In Stepanakert, the children who returned from Yerevan with the mediation and accompaniment of the Red Cross have been welcomed 

Today, January 27, 15 children who returned from Yerevan with the mediation and accompaniment of the Red Cross were welcomed in Stepanakert.

According to the correspondent of "Artsakhpress", the children who were separated from their families for 47 days as a result of Azerbaijan's siege of Artsakh were welcomed by their parents, friends, relatives, and many fellow citizens in the area of the "We are our mountains" memorial.

Before the blockade, a group of Artsakh children went to Yerevan to attend the children's Eurovision Song Contest.

Yerevan has not abandoned the CSTO mission on the border with Azerbaijan - RA Ambassador to Russia

Armenia has not refused to deploy the mission of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on the border with Azerbaijan. Armenian Ambassador to Russia and former Minister of Defense Vagharshak Harutyunyan stated this in a conversation with a TASS reporter.

"None of the CSTO observers refused. The document, which was supposed to be signed in Yerevan as a result of the visit of the CSTO Secretary General and the Chief of the Joint Staff to the region, was not signed because the Armenian side wanted to amend the document. The document is currently being revised," the ambassador noted.

Harutyunyan also denied some statements that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's government is preparing to withdraw the country from CSTO.

There will be some actions, there will be answers - Zakharova announced that Russian peacekeepers will respond to the appearance of representatives of the EU mission

Maria Zakharova, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, announced that Russian peacekeepers will respond to the appearance of representatives of the EU mission in the border regions of Armenia.

To the journalist's question, what does this mean, what will be the reaction of the Russian peacekeepers, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry rudely interrupts the Armenian journalist and then announces that there will be actions, there will be a reaction.

"There will be actions, there will be reactions. There will be no action, there will be no reaction.

Everything is very simple. And there is no need to indulge in fantasies," Zakharova said.

PACE calls on Baku to release the Armenian prisoners and open the Lachin Corridor

On January 26, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted the resolution "Progress in the Assembly's monitoring processes" (January-December 2022). The amendments proposed by the Armenian delegation in the resolution were adopted by the vote, regarding the immediate release of the Armenian prisoners of war by Azerbaijan and the implementation of the interim measures of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the Lachin Corridor. This is reported from the website of the Permanent Representation of Armenia in the Council of Europe.

RA Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan's phone conversation with Iceland's Foreign Minister Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir

On January 27, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan had a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir.

Minister Mirzoyan congratulated his colleague on assuming the chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.

Other News

• Today, Azerbaijan handed over to the Armenian side the body of the Armenian soldier who died in the Nerkin Hand direction on September 13-14, 2022.

• Levon Ter-Petrosyan met with Ambassador Sergey Kopirkin in his private residence.