Why didn't Zas and Pashinyan meet: CSTO clarifies 

The CSTO clarified why the Secretary General of the organization Stanislav Zas, who was on a mission visit to Armenia, and the RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan did not meet in Yerevan.

According to the report, Stanislav Zas and Nikol Pashinyan did not meet because Pashinyan was in New York to participate in the UN General Assembly.

CSTO spokesman Vladimir Zaynetdinov announced this in a conversation with "RIA Novosti".

Russia mourns together with Armenia on the day of commemoration of the tragic events of 2020 - Embassy of Russia in Armenia

On the commemoration day of the beginning of the tragic events of 2020, we mourn together with the Armenian people with the families of the victims and wish recovery to the wounded. This is stated in the message of the Russian Embassy in Armenia.

"Russia has taken and will continue to take all the necessary steps for the full implementation of the tripartite agreements reached between the leaders of Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in 2020 and 2021.

We are sure that all controversial issues between the parties can and should be resolved exclusively through political and diplomatic means," the message reads.

We have about 80 prisoners who are not accepted by Azerbaijan: Siranush Sahakyan proposed to initiate a new process

As of now, we have around 156 prisoners who have been repatriated thanks to the invested legal and political efforts, but along with this, there are many prisoners who are still being held in Azerbaijan, lawyer Siranush Sahakyan, representative of the interests of Armenian prisoners at the European Court, informed today.

"Of course, it is an extremely important problem that we have about 8 dozen prisoners who are not officially accepted by the Azerbaijani authorities and have been forced to disappear in the process. The number of prisoners officially held in Azerbaijan before the resumption of the war on September 13 was 33, and in the post-war period, we have about 20 new cases of captivity. The vast majority of them have already been formalized, but answers are expected in the near future through the ECHR and we will be able to confirm more clearly; to the captives in recent incidents," he said.

Siranush Sahakyan mentioned that they act on the basis of individual complaints, representing the prisoners of war and their families.

"Also, these efforts are complemented by other lawyers. At the same time, there is an interstate process in the ECHR itself, the subject of which includes the issue of prisoners, their treatment, and repatriation. The issue of captives is also indirectly discussed at the International Court of Justice in the context of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. From this point of view, I think that the legal efforts have been quite intensive, in a certain sense also unprecedented, because Armenia has previously refrained from filing interstate cases against any state with human rights issues. "This is the first time that the state acts so actively in international legal instances," she said.

According to Siranush Sahakyan, perhaps the only gap that can be filled in the legal process is to initiate a process within the framework of the Convention on the Prohibition of Hostages at the UN Court of Justice because the processes showed that the captives stopped being just captives and are being held as hostages, and are used to increase pressure on the RA authorities.

"Their repatriation is directly related to the solution of political issues. Therefore, there are sufficient facts to claim that they are hostages Legal processes should be combined with political and diplomatic work. Official, diplomatic efforts should be of great importance here, but also the activities carried out by human rights structures when international structures and states will also feel the public pressure regarding the need to act, both from Armenia's internal audience and internationally," Sahakyan emphasized.

The United States is committed to establishing peace in the South Caucasus - US Embassy in Armenia
The Embassy of the USA in Armenia made a post on Facebook referring to the Artsakh war in 2020.

"On September 27, we remember those who lost their lives in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan and extend our deepest condolences to the families of those killed and injured.  The United States remains committed to working towards peace for the South Caucasus region."

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