers-tighten-their-purse-strings-over-christmas/">Christmas party might sample \u2018ghapama\u2019. A pumpkin stuffed with rice and dried fruits such as apricots, figs and raisins, this traditional dish is delivered to the table whole, then opened by slicing its sides.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//30//20//86//808x539_cmsv2_19b0e038-182f-51ea-a11c-0493ce8699bd-8302086.jpg/" alt=\"Armenia\u2019s local cuisine might surprise you\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/384x256_cmsv2_19b0e038-182f-51ea-a11c-0493ce8699bd-8302086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/640x427_cmsv2_19b0e038-182f-51ea-a11c-0493ce8699bd-8302086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/750x500_cmsv2_19b0e038-182f-51ea-a11c-0493ce8699bd-8302086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/828x552_cmsv2_19b0e038-182f-51ea-a11c-0493ce8699bd-8302086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/1080x720_cmsv2_19b0e038-182f-51ea-a11c-0493ce8699bd-8302086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/1200x800_cmsv2_19b0e038-182f-51ea-a11c-0493ce8699bd-8302086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/1920x1281_cmsv2_19b0e038-182f-51ea-a11c-0493ce8699bd-8302086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Armenia\u2019s local cuisine might surprise you<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Armenia Tourism Committee<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Armenia\u2019s ski slopes are underrated<\/h2><p>Armenia isn&#039;t a destination many skiers likely consider when planning a snowy escape, but with peaks higher than the Alps and long sunny days in the winter, it\u2019s set up well for piste fans.<\/p>\n<p>New to the country\u2019s ski scene is Myler Resort in the Aparan region of Armenia. Here, skiers, snowboarders, snowshoers and skaters can explore 100 marked pistes, a skiable vertical drop of 972 metres and three resort villages. Bars and eateries abound, providing guests with great apres options and thrilling skiing.<\/p>\n<p>Another popular ski resort is Tsakhkadzor, the largest ski area in the country, which is just 40 minutes by car from Yerevan. Thirty kilometres of pistes await (60 per cent of which are black), the highest of which starts at 2,819 metres.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//12//austrian-ski-resort-transitions-to-summer-sports-after-snowless-winters/">Skiing in Armenia is best enjoyed between December and March when the temperatures are suitably cold to ensure ideal slope conditions.<\/p>\n<h2>Immerse yourself in an Armenian festival<\/h2><p>Festivals are a great way to get a sense of a country\u2019s cultural traditions and history, and Armenia has a ton of them. There are year-round festivities from food and wine celebrations to hot air balloon and jazz festivals if you know where to look.<\/p>\n<p>Yerevan Wine Days is one of the most popular. Drawing over 160,000 visitors and featuring 17,000 bottles of wine last year, this vibrant festival takes place in early June and is designed to celebrate Armenia\u2019s more than 6,000-year history with the drink.<\/p>\n<p>Saryan Street is the centre of the event, with wine producers from all over the country offering samples of their libations. A stage hosts continuous live music while street food vendors provide visitors with a taste of their delicious, local cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>Yerevan Jazz Day, the communal water-splashing of the Vardavar Festival, the festival of honey and berries, and an international <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//03//09//dispossessed-and-in-exile-palestinian-lina-soualems-upbeat-feature-opens-fifdh-film-festiv/">film festival<\/strong><\/a> are just some of the other many and varied events on offer throughout the year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//30//20//86//808x539_cmsv2_a12630be-3531-5462-88c7-7329125042c3-8302086.jpg/" alt=\"Ancient religious sites, delicious cuisine and a vibrant culture are abundant in Armenia\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/384x256_cmsv2_a12630be-3531-5462-88c7-7329125042c3-8302086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/640x427_cmsv2_a12630be-3531-5462-88c7-7329125042c3-8302086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/750x500_cmsv2_a12630be-3531-5462-88c7-7329125042c3-8302086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/828x552_cmsv2_a12630be-3531-5462-88c7-7329125042c3-8302086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/1080x720_cmsv2_a12630be-3531-5462-88c7-7329125042c3-8302086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/1200x800_cmsv2_a12630be-3531-5462-88c7-7329125042c3-8302086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/30\/20\/86\/1920x1281_cmsv2_a12630be-3531-5462-88c7-7329125042c3-8302086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ancient religious sites, delicious cuisine and a vibrant culture are abundant in Armenia<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Armenia Tourism Committee<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Armenia\u2019s UNESCO Heritage Sites will wow<\/h2><p>As the world\u2019s first Christian nation, Armenia has serious historical significance; much of it is written across its landscapes. UNESCO deemed Three sites culturally significant, and the country has five more on its \u2018tentative\u2019 list.<\/p>\n<p>All are well worth visiting, but one of the highlights is the Etchmiadzin Cathedral. Considered the mother of the Armenian Apostolic Church and claimed by some to be the oldest cathedral in the world, this beautiful building caught UNESCO\u2019s eye as a prime example of the central-domed cross-hall style of the church, which defined the architecture in much of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to Armenia\u2019s northern border, in the Lari Province, lie the Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin. Byzantine monasteries dating back to the 10th century, these mostly intact, historic monuments are a testament to the seamless blending of Armenian and Byzantine architecture. They are 16 kilometres apart, so visiting them via a guided tour is often easiest.<\/p>\n<p>Another striking monastery (and Armenia\u2019s third UNESCO site) is a collection of tombs and churches cut into the rock of the Upper Azat Valley. Just an hour east of Yerevan, the\u00a0<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//03//27//a-look-inside-sardinias-mysterious-medieval-carnival/">medieval buildings cut a striking pose against their steep cliff surroundings. On the way in, take a minute to toss a stone on the ledge in a cliff wall and make a wish. 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HOBBIT HOTEL","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"\u2018Spellbinding\u2019: Inside the hobbit-themed hotel deep in an Armenian forest","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Stay in a hobbit-inspired village deep in an Armenian forest","titleListing2":"\u2018Spellbinding\u2019: Inside the hobbit-themed hotel deep in an Armenian forest","leadin":"The cottages have round wooden doors painted bright colours and windows set at jaunty angles.","summary":"The cottages have round wooden doors painted bright colours and windows set at jaunty angles.","keySentence":"","url":"spellbinding-inside-the-hobbit-themed-hotel-deep-in-an-armenian-forest","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/01\/02\/spellbinding-inside-the-hobbit-themed-hotel-deep-in-an-armenian-forest","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Hidden away in northern Armenia is a magical place where JRR Tolkien fans can live out their Lord of the Rings fantasy. \n\nDeep in 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to create a unique getaway, not just another mountain retreat. \n\n\u201cThe competition in Dilijan was quite high, especially since 2019. We had to think about creating something that would attract tourists. We had to create something that is out of the box and that brings a new style,\u201d he says. \n\nEvery gate, door, hinge and window has been specially made to imitate Tolkien\u2019s land of little people. \n\nAn alternative holiday \n\nCozy House hotel and its cottages attract people looking for something a little unorthodox. \n\n\"We wanted something out of the ordinary. This style of the cottage caught our attention,\u201d says guest Marine Petrosyan. \n\nKhachik believes their mission has been a success, attracting visitors from all over the world. \n\n\u201cMany people when learning there is such a place in Dilijan, they visit Armenia especially to stay at this hotel as they are fans of Tolkien\u2019s book and the movie,\u201d he says. \n\nIt\u2019s the prospect of being part of a Lord of the Rings story that attracted guest Christina Thomas. \n\nShe says children find the village spellbinding. \n\n\u201cI was looking for unique places to stay in Armenia and this came up as one of the number one locations to stay in, and we\u2019ve read these books 'Lord of the Rings', so these little hobbit houses really excited us,\u201d she says. \n\n\u201c[The children] were very excited staying in these little houses.\u201d \n\nA winter wonderland \n\nIn the deep of winter, the fantastical hamlet has become a snowy wonderland, much to the pleasure of the guests. \n\n\u201cAll the pictures of the place were very green, because the pictures they've taken were in summer. But you know, now coming here and seeing this whole place in snow\u2026 I think we made a very good choice to come in winter,\" says Christina. \n\n\"It looks beautiful, it looks very magical, just like out of a book or a movie .\u201d \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Hidden away in northern Armenia is a magical place where JRR Tolkien fans can live out their Lord of the Rings fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Deep in the snow-covered forest of Dilijan, two brothers have built a hobbit-style village that welcomes guests from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>The clutch of cottages is attached to their hobbit-inspired Cozy House hotel, which opened in 2019.<\/p>\n<h2>A hobbit hostel in northern Armenia<\/h2><p>Each cottage of the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2021//12//22//europe-s-prettiest-fairytale-towns-and-villages/">hobbit village<\/strong><\/a> has been carefully crafted to re-create the ambience of the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#039;ve tried to incorporate my professional expertise into this business,\u201d explains Edgar Gulanyan, one of the brothers who founded the accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made an effort to maintain our distinctive style and uniqueness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2021//10//29//ready-to-unplug-here-s-11-unusual-cabins-hobbit-holes-and-private-islands-without-wifi/">cottages have round wooden doors painted bright colours and windows set at jaunty angles.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the village restaurant, the walls are covered with quirky artwork - the scales of a fish are made from old vinyl records while a snail\u2019s shell reveals a hidden magnifying glass.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.4859375\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//13//93//38//808x392_cmsv2_5d812540-1e7e-5cbd-ac82-31175527c9c7-8139338.jpg/" alt=\"Every gate, door, hinge and window has been specially made to imitate Tolkien\u2019s land of little people.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/13\/93\/38\/384x187_cmsv2_5d812540-1e7e-5cbd-ac82-31175527c9c7-8139338.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/13\/93\/38\/640x311_cmsv2_5d812540-1e7e-5cbd-ac82-31175527c9c7-8139338.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/13\/93\/38\/750x364_cmsv2_5d812540-1e7e-5cbd-ac82-31175527c9c7-8139338.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/13\/93\/38\/828x402_cmsv2_5d812540-1e7e-5cbd-ac82-31175527c9c7-8139338.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/13\/93\/38\/1080x525_cmsv2_5d812540-1e7e-5cbd-ac82-31175527c9c7-8139338.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/13\/93\/38\/1200x583_cmsv2_5d812540-1e7e-5cbd-ac82-31175527c9c7-8139338.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/13\/93\/38\/1920x933_cmsv2_5d812540-1e7e-5cbd-ac82-31175527c9c7-8139338.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Every gate, door, hinge and window has been specially made to imitate Tolkien\u2019s land of little people.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Cozy House<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sales manager Khachik Hakobyan says staff here wanted to create a unique getaway, not just another mountain retreat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe competition in Dilijan was quite high, especially since 2019. We had to think about creating something that would attract tourists. We had to create something that is out of the box and that brings a new style,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Every gate, door, hinge and window has been specially made to imitate <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2021//03//11//how-has-new-zealand-harnessed-the-power-of-domestic-travel-to-save-its-tourism-sector/">Tolkien/u2019s land<\/strong><\/a> of little people.<\/p>\n<h2>An alternative holiday<\/h2><p>Cozy House hotel and its cottages attract people looking for something a little unorthodox.<\/p>\n<p>\"We wanted something out of the ordinary. This style of the cottage caught our attention,\u201d says guest Marine Petrosyan.<\/p>\n<p>Khachik believes their mission has been a success, attracting visitors from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people when learning there is such a place in Dilijan, they visit Armenia especially to stay at this hotel as they are fans of Tolkien\u2019s book and the movie,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8031248,4976788\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2023//11//10//fairytale-villages-and-moonlike-landscapes-azerbaijan-is-a-must-see-destination-for-outdoo/">Fairytale villages and moonlike landscapes: Azerbaijan is a must-see destination for outdoor lovers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2021//12//22//europe-s-prettiest-fairytale-towns-and-villages/">Visit these historical European towns for a magical fairytale escape <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the prospect of being part of a Lord of the Rings story that attracted guest Christina Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>She says children find the village spellbinding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was looking for unique places to stay in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//07//23//want-to-beat-the-crowds-in-europe-go-off-track-in-beautiful-armenia/">Armenia and this came up as one of the number one locations to stay in, and we\u2019ve read these books &#039;Lord of the Rings&#039;, so these little hobbit houses really excited us,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The children] were very excited staying in these little houses.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>A winter wonderland<\/h2><p>In the deep of winter, the fantastical hamlet has become a snowy wonderland, much to the pleasure of the guests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the pictures of the place were very green, because the pictures they&#039;ve taken were in summer. 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WILL SIGN A PEACE TREATY","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Armenia's Pashinyan hopes peace deal with Azerbaijan will be signed 'in the coming months'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal could be signed in 'coming months'","titleListing2":"Armenia's Pashinyan hopes peace deal with Azerbaijan will be signed 'in the coming months'","leadin":"Armenia\u2019s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he hopes to sign a peace agreement with Azerbaijan will \"successfully conclude in the coming months.\"","summary":"Armenia\u2019s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he hopes to sign a peace agreement with Azerbaijan will \"successfully conclude in the coming 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class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//10//06//armenia-struggles-to-assist-refugees-from-nagorno-karabakh/">Armenia struggles to assist refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pashinyan said in an address to an international economic forum in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Thursday that his government was working on a draft agreement \"on peace and the normalisation of relations.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"I hope this process will successfully conclude in the coming months.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said the future peace treaty will be based on the mutual recognition of the Caucasus neighbours&#039; Soviet-era borders.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said previously that a peace treaty with Yerevan could be signed by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Pashinyan also said on Thursday he hoped the border between Armenia and Turkey could be opened for citizens of third countries and diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>Ankara closed its border with Armenia in the 1990s in solidarity with ally Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//99//45//16//808x454_cmsv2_c39a52e6-b424-5f3b-be5f-17ade1c97edd-7994516.jpg/" alt=\"An Armenian woman cries as she and other refugees from the first group of about 30 people from Nagorno-Karabakh.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/99\/45\/16\/384x216_cmsv2_c39a52e6-b424-5f3b-be5f-17ade1c97edd-7994516.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/99\/45\/16\/640x360_cmsv2_c39a52e6-b424-5f3b-be5f-17ade1c97edd-7994516.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/99\/45\/16\/750x422_cmsv2_c39a52e6-b424-5f3b-be5f-17ade1c97edd-7994516.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/99\/45\/16\/828x466_cmsv2_c39a52e6-b424-5f3b-be5f-17ade1c97edd-7994516.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/99\/45\/16\/1080x608_cmsv2_c39a52e6-b424-5f3b-be5f-17ade1c97edd-7994516.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/99\/45\/16\/1200x675_cmsv2_c39a52e6-b424-5f3b-be5f-17ade1c97edd-7994516.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/99\/45\/16\/1920x1080_cmsv2_c39a52e6-b424-5f3b-be5f-17ade1c97edd-7994516.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">An Armenian woman cries as she and other refugees from the first group of about 30 people from Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In 2020 and in the 1990s, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought two wars for control of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but home to a majority ethnic-Armenian population.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally mediated peace talks between the ex-Soviet republics have so far failed to produce a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of Nagorno-Karabakh&#039;s ethnic Armenian population -- some 100,000 people -- fled for Armenia after Baku&#039;s offensive, sparking a refugee crisis.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1698309913,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1698327541,"firstPublishedAt":1698327544,"lastPublishedAt":1698327544,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/99\/45\/16\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e159982c-82b8-59a6-b2f0-b1051e7f490c-7994516.jpg","altText":" - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan leads a cabinet meeting in Yerevan, Armenia","caption":" - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan leads a cabinet meeting in Yerevan, Armenia","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/99\/45\/16\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c39a52e6-b424-5f3b-be5f-17ade1c97edd-7994516.jpg","altText":"An Armenian woman cries as she and other refugees from the first group of about 30 people from Nagorno-Karabakh.","caption":"An Armenian woman cries as she and other 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International Music Festival - MASTER","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Armenia celebrates its culture with its International Music Festival","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Celebrating Armenian culture with its International Music Festival","titleListing2":"A major event for the country, the seventh \"Armenia\" International Music Festival brought together thousands of music lovers and musicians in Yerevan to celebrate Armenian identity and culture.","leadin":"Despite the dramatic political situation, thousands of musicians and music lovers flocked to Yerevan for the seventh \"Armenia\" International Music Festival. The event highlights Armenia's musical heritage, as well as its current talent.","summary":"Despite the dramatic political situation, thousands of musicians and music lovers flocked to Yerevan for the seventh \"Armenia\" International Music Festival. The event highlights Armenia's musical heritage, as well as its current talent.","keySentence":"","url":"armenia-celebrates-its-culture-with-its-international-music-festival","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2023\/10\/18\/armenia-celebrates-its-culture-with-its-international-music-festival","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Armenia, the oldest Christian state in the world, is a crossroads of civilizations and influences in the South Caucasus, on the borders of Europe and Persia, wedged between the Russian-speaking and Turkish-speaking spheres. \n\nShowcasing Armenia's new talent to the world \n\nCulture, and music in particular, is at the heart of the Armenian identity, which led Aleksandr Yesayan to become one of the main patrons of the \" Armenia\" International Music Festival \" , which has been held for 7 years in Yerevan, the Armenian capital.\u00a0 \n\n\" I think culture played a big role over centuries of our history and a vital role as well, in promoting Armenian culture and Armenia as a nation, to the world ,\" reflects the young businessman. \" There are countless opportunities for a small country like Armenia, with a population of just three million, to showcase its heritage, history and culture of today and tomorrow, and to showcase its new talent to the world . \n\nEnticing a young audience \n\nConductor Sergey Smbatyan is the founder and artistic director of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra , which grew out of the State Youth Symphonic Orchestra. \n\nHe has since created the \"Armenia\" International Music Festival , which, for a month in early autumn, offers a program of concerts combining Armenian and world music, classical and contemporary. \n\n\" It's a young orchestra, with a very old-fashioned vision of what is 'being famous' and being on the list of the great orchestras ,\" explains the conductor. \" But, it also has a very creative agenda and a feeling that today it's important to represent and find the right way to deliver music, but also to make the magic happen for young audiences ..\" \n\nThis year, the proceeds from the festival concerts will go towards aiding the displaced people of Nagorno-Karabakh who were forced to leave their homeland. \n\nCulture and music: foundations of Armenian Heritage \n\nFor the Armenians, culture and music are some of the cornerstones of their identity. \n\n\" We have a very rich folk tradition and most Armenian classical composers used some folk music, melodies, rhythms and harmonies in their classical pieces ,\" says Arevik Galyan, a cellist with the orchestra. \" As a result, Armenian classical music has become a sort of blend of folk music and classical traditions .\" \n\n\" Armenians are very passionate about their culture and their music, and this orchestra is actually a prime example because, in a country with such a small financial base, this orchestra became a full-time professional orchestra, in the 21st century ,\" points out oboe player, Martine Varnik. \" There are very few countries in the world where something like this happens. It says something about Armenia's devotion to music .\" \n\nTo close the festival, the orchestra played \"Symphonic Adiemus\" by Karl Jenkins, a contemporary Welsh composer who came to Yerevan 4 years ago to conduct his own piece. \n\nThe \" Armenia\" International Music Festival and its symphony orchestra now occupy a recognized place on the map of international classical music festivals. In its 7th year, the emerging event welcomed thousands of music lovers and musicians. Excellence is the order of the day, and far from being futile, this major event for Armenia demonstrates not only solidarity but also the continuity and importance of culture for an entire people and nation. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Armenia, the oldest Christian state in the world, is a crossroads of civilizations and influences in the South Caucasus, on the borders of Europe and Persia, wedged between the Russian-speaking and Turkish-speaking spheres.<\/p>\n<h2>Showcasing Armenia's new talent to the world<\/h2><p>Culture, and music in particular, is at the heart of the Armenian identity, which led Aleksandr Yesayan to become one of the main patrons of the <strong>\"<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.armeniafestival.eu///">Armenia/" International Music Festival<\/a>\"<\/strong>, which has been held for 7 years in Yerevan, the Armenian capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"<em>I think culture played a big role over centuries of our history and a vital role as well, in promoting Armenian culture and Armenia as a nation, to the world<\/em>,\" reflects the young businessman. \"<em>There are countless opportunities for a small country like Armenia, with a population of just three million, to showcase its heritage, history and culture of today and tomorrow, and to showcase its new talent to the world<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//BUmVRyly_T0/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Enticing a young audience<\/h2><p>Conductor <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////sergeysmbatyan.com///">Sergey Smbatyan<\/a> is the founder and artistic director of the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////apo.am//hall/">Armenian State Symphony Orchestra<\/a>, which grew out of the State Youth Symphonic Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>He has since created the <strong><em>\"Armenia\" International Music Festival<\/em><\/strong>, which, for a month in early autumn, offers a program of concerts combining Armenian and world music, classical and contemporary.<\/p>\n<p>\" <em>It&#039;s a young orchestra, with a very old-fashioned vision of what is &#039;being famous&#039; and being on the list of the great orchestras<\/em>,\" explains the conductor. \"<em>But, it also has a very creative agenda and a feeling that today it&#039;s important to represent and find the right way to deliver music, but also to make the magic happen for young audiences<\/em>..\"<\/p>\n<p>This year, the proceeds from the festival concerts will go towards aiding the displaced people of Nagorno-Karabakh who were forced to leave their homeland.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//93//07//02//808x454_cmsv2_357c8a14-0e2b-5b72-bce4-678c822774a0-7930702.jpg/" alt=\"Sergey Smbatyan conducting his orchestra\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/384x216_cmsv2_357c8a14-0e2b-5b72-bce4-678c822774a0-7930702.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/640x360_cmsv2_357c8a14-0e2b-5b72-bce4-678c822774a0-7930702.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/750x422_cmsv2_357c8a14-0e2b-5b72-bce4-678c822774a0-7930702.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/828x466_cmsv2_357c8a14-0e2b-5b72-bce4-678c822774a0-7930702.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/1080x608_cmsv2_357c8a14-0e2b-5b72-bce4-678c822774a0-7930702.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/1200x675_cmsv2_357c8a14-0e2b-5b72-bce4-678c822774a0-7930702.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/1920x1080_cmsv2_357c8a14-0e2b-5b72-bce4-678c822774a0-7930702.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Sergey Smbatyan conducting his orchestra<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Culture and music: foundations of Armenian Heritage<\/h2><p>For the Armenians, culture and music are some of the cornerstones of their identity.<\/p>\n<p>\"<em>We have a very rich folk tradition and most Armenian classical composers used some folk music, melodies, rhythms and harmonies in their classical pieces<\/em>,\" says Arevik Galyan, a cellist with the orchestra. \"<em>As a result, Armenian classical music has become a sort of blend of folk music and classical traditions<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//93//07//02//808x454_cmsv2_ee15b738-60d1-5907-8786-7317e4da4974-7930702.jpg/" alt=\"Orchestra in rehearsal\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/384x216_cmsv2_ee15b738-60d1-5907-8786-7317e4da4974-7930702.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/640x360_cmsv2_ee15b738-60d1-5907-8786-7317e4da4974-7930702.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/750x422_cmsv2_ee15b738-60d1-5907-8786-7317e4da4974-7930702.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/828x466_cmsv2_ee15b738-60d1-5907-8786-7317e4da4974-7930702.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/1080x608_cmsv2_ee15b738-60d1-5907-8786-7317e4da4974-7930702.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/1200x675_cmsv2_ee15b738-60d1-5907-8786-7317e4da4974-7930702.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/1920x1080_cmsv2_ee15b738-60d1-5907-8786-7317e4da4974-7930702.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Orchestra in rehearsal<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"<em>Armenians are very passionate about their culture and their music, and this orchestra is actually a prime example because, in a country with such a small financial base, this orchestra became a full-time professional orchestra, in the 21st century<\/em>,\" points out oboe player, Martine Varnik. \"<em>There are very few countries in the world where something like this happens. It says something about Armenia&#039;s devotion to music<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p>To close the festival, the orchestra played \"Symphonic Adiemus\" by Karl Jenkins, a contemporary Welsh composer who came to Yerevan 4 years ago to conduct his own piece.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//93//07//02//808x454_cmsv2_a78e4f68-2754-5b32-a4d7-005e7dd08e8a-7930702.jpg/" alt=\"Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall - one of the architectural treasures of Yerevan.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/384x216_cmsv2_a78e4f68-2754-5b32-a4d7-005e7dd08e8a-7930702.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/640x360_cmsv2_a78e4f68-2754-5b32-a4d7-005e7dd08e8a-7930702.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/750x422_cmsv2_a78e4f68-2754-5b32-a4d7-005e7dd08e8a-7930702.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/828x466_cmsv2_a78e4f68-2754-5b32-a4d7-005e7dd08e8a-7930702.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/1080x608_cmsv2_a78e4f68-2754-5b32-a4d7-005e7dd08e8a-7930702.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/1200x675_cmsv2_a78e4f68-2754-5b32-a4d7-005e7dd08e8a-7930702.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/1920x1080_cmsv2_a78e4f68-2754-5b32-a4d7-005e7dd08e8a-7930702.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall - one of the architectural treasures of Yerevan.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The \"<strong><em>Armenia\" International Music Festival<\/em><\/strong> and its symphony orchestra now occupy a recognized place on the map of international classical music festivals. In its 7th year, the emerging event welcomed thousands of music lovers and musicians. Excellence is the order of the day, and far from being futile, this major event for Armenia demonstrates not only solidarity but also the continuity and importance of culture for an entire people and nation.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1695973357,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1697643007,"firstPublishedAt":1697642962,"lastPublishedAt":1697644197,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/04\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_5091cc86-adba-53cd-b846-08a549475518-7930704.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"euronews","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/07\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a78e4f68-2754-5b32-a4d7-005e7dd08e8a-7930702.jpg","altText":"Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall - one of the architectural treasures of Yerevan.","caption":"Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall - one of 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Nearby there are rooms where people can collect clothes and other items donated by local people, ands there's also a food distribution point.\u00a0 \n\n\nThe refugees need to register so they can get monthly assistance payments from the Armenian government, but it's a gargantuan task for the officials of a small town that itself only has a population of around 20,000. \n\nRecognising that there will be no immediate solution to the refugee crisis, the Armenian government has decided to give each refugee a one-off allowance of 236 euros and later a monthly allowance of 118 euros to help pay for rent and food. \n\n\n\"They do help us here and take great care of us,\" said one refugee, of the assistance she's received. \n\n\n\"But it still hurts, it hurts a lot. Our family cemetery remained there, everything remained there,\" she added. \n\n\nIsrael's involvement in the conflict \n\nArmenia has accused Azerbaijan of ethnic cleansing, which it denies. Azerbaijan's military launched an attack on the Nagorno-Karabkh region on September 19th, killing around 200 Armenian fighters and scaring almost the entire ethnic Armenian population into fleeing to neighbouring Armenia. About 200 Azerbaijani fighters were also killed, according to officials. \n\nA zerbaijan was helped by Israel when, just weeks before Azerbaijan launched its attack its military cargo planes repeatedly flew between a southern Israeli airbase and an airfield near Nagorno-Karabakh, according to flight tracking data and Armenian diplomats. \n\n\nExperts estimate Israel supplied Azerbaijan with nearly 70% of its weapons arsenal between 2016 and 2020 \u2014 giving Azerbaijan an edge against Armenia and boosting Israel\u2019s large defence industry. \n\n\nIsrael has a big stake in Azerbaijan, which serves as a critical source of oil and is a staunch ally against Israel\u2019s archenemy Iran. It is also a lucrative customer of sophisticated arms. \n\n\nIn the previous conflict in 2020 Turkey supplied Azerbaijan with military drones, which experts said helped it capture parts of Nagorno-Karabakh, including the second city of Shusha. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>In the town of Masis in Armenia, which lies on the border with Turkey,\u00a0 around 10,000 ethnic Armenian refugees from the Nagorno Karabakh region are being processed by the local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross is also located in the town hall building, where it works to identify the assistance the new arrivals need. Nearby there are rooms where people can collect clothes and other items donated by local people, ands there&#039;s also a food distribution point.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The refugees need to register so they can get monthly assistance payments from the Armenian government, but it&#039;s a gargantuan task for the officials of a small town that itself only has a population of around 20,000.<\/p>\n<p>Recognising that there will be no immediate solution to the refugee crisis, the Armenian government has decided to give each refugee a one-off allowance of 236 euros and later a monthly allowance of 118 euros to help pay for rent and food. <\/p>\n<p>\"They do help us here and take great care of us,\" said one refugee, of the assistance she&#039;s received. <\/p>\n<p>\"But it still hurts, it hurts a lot. Our family cemetery remained there, everything remained there,\" she added. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1709565280790127047\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3>Israel's involvement in the conflict<\/h3><p>Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of ethnic cleansing, which it denies. Azerbaijan&#039;s military launched an attack on the Nagorno-Karabkh region on September 19th, killing around 200 Armenian fighters and scaring almost the entire ethnic Armenian population into fleeing to neighbouring Armenia. About 200 Azerbaijani fighters were also killed, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan was helped by Israel when, just weeks before Azerbaijan launched its attack its military cargo planes repeatedly flew between a southern Israeli airbase and an airfield near Nagorno-Karabakh, according to flight tracking data and Armenian diplomats. <\/p>\n<p>Experts estimate Israel supplied Azerbaijan with nearly 70% of its weapons arsenal between 2016 and 2020 \u2014 giving Azerbaijan an edge against Armenia and boosting Israel\u2019s large defence industry. <\/p>\n<p>Israel has a big stake in Azerbaijan, which serves as a critical source of oil and is a staunch ally against Israel\u2019s archenemy Iran. It is also a lucrative customer of sophisticated arms. <\/p>\n<p>In the previous conflict in 2020 Turkey supplied Azerbaijan with military drones, which experts said helped it capture parts of Nagorno-Karabakh, including the second city of Shusha.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1696586042,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1696610945,"firstPublishedAt":1696610948,"lastPublishedAt":1696610948,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/89\/64\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2510e362-51c0-573d-a25d-797a1f503cf5-7938964.jpg","altText":"FILE Ethnic armenian refugee camp in Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, Sept. 29, 2023. ","caption":"FILE Ethnic armenian refugee camp in Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, Sept. 29, 2023. ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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A political crisis could follow","titleListing2":"Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan faces the challenge of providing for Nagorno Karabakh refugees while mitigating risks of Azeri aggression against sovereign Armenian territory.","leadin":"Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan faces the challenge of providing for Nagorno Karabakh refugees while mitigating risks of Azeri aggression against sovereign Armenian territory.","summary":"Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan faces the challenge of providing for Nagorno Karabakh refugees while mitigating risks of Azeri aggression against sovereign Armenian territory.","keySentence":"","url":"a-refugee-crisis-is-developing-in-armenia-a-political-crisis-will-likely-quickly-follow","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2023\/10\/05\/a-refugee-crisis-is-developing-in-armenia-a-political-crisis-will-likely-quickly-follow","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Caught against a setting sun, the clouds on Monday evening formed an otherworldly spiral of burnt orange above the town of Goris, eastern Armenia. \n\nThe day before, a lonely bus ferried in the last of some 100,000 ethnic Armenians fleeing a one-day military campaign that saw Azeri forces secure complete control of the once-autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, itself situated within Azerbaijan\u2019s borders. \n\nFew among the new arrivals have any love for Nikol Pashinyan. A feeling shared by thousands of demonstrators who poured out in the Armenian capital of Yerevan last week to protest against the prime minister\u2019s handling of relations with Azerbaijan and Russia, viewed as precipitating the loss of a place regarded by many as the spiritual homeland of the Armenian people. \n\nWhile the initial unrest may have since quietened down, what recent developments in the long-running conflict between these South Caucasian nations may mean for Pashinyan\u2019s hold on power remains an open and deeply fraught question. \n\n'The most terrifying thing in the world' \n\n\u201cIt\u2019s the most terrifying thing in the world, losing everything like this.\u201d \n\nMila Hovsepyan spoke softly as if in a daze from a shelter in Goris near the Armenian-Azeri border on Monday afternoon. She and her mother Maro, who suffers from severe mental disability due to advanced cerebral arteriosclerosis, arrived just days before on a bus from Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s capital of Stepanakert. \n\n\u201cWe went straight to the hospital because my mother is very unwell. She cannot walk, and needs a separate toilet and bathroom so I can wash her with dignity,\u201d Mila explained. \u201cWe need a wheelchair for me to move her, and a special mattress that prevents sores because she spends almost all of her time in bed.\u201d \n\n\u201cWe have no family here,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s the most terrifying thing in the world, losing everything like this.\u201d \n\nAt this stage, their story is fairly typical. The vast majority fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia over the past week have now pushed deeper into the country, afraid of remaining so close to the border and the Azeri forces stationed there. Those left behind in Goris are largely either elderly or infirm, or without relatives in Armenia who might otherwise provide assistance. \n\nAzerbaijan\u2019s seizure of the mountainous enclave, which has claimed but failed to secure international recognition of independence since 1991, happened at lightning speed. Following a build-up of Azeri troops around the region, Russian peacekeepers stationed in the area fell short of preventing the launch of an all-out offensive on September 19 that lasted less than 24 hours before authorities in Stepanakert announced their surrender. \n\nAlthough Artsakh, as it was known by its ethnic Armenian inhabitants, had by that point been under blockade for more than ten months, restricting the supply of food and desperately needed medicines, deputy mayor of Goris Irina Yolyan says there was little Armenian authorities might have done to prepare for an exodus of this scale. \n\n\u201cRight now we\u2019re addressing their immediate needs \u2013 shelter, food, clothing and medicine,\u201d she said. \u201cAt the same time, we\u2019re also registering people and trying to understand what they may need in the near- to mid-term, especially as winter approaches.\u201d \n\nAsked about how Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has handled relations with both Azerbaijan and Russia, still formally a mediator between the long-warring South Caucasian nations, her manner becomes suddenly cold. \n\n\u201cThousands of families are now homeless. Azerbaijan is like a steamroller across asphalt,\u201d she said. \u201cNothing is stopping them, and this situation creates a great unhappiness, a great discontent with territorial losses and the sheer level of human suffering.\u201d \n\nA government with 'little room for manoeuvre' \n\nMost Armenians welcomed what seemed a new dawn in the country\u2019s politics when Nikol Pashinyan assumed power following a pro-democracy and anti-corruption revolution in 2018. Many have now grown increasingly disillusioned with the Prime Minister\u2019s attempts to turn away from historic reliance on Moscow as a security guarantor to seek warmer ties with the West. That disillusionment last week boiled over into protests on the streets of Yerevan, with placards and chanted slogans denouncing Pashinyan as a \u2018traitor\u2019 to the country\u2019s interests. \n\nAccording to Maximilian Hess, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Pennsylvania, the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh has called Pashinyan\u2019s diplomacy into serious doubt. The prime minister\u2019s legitimacy now appears to rest on the question of how his government faces up to the challenges of managing the emerging refugee crisis, while at the same time mitigating risks of Azeri aggression against sovereign Armenian territory. \n\nPrior to the assault on Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan had long expressed keen interest in the prospect of opening up a corridor through Armenia to Nakhchivan, an autonomous Azeri enclave within Armenian borders. This would in turn provide an overland passage to Turkey, further cementing Azerbaijan\u2019s emerging position as a key trade and transit hub for Russia amid Western sanctions imposed in response to Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine. \n\n\u201cThe government is now in a place where it has very little room to manoeuvre,\u201d Hess said. \u201cThe refugee crisis is really a question of state capacity \u2013 this is not a particularly wealthy country. What would precipitate further demonstrations would be a deteriorating situation around the refugees, and also the potential for further conflict with Azerbaijan.\u201d \n\n\u201cI\u2019m not saying the political crisis is necessarily going to lead to a revolutionary change in government,\u201d he clarified. \u201cBut Pashinyan will need international help to ensure there isn\u2019t a further deepening of that crisis as the result of Azerbaijani aggression turning it into a question about the future of Armenia itself.\u201d \n\nRight now, these wider geopolitical dilemmas all remain fairly academic to Bernik Lazaryan, who fled Nagorno-Karabakh last week with his wife, mother and infant daughter. Over several hours one night prior to his departure, he claims to have carried home the body of a childhood friend shot dead by Azeri forces, only to discover their village had already fallen. \n\n\u201cI have no idea what will happen to us next,\u201d he said outside the Soviet-era Hotel Goris, where he is currently being put up with his family. \u201cWe must simply find a way to live.\u201d \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Caught against a setting sun, the clouds on Monday evening formed an otherworldly spiral of burnt orange above the town of Goris, eastern Armenia.<\/p>\n<p>The day before, a lonely bus ferried in the last of some 100,000 ethnic Armenians fleeing a one-day military campaign that saw Azeri forces secure complete control of the once-autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, itself situated within Azerbaijan\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<p>Few among the new arrivals have any love for Nikol Pashinyan. A feeling shared by thousands of demonstrators who poured out in the Armenian capital of Yerevan last week to protest against the prime minister\u2019s handling of relations with Azerbaijan and Russia, viewed as precipitating the loss of a place regarded by many as the spiritual homeland of the Armenian people.<\/p>\n<p>While the initial unrest may have since quietened down, what recent developments in the long-running conflict between these South Caucasian nations may mean for Pashinyan\u2019s hold on power remains an open and deeply fraught question.<\/p>\n<h2>'The most terrifying thing in the world'<\/h2><p>\u201cIt\u2019s the most terrifying thing in the world, losing everything like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mila Hovsepyan spoke softly as if in a daze from a shelter in Goris near the Armenian-Azeri border on Monday afternoon. She and her mother Maro, who suffers from severe mental disability due to advanced cerebral arteriosclerosis, arrived just days before on a bus from Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s capital of Stepanakert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went straight to the hospital because my mother is very unwell. She cannot walk, and needs a separate toilet and bathroom so I can wash her with dignity,\u201d Mila explained. \u201cWe need a wheelchair for me to move her, and a special mattress that prevents sores because she spends almost all of her time in bed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no family here,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s the most terrifying thing in the world, losing everything like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, their story is fairly typical. The vast majority fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia over the past week have now pushed deeper into the country, afraid of remaining so close to the border and the Azeri forces stationed there. Those left behind in Goris are largely either elderly or infirm, or without relatives in Armenia who might otherwise provide assistance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7942108,7936688\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//10//03//russia-has-betrayed-armenian-people-by-standing-aside-in-nagorno-karabakh-charles-michel/">Russia has \u2018betrayed\u2019 Armenian people by standing aside in Nagorno-Karabakh - Charles Michel<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//10//04//french-foreign-minister-pledges-arms-for-armenia-in-visit-to-yerevan/">French foreign minister pledges arms for Armenia in visit to Yerevan<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Azerbaijan\u2019s seizure of the mountainous enclave, which has claimed but failed to secure international recognition of independence since 1991, happened at lightning speed. Following a build-up of Azeri troops around the region, Russian peacekeepers stationed in the area fell short of preventing the launch of an all-out offensive on September 19 that lasted less than 24 hours before authorities in Stepanakert announced their surrender.<\/p>\n<p>Although Artsakh, as it was known by its ethnic Armenian inhabitants, had by that point been under blockade for more than ten months, restricting the supply of food and desperately needed medicines, deputy mayor of Goris Irina Yolyan says there was little Armenian authorities might have done to prepare for an exodus of this scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now we\u2019re addressing their immediate needs \u2013 shelter, food, clothing and medicine,\u201d she said. \u201cAt the same time, we\u2019re also registering people and trying to understand what they may need in the near- to mid-term, especially as winter approaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about how Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has handled relations with both Azerbaijan and Russia, still formally a mediator between the long-warring South Caucasian nations, her manner becomes suddenly cold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThousands of families are now homeless. Azerbaijan is like a steamroller across asphalt,\u201d she said. \u201cNothing is stopping them, and this situation creates a great unhappiness, a great discontent with territorial losses and the sheer level of human suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>A government with 'little room for manoeuvre'<\/h2><p>Most Armenians welcomed what seemed a new dawn in the country\u2019s politics when Nikol Pashinyan assumed power following a pro-democracy and anti-corruption revolution in 2018. Many have now grown increasingly disillusioned with the Prime Minister\u2019s attempts to turn away from historic reliance on Moscow as a security guarantor to seek warmer ties with the West. That disillusionment last week boiled over into protests on the streets of Yerevan, with placards and chanted slogans denouncing Pashinyan as a \u2018traitor\u2019 to the country\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p>According to Maximilian Hess, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Pennsylvania, the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh has called Pashinyan\u2019s diplomacy into serious doubt. The prime minister\u2019s legitimacy now appears to rest on the question of how his government faces up to the challenges of managing the emerging refugee crisis, while at the same time mitigating risks of Azeri aggression against sovereign Armenian territory.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the assault on Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan had long expressed keen interest in the prospect of opening up a corridor through Armenia to Nakhchivan, an autonomous Azeri enclave within Armenian borders. This would in turn provide an overland passage to Turkey, further cementing Azerbaijan\u2019s emerging position as a key trade and transit hub for Russia amid Western sanctions imposed in response to Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is now in a place where it has very little room to manoeuvre,\u201d Hess said. \u201cThe refugee crisis is really a question of state capacity \u2013 this is not a particularly wealthy country. What would precipitate further demonstrations would be a deteriorating situation around the refugees, and also the potential for further conflict with Azerbaijan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not saying the political crisis is necessarily going to lead to a revolutionary change in government,\u201d he clarified. \u201cBut Pashinyan will need international help to ensure there isn\u2019t a further deepening of that crisis as the result of Azerbaijani aggression turning it into a question about the future of Armenia itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Right now, these wider geopolitical dilemmas all remain fairly academic to Bernik Lazaryan, who fled Nagorno-Karabakh last week with his wife, mother and infant daughter. Over several hours one night prior to his departure, he claims to have carried home the body of a childhood friend shot dead by Azeri forces, only to discover their village had already fallen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no idea what will happen to us next,\u201d he said outside the Soviet-era Hotel Goris, where he is currently being put up with his family. \u201cWe must simply find a way to live.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1696441282,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1696482030,"firstPublishedAt":1696442173,"lastPublishedAt":1696941553,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/94\/43\/20\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_89cbb01b-de64-507a-843b-1ef32d96fe32-7944320.jpg","altText":"Ethnic Armenian children from Nagorno-Karabakh look from a truck after arriving in Armenia's Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, on Sept. 28, 2023. 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Countries that have signed and ratified the Rome Statute that created the ICC are bound to arrest Putin, who was indicted for war crimes connected to the deportation of children from Ukraine, if he sets foot on their soil. \n\nArmenian officials have argued the move has nothing to do with Russia and was prompted by Azerbaijan's aggression against the country. \n\nLawmakers voted to ratify the Rome Statute by a vote of 60-22. Armenia's president must sign off on the decision, which will come into force 60 days after the vote. \n\nArmenia's relations with Russia have frayed significantly in recent years. \n\nIn 2020, Moscow brokered a deal that ended a six-week war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It mandated that Yerevan cede to Baku large swaths of territory in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, a part of Azerbaijan with a predominantly Armenian population. \n\nRussia then sent some 2,000 peacekeepers to the tumultuous region and Armenia has accused the troops of failing to prevent recent hostilities by Azerbaijan that led to Baku taking full control of the region. \n\nThe Kremlin, in turn, has accused Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of precipitating the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh by acknowledging Azerbaijan's sovereignty over the region. \n\nMoscow also blames Yerevan for damaging ties with Russia by embracing the West, including hosting U.S. troops for joint military drills. \n\nIt remains unclear whether Pashinyan might take Armenia out of Moscow-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization, a group of several former Soviet nations, and other Russia-led alliances. 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Countries that have signed and ratified the Rome Statute that created the ICC are bound to arrest Putin, who was indicted for war crimes connected to the deportation of children from Ukraine, if he sets foot on their soil.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian officials have argued the move has nothing to do with Russia and was prompted by Azerbaijan&#039;s aggression against the country.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers voted to ratify the Rome Statute by a vote of 60-22. Armenia&#039;s president must sign off on the decision, which will come into force 60 days after the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia&#039;s relations with Russia have frayed significantly in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Moscow brokered a deal that ended a six-week war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. 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Armenia also hosts a Russian military base and Russian border guards help patrol Armenia&#039;s frontier with Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the vote, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said that Moscow would view any move to join the international court as \"extremely hostile\" towards Russia.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1696324498,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1696325344,"firstPublishedAt":1696325407,"lastPublishedAt":1696335917,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/96\/26\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9a3fa0ea-ebef-564f-b40d-e07c37f646f6-7939626.jpg","altText":"Armenian lawmakers attend the session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. ","caption":"Armenian lawmakers attend the session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. 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He called for information about any other residents who want to leave but have had trouble doing so. \n\nIn a 24-hour military campaign that began on 19 September, the Azerbaijani army routed the region's undermanned and outgunned Armenian forces, forcing them to capitulate. The separatist government then agreed to disband itself by the end of this year, but Azerbaijani authorities are already in charge of the region. \n\nAzerbaijan Interior Ministry spokesman Elshad Hajiyev told The Associated Press on Monday that the country\u2019s police have established control over the entire region. \n\n\u201cWork is conducted to enforce law and order in the entire Karabakh region,\u201d he said, adding that Azerbaijani police have moved to \u201cprotect the rights and ensure the security of the Armenian population in accordance with Azerbaijan\u2019s law.\u201d \n\nWhile Baku has pledged to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians, most of them hastily fled the region, fearing reprisals or losing the freedom to use their language and practice their religion and customs. \n\nThe Armenian government said Monday that 100,514 of the region\u2019s estimated 120,000 residents have crossed into Armenia. \n\nArmenian Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan said some people had died during the exhausting and slow journey over the single mountain road into Armenia that took as long as 40 hours. The exodus followed a nine-month Azerbaijani blockade of the region that left many suffering from malnutrition and lack of medicines. \n\nArmenia alleged the closure denied basic food and fuel supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh, but Azerbaijan rejected the accusation, saying the Armenian government was using it for weapons shipments and argued the region could receive supplies through the Azerbaijani city of Aghdam - a solution long resisted by Nagorno-Karabakh authorities. \n\nSergey Astsetryan, 40, one of the last Nagorno-Karabakh residents to leave in his own vehicle Sunday, said some elderly people have decided to stay, adding that others might return if they see it\u2019s safe for ethnic Armenians under Azerbaijani rule. \n\n\u201cMy father told me that he will return when he has the opportunity,\u201d Astsetryan told reporters at a checkpoint on the Armenian border. \n\nAzerbaijani authorities moved quickly to reaffirm control of the region, arresting several former members of its separatist government and encouraging ethnic Azerbaijani residents who fled the area amid a separatist war three decades ago to start moving back. \n\nThe streets of the regional capital, which is called Khankendi by Azerbaijan and Stepanakert by the Armenians , appeared empty and littered with trash, with doors of deserted businesses flung open. \n\nThe sign with the city\u2019s Azerbaijani name was placed at one entrance and Azerbaijani police checkpoints were set up on the city\u2019s edges, with officers checking the trunks of cars. \n\nJust outside the city, a herd of cows grazed in an abandoned private orchard, and a small dog, which appeared to have been left behind by its owners, stood silently looking at passing vehicles. \n\nRussian peacekeeping troops could be seen on a balcony of one building in the city, and others were at their base outside it, where their vehicles were parked. \n\nOn Sunday, Azerbaijan prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Arayik Harutyunyan, who led the region before stepping down at the beginning of September. Azerbaijani police arrested one of Harutyunyan\u2019s former prime ministers, Ruben Vardanyan, on Wednesday as he tried to cross into Armenia. \n\n\u201cWe put an end to the conflict,\" Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in a speech Monday. \u201cWe protected our dignity, we restored justice and international law.\u201d \n\nHe added that \"our agenda is peace in the Caucasus, peace in the region, cooperation, shared benefits, and today, we demonstrate that.\u201d \n\nAfter six years of separatist fighting ended in 1994 following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Nagorno-Karabakh came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces, backed by Armenia, turning about 1 million of its Azerbaijani residents into refugees. After a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan took back parts of the region in the south Caucasus Mountains, along with surrounding territory that Armenian forces had captured earlier. \n\nArmenian authorities have accused the Russian peacekeepers, who were deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh after the 2020 war, of standing idle and failing to stop the Azerbaijani onslaught. The accusations were rejected by Moscow, which argued that its troops didn't have a mandate to intervene. \n\nThe mutual accusations have further strained the relations between Armenia and its longtime ally Russia, which has accused the Armenian government of a pro-Western tilt. \n\nArmenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan alleged Thursday that the exodus of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh amounted to \u201ca direct act of ethnic cleansing and depriving people of their motherland.\u201d \n\nAzerbaijan\u2019s Foreign Ministry strongly rejected Pashinyan\u2019s accusations, arguing their departure was \u201ctheir personal and individual decision and has nothing to do with forced relocation.\u201d \n\nSpeaking to the AP in Lachin, the Azerbaijani town that had been controlled by separatists for nearly three decades until Baku's forces reclaimed it in 2020, Solmaz Abbasova, 67, said returning home was a dream that sustained her family since the earlier exodus. \n\n\u201cIt was a boundless happiness to come back home after 31 years and see the things which were so dear -- the land, the river, the forest and the lake,\u201d Abbasova said, adding that her husband and son were with her but their daughter died before she could return. \n\nShe said the Armenians are leaving the region safely by their own choice, unlike her family and other Azerbaijani refugees, adding that many were killed as they tried to leave. \n\n\u201cI feel sorry for simple Armenians leaving Karabakh now, but there is a big difference: They and their children aren't being hunted and killed as they killed our refugees,\u201d she said. \u201cThey have a choice whether to stay or leave calmly.\u201d \n\nAzerbaijan's presidential office said in a statement that the country has presented a plan for the \u201creintegration\u201d of ethnic Armenians in the region, noting that \u201cthe equality of rights and freedoms, including security, is guaranteed to everyone regardless of their ethnic, religious or linguistic affiliation.\u201d \n\nIt said that the plan envisages improving infrastructure to bring it line with the rest of the country and offers tax exemptions, subsidies, low-interest loans and other incentives. The statement noted that Azerbaijani authorities have held three rounds of talks with representatives of the region's ethnic Armenian population and will continue the discussions. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The bus that entered Armenia carried 15 passengers with serious illnesses and mobility problems, said Gegham Stepanyan, a human rights ombudsman for the former breakaway region that Azerbaijan calls Karabakh. He called for information about any other residents who want to leave but have had trouble doing so.<\/p>\n<p>In a 24-hour military campaign that began on 19 September, the Azerbaijani army routed the region&#039;s undermanned and outgunned Armenian forces, forcing them to capitulate. The separatist government then agreed to disband itself by the end of this year, but Azerbaijani authorities are already in charge of the region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7937060\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//10//02//the-challenges-ahead-for-armenia-after-the-fall-of-nagorno-karabakh/">The challenges ahead for Armenia after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Azerbaijan Interior Ministry spokesman Elshad Hajiyev told The Associated Press on Monday that the country\u2019s police have established control over the entire region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWork is conducted to enforce law and order in the entire Karabakh region,\u201d he said, adding that Azerbaijani police have moved to \u201cprotect the rights and ensure the security of the Armenian population in accordance with Azerbaijan\u2019s law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Baku has pledged to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians, most of them hastily fled the region, fearing reprisals or losing the freedom to use their language and practice their religion and customs.<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian government said Monday that 100,514 of the region\u2019s estimated 120,000 residents have crossed into Armenia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//93//78//10//808x539_cmsv2_42f9f1d3-85e4-58b7-afa9-57209bc0bd1c-7937810.jpg/" alt=\"Aziz Karimov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/78\/10\/384x256_cmsv2_42f9f1d3-85e4-58b7-afa9-57209bc0bd1c-7937810.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/78\/10\/640x427_cmsv2_42f9f1d3-85e4-58b7-afa9-57209bc0bd1c-7937810.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/78\/10\/750x500_cmsv2_42f9f1d3-85e4-58b7-afa9-57209bc0bd1c-7937810.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/78\/10\/828x552_cmsv2_42f9f1d3-85e4-58b7-afa9-57209bc0bd1c-7937810.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/78\/10\/1080x720_cmsv2_42f9f1d3-85e4-58b7-afa9-57209bc0bd1c-7937810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/78\/10\/1200x800_cmsv2_42f9f1d3-85e4-58b7-afa9-57209bc0bd1c-7937810.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/78\/10\/1920x1281_cmsv2_42f9f1d3-85e4-58b7-afa9-57209bc0bd1c-7937810.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Sergey Astsetryan, an ethnic Armenian resident of Nagorno-Karabakh, drives his Soviet-made vehicle past Russian peacekeepers.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Aziz Karimov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Armenian Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan said some people had died during the exhausting and slow journey over the single mountain road into Armenia that took as long as 40 hours. The exodus followed a nine-month Azerbaijani blockade of the region that left many suffering from malnutrition and lack of medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia alleged the closure denied basic food and fuel supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh, but Azerbaijan rejected the accusation, saying the Armenian government was using it for weapons shipments and argued the region could receive supplies through the Azerbaijani city of Aghdam - a solution long resisted by Nagorno-Karabakh authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Sergey Astsetryan, 40, one of the last Nagorno-Karabakh residents to leave in his own vehicle Sunday, said some elderly people have decided to stay, adding that others might return if they see it\u2019s safe for ethnic Armenians under Azerbaijani rule.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7936136\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//10//02//azerbaijan-issues-warrant-for-former-separatist-leader-as-un-mission-arrives-in-nagorno-ka/">Azerbaijan issues warrant for former separatist leader as UN mission arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy father told me that he will return when he has the opportunity,\u201d Astsetryan told reporters at a checkpoint on the Armenian border.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijani authorities moved quickly to reaffirm control of the region, arresting several former members of its separatist government and encouraging ethnic Azerbaijani residents who fled the area amid a separatist war three decades ago to start moving back.<\/p>\n<p>The streets of the regional capital, which is called Khankendi by Azerbaijan and Stepanakert by the Armenians, appeared empty and littered with trash, with doors of deserted businesses flung open.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//93//86//78//808x539_cmsv2_9bd3dd5e-16b7-5556-8fae-dfe32508a04d-7938678.jpg/" alt=\"Aziz Karimov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/384x256_cmsv2_9bd3dd5e-16b7-5556-8fae-dfe32508a04d-7938678.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/640x427_cmsv2_9bd3dd5e-16b7-5556-8fae-dfe32508a04d-7938678.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/750x500_cmsv2_9bd3dd5e-16b7-5556-8fae-dfe32508a04d-7938678.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/828x552_cmsv2_9bd3dd5e-16b7-5556-8fae-dfe32508a04d-7938678.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/1080x720_cmsv2_9bd3dd5e-16b7-5556-8fae-dfe32508a04d-7938678.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/1200x800_cmsv2_9bd3dd5e-16b7-5556-8fae-dfe32508a04d-7938678.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/1920x1281_cmsv2_9bd3dd5e-16b7-5556-8fae-dfe32508a04d-7938678.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Sergey Astsetryan, an ethnic Armenian resident of Nagorno-Karabakh, center, shows his belongings as Azerbaijani border guard servicemen check his Soviet-made vehicle.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Aziz Karimov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The sign with the city\u2019s Azerbaijani name was placed at one entrance and Azerbaijani police checkpoints were set up on the city\u2019s edges, with officers checking the trunks of cars.<\/p>\n<p>Just outside the city, a herd of cows grazed in an abandoned private orchard, and a small dog, which appeared to have been left behind by its owners, stood silently looking at passing vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Russian peacekeeping troops could be seen on a balcony of one building in the city, and others were at their base outside it, where their vehicles were parked.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Azerbaijan prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Arayik Harutyunyan, who led the region before stepping down at the beginning of September. Azerbaijani police arrested one of Harutyunyan\u2019s former prime ministers, Ruben Vardanyan, on Wednesday as he tried to cross into Armenia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7935262\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//10//01//un-mission-arrives-in-nagorno-karabakh-for-first-time-in-30-years/">UN mission arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh for first time in 30 years<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe put an end to the conflict,\" Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in a speech Monday. \u201cWe protected our dignity, we restored justice and international law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that \"our agenda is peace in the Caucasus, peace in the region, cooperation, shared benefits, and today, we demonstrate that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After six years of separatist fighting ended in 1994 following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Nagorno-Karabakh came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces, backed by Armenia, turning about 1 million of its Azerbaijani residents into refugees. After a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan took back parts of the region in the south Caucasus Mountains, along with surrounding territory that Armenian forces had captured earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian authorities have accused the Russian peacekeepers, who were deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh after the 2020 war, of standing idle and failing to stop the Azerbaijani onslaught. The accusations were rejected by Moscow, which argued that its troops didn&#039;t have a mandate to intervene.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-euronews\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//embed//2383532/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The mutual accusations have further strained the relations between Armenia and its longtime ally Russia, which has accused the Armenian government of a pro-Western tilt.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan alleged Thursday that the exodus of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh amounted to \u201ca direct act of ethnic cleansing and depriving people of their motherland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan\u2019s Foreign Ministry strongly rejected Pashinyan\u2019s accusations, arguing their departure was \u201ctheir personal and individual decision and has nothing to do with forced relocation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the AP in Lachin, the Azerbaijani town that had been controlled by separatists for nearly three decades until Baku&#039;s forces reclaimed it in 2020, Solmaz Abbasova, 67, said returning home was a dream that sustained her family since the earlier exodus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a boundless happiness to come back home after 31 years and see the things which were so dear -- the land, the river, the forest and the lake,\u201d Abbasova said, adding that her husband and son were with her but their daughter died before she could return.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//93//86//78//808x539_cmsv2_3d6cd76b-e95a-5e4d-85af-548f94a67e60-7938678.jpg/" alt=\"Aziz Karimov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/384x256_cmsv2_3d6cd76b-e95a-5e4d-85af-548f94a67e60-7938678.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/640x427_cmsv2_3d6cd76b-e95a-5e4d-85af-548f94a67e60-7938678.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/750x500_cmsv2_3d6cd76b-e95a-5e4d-85af-548f94a67e60-7938678.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/828x552_cmsv2_3d6cd76b-e95a-5e4d-85af-548f94a67e60-7938678.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/1080x720_cmsv2_3d6cd76b-e95a-5e4d-85af-548f94a67e60-7938678.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/1200x800_cmsv2_3d6cd76b-e95a-5e4d-85af-548f94a67e60-7938678.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/1920x1281_cmsv2_3d6cd76b-e95a-5e4d-85af-548f94a67e60-7938678.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Weapons and equipment surrendered by Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh are displayed in Signag village, Azerbaijan, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Aziz Karimov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>She said the Armenians are leaving the region safely by their own choice, unlike her family and other Azerbaijani refugees, adding that many were killed as they tried to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel sorry for simple Armenians leaving Karabakh now, but there is a big difference: They and their children aren&#039;t being hunted and killed as they killed our refugees,\u201d she said. \u201cThey have a choice whether to stay or leave calmly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan&#039;s presidential office said in a statement that the country has presented a plan for the \u201creintegration\u201d of ethnic Armenians in the region, noting that \u201cthe equality of rights and freedoms, including security, is guaranteed to everyone regardless of their ethnic, religious or linguistic affiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said that the plan envisages improving infrastructure to bring it line with the rest of the country and offers tax exemptions, subsidies, low-interest loans and other incentives. The statement noted that Azerbaijani authorities have held three rounds of talks with representatives of the region&#039;s ethnic Armenian population and will continue the discussions.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1696272018,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1696273491,"firstPublishedAt":1696273494,"lastPublishedAt":1696273494,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/86\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e445ab5f-c3d7-574d-97b9-228b340b9835-7938678.jpg","altText":"Azerbaijani servicemen guard the Lachin checkpoint on the in Azerbaijan, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023.","caption":"Azerbaijani servicemen guard the Lachin checkpoint on the in Azerbaijan, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Aziz Karimov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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Armenia grapples with multiple challenges after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"The challenges ahead for Armenia after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"The challenges ahead for Armenia after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh","titleListing2":"The challenges ahead for Armenia after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh","leadin":"Tens of thousands of homeless people travel to Armenia, where the leader faces daily protests amid a row with Russia.","summary":"Tens of thousands of homeless people travel to Armenia, where the leader faces daily protests amid a row with Russia.","keySentence":"","url":"the-challenges-ahead-for-armenia-after-the-fall-of-nagorno-karabakh","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/10\/02\/the-challenges-ahead-for-armenia-after-the-fall-of-nagorno-karabakh","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Tens of thousands of now-homeless people have streamed into Armenia from the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, controlled by its emboldened adversary, Azerbaijan. \n\nMeanwhile, swarms of protesters are filling the streets of the Armenian capital of Yerevan, demanding the prime minister's ousting. And relations with Russia, an old ally and protector, have frayed amid mutual accusations. \n\nArmenia now finds itself facing multiple challenges after being thrust into one of the worst political crises in its decades of independence following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. \n\nDevelopments unfolded with surprising speed after Azerbaijan waged a lightning military campaign in Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority ethnic Armenian region that has run its affairs for three decades without international recognition. \n\nThat triggered a massive exodus by the ethnic Armenians who feared living under Azerbaijani rule. More than 80% of the region\u2019s 120,000 residents hastily packed their belongings and trudged in a gruelling and slow journey over the single mountain road into impoverished Armenia, which is struggling to accommodate them. \n\n\u201cThere\u2019s a tremendous amount of anger and frustration directed at Nikol Pashinyan,\u201d said Laurence Broers, an expert on the region at Chatham House. \n\nPashinyan\u2019s economically challenged government has to provide them quickly with housing, medical care and jobs. While the global Armenian diaspora has pledged to help, it poses major financial and logistical problems for the landlocked country. \n\nThomas de Waal, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Europe think tank, agrees with other observers that\u00a0one factor in Pashinyan\u2019s favour is that whatever simmering anger there is against him, there is just as much directed toward Russia, Armenia\u2019s main ally. \n\nAfter a six-week war in 2020 that saw Azerbaijan reclaim part of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding territories, Russia sent about 2,000 peacekeeping troops to the region under a Kremlin-brokered truce. \n\nPashinyan has accused the peacekeepers of failing to prevent the recent hostilities by Azerbaijan. \n\nRussia has been distracted by its war in Ukraine, which has eroded its influence in the region and made the Kremlin reluctant to defy Azerbaijan and its main ally Turkey, a key economic partner for Moscow amid Western sanctions. \n\n\u201cClearly, this Azerbaijani military operation would not have been possible if the Russian peacekeepers had tried to keep the peace, but they just basically stood down,\u201d de Waal said. \n\nThe Kremlin, in turn, has sought to shift the blame to Pashinyan, accusing him of precipitating the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh by acknowledging Azerbaijan's sovereignty over the region and damaging Armenia's ties with Russia by embracing the West. \n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has long been suspicious of Pashinyan, a former journalist who came to power in 2018 after leading protests that ousted the previous government. \n\nEven before Azerbaijan\u2019s operation to reclaim control of Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia had vented anger at Armenia for hosting US troops for joint military drills and moving to recognise the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court after it had indicted Putin for war crimes connected to the deportation of children from Ukraine. \n\nThe bad feelings escalated after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh, with Moscow assailing Pashinyan in harsh language that hadn't been heard before. \n\nThe Russian Foreign Ministry blasted \u201cthe inconsistent stance of the Armenian leadership, which flip-flopped on policy and sought Western support over working closely with Russia and Azerbaijan.\u201d \n\nIt remains unclear whether Pashinyan might take Armenia out of the Moscow-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization, a group of several former Soviet nations, and other Russia-led alliances. Armenia also hosts a Russian military base and Russian border guards help patrol Armenia\u2019s frontier with Turkey. \n\nDespite the worsening rift, Pashinyan has refrained from threats to rupture links with Moscow, but he emphasised the need to bolster security and other ties with the West. \n\nEven though the Russian peacekeepers didn\u2019t try to prevent Azerbaijan from reclaiming Nagorno-Karabakh, the troops' presence in Armenia helps counter potential moves by Azerbaijan and Turkey to pressure Yerevan on some contested issues. \n\nBaku has long demanded that Armenia offer a corridor to Azerbaijan's exclave of Nakhchivan, which is separated from the rest of the country by a 40-kilometre (25-mile) swathe of Armenian territory. \n\nThe deal that ended the 2020 war envisaged reopening rail and road links to Nakhchivan that have been cut since the start of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but their restoration has stalled amid continuing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. \n\nAzerbaijan has warned it could use force to secure the corridor if Armenia keeps stonewalling the issue, and there have been fears in Armenia that the corridor could infringe on its sovereignty. \n\n\u201cI think there is extreme concern about this in Armenia, given the very dramatic military asymmetry between Armenia and Azerbaijan today and given the fact that Russia has ostensibly abdicated its role as a security guarantor for Armenia,\u201d Broers said. \n\nDespite Western calls for Azerbaijan to respect Armenia\u2019s sovereignty as well as strong signals from Iran, which also has warned Azerbaijan not to use force against Armenia, tensions remain high, he noted. \n\n\u201cThe issue is to what extent Azerbaijan and Turkey, backed maybe quietly by Russia, push this issue,\" de Waal said. \"Do they just sort of try and force Armenia at the negotiating table or do they actually start to use force to try and get what they want? This is the scenario everyone fears.\u201d \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Tens of thousands of now-homeless people have streamed into Armenia from the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, controlled by its emboldened adversary, Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, swarms of protesters are filling the streets of the Armenian capital of Yerevan, demanding the prime minister&#039;s ousting. And relations with Russia, an old ally and protector, have frayed amid mutual accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia now finds itself facing multiple challenges after being thrust into one of the worst political crises in its decades of independence following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>Developments unfolded with surprising speed after Azerbaijan waged a lightning military campaign in Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority ethnic Armenian region that has run its affairs for three decades without international recognition.<\/p>\n<p>That triggered a massive exodus by the ethnic Armenians who feared living under Azerbaijani rule. More than 80% of the region\u2019s 120,000 residents hastily packed their belongings and trudged in a gruelling and slow journey over the single mountain road into impoverished Armenia, which is struggling to accommodate them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a tremendous amount of anger and frustration directed at Nikol Pashinyan,\u201d said Laurence Broers, an expert on the region at Chatham House.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//93//70//60//808x454_cmsv2_8ee1833f-30a1-5488-a341-d9f129f8bc5d-7937060.jpg/" alt=\"Hayk Baghdasaryan\/Photolure via AP, File\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/384x216_cmsv2_8ee1833f-30a1-5488-a341-d9f129f8bc5d-7937060.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/640x360_cmsv2_8ee1833f-30a1-5488-a341-d9f129f8bc5d-7937060.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/750x422_cmsv2_8ee1833f-30a1-5488-a341-d9f129f8bc5d-7937060.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/828x466_cmsv2_8ee1833f-30a1-5488-a341-d9f129f8bc5d-7937060.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/1080x608_cmsv2_8ee1833f-30a1-5488-a341-d9f129f8bc5d-7937060.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/1200x675_cmsv2_8ee1833f-30a1-5488-a341-d9f129f8bc5d-7937060.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/1920x1080_cmsv2_8ee1833f-30a1-5488-a341-d9f129f8bc5d-7937060.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Demonstrators march during a protest against Armenia&apos;s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan, Armenia, on Sunday, September 24, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Hayk Baghdasaryan\/Photolure via AP, File<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pashinyan\u2019s economically challenged government has to provide them quickly with housing, medical care and jobs. While the global Armenian diaspora has pledged to help, it poses major financial and logistical problems for the landlocked country.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Europe think tank, agrees with other observers that\u00a0one factor in Pashinyan\u2019s favour is that whatever simmering anger there is against him, there is just as much directed toward Russia, Armenia\u2019s main ally.<\/p>\n<p>After a six-week war in 2020 that saw Azerbaijan reclaim part of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding territories, Russia sent about 2,000 peacekeeping troops to the region under a Kremlin-brokered truce.<\/p>\n<p>Pashinyan has accused the peacekeepers of failing to prevent the recent hostilities by Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been distracted by its war in Ukraine, which has eroded its influence in the region and made the Kremlin reluctant to defy Azerbaijan and its main ally Turkey, a key economic partner for Moscow amid Western sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, this Azerbaijani military operation would not have been possible if the Russian peacekeepers had tried to keep the peace, but they just basically stood down,\u201d de Waal said.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin, in turn, has sought to shift the blame to Pashinyan, accusing him of precipitating the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh by acknowledging Azerbaijan&#039;s sovereignty over the region and damaging Armenia&#039;s ties with Russia by embracing the West.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has long been suspicious of Pashinyan, a former journalist who came to power in 2018 after leading protests that ousted the previous government.<\/p>\n<p>Even before Azerbaijan\u2019s operation to reclaim control of Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia had vented anger at Armenia for hosting US troops for joint military drills and moving to recognise the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court after it had indicted Putin for war crimes connected to the deportation of children from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The bad feelings escalated after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh, with Moscow assailing Pashinyan in harsh language that hadn&#039;t been heard before.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry blasted \u201cthe inconsistent stance of the Armenian leadership, which flip-flopped on policy and sought Western support over working closely with Russia and Azerbaijan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear whether Pashinyan might take Armenia out of the Moscow-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization, a group of several former Soviet nations, and other Russia-led alliances. Armenia also hosts a Russian military base and Russian border guards help patrol Armenia\u2019s frontier with Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the worsening rift, Pashinyan has refrained from threats to rupture links with Moscow, but he emphasised the need to bolster security and other ties with the West.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//93//70//60//808x454_cmsv2_ed58e963-c313-5c76-8ed3-8e20ed755e8b-7937060.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\/Sergei Grits, File\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/384x216_cmsv2_ed58e963-c313-5c76-8ed3-8e20ed755e8b-7937060.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/640x360_cmsv2_ed58e963-c313-5c76-8ed3-8e20ed755e8b-7937060.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/750x422_cmsv2_ed58e963-c313-5c76-8ed3-8e20ed755e8b-7937060.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/828x466_cmsv2_ed58e963-c313-5c76-8ed3-8e20ed755e8b-7937060.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/1080x608_cmsv2_ed58e963-c313-5c76-8ed3-8e20ed755e8b-7937060.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/1200x675_cmsv2_ed58e963-c313-5c76-8ed3-8e20ed755e8b-7937060.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/1920x1080_cmsv2_ed58e963-c313-5c76-8ed3-8e20ed755e8b-7937060.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Russian peacekeepers&apos; vehicles are parked at a checkpoint on the road to Shusha in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Sergei Grits, File<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Even though the Russian peacekeepers didn\u2019t try to prevent Azerbaijan from reclaiming Nagorno-Karabakh, the troops&#039; presence in Armenia helps counter potential moves by Azerbaijan and Turkey to pressure Yerevan on some contested issues.<\/p>\n<p>Baku has long demanded that Armenia offer a corridor to Azerbaijan&#039;s exclave of Nakhchivan, which is separated from the rest of the country by a 40-kilometre (25-mile) swathe of Armenian territory.<\/p>\n<p>The deal that ended the 2020 war envisaged reopening rail and road links to Nakhchivan that have been cut since the start of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, but their restoration has stalled amid continuing tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan has warned it could use force to secure the corridor if Armenia keeps stonewalling the issue, and there have been fears in Armenia that the corridor could infringe on its sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there is extreme concern about this in Armenia, given the very dramatic military asymmetry between Armenia and Azerbaijan today and given the fact that Russia has ostensibly abdicated its role as a security guarantor for Armenia,\u201d Broers said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Western calls for Azerbaijan to respect Armenia\u2019s sovereignty as well as strong signals from Iran, which also has warned Azerbaijan not to use force against Armenia, tensions remain high, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue is to what extent Azerbaijan and Turkey, backed maybe quietly by Russia, push this issue,\" de Waal said. \"Do they just sort of try and force Armenia at the negotiating table or do they actually start to use force to try and get what they want? This is the scenario everyone fears.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1696239318,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1696260809,"firstPublishedAt":1696260839,"lastPublishedAt":1696260859,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a94eab9a-6dd4-5f5c-a499-dd066e8d8861-7937060.jpg","altText":"A child holds a toy as people hoping to leave Nagorno-Karabakh gather in the city of Stepanakert\/Khankendi on September 26","caption":"A child holds a toy as people hoping to leave Nagorno-Karabakh gather in the city of Stepanakert\/Khankendi on September 26","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Siranush Sargsyan, File","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/70\/60\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ed58e963-c313-5c76-8ed3-8e20ed755e8b-7937060.jpg","altText":"Russian peacekeepers' vehicles 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CRISIS SUNDAY","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Azerbaijan issues warrant for former Armenian separatist leader ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":"Azerbaijan issues warrant for former Armenian separatist leader ","leadin":"Azerbaijan\u2019s prosecutor general issued an arrest warrant for ex-Nagorno-Karabakh leader Arayik Harutyunyan on Sunday as it enforces its grip on the region.","summary":"Azerbaijan\u2019s prosecutor general issued an arrest warrant for ex-Nagorno-Karabakh leader Arayik Harutyunyan on Sunday as it enforces its grip on the region.","keySentence":"","url":"azerbaijan-issues-warrant-for-former-armenian-separatist-leader","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/10\/01\/azerbaijan-issues-warrant-for-former-armenian-separatist-leader","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Harutyunyan led the breakaway region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but was largely populated by ethnic Armenians, between May 2020 and the beginning of September. Less than a month later, the separatist government said it would dissolve itself by the end of 2023 after a three-decade bid for independence. \n\n\nAzerbaijani police arrested one of Harutyunyan\u2019s former prime ministers, Ruben Vardanyan, on Wednesday as he tried to cross into Armenia along with tens of thousands of others who have fled following Baku\u2019s 24-hour blitz last week to reclaim control of Nagorno-Karabakh. \n\nHarutyunyan and the enclave's former military commander, Jalal Harutyunyan, are accused of firing missiles on Azerbaijan's third-largest city, Ganja, during a 44-day war in late 2020, local media reported. The clash between the Azerbaijani military clash and Nagorno Karabakh forces led to the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in the region. \n\nThe arrest warrant announcement by Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev reflects Azerbaijan\u2019s intention to quickly and forcefully enforce its grip on the region following three decades of conflict with the separatist state. \n\nWhile Baku has pledged to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, many have fled due to fear of reprisals or losing the freedom to use their language and to practice their religion and cultural customs. \n\nIn a briefing on Sunday, Armenia's presidential press secretary, Nazeli Baghdasaryan, said that 100,483 people had already arrived in Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh, which had a population of about 120,000 before Azerbaijan's offensive. \n\nSome people lined up for days to escape the region because the only route to Armenia \u2014 a winding mountain road \u2014 became jammed with slow-moving vehicles. \n\nA United Nations delegation arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh Sunday to monitor the situation. The mission is the organisation's first to the region for three decades, due to the \u201cvery complicated and delicate geopolitical situation\u201d there, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Friday. \n\nLocal officials dismissed the visit as a formality. Hunan Tadevosyan, spokesperson for Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s emergency services, said the U.N. representatives had come too late and the number of civilians left in the regional capital of Stepanakert could be \u201ccounted on one hand.\u201d \n\n\u201cI did the volunteer work. The people who were left sheltering in the basements, even people who were mentally unwell and did not understand what was happening, I put them on buses with my own hands and we took them out of Stepanakert,\u201d Tadevosyan told Armenian outlet News.am. \n\n\u201cWe walked around the whole city but found no one. There is no general population left,\u201d he said. \n\nArmenian Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan said some people, including older adults, had died while on the road to Armenia as they were \u201cexhausted due to malnutrition, left without even taking medicine with them, and were on the road for more than 40 hours.\u201d \n\nArmenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan alleged Thursday that the exodus of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh amounted to \u201ca direct act of an ethnic cleansing and depriving people of their motherland.\u201d \n\nAzerbaijan\u2019s Foreign Ministry strongly rejected Pashinyan\u2019s accusations, saying the departure of Armenians was \u201ctheir personal and individual decision and has nothing to do with forced relocation.\u201d \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Harutyunyan led the breakaway region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but was largely populated by ethnic Armenians, between May 2020 and the beginning of September. Less than a month later, the separatist government said it would dissolve itself by the end of 2023 after a three-decade bid for independence. <\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijani police arrested one of Harutyunyan\u2019s former prime ministers, Ruben Vardanyan, on Wednesday as he tried to cross into Armenia along with tens of thousands of others who have fled following Baku\u2019s 24-hour blitz last week to reclaim control of Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n<p>Harutyunyan and the enclave&#039;s former military commander, Jalal Harutyunyan, are accused of firing missiles on Azerbaijan&#039;s third-largest city, Ganja, during a 44-day war in late 2020, local media reported. The clash between the Azerbaijani military clash and Nagorno Karabakh forces led to the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest warrant announcement by Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev reflects Azerbaijan\u2019s intention to quickly and forcefully enforce its grip on the region following three decades of conflict with the separatist state.<\/p>\n<p>While Baku has pledged to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, many have fled due to fear of reprisals or losing the freedom to use their language and to practice their religion and cultural customs.<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing on Sunday, Armenia&#039;s presidential press secretary, Nazeli Baghdasaryan, said that 100,483 people had already arrived in Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh, which had a population of about 120,000 before Azerbaijan&#039;s offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Some people lined up for days to escape the region because the only route to Armenia \u2014 a winding mountain road \u2014 became jammed with slow-moving vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>A United Nations delegation arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh Sunday to monitor the situation. The mission is the organisation&#039;s first to the region for three decades, due to the \u201cvery complicated and delicate geopolitical situation\u201d there, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials dismissed the visit as a formality. Hunan Tadevosyan, spokesperson for Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s emergency services, said the U.N. representatives had come too late and the number of civilians left in the regional capital of Stepanakert could be \u201ccounted on one hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did the volunteer work. The people who were left sheltering in the basements, even people who were mentally unwell and did not understand what was happening, I put them on buses with my own hands and we took them out of Stepanakert,\u201d Tadevosyan told Armenian outlet News.am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe walked around the whole city but found no one. 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It's the most expensive entertainment venue in the city,\u00a0 eclipsing the approximately $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat Allegiant Stadium sports facility that opened in 2020. \n\nInside the Sphere, a high-resolution LED screen wraps halfway around the 17,500-seat audience. The venue is equipped with thousands of speakers that will deliver a \u201ccrystal-clear\u201d multi-layered 160,000 audio system for every seat inside. \n\nThe venue features an array of technology attractions including five interactive humanoid robots named Aura. \n\nOutside the Sphere, the state-of-the-art venue has been a traffic stopper - especially at night. 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The venue is equipped with thousands of speakers that will deliver a \u201ccrystal-clear\u201d multi-layered 160,000 audio system for every seat inside.<\/p>\n<p>The venue features an array of technology attractions including five interactive humanoid robots named Aura.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the Sphere, the state-of-the-art venue has been a traffic stopper - especially at night. It drew immediate attention on July 4th - just off the Las Vegas Strip - with a digital fireworks display, an eyeball that appeared to scan the horizon with the words \u201cHello World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with U2\u2019s 25-show residency, the venue will next week offer a custom production titled \u201cPostcard from Earth\u201d by film director Darren Aronofsky.<\/p>\n<p>The Sphere is the most expensive entertainment venue built in Las Vegas, eclipsing the approximately $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat Allegiant Stadium sports facility that opened in 2020.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1696070137,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1696171974,"firstPublishedAt":1696171977,"lastPublishedAt":1696171977,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/41\/44\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_75fb9c08-bd26-5db2-ae50-74b89f29d361-7934144.jpg","altText":"People take pictures during the opening night of the Sphere, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Las Vegas.","caption":"People take pictures during the opening night of the Sphere, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Las Vegas.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"John Locher\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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ON NAGORNO HUMANITARIAN","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"More than 70% of Nagorno-Karabakh's population flees as future uncertain for those who remain","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Nagorno-Karabakh: More than 70% of population flees, future uncertain","titleListing2":"More than 70% of the population of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled the ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan for neighbouring Armenia, the Armenian government said Friday","leadin":"More than 70% of the population of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled the ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan for neighbouring Armenia, the Armenian government said Friday, as the enclave's separatist government said it will dissolve itself by the end of the year after a three-decade bid for independence.","summary":"More than 70% of the population of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled the ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan for neighbouring Armenia, the Armenian government said Friday, as the enclave's separatist government said it will dissolve itself by the end of the year after a three-decade bid for independence.","keySentence":"","url":"more-than-70-of-nagorno-karabakhs-population-flees-as-future-uncertain-for-those-who-remai","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/09\/29\/more-than-70-of-nagorno-karabakhs-population-flees-as-future-uncertain-for-those-who-remai","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Armenian officials said that 84,770 people had left Nagorno-Karabakh by Friday morning out of a total population of around 120,000. \n\nThe mass exodus that began Sunday raises questions about Azerbaijan\u2019s plans for Nagorno-Karabakh following its lightning offensive last week to reclaim the breakaway region, and demand that its militants disarm and its separatist government disband. \n\nSome people have lined up for days to get out of Nagorno-Karabakh as the only road to Armenia quickly filled up with vehicles, creating a major traffic jam on the winding mountain road. \n\nArmenian Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan said that some people, including the elderly, had died while on the road to Armenia, because they were \u201cexhausted due to malnutrition, left without even taking medicine with them, and were on the road for more than 40 hours.\u201d \n\nOn Thursday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted the departure of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and alleged it was \u201ca direct act of an ethnic cleansing and depriving people of their motherland.\u201d Azerbaijan\u2019s Foreign Ministry strongly rejected Pashinyan\u2019s accusations, calling the departure of Armenians \u201ctheir personal and individual decision and has nothing to do with forced relocation.\u201d \n\nLaurence Broers, an expert on the Caucasus with London-based think tank Chatham House, said that it was unlikely that significant numbers of Armenians will remain in Nagorno-Karabakh and that \u201cthe territory will become homogenous.\u201d \n\n\n\u201cIf you define ethnic cleansing as actions by force or through intimidation to induce a population to leave, that\u2019s very much what the last year or so has looked like,\u201d he said. \n\nIn the 1990s, the Azerbaijani population was itself expelled from Nagorno-Karabakh and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced within Azerbaijan. As part of its \u201cGreat Return\u201d program, the government in Baku has already relocated Azerbaijanis to territories recaptured from Nagorno-Karabakh forces in a 2020 war. \n\nAnalysts believe Azerbaijan could expand the program and resettle Nagorno-Karabakh with Azerbaijanis, while stating that ethnic Armenians could stay or exercise a right to return in order to \u201crefute accusations that Karabakh Armenians have been ethnically cleansed,\u201d Broers said. \n\nA decree signed by the region\u2019s separatist president, Samvel Shakhramanyan, cited a Sept. 20 agreement to end the fighting under which Azerbaijan will allow the \u201cfree, voluntary and unhindered movement\u201d of Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s residents to Armenia. \n\nOn Monday night, a fuel reservoir exploded at a gas station where people lined up for gas to fill up their vehicles to flee to Armenia. At least 68 people were killed and nearly 300 others were injured, with more than 100 others still considered missing after the blast, which exacerbated fuel shortages that were already dire after the blockade. \n\nOn Friday the State Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh's interior ministry said 170 remains and body fragments had been collected and would be sent to Armenia for DNA identification. \n\nAvanesyan, the Armenian health minister, said that 142 people who were injured after the fuel tank exploded were taken to Armenia for treatment and that some of them were in very serious condition. \n\nOn Thursday, Azerbaijani authorities charged Ruben Vardanyan, the former head of Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s separatist government, with financing terrorism, creating illegal armed formations and illegally crossing a state border. He was detained on Wednesday by Azerbaijani border guards as he was trying to leave Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia along with tens of thousands of others. \n\nVardanyan, a billionaire who made his fortune in Russia, was placed in pretrial detention for at least four months and faces up to 14 years in prison. His arrest appeared to indicate Azerbaijan\u2019s intent to quickly enforce its grip on the region. \n\nAnother top separatist figure, Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s former foreign minister and now presidential adviser David Babayan, said Thursday that he would surrender to Azerbaijani authorities who ordered him to face an investigation in Baku. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Armenian officials said that 84,770 people had left Nagorno-Karabakh by Friday morning out of a total population of around 120,000.<\/p>\n<p>The mass exodus that began Sunday raises questions about Azerbaijan\u2019s plans for Nagorno-Karabakh following its lightning offensive last week to reclaim the breakaway region, and demand that its militants disarm and its separatist government disband.<\/p>\n<p>Some people have lined up for days to get out of Nagorno-Karabakh as the only road to Armenia quickly filled up with vehicles, creating a major traffic jam on the winding mountain road.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//93//21//50//808x539_cmsv2_3a24c85b-e9fe-55b3-879f-284d064287fe-7932150.jpg/" alt=\"Vasily Krestyaninov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/384x256_cmsv2_3a24c85b-e9fe-55b3-879f-284d064287fe-7932150.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/640x427_cmsv2_3a24c85b-e9fe-55b3-879f-284d064287fe-7932150.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/750x500_cmsv2_3a24c85b-e9fe-55b3-879f-284d064287fe-7932150.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/828x552_cmsv2_3a24c85b-e9fe-55b3-879f-284d064287fe-7932150.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/1080x720_cmsv2_3a24c85b-e9fe-55b3-879f-284d064287fe-7932150.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/1200x800_cmsv2_3a24c85b-e9fe-55b3-879f-284d064287fe-7932150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/1920x1281_cmsv2_3a24c85b-e9fe-55b3-879f-284d064287fe-7932150.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and European Union observers drive their cars past a check point on the road from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia&apos;s Goris in Syunik region.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Vasily Krestyaninov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Armenian Health Minister Anahit Avanesyan said that some people, including the elderly, had died while on the road to Armenia, because they were \u201cexhausted due to malnutrition, left without even taking medicine with them, and were on the road for more than 40 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted the departure of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and alleged it was \u201ca direct act of an ethnic cleansing and depriving people of their motherland.\u201d Azerbaijan\u2019s Foreign Ministry strongly rejected Pashinyan\u2019s accusations, calling the departure of Armenians \u201ctheir personal and individual decision and has nothing to do with forced relocation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7927884\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//09//28//watch-more-than-half-of-armenians-in-nagorno-karabakh-have-now-fled-region/">WATCH: More than half of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh have now fled region<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Laurence Broers, an expert on the Caucasus with London-based think tank Chatham House, said that it was unlikely that significant numbers of Armenians will remain in Nagorno-Karabakh and that \u201cthe territory will become homogenous.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you define ethnic cleansing as actions by force or through intimidation to induce a population to leave, that\u2019s very much what the last year or so has looked like,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, the Azerbaijani population was itself expelled from Nagorno-Karabakh and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced within Azerbaijan. As part of its \u201cGreat Return\u201d program, the government in Baku has already relocated Azerbaijanis to territories recaptured from Nagorno-Karabakh forces in a 2020 war.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//93//21//50//808x539_cmsv2_97be7b0e-8de3-51b2-864a-08df01cf2746-7932150.jpg/" alt=\"Vasily Krestyaninov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/384x256_cmsv2_97be7b0e-8de3-51b2-864a-08df01cf2746-7932150.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/640x427_cmsv2_97be7b0e-8de3-51b2-864a-08df01cf2746-7932150.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/750x500_cmsv2_97be7b0e-8de3-51b2-864a-08df01cf2746-7932150.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/828x552_cmsv2_97be7b0e-8de3-51b2-864a-08df01cf2746-7932150.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/1080x720_cmsv2_97be7b0e-8de3-51b2-864a-08df01cf2746-7932150.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/1200x800_cmsv2_97be7b0e-8de3-51b2-864a-08df01cf2746-7932150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/1920x1281_cmsv2_97be7b0e-8de3-51b2-864a-08df01cf2746-7932150.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ethnic Armenian men from Nagorno-Karabakh sit atop of a damaged armored personnel carrier after arriving to Armenia&apos;s Kornidzor in Syunik region, Armenia, Friday, Sept. 29.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Vasily Krestyaninov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Analysts believe Azerbaijan could expand the program and resettle Nagorno-Karabakh with Azerbaijanis, while stating that ethnic Armenians could stay or exercise a right to return in order to \u201crefute accusations that Karabakh Armenians have been ethnically cleansed,\u201d Broers said.<\/p>\n<p>A decree signed by the region\u2019s separatist president, Samvel Shakhramanyan, cited a Sept. 20 agreement to end the fighting under which Azerbaijan will allow the \u201cfree, voluntary and unhindered movement\u201d of Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s residents to Armenia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7912324,7928544\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//09//28//half-of-nagorno-karabakhs-population-flees-as-the-separatist-government-says-it-will-disso/">Half of Nagorno-Karabakh's population flees as the separatist government says it will dissolve<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//09//22//armenia-calls-for-a-un-mission-to-be-sent-to-nagorno-karabakh/">Armenia calls for a UN mission to be sent to Nagorno-Karabakh<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On Monday night, a fuel reservoir exploded at a gas station where people lined up for gas to fill up their vehicles to flee to Armenia. At least 68 people were killed and nearly 300 others were injured, with more than 100 others still considered missing after the blast, which exacerbated fuel shortages that were already dire after the blockade.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday the State Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh&#039;s interior ministry said 170 remains and body fragments had been collected and would be sent to Armenia for DNA identification.<\/p>\n<p>Avanesyan, the Armenian health minister, said that 142 people who were injured after the fuel tank exploded were taken to Armenia for treatment and that some of them were in very serious condition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//93//21//50//808x539_cmsv2_56461f08-37cd-5f22-ab99-b1db3d838d63-7932150.jpg/" alt=\"Vasily Krestyaninov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/384x256_cmsv2_56461f08-37cd-5f22-ab99-b1db3d838d63-7932150.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/640x427_cmsv2_56461f08-37cd-5f22-ab99-b1db3d838d63-7932150.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/750x500_cmsv2_56461f08-37cd-5f22-ab99-b1db3d838d63-7932150.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/828x552_cmsv2_56461f08-37cd-5f22-ab99-b1db3d838d63-7932150.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/1080x720_cmsv2_56461f08-37cd-5f22-ab99-b1db3d838d63-7932150.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/1200x800_cmsv2_56461f08-37cd-5f22-ab99-b1db3d838d63-7932150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/50\/1920x1281_cmsv2_56461f08-37cd-5f22-ab99-b1db3d838d63-7932150.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">An ethnic Armenian woman from Nagorno-Karabakh walks past a street cafe after arriving to Armenia&apos;s Goris in Syunik region,<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Vasily Krestyaninov\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, Azerbaijani authorities charged Ruben Vardanyan, the former head of Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s separatist government, with financing terrorism, creating illegal armed formations and illegally crossing a state border. He was detained on Wednesday by Azerbaijani border guards as he was trying to leave Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia along with tens of thousands of others.<\/p>\n<p>Vardanyan, a billionaire who made his fortune in Russia, was placed in pretrial detention for at least four months and faces up to 14 years in prison. His arrest appeared to indicate Azerbaijan\u2019s intent to quickly enforce its grip on the region.<\/p>\n<p>Another top separatist figure, Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s former foreign minister and now presidential adviser David Babayan, said Thursday that he would surrender to Azerbaijani authorities who ordered him to face an investigation in Baku.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1695990446,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1696012119,"firstPublishedAt":1696012122,"lastPublishedAt":1696012122,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/93\/21\/60\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_badf234f-a68a-5d04-9852-3c3ca9e7274a-7932160.jpg","altText":"Ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh sit inside a minibus on their way to Armenia's Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. ","caption":"Ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh sit inside a minibus on their way to Armenia's Goris in Syunik region, Armenia, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. 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Nagorno Karabakh","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'I left to stay alive': Nagorno-Karabakh empties of ethnic Armenians","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"","titleListing2":"","leadin":"Baku has promised to guarantee the safety of residents, but Armenia's prime minister warned of \"ethnic cleansing\".","summary":"Baku has promised to guarantee the safety of residents, but Armenia's prime minister warned of \"ethnic cleansing\".","keySentence":"","url":"one-quarter-of-nagorno-karabakhs-ethnic-armenians-flee","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/09\/27\/one-quarter-of-nagorno-karabakhs-ethnic-armenians-flee","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Armenian authorities said on Wednesday they have received 42,500 refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, following Azerbaijan's lightning offensive last week. \n\nThat's more than a third of the separatist Caucasus region's total population.\u00a0 \n\nBaku has promised to guarantee the safety of residents, but Armenia's prime minister warned of \"ethnic cleansing\". \n\nThe mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of\u00a0Azerbaijan but was largely controlled by Armenian separatists.\u00a0 \n\nA ceasefire agreement was signed last Wednesday that handed the territory of around 120,000 people to Baku, following its 24-hour military offensive.\u00a0 \n\nOn Sunday,\u00a0Azerbaijan reopened the only road linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia and pledged to allow rebel fighters who surrender their weapons to flee.\u00a0 \n\nThe influx of refugees has caused huge traffic jams, with an endless stream of overcrowded vehicles carrying families and their belongings passing through the Lachine corridor.\u00a0 \n\nMany refugees say it took 24 hours to travel the 80 kilometres between\u00a0Nagorno-Karabakh's de facto capital, known as Stepanakert by Armenians and Khankendi by Azeris, and the Armenian border.\u00a0 \n\nThis is often a journey without food and sometimes water, as the separatist region lacks crucial essentials due to Baku's months-long blockade.\u00a0 \n\n\u201cThey expelled us,\u201d says one ethnic Armenian who arrived at the frontier on foot.\u00a0 \n\n\u201cI left my house to stay alive,\u201d adds another woman in a green jacket, who insists on speaking: \u201cLet the world know that we are homeless dogs now!\u201d \n\nThe Azeris have said they want to treat ethnic Armenians as \"equal citizens\".\u00a0 \n\nOn Monday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev renewed his promise that the rights of ethnic Armenians in the enclave would be \"guaranteed\". \n\nThat same day\u00a0a massive blast at a fuel depot killed at least 68 people attempting to leave.\u00a0Nearly 300 more were injured and 105 are missing. \n\nArmenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet republics, fought two wars over Nagorno-Karabakh in the 1990s and 2020.\u00a0The fighting claimed around 36,500 lives.\u00a0 \n\nThe death toll from last week's rapid invasion is 200 dead, according to the Armenian side. Dozens of Azerbaijani soldiers were killed as their army poured across the border.\u00a0 \n\nThe European Union brought together senior French, German, Azerbaijani and Armenian officials in Brussels on Tuesday. \n\nTalks involved\u00a0\"intense exchanges\" over the relevance of a possible future meeting at the start of October.\u00a0 \n\nTop US diplomat Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged Baku\u00a0to protect civilians in the region and allow in humanitarian aid.\u00a0 \n\nBlinken \"spoke again with President Aliyev today and emphasised the urgency of ending hostilities, ensuring unconditional protection and freedom of movement for civilians,\" State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. \n\nFrance called for \"international diplomatic action\" amid \"Russia's abandonment of Armenia.\" \n\nParis estimated that the \u201cmassive\u201d exodus of Armenians is taking place \u201cunder the complicit eye of Russia\u201d, which deployed a peacekeeping force in this region in 2020. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Armenian authorities said on Wednesday they have received 42,500 refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, following Azerbaijan&#039;s lightning offensive last week.<\/p>\n<p>That&#039;s more than a third of the separatist Caucasus region&#039;s total population.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baku has promised to guarantee the safety of residents, but Armenia&#039;s prime minister warned of \"ethnic cleansing\".<\/p>\n<p>The mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of\u00a0Azerbaijan but was largely controlled by Armenian separatists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A ceasefire agreement was signed last Wednesday that handed the territory of around 120,000 people to Baku, following its 24-hour military offensive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday,\u00a0Azerbaijan reopened the only road linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia and pledged to allow rebel fighters who surrender their weapons to flee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The influx of refugees has caused huge traffic jams, with an endless stream of overcrowded vehicles carrying families and their belongings passing through the Lachine corridor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many refugees say it took 24 hours to travel the 80 kilometres between\u00a0Nagorno-Karabakh&#039;s de facto capital, known as Stepanakert by Armenians and Khankendi by Azeris, and the Armenian border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is often a journey without food and sometimes water, as the separatist region lacks crucial essentials due to Baku&#039;s months-long blockade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey expelled us,\u201d says one ethnic Armenian who arrived at the frontier on foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.666015625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//92//39//80//808x539_cmsv2_4f2f5c16-4728-596e-83bc-98d692ec42b8-7923980.jpg/" alt=\"EMMANUEL DUNAND\/AFP or licensors\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/92\/39\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_4f2f5c16-4728-596e-83bc-98d692ec42b8-7923980.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/92\/39\/80\/640x426_cmsv2_4f2f5c16-4728-596e-83bc-98d692ec42b8-7923980.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/92\/39\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_4f2f5c16-4728-596e-83bc-98d692ec42b8-7923980.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/92\/39\/80\/828x551_cmsv2_4f2f5c16-4728-596e-83bc-98d692ec42b8-7923980.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/92\/39\/80\/1080x719_cmsv2_4f2f5c16-4728-596e-83bc-98d692ec42b8-7923980.jpg 1080w, 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want to treat ethnic Armenians as \"equal citizens\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev renewed his promise that the rights of ethnic Armenians in the enclave would be \"guaranteed\".<\/p>\n<p>That same day\u00a0a massive blast at a fuel depot killed at least 68 people attempting to leave.\u00a0Nearly 300 more were injured and 105 are missing.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet republics, fought two wars over Nagorno-Karabakh in the 1990s and 2020.\u00a0The fighting claimed around 36,500 lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from last week&#039;s rapid invasion is 200 dead, according to the Armenian side. 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HUMANITARIAN CRISIS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Thousands of Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijan regains full control","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Thousands of Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh","titleListing2":"Thousands of Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh","leadin":"Azerbaijan pledged to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians in the region but many local residents fear reprisals and said they were planning to leave for Armenia.","summary":"Azerbaijan pledged to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians in the region but many local residents fear reprisals and said they were planning to leave for Armenia.","keySentence":"","url":"first-refugees-from-nagorno-karabakh-arrive-in-armenia-following-azerbaijans-military-offe","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/09\/25\/first-refugees-from-nagorno-karabakh-arrive-in-armenia-following-azerbaijans-military-offe","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Thousands of Armenians have streamed out of Nagorno-Karabakh after the Azerbaijani military reclaimed full control of the breakaway region. \n\nThe Azerbaijani military routed Armenian forces in a 24-hour blitz last week, forcing the separatist authorities to agree to lay down weapons and start talks on Nagorno-Karabakh's \u201creintegration\u201d into Azerbaijan after three decades of separatist rule. \n\nWhile Azerbaijan pledged to respect the rights of ethnic Armenians in the region and restore supplies after a 10-month blockade, many local residents feared reprisals and said they were planning to leave for Armenia. \n\nOver 6500 Nagorno-Karabakh residents have fled to Armenia since Sunday. \n\n\u201cIt was a nightmare. There are no words to describe. The village was heavily shelled. Almost no one is left in the village,\u201d said one of the evacuees in the Armenian city of Kornidzor. \n\nMoscow said that Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh were assisting the evacuation. \n\nIn an address to the nation on Sunday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said his government was working with international partners to protect the rights and security of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. \n\n\u201cIf these efforts do not produce concrete results, the government will welcome our sisters and brothers from Nagorno-Karabakh in the Republic of Armenia with every care,\u201d he said. \n\nDemonstrators demanding Pashinyan's resignation continued blocking the Armenian capital's main avenues on Monday, clashing occasionally with police. \n\nRussian peacekeepers have been in the region since 2020, when a Russian-brokered armistice ended a six-week war between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. \n\nPashinyan and many others in Armenia accused the peacekeepers of failing to prevent the hostilities and protect the Armenian population. Moscow rejected the accusations, arguing that its forces had no legal grounds to intervene, particularly after Pashinyan's recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan. \n\nNagorno-Karabakh came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces, backed by the Armenian military, in separatist fighting that ended in 1994.\u00a0 \n\nDuring the war in 2020, Azerbaijan took back parts of Nagorno-Karabakh along with surrounding territory that Armenian forces had claimed during the earlier conflict. \n\nIn December, Azerbaijan imposed a blockade of the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, alleging that the Armenian government was using the road for mineral extraction and illicit weapons shipments to the region\u2019s separatist forces. \n\nArmenia said the closure denied basic food and fuel supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s approximately 120,000 people. Azerbaijan rejected the accusation, arguing the region could receive supplies through the Azerbaijani city of Aghdam \u2014 a solution long resisted by Nagorno-Karabakh authorities, who called it a strategy for Azerbaijan to gain control of the region. \n\nOn Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged support for Armenia and Armenians, saying that France will mobilise food and medical aid for the population of Nagorno-Karabakh, and keep working toward a \u2018\u2019sustainable peace\u2019\u2019 in the region. \n\nRussia has been the main ally and sponsor of Armenia and has a military base there, but it also has sought to maintain friendly ties with Azerbaijan. But Moscow's clout in the region has waned quickly amid the Russian war in Ukraine while the influence of Azerbaijan's top ally Turkey has increased. \n\nErdogan arrived in Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave on Monday for talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to discuss Turkey-Azerbaijan ties and regional and global issues. 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Moscow rejected the accusations, arguing that its forces had no legal grounds to intervene, particularly after Pashinyan&#039;s recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Nagorno-Karabakh came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces, backed by the Armenian military, in separatist fighting that ended in 1994.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the war in 2020, Azerbaijan took back parts of Nagorno-Karabakh along with surrounding territory that Armenian forces had claimed during the earlier conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Azerbaijan imposed a blockade of the only road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, alleging that the Armenian government was using the road for mineral extraction and illicit weapons shipments to the region\u2019s separatist forces.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia said the closure denied basic food and fuel supplies to Nagorno-Karabakh\u2019s approximately 120,000 people. Azerbaijan rejected the accusation, arguing the region could receive supplies through the Azerbaijani city of Aghdam \u2014 a solution long resisted by Nagorno-Karabakh authorities, who called it a strategy for Azerbaijan to gain control of the region.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged support for Armenia and Armenians, saying that France will mobilise food and medical aid for the population of Nagorno-Karabakh, and keep working toward a \u2018\u2019sustainable peace\u2019\u2019 in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been the main ally and sponsor of Armenia and has a military base there, but it also has sought to maintain friendly ties with Azerbaijan. 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On Thursday, it held initial talks with representatives of its ethnic Armenian population to discuss reintegration.","keySentence":"","url":"armenia-calls-for-a-un-mission-to-be-sent-to-nagorno-karabakh","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/09\/22\/armenia-calls-for-a-un-mission-to-be-sent-to-nagorno-karabakh","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Speaking to the United Nations Security Council, Azeri Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov reaffirmed Azerbaijan\u2019s determination to guarantee Nagorno-Karabakh residents \u201call rights and freedoms\u201d in line with the country\u2019s constitution and international human rights obligations, including safeguards for ethnic minorities. \n\nHe said the talks with Nagorno-Karabakh in the Azerbaijani city of Yevlakh will continue. \n\nArmenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, who called for the emergency meeting of the Security Council along with France, accused Azerbaijan of an \u201cunprovoked and well-planned military attack,\u201d launched to coincide with this week\u2019s annual meeting of world leaders at the UN General Assembly. \n\nMirzoyan said the offensive targeted critical infrastructure such as electricity stations, telephone cables and internet equipment, killed more than 200 people and wounded 400 others, including women and children.\u00a0 \n\nHe said the \u201cbarbarity\u201d of Azerbaijan\u2019s aggression and deliberate targeting of the civilian population \u201cwas the final act of this tragedy aimed at the forced exodus of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh.\u201d \n\nBayramov strongly denied the allegations of ethnic cleansing. He said representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh asked during Thursday's talks for humanitarian aid, including food and fuel for schools, hospitals and other facilities that government agencies will provide soon. \n\nBayramov said Armenia kept more than 10,000 \u201carmed formations\u201d and heavy military equipment in Nagorno-Karabakh after the 2020 agreement. During the operation that started Tuesday, more than 90 of their outposts were taken, along with substantial military equipment, he said. \n\nHe held up photos of equipment he claimed was seized. \n\nMirzoyan urged the Security Council to demand protection for civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh; to immediately deploy a UN mission to monitor the human rights, humanitarian and security situation; to seek the return of prisoners of war; and to consider deploying a UN peacekeeping force to the region. \n\nAzerbaijan\u2019s move to reclaim control over Nagorno-Karabakh raised concerns that a full-scale war in the region could resume. The 2020 war killed over 6,700 people. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Speaking to the United Nations Security Council, Azeri Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov reaffirmed Azerbaijan\u2019s determination to guarantee Nagorno-Karabakh residents \u201call rights and freedoms\u201d in line with the country\u2019s constitution and international human rights obligations, including safeguards for ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<p>He said the talks with Nagorno-Karabakh in the Azerbaijani city of Yevlakh will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, who called for the emergency meeting of the Security Council along with France, accused Azerbaijan of an \u201cunprovoked and well-planned military attack,\u201d launched to coincide with this week\u2019s annual meeting of world leaders at the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Mirzoyan said the offensive targeted critical infrastructure such as electricity stations, telephone cables and internet equipment, killed more than 200 people and wounded 400 others, including women and children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said the \u201cbarbarity\u201d of Azerbaijan\u2019s aggression and deliberate targeting of the civilian population \u201cwas the final act of this tragedy aimed at the forced exodus of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bayramov strongly denied the allegations of ethnic cleansing. He said representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh asked during Thursday&#039;s talks for humanitarian aid, including food and fuel for schools, hospitals and other facilities that government agencies will provide soon.<\/p>\n<p>Bayramov said Armenia kept more than 10,000 \u201carmed formations\u201d and heavy military equipment in Nagorno-Karabakh after the 2020 agreement. During the operation that started Tuesday, more than 90 of their outposts were taken, along with substantial military equipment, he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7912046,7910796,7908288\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//09//21//officials-decide-fate-of-nagorno-karabakh-as-azerbaijan-claims-full-control-of-the-region/">Officials decide fate of Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijan claims full control of the region<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2023//09//20//nagorno-karabakh-meps-call-for-eu-sanctions-on-azerbaijan-say-condemnation-is-now-enough/">Nagorno-Karabakh: MEPs call for EU sanctions on Azerbaijan, say condemnation is not enough<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//09//21//peace-talks-over-nagorno-karabakh-as-ethnic-armenians-flee-the-violence/">Peace talks over Nagorno-Karabakh as ethnic Armenians flee the violence<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>He held up photos of equipment he claimed was seized.<\/p>\n<p>Mirzoyan urged the Security Council to demand protection for civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh; to immediately deploy a UN mission to monitor the human rights, humanitarian and security situation; to seek the return of prisoners of war; and to consider deploying a UN peacekeeping force to the region.<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan\u2019s move to reclaim control over Nagorno-Karabakh raised concerns that a full-scale war in the region could resume. The 2020 war killed over 6,700 people.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1695326809,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1695362489,"firstPublishedAt":1695362493,"lastPublishedAt":1695362493,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/91\/23\/24\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_473ea463-f6e6-51b5-95c2-cafa624b6cec-7912324.jpg","altText":"UN Security council meeting held over Nagorno-Karabakh","caption":"UN Security council meeting held over Nagorno-Karabakh","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Anadolu","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":960,"height":540}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":8343,"slug":"nagorno-karabakh","urlSafeValue":"nagorno-karabakh","title":"Nagorno-Karabakh","titleRaw":"Nagorno-Karabakh"},{"id":15,"slug":"azerbaijan","urlSafeValue":"azerbaijan","title":"Azerbaijan","titleRaw":"Azerbaijan"},{"id":11,"slug":"armenia","urlSafeValue":"armenia","title":"Armenia","titleRaw":"Armenia"},{"id":292,"slug":"united-nations","urlSafeValue":"united-nations","title":"United Nations","titleRaw":"United Nations"},{"id":21326,"slug":"unsc","urlSafeValue":"unsc","title":"UNSC","titleRaw":"UNSC"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2377298}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"hPAlO3_O2bM","dailymotionId":"x8o8q40"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/NW\/SU\/23\/09\/22\/en\/230922_NWSU_53187129_53189148_65000_074226_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":65000,"filesizeBytes":8372055,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/NW\/SU\/23\/09\/22\/en\/230922_NWSU_53187129_53189148_65000_074226_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":65000,"filesizeBytes":12537687,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP ","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":11,"urlSafeValue":"armenia","title":"Armenia","url":"\/news\/europe\/armenia"},"town":{"id":4070,"urlSafeValue":"yerevan","title":"Yerevan"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gb_safe_from_high','gs_science','gs_science_geography','gs_politics','gs_politics_issues_policy','gs_politics_misc','gv_military','gs_busfin','gs_busfin_indus','gt_positive_trust','gt_positive','gv_death_injury','gb_death_injury_high_med','gb_death_injury_high_med_low','gb_death_injury_news-ent'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2023\/09\/22\/armenia-calls-for-a-un-mission-to-be-sent-to-nagorno-karabakh","lastModified":1695362493},{"id":2335374,"cid":7791374,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230801_GCWB_52612326","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":1,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"GC-34-ALIYEV-PASHINIAN 20min - Pashinyan Master","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Armenia's Prime Minister Pashinyan: 'Nobody promised it was going to be easy to reach peace'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Pashinyan: 'Nobody promised it was going to be easy to reach peace'","titleListing2":"\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf2 Armenia's Prime Minister Pashinyan: 'Nobody promised it was going to be easy to reach peace'","leadin":"Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Euronews that a road to reconciliation between Armenia and Azerbaijan is possible, but work needs to be done.","summary":"Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Euronews that a road to reconciliation between Armenia and Azerbaijan is possible, but work needs to be done.","keySentence":"","url":"armenias-prime-minister-pashinyan-nobody-promised-it-was-going-to-be-easy-to-reach-peace","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/08\/02\/armenias-prime-minister-pashinyan-nobody-promised-it-was-going-to-be-easy-to-reach-peace","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Armenian Prime Minister\u00a0Nikol Pashinyan says that peace is a must between Armenia and Azerbaijan. \n\nNagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan, has been host to some of worst violence in the south Caucasus' recent history.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\nAfter prolonged fighting between both sides over the mountainous enclave, a ceasefire was brokered by Russia in 2020. Since then both countries have been exploring avenues for peace.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\n\"Not only there can be, but there must be peace. This is my belief, my position. And this is what I believe in. But for this to happen, it's also important for the international community to be aware of important nuances,\" the Prime Minister told Euronews. \n\nThere have been two wars over Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. \n\nSitting down separately with both Prime Minister Pashinyan and Azerbaijan's president\u00a0Ilham Aliyev, Euronews' international correspondent Anelise Borges asked the same questions to both leaders - and offered them a chance to express their points of view without interruption or contest. \n\nTo watch the full Global Conversation interview with Prime Minister Pashinyan click on the player above. \n\nFull transcript \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: \n\nThis region has been the stage of some of the most violent episodes in the south Caucasus\u2019 recent history. And the tensions have not really gone away since the 2020 peace deal. To what do you attribute the constant hostility? \n\nNikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM: First of all. The document was signed on November 9th, 2020. It\u00a0is not a peace treaty or a peace deal, as you said, in its legal sense, but not so much as de facto, a number of its provisions are gravely, grossly violated. I agree with you that it can be and it is a certain concept of the future piece of architecture. And unfortunately, many provisions are regularly violated by Azerbaijan. They are currently violated. Now, you see, you said in your question, speaking of Nagorno-Karabakh - and everyone understands that - but Azerbaijan, for instance, continues to claim there is no Nagorno-Karabakh.\u00a0Although the November nine trilateral statement, defines the existence of Nagorno-Karabakh as an entity, and the president of Azerbaijan signed that statement.\u00a0 \n\nMoreover, it reads that in Nagorno-Karabakh there is a line of contact, and Nagorno-Karabakh has a territory that is defined by paragraph seven of the trilateral statement. Moreover, paragraph seven of the statement provides that refugees and internally displaced persons shall return to the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and the related districts under the auspices of the UNHCR. Unfortunately to date, Azerbaijan has not secured it and this right has not fulfilled its obligation. Moreover, during the war, in a number of villages that the Armenian population was forced to flee from, they are carrying out construction works and Azerbaijan declares that it will resettle these territories with Azerbaijanis and all these factors, let alone that until now, in spite of paragraph eight of the trilateral statement, the prisoners of war, captives, hostages, other detained persons, other persons held have not been returned.\u00a0 \n\nThere have been 33 prisoners, and recently two more persons got abducted. Now, turning to the Lachin corridor, which is mentioned in the trilateral statement to which you referred, the purpose of which is to ensure the link between Nagorno-Karabakh and the Republic of Armenia by signature of the President of Azerbaijan that this corridor must be under the control of Russian peacekeepers. The Lachin corridor, by the way, is not just a road. I want to draw your attention. It's a five-kilometre wide space. It is currently illegally blocked by Azerbaijan. \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: We\u2019ll get to the Lachin corridor later. I wanted to ask you about these peace negotiations. You\u2019ve been back from Brussels where you met the President of Azerbaijan, you\u2019ve been meeting several times under the mediation of the EU as well. These peace talks have been filling many people with hope of lasting peace in this region. From what you\u2019re saying we\u2019re wrong to be hopeful so can there be peace and what can you tell us about what came out of these talks in Brussels? \n\nNikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM: \"Not only there can be, but there must be peace. This is my belief, my position. And this is what I believe in. But for this to happen, it's also important for the international community to be aware of important nuances. To be clear about why there isn't progress at a sufficient pace. Let me go back to our penultimate meeting in Brussels when European Council President Charles Michel was present and I and the president of Azerbaijan agreed, or rather, we reached an understanding that Armenia and Azerbaijan will. Mutually recognised territories: the territory of Armenia.\u00a0 \n\nThe 29,800 kilometres and the 86,600 square kilometres of Azerbaijan. The territorial integrity of each other. After that, Charles Michel made a statement to that end. After which, when Armenian journalists asked me about it, I publicly confirmed the facts. Up to this point, the president of Azerbaijan has publicly not confirmed that understanding. He has not denied it either. Now, this is a subtlety that creates a certain lack of trust. And our understanding also is that between Baku and Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, the main city there, there must be a dialogue between Baku and Stepanakert about the rights and security of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh in the framework of an international mechanism.\u00a0 \n\nAnd that dialogue so far has not taken place but we need to follow up on this and we need to work for this. Nobody promised it was going to be easy to reach peace. If it were easy, it would have long ago been achieved. \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: What about the mediation of the EU? Many international actors attempted to mediate this crisis, Russia, the US and now the EU has been playing a bigger role, what do they bring to the negotiation table? \n\nNikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM: I would like to start off by emphasising that the advantages of mediation have long been known to everyone. But all mediations come with certain shortcomings. They all have shortcomings, and each mediation has its peculiar shortcoming. And if you allow me, I'll speak about the shortcoming. Look for the Brussels platform, that's the problem we see and it's been a continuous problem, is that around the table we reach a certain understanding and we do this in the presence of the European Council President. And if either side does not honour that understanding, or does not deliver upon that understanding, this is not followed even by a public assessment or specific assessments.\u00a0 \n\nHere's a specific example in my presence and in the presence of the European Council President, back at the end of last year, Azerbaijan promised and undertook that in the next week to 15 days, and that was last year, they would let 10 prisoners of war. They have still not honoured that commitment. On the other hand, though, I assume that effective mediation is when the failure to honour and understand will be followed by at least a show of political attitude towards the one that fails to honour that commitment. At the Brussels platform, for instance, we are not seeing this. I keep raising this question. Let me even break a secret to you. We've even prepared a document that we called an audit, where we enumerate the understandings that were reached at the Brussels platform but were subsequently not honoured. And it's quite a thick package. It turned out quite a thick package, which is alarming. \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: You\u2019re saying that Brussels is not following up when it comes to the shortcomings of either side? \n\nNikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM: If without diplomacy, then yes. \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: Do you think that the fact that the West has been playing a bigger role here, the US and Europe, has antagonized a more traditional, regional power broker Russia, or the other way around, the fact that Russia is more involved in a buck down in Ukraine has given more space to other players to come and help you and Azerbaijan and potentially find common ground. \n\nNikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM: Those episodes do occur when we see some geopolitical jealousy. We've seen this, but I'm glad to say that now the emphasis seems to have changed somewhat, and that change concerns what we hear from different sides\u2019 statements that any platform that is going to be favourable for the peace process, they would welcome and they will continue to welcome such platforms. And this is very important. Let me remind you that these international competition scenes are not linked with us directly. Because the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have been created for addressing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. But since February 24, 2022, the co-chairs simply stopped interacting.\u00a0 \n\nSome of them decided they do not want to interact with the other co-chairs, and that's when a problem came up. You're referring or what I call geopolitical jealousy that emerged after that date. Before that, such a genre did not exist. But on the other hand, it would be more productive if the international partners bring together their efforts. There have recently been signs that nevertheless, they are somewhat interested in this latter logic. \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: President Putin has invited you and the President of Azerbaijan for another round of talks in Moscow. What would you say Russia\u2019s influence in this region is like today? \n\nNikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM: Let me first say that I have not received any invitation yet, I have to emphasise that. Regarding Russia's presence, of course, due to the virtue of the events in Ukraine, not just Russia, but other geopolitical actors' interest in our region has been declining because in practice Ukraine is where all the international attention is focussed. And yes, that is a factor. But Russia is present in our region. Russia is present in Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia is present in the Republic of Armenia.\u00a0 \n\nBut the EU is present too. Which is a new factor. The EU Civilian Mission on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the mission was supposed to be on both sides. Initially, that was the understanding which was reached in Prague on October 6, 2022, during the quadrilateral statement. That was when the EU mission first came to our region. Initially, it seemed that we had agreements to have the EU mission present on both sides of the border. But for unknown reasons, Azerbaijan withdrew or gave up on that. \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: Let\u2019s talk about the situation on the ground. You talked about the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the US, and the EU, which have all demanded guarantees for the freedom of movement in the Lachin corridor. What do you know about what\u2019s happening in this which is a crucial gateway for the people inside of Nagorno Karabakh? \n\nNikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM: Regarding the International Court of Justice, I want to view it separately from the other factors that you listed, because the decision of the International Court of Justice is legally binding. That is the highest international court, the decisions of which have the highest legal force. Based on Armenia's application on 22nd February 2023, it decided that Azerbaijan must do everything within its reach to ensure the free movement of vehicles, goods and citizens in both directions through the Lachin corridor and on July 6, the court reiterate it, confirmed its decision. This is very important also for the logic of the international legal order because the international highest court's decision is not being followed in terms of law and legality. I think this is a bad message and it's food for thought for the international community.\u00a0 \n\nAnyway, we will be raising this issue in international instances. Now, what's happening in Nagorno-Karabakh, there's a humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. What is a humanitarian crisis? No food is being supplied to Nagorno-Karabakh, no food. There's no external supply of food. A number of essential commodities are not being supplied. Baby food is not supplied, and medication is not available. No hygiene supplies. No other essential goods are there. Natural gas supplied to Nagorno-Karabakh was interrupted by Azerbaijani electricity supply to Nagorno-Karabakh, it was interrupted by Azerbaijan. The supply of fuel was interrupted by Azerbaijan. So in this sense, there's a real threat of hunger, as well as health problems and so on and so forth. \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: You know that they deny all this, right? Azerbaijan keeps denying that the Aghdam road is accessible. \n\nNikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM: I don't know what you're referring to because I'm speaking about the document that I signed. Which is which has the status of an international document. It reads clearly that the Lachin corridor, which is under the control of the Russian peacekeepers. And it's not just the road, it's a five-kilometre-wide area. It must be out of Azerbaijan's control and it must ensure a link between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia. Well, in principle it may sound absurd, but the road from the moon to Nagorno-Karabakh is open too. But I cannot refer to institutions which are not known to me or from Mars or from the Moon or wherever else. I'm speaking about what is documented. A notion that is on paper now that road is now closed. If anyone doubts you can take a trip there and try to reach there. Go to Nagorno Karabakh.\u00a0 \n\nBy the way, yesterday the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) made a statement saying it is no longer able to deliver humanitarian relief to Nagorno-Karabakh because of the closure of the Lachin corridor. What does this mean? This means that the ICRC officially declared the necessity of delivery of humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh. Otherwise, they wouldn't say that. Secondly, it's accepting that they cannot do it because the Lachin corridor is closed. Following that, I think Freedom House, the international institution, also made an appeal, saying it's necessary to ensure access to humanitarian goods in Nagorno-Karabakh. Yesterday, the government of Armenia decided today this relief is en route. 400 tons of humanitarian goods are currently en route to Karabakh. Let's see if that reaches Nagorno-Karabakh. Whether that's under the trilateral statement and the international court's decision that aid must reach them. Let's see if it reaches Nagorno-Karabakh.\u00a0Going back now to the humanitarian crisis. Of course. Especially during this season here are some agricultural activities.\u00a0 \n\nHowever, the Azerbaijani army is shooting at farmers\u2019 equipment who\u2019re carrying out agricultural activities. After 2020, we had cases of a tractor driver being killed by an Azerbaijani sniper while carrying out agricultural work. There are no longer tractors operating now because there is no fuel. People cannot harvest the crop if by some miracle they harvest the crop. For instance, those goods, because of the absence of fuel the harvest cannot reach, cannot be transported to the flour mills. If by some miracle they turn it into flour, then because of the absence of fuel, it can not be delivered to the bakeries to bake bread. Diesel fuel, electricity, and gas are absent because of that. If by some miracle the flour reaches the bakeries, they cannot bake bread at industrial volumes. If somehow some bread could be baked, then again because of the absence of transportation, that bread is hard or impossible to deliver to the shops if it gets delivered to the shops. There is no public transport. And again, there was no private transport again because of the absence of fuel. So for people to go and to buy that bread in the shops if somehow they managed to get to the shop.\u00a0 \n\nBecause of this blockade, all enterprises have shut down. All people lost their jobs. And people do not have the income to buy bread in the shop. If by some miracle, they have the income to buy bread, the queues are so long and the quantities of goods are so scarce that if by some miracle you reach the shop that limited quantity that by miracle, miracle after miracle reached the shop, after this chain of miracles and is being sold, they may never get to buy it because of the queue. Think of baby food. Imagine young mothers cannot feed babies with baby food. Many of them may have started off not breastfeeding the children, so they started off with formula. And then one day the formula just disappeared. \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: I\u2019ve spoken to a journalist inside Stepanakert who described pretty much the same you're saying painted a very bleak picture for people inside Nagorno Karabakh. I wanted to ask you about the 2020 war. Thousands of people have lost their lives, soldiers, and civilians. I was here in Armenia, I went to Nagorno-Karabakh during that time. I spoke to mothers of fallen soldiers, and I\u2019ve witnessed also the pain and devastation of the other side through the work of my colleague in Azerbaijan. But I remember this one mother here in Armenia who told me that she blamed the death of her son on politicians who were trained in the art of diplomacy but still trapped in the war. Do you think that your mission is to win a war or to negotiate peace? \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: You know, in any case, war is wrong. If there's a war somebody somewhere did something wrong or several people in several places, that something's wrong. But from the other side, what's the cause of war? The impossibility of reaching durable peace or of maintaining peace. And that impossibility is it genuine, is it real? Is it authentic, is the other question. Because you spoke about a parent, a mother who spoke about politicians. Well, of course, I understand. And I accept that I'm in no way contesting the fallen soldiers, mothers, wives, children or anything they say. But we forget the context. The politicians are human too. It's not like they are a special genetic breed. My son was in the war as well. My wife was in the war as well. But now you're asking a very serious question. It's a legitimate question indeed. But I think there is so much depth to it. Throughout our existence, humanity, humankind has spoken about the need to avoid wars, about the need to reach peace and... Let's assume, and this is the building where the politicians were bad are bad.\u00a0 \n\nWhat about the thousands of other buildings around the world? How come? Everywhere, in all places. That would be an easy explanation. And there are people who are people and there are politicians. So it's because of these bad politicians that they're not allowing these good people to get on with their lives, which is by and large, true. But with one misunderstanding. In a democratic society, they might switch places. The politician might become a human or the human could become a politician and a government official. And the problem is that these cycles have been going on for millennia. \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: In a way you mentioned something which is very important. In a way, it seems to be in this region a very particular and tragic cycle. Where the triumph of one side can be achieved by the capitulation of the other side. Today I spoke to a young Armenian who told me she\u2019s a generation of independence and she said back when she was young there used to be talks mediated by Georgia between Azeri kids and Armenian kids. And she says she remembers that very fondly cause they actually could talk. Do you think that if peace is brought up by the politician side, do you think it can be implemented in so much pain and heartbreak or instead should have been built from the bottom to up? \n\nNikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM: Yes, I believe. To continue what I said, let me draw your attention to nuance. Politicians create, they generate the public mood, but they also bear the public mood and they influence the public mood and they are influenced by the public mood. It's a very intricate, very complex system. But you spoke about young people. I do remember in 2018, I proposed that idea. And I could see in the social media Armenian and Azerbaijani users. And engaging. A very aggressive exchange of language. And in a public press conference, I urged Armenian and Azerbaijani users of social media, and this was mostly happening on YouTube \u2013 this is where they encountered one another under a video -they would leave comments, I said okay, we've cursed at each other so much, this is enough. We could use this platform for speaking for dialogue and not just cursing at each other. So I made an appeal.\u00a0 \n\nBut later it turned out the appeal did not have sufficient results. Or maybe we did not follow up on it enough. And in regarding the war logic, we should never forget. Conditionally speaking, the factor of the first blood spilt is because whenever blood spills, there's a victim, and there's a casualty. It is a profound social, psychological, political and public moment. That's very hard for the public and for the politicians. Though, in reality, there is no such division, I reiterate: politicians do influence the public mood, but vice versa they're also influenced by the public mood. So it's very hard sometimes to opt for solutions, concessions and decisions which profoundly may be understood that those people who died in the past died for no reason.\u00a0That's a problem. Everywhere. Everywhere. And it's never the problem of one side because. You spoke about the mother of the soldier who died. Imagine what an important factor it is such an important factor that in this discussion now you're bringing it up as something we need to discuss. But before that or after that even a question may come up. If you now make these concessions or mutual concessions, what about our children? What did they die for? Nobody has the answer to that question.\u00a0 \n\nNobody can ever give the answer to that question. And you should know that. This question lies on the table of any politician, even when people understand it's important not to have any future casualties, they always know, they also have to get the answer to the second question. What about those who died in the past? What did they die for? Was it for no reason that sacrifice? Well, then again, the politicians will be accused of taking those people away and getting them killed. What would then be the purpose, the meaning, the mission of all that is happening? And it's very hard to explain to people that, you know, your son or your daughter died for future peace. How can this be explained to someone? How can you die for peace? If our whole purpose is peace. \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: Do you lose sleep at night over what happened three years ago? \n\nNikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM: Obviously and naturally yes. Not that I think about it a lot. It's very hard to sit these thoughts aside for a second and then go work on doing your daily job. \n\nAnelise Borges, Euronews: I\u2019ve got one final question for you. I wanted to if you have a message to the other side, not the politicians you meet during the talks, but the people of Azerbaijan. Do you happen to have a message to those who are watching us right now? \n\nNikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM: Well, you know, I think it's not a good genre because when two politicians are speaking with one another, It's really the two peoples speaking, because on one side is the person elected by those people, and on this side is a person elected by these people. So, therefore everything that I said now, this is an international platform, this is also addressed to that people and if there's anything to communicate, I would say what I have been saying the from the start. Everything I said is also addressed to the Azerbaijani people, to the people of Azerbaijan.\u00a0 \n\nBut in some cases, there are sentences that people normally say, oh, we have long lived here and we will long be living here. I think all the words have already been said. By the way, there is perhaps something which I would address equally to the public of Armenia and the public of Azerbaijan because the public of Armenia and Azerbaijan both must demand peace from their governments. It should be articulated as a public demand. And [there needs to be] peace, flexibility and skill to deliver that requirement. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Armenian Prime Minister\u00a0Nikol Pashinyan says that peace is a must between Armenia and Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan, has been host to some of worst violence in the south Caucasus&#039; recent history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After prolonged fighting between both sides over the mountainous enclave, a ceasefire was brokered by Russia in 2020. Since then both countries have been exploring avenues for peace.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Not only there can be, but there must be peace. This is my belief, my position. And this is what I believe in. But for this to happen, it&#039;s also important for the international community to be aware of important nuances,\" the Prime Minister told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>There have been two wars over Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting down separately with both Prime Minister Pashinyan and Azerbaijan&#039;s president\u00a0Ilham Aliyev, Euronews&#039; international correspondent Anelise Borges asked the same questions to both leaders - and offered them a chance to express their points of view without interruption or contest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To watch the full Global Conversation interview with Prime Minister Pashinyan click on the player above.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7777188\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//08//01//the-leaders-of-azerbaijan-and-armenia-talk-about-the-prospects-for-peace-in-the-caucasus-r/">The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia talk about the prospects for peace in the Caucasus region<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Full transcript<\/strong><\/h2><p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This region has been the stage of some of the most violent episodes in the south Caucasus\u2019 recent history. And the tensions have not really gone away since the 2020 peace deal. To what do you attribute the constant hostility?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM:<\/strong> First of all. The document was signed on November 9th, 2020. It\u00a0is not a peace treaty or a peace deal, as you said, in its legal sense, but not so much as de facto, a number of its provisions are gravely, grossly violated. I agree with you that it can be and it is a certain concept of the future piece of architecture. And unfortunately, many provisions are regularly violated by Azerbaijan. They are currently violated. Now, you see, you said in your question, speaking of Nagorno-Karabakh - and everyone understands that - but Azerbaijan, for instance, continues to claim there is no Nagorno-Karabakh.\u00a0Although the November nine trilateral statement, defines the existence of Nagorno-Karabakh as an entity, and the president of Azerbaijan signed that statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, it reads that in Nagorno-Karabakh there is a line of contact, and Nagorno-Karabakh has a territory that is defined by paragraph seven of the trilateral statement. Moreover, paragraph seven of the statement provides that refugees and internally displaced persons shall return to the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and the related districts under the auspices of the UNHCR. Unfortunately to date, Azerbaijan has not secured it and this right has not fulfilled its obligation. Moreover, during the war, in a number of villages that the Armenian population was forced to flee from, they are carrying out construction works and Azerbaijan declares that it will resettle these territories with Azerbaijanis and all these factors, let alone that until now, in spite of paragraph eight of the trilateral statement, the prisoners of war, captives, hostages, other detained persons, other persons held have not been returned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There have been 33 prisoners, and recently two more persons got abducted. Now, turning to the Lachin corridor, which is mentioned in the trilateral statement to which you referred, the purpose of which is to ensure the link between Nagorno-Karabakh and the Republic of Armenia by signature of the President of Azerbaijan that this corridor must be under the control of Russian peacekeepers. The Lachin corridor, by the way, is not just a road. I want to draw your attention. It&#039;s a five-kilometre wide space. It is currently illegally blocked by Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> We\u2019ll get to the Lachin corridor later. I wanted to ask you about these peace negotiations. You\u2019ve been back from Brussels where you met the President of Azerbaijan, you\u2019ve been meeting several times under the mediation of the EU as well. These peace talks have been filling many people with hope of lasting peace in this region. From what you\u2019re saying we\u2019re wrong to be hopeful so can there be peace and what can you tell us about what came out of these talks in Brussels?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM:<\/strong> \"Not only there can be, but there must be peace. This is my belief, my position. And this is what I believe in. But for this to happen, it&#039;s also important for the international community to be aware of important nuances. To be clear about why there isn&#039;t progress at a sufficient pace. Let me go back to our penultimate meeting in Brussels when European Council President Charles Michel was present and I and the president of Azerbaijan agreed, or rather, we reached an understanding that Armenia and Azerbaijan will. Mutually recognised territories: the territory of Armenia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 29,800 kilometres and the 86,600 square kilometres of Azerbaijan. The territorial integrity of each other. After that, Charles Michel made a statement to that end. After which, when Armenian journalists asked me about it, I publicly confirmed the facts. Up to this point, the president of Azerbaijan has publicly not confirmed that understanding. He has not denied it either. Now, this is a subtlety that creates a certain lack of trust. And our understanding also is that between Baku and Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, the main city there, there must be a dialogue between Baku and Stepanakert about the rights and security of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh in the framework of an international mechanism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that dialogue so far has not taken place but we need to follow up on this and we need to work for this. Nobody promised it was going to be easy to reach peace. If it were easy, it would have long ago been achieved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> What about the mediation of the EU? Many international actors attempted to mediate this crisis, Russia, the US and now the EU has been playing a bigger role, what do they bring to the negotiation table?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM:<\/strong> I would like to start off by emphasising that the advantages of mediation have long been known to everyone. But all mediations come with certain shortcomings. They all have shortcomings, and each mediation has its peculiar shortcoming. And if you allow me, I&#039;ll speak about the shortcoming. Look for the Brussels platform, that&#039;s the problem we see and it&#039;s been a continuous problem, is that around the table we reach a certain understanding and we do this in the presence of the European Council President. And if either side does not honour that understanding, or does not deliver upon that understanding, this is not followed even by a public assessment or specific assessments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#039;s a specific example in my presence and in the presence of the European Council President, back at the end of last year, Azerbaijan promised and undertook that in the next week to 15 days, and that was last year, they would let 10 prisoners of war. They have still not honoured that commitment. On the other hand, though, I assume that effective mediation is when the failure to honour and understand will be followed by at least a show of political attitude towards the one that fails to honour that commitment. At the Brussels platform, for instance, we are not seeing this. I keep raising this question. Let me even break a secret to you. We&#039;ve even prepared a document that we called an audit, where we enumerate the understandings that were reached at the Brussels platform but were subsequently not honoured. And it&#039;s quite a thick package. It turned out quite a thick package, which is alarming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> You\u2019re saying that Brussels is not following up when it comes to the shortcomings of either side?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM:<\/strong> If without diplomacy, then yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> Do you think that the fact that the West has been playing a bigger role here, the US and Europe, has antagonized a more traditional, regional power broker Russia, or the other way around, the fact that Russia is more involved in a buck down in Ukraine has given more space to other players to come and help you and Azerbaijan and potentially find common ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM:<\/strong> Those episodes do occur when we see some geopolitical jealousy. We&#039;ve seen this, but I&#039;m glad to say that now the emphasis seems to have changed somewhat, and that change concerns what we hear from different sides\u2019 statements that any platform that is going to be favourable for the peace process, they would welcome and they will continue to welcome such platforms. And this is very important. Let me remind you that these international competition scenes are not linked with us directly. Because the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs have been created for addressing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. But since February 24, 2022, the co-chairs simply stopped interacting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of them decided they do not want to interact with the other co-chairs, and that&#039;s when a problem came up. You&#039;re referring or what I call geopolitical jealousy that emerged after that date. Before that, such a genre did not exist. But on the other hand, it would be more productive if the international partners bring together their efforts. There have recently been signs that nevertheless, they are somewhat interested in this latter logic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> President Putin has invited you and the President of Azerbaijan for another round of talks in Moscow. What would you say Russia\u2019s influence in this region is like today?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM:<\/strong> Let me first say that I have not received any invitation yet, I have to emphasise that. Regarding Russia&#039;s presence, of course, due to the virtue of the events in Ukraine, not just Russia, but other geopolitical actors&#039; interest in our region has been declining because in practice Ukraine is where all the international attention is focussed. And yes, that is a factor. But Russia is present in our region. Russia is present in Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia is present in the Republic of Armenia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the EU is present too. Which is a new factor. The EU Civilian Mission on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the mission was supposed to be on both sides. Initially, that was the understanding which was reached in Prague on October 6, 2022, during the quadrilateral statement. That was when the EU mission first came to our region. Initially, it seemed that we had agreements to have the EU mission present on both sides of the border. But for unknown reasons, Azerbaijan withdrew or gave up on that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> Let\u2019s talk about the situation on the ground. You talked about the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the US, and the EU, which have all demanded guarantees for the freedom of movement in the Lachin corridor. What do you know about what\u2019s happening in this which is a crucial gateway for the people inside of Nagorno Karabakh?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM:<\/strong> Regarding the International Court of Justice, I want to view it separately from the other factors that you listed, because the decision of the International Court of Justice is legally binding. That is the highest international court, the decisions of which have the highest legal force. Based on Armenia&#039;s application on 22nd February 2023, it decided that Azerbaijan must do everything within its reach to ensure the free movement of vehicles, goods and citizens in both directions through the Lachin corridor and on July 6, the court reiterate it, confirmed its decision. This is very important also for the logic of the international legal order because the international highest court&#039;s decision is not being followed in terms of law and legality. I think this is a bad message and it&#039;s food for thought for the international community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we will be raising this issue in international instances. Now, what&#039;s happening in Nagorno-Karabakh, there&#039;s a humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. What is a humanitarian crisis? No food is being supplied to Nagorno-Karabakh, no food. There&#039;s no external supply of food. A number of essential commodities are not being supplied. Baby food is not supplied, and medication is not available. No hygiene supplies. No other essential goods are there. Natural gas supplied to Nagorno-Karabakh was interrupted by Azerbaijani electricity supply to Nagorno-Karabakh, it was interrupted by Azerbaijan. The supply of fuel was interrupted by Azerbaijan. So in this sense, there&#039;s a real threat of hunger, as well as health problems and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> You know that they deny all this, right? Azerbaijan keeps denying that the Aghdam road is accessible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM:<\/strong> I don&#039;t know what you&#039;re referring to because I&#039;m speaking about the document that I signed. Which is which has the status of an international document. It reads clearly that the Lachin corridor, which is under the control of the Russian peacekeepers. And it&#039;s not just the road, it&#039;s a five-kilometre-wide area. It must be out of Azerbaijan&#039;s control and it must ensure a link between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia. Well, in principle it may sound absurd, but the road from the moon to Nagorno-Karabakh is open too. But I cannot refer to institutions which are not known to me or from Mars or from the Moon or wherever else. I&#039;m speaking about what is documented. A notion that is on paper now that road is now closed. If anyone doubts you can take a trip there and try to reach there. Go to Nagorno Karabakh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By the way, yesterday the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) made a statement saying it is no longer able to deliver humanitarian relief to Nagorno-Karabakh because of the closure of the Lachin corridor. What does this mean? This means that the ICRC officially declared the necessity of delivery of humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh. Otherwise, they wouldn&#039;t say that. Secondly, it&#039;s accepting that they cannot do it because the Lachin corridor is closed. Following that, I think Freedom House, the international institution, also made an appeal, saying it&#039;s necessary to ensure access to humanitarian goods in Nagorno-Karabakh. Yesterday, the government of Armenia decided today this relief is en route. 400 tons of humanitarian goods are currently en route to Karabakh. Let&#039;s see if that reaches Nagorno-Karabakh. Whether that&#039;s under the trilateral statement and the international court&#039;s decision that aid must reach them. Let&#039;s see if it reaches Nagorno-Karabakh.\u00a0Going back now to the humanitarian crisis. Of course. Especially during this season here are some agricultural activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the Azerbaijani army is shooting at farmers\u2019 equipment who\u2019re carrying out agricultural activities. After 2020, we had cases of a tractor driver being killed by an Azerbaijani sniper while carrying out agricultural work. There are no longer tractors operating now because there is no fuel. People cannot harvest the crop if by some miracle they harvest the crop. For instance, those goods, because of the absence of fuel the harvest cannot reach, cannot be transported to the flour mills. If by some miracle they turn it into flour, then because of the absence of fuel, it can not be delivered to the bakeries to bake bread. Diesel fuel, electricity, and gas are absent because of that. If by some miracle the flour reaches the bakeries, they cannot bake bread at industrial volumes. If somehow some bread could be baked, then again because of the absence of transportation, that bread is hard or impossible to deliver to the shops if it gets delivered to the shops. There is no public transport. And again, there was no private transport again because of the absence of fuel. So for people to go and to buy that bread in the shops if somehow they managed to get to the shop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because of this blockade, all enterprises have shut down. All people lost their jobs. And people do not have the income to buy bread in the shop. If by some miracle, they have the income to buy bread, the queues are so long and the quantities of goods are so scarce that if by some miracle you reach the shop that limited quantity that by miracle, miracle after miracle reached the shop, after this chain of miracles and is being sold, they may never get to buy it because of the queue. Think of baby food. Imagine young mothers cannot feed babies with baby food. Many of them may have started off not breastfeeding the children, so they started off with formula. And then one day the formula just disappeared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> I\u2019ve spoken to a journalist inside Stepanakert who described pretty much the same you&#039;re saying painted a very bleak picture for people inside Nagorno Karabakh. I wanted to ask you about the 2020 war. Thousands of people have lost their lives, soldiers, and civilians. I was here in Armenia, I went to Nagorno-Karabakh during that time. I spoke to mothers of fallen soldiers, and I\u2019ve witnessed also the pain and devastation of the other side through the work of my colleague in Azerbaijan. But I remember this one mother here in Armenia who told me that she blamed the death of her son on politicians who were trained in the art of diplomacy but still trapped in the war. Do you think that your mission is to win a war or to negotiate peace?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> You know, in any case, war is wrong. If there&#039;s a war somebody somewhere did something wrong or several people in several places, that something&#039;s wrong. But from the other side, what&#039;s the cause of war? The impossibility of reaching durable peace or of maintaining peace. And that impossibility is it genuine, is it real? Is it authentic, is the other question. Because you spoke about a parent, a mother who spoke about politicians. Well, of course, I understand. And I accept that I&#039;m in no way contesting the fallen soldiers, mothers, wives, children or anything they say. But we forget the context. The politicians are human too. It&#039;s not like they are a special genetic breed. My son was in the war as well. My wife was in the war as well. But now you&#039;re asking a very serious question. It&#039;s a legitimate question indeed. But I think there is so much depth to it. Throughout our existence, humanity, humankind has spoken about the need to avoid wars, about the need to reach peace and... Let&#039;s assume, and this is the building where the politicians were bad are bad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What about the thousands of other buildings around the world? How come? Everywhere, in all places. That would be an easy explanation. And there are people who are people and there are politicians. So it&#039;s because of these bad politicians that they&#039;re not allowing these good people to get on with their lives, which is by and large, true. But with one misunderstanding. In a democratic society, they might switch places. The politician might become a human or the human could become a politician and a government official. And the problem is that these cycles have been going on for millennia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> In a way you mentioned something which is very important. In a way, it seems to be in this region a very particular and tragic cycle. Where the triumph of one side can be achieved by the capitulation of the other side. Today I spoke to a young Armenian who told me she\u2019s a generation of independence and she said back when she was young there used to be talks mediated by Georgia between Azeri kids and Armenian kids. And she says she remembers that very fondly cause they actually could talk. Do you think that if peace is brought up by the politician side, do you think it can be implemented in so much pain and heartbreak or instead should have been built from the bottom to up?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM:<\/strong> Yes, I believe. To continue what I said, let me draw your attention to nuance. Politicians create, they generate the public mood, but they also bear the public mood and they influence the public mood and they are influenced by the public mood. It&#039;s a very intricate, very complex system. But you spoke about young people. I do remember in 2018, I proposed that idea. And I could see in the social media Armenian and Azerbaijani users. And engaging. A very aggressive exchange of language. And in a public press conference, I urged Armenian and Azerbaijani users of social media, and this was mostly happening on YouTube \u2013 this is where they encountered one another under a video -they would leave comments, I said okay, we&#039;ve cursed at each other so much, this is enough. We could use this platform for speaking for dialogue and not just cursing at each other. So I made an appeal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But later it turned out the appeal did not have sufficient results. Or maybe we did not follow up on it enough. And in regarding the war logic, we should never forget. Conditionally speaking, the factor of the first blood spilt is because whenever blood spills, there&#039;s a victim, and there&#039;s a casualty. It is a profound social, psychological, political and public moment. That&#039;s very hard for the public and for the politicians. Though, in reality, there is no such division, I reiterate: politicians do influence the public mood, but vice versa they&#039;re also influenced by the public mood. So it&#039;s very hard sometimes to opt for solutions, concessions and decisions which profoundly may be understood that those people who died in the past died for no reason.\u00a0That&#039;s a problem. Everywhere. Everywhere. And it&#039;s never the problem of one side because. You spoke about the mother of the soldier who died. Imagine what an important factor it is such an important factor that in this discussion now you&#039;re bringing it up as something we need to discuss. But before that or after that even a question may come up. If you now make these concessions or mutual concessions, what about our children? What did they die for? Nobody has the answer to that question.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nobody can ever give the answer to that question. And you should know that. This question lies on the table of any politician, even when people understand it&#039;s important not to have any future casualties, they always know, they also have to get the answer to the second question. What about those who died in the past? What did they die for? Was it for no reason that sacrifice? Well, then again, the politicians will be accused of taking those people away and getting them killed. What would then be the purpose, the meaning, the mission of all that is happening? And it&#039;s very hard to explain to people that, you know, your son or your daughter died for future peace. How can this be explained to someone? How can you die for peace? If our whole purpose is peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> Do you lose sleep at night over what happened three years ago?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM:<\/strong> Obviously and naturally yes. Not that I think about it a lot. It&#039;s very hard to sit these thoughts aside for a second and then go work on doing your daily job.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anelise Borges, Euronews:<\/strong> I\u2019ve got one final question for you. I wanted to if you have a message to the other side, not the politicians you meet during the talks, but the people of Azerbaijan. Do you happen to have a message to those who are watching us right now?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian PM:<\/strong> Well, you know, I think it&#039;s not a good genre because when two politicians are speaking with one another, It&#039;s really the two peoples speaking, because on one side is the person elected by those people, and on this side is a person elected by these people. So, therefore everything that I said now, this is an international platform, this is also addressed to that people and if there&#039;s anything to communicate, I would say what I have been saying the from the start. Everything I said is also addressed to the Azerbaijani people, to the people of Azerbaijan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But in some cases, there are sentences that people normally say, oh, we have long lived here and we will long be living here. I think all the words have already been said. By the way, there is perhaps something which I would address equally to the public of Armenia and the public of Azerbaijan because the public of Armenia and Azerbaijan both must demand peace from their governments. It should be articulated as a public demand. And [there needs to be] peace, flexibility and skill to deliver that requirement.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690809520,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1690978166,"firstPublishedAt":1690978169,"lastPublishedAt":1690982834,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/79\/13\/74\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4e031419-3300-5b0b-9d28-aa1ac4c1d15f-7791374.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"euronews","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[{"id":1443,"urlSafeValue":"anelise-borges","title":"Anelise 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power broker Russia. \n\nForeign Minister Sergey Lavrov will also host the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan for talks in the Russian capital on Friday. \n\nNagorno-Karabakh \n\nThe two countries fought two wars, in 2020 and in the 1990s, for control of Azerbaijan's mostly Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh. \n\nPashinyan said both sides must \"demilitarise\" their shared border, blaming Baku for \"continuing the policy of escalation.\" \n\nSix weeks of hostilities in autumn 2020 ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire that saw Armenia cede swathes of territory it had controlled for decades. \n\nYerevan has grown increasingly frustrated over what it calls Moscow's failure to protect Armenia in the face of military threat from Azerbaijan. \n\nWith Russia bogged down in Ukraine and unwilling to strain ties with Azerbaijan's key ally Turkey, the United States and European Union have sought to steer a thaw in ties. \n\nOn Sunday, Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in Brussels for a fresh round of talks hosted by European Council President Charles Michel. \n\nIn his speech on Thursday, the Armenian prime minister said both sides agreed in Brussels to recognise the other's territorial integrity, hailing \"the important step towards peace and stability in the region.\" \n\nHe said that \"progress\" had been made towards preparing \"the final text of a peace agreement.\" \n\nAnother meeting between Pashinyan and Aliyev set for 1 June in Moldova was expected to involve French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has agreed to meet with the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.\u00a0The Russian-mediated summit will take place next week in Moscow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"We received a proposal from Russia to hold a trilateral meeting at the highest level under the mediation of the president of Russia on 25 May,\"\u00a0Pashinian told his cabinet meeting in Yerevan.<\/p>\n<p>The two Caucasus neighbours have fought two wars over the Nagorno-Karabakh region and often see deadly clashes along their volatile border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baku and Yerevan have been seeking to negotiate a peace agreement with the help of the European Union and the United States, whose diplomatic engagement in the Caucasus has irked traditional regional power broker Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will also host the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan for talks in the Russian capital on Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" 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Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n<p>Pashinyan said both sides must \"demilitarise\" their shared border, blaming Baku for \"continuing the policy of escalation.\"<\/p>\n<p>Six weeks of hostilities in autumn 2020 ended with a Russian-brokered ceasefire that saw Armenia cede swathes of territory it had controlled for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Yerevan has grown increasingly frustrated over what it calls Moscow&#039;s failure to protect Armenia in the face of military threat from Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1638885920907616256\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>With Russia bogged down in Ukraine and unwilling to strain ties with Azerbaijan&#039;s key ally Turkey, the United States and European 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Armenian positions in the Sotk region of eastern Armenia,\" the Armenian defence ministry announced in a statement, saying three Armenian servicemen were wounded as a result of the shelling.\u00a0 \n\nThe ministry added that Armenian forces were taking \"appropriate defensive measures\". \n\nThe Azerbaijani Defence Ministry for its part accused Armenia of firing \"high-calibre weapons\" at its positions on the border, denouncing the actions as a \"provocation\". \n\n\"Despite warnings about the need to stop provocations,\" a statement said, \"the Armenian side has again violated the ceasefire regime.\"\u00a0 \n\nThe ministry claimed an Azerbaijani serviceman was wounded by Armenian fire last night, with \"mortar fire\" continuing on Thursday morning. \n\nThe incident comes as members of the international community seek to revive peace talks between the two neighbours, who have been rowing over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region for some 30 years \u2013 often violently. \n\nRussia 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