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Death Toll Rises As War Continues OCTOBER 24, 2020 MMirror-SpeirTHEror-SpeARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXXI, NO. 15, Issue 4657 $ 2.00 NEWS The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 IN BRIEF Massachusetts Jewish Aronian Says He Is Leaders Stand with Death Toll Rises as Ready to Join Army YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Armenian Armenian Neighbors, grandmaster Levon Aronian has revealed he is Call for US ready to join the army. War Continues In an interview with chess24, Aronian said he Humanitarian already has already lost friends in the fighting. “My country is under assault by Turkey and Intervention YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — As the “The Karabakh conflict must be resolved Azerbaijan. We are trying to protect ourselves and war is stretching into its third week, the by exclusively peaceful means … And I’m our right to live in peace. For every Armenian in the BOSTON — Over 30 Jewish communal casualties are mounting world this is now the main concern. I am going leaders in Massachusetts have signed a and the entire Republic of back tomorrow and will do everything I can to help letter expressing support for the Artsakh is under attack, as my country overcome this trouble,” he said in Armenian community during the cur- is Armenia. Norway where he was competing at the Altibox rent crisis in Armenia, based on shared Reflecting that sense of Norway Chess tournament. humanitarian values. The full list of sig- urgency, Armenian Prime “I will do everything to help my country with natories, including Jewish public offi- Minister Nikol Pashinyan everything I can. If it is necessary for my country cials, executive directors, CEOs and and Azerbaijani President for me to be in the army I will do that,” he said. Board Chairs of Jewish organizations, Ilham Aliyev expressed and rabbis, can be viewed below. readiness on October 19 to According to the October 14, 2020 meet in Moscow for urgent French City of Vienne press release of the Jewish Community talks on the Nagorno- Relations Council (JCRC), “The Jewish Karabakh conflict. Recognizes Artsakh community stands in solidarity with our The two men were inter- A destroyed school in Stepanakert VIENNE, France (Panorama.am) — The municipal friends and neighbors in the Armenian- viewed by the official Russian council of the French city of Vienne unanimously American community and to urge inter- news agency TASS as heavy passed a resolution recognizing the Republic of vention to save the innocent people of fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani ready to make every effort to achieve such Artsakh on Monday, October 19, Deputy Mayor of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) amidst a forces continued in and around Karabakh. a result, including to travel [to Moscow,] Vienne Levon Sakounts said on Facebook. current and growing crisis. The meet and talk,” said Earlier on October 15, the French town of Armenian people have suffered through Pashinyan. Limonest recognized the independence of Artsakh. the genocide once at the hands of the He said that Armenia Meanwhile, the Council of the French Hauts-de- Ottoman Empire. We cannot sit idly by remains committed to a Seine Department issued a statement calling on the as they face the risk of another extraor- “compromise” peace deal. French president and the government to reconsider dinary humanitarian disaster and urge “If there is no such readi- their diplomatic strategy and to render diplomatic leadership at this critical moment.” ness on the opposite side assistance to the Republic of Artsakh in the face of “We in Boston have a longstanding we are ready to fight till the continuing aggression by Azerbaijan. relationship with the local Armenian the end for our people, community and have been in touch with our compatriots in them in recent weeks about ways in Nagorno-Karabakh,” he Int. Bodies’ Avoiding which we can show our support,” said said. Jeremy Burton, Executive Director of Aliyev said, for his part, Visits to Artsakh Led to the Jewish Community Relations that Baku is “prepared War Council. “It is important for us to for any contacts” with express solidarity with our Armenian Yerevan. “We are always YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Human Rights neighbors.” ready to meet in Moscow Defender of Armenia Arman Tatoyan says the vio- The letter remains open for additional or any other place to end lence, atrocities, mass destructions committed by signatures from community leaders. the conflict and reach a the Azerbaijani armed forces in Artsakh (Nagorno JCRC defines and advances the values, settlement,” he told Karabakh) are consequences of the international interests, and priorities of the organized Pashinyan Announces TASS. structures’ continuous denial to visit Artsakh. Jewish community of Greater Boston in Aliyev noted at the “The atrocities and mass destructions carried out the public square. Heavy Casualties, same time that he has by the Azerbaijani armed forces in Artsakh are also received “no such invita- consequences of the fact that the international The Sign On Letter in Support Thanks Armenia’s Allies tion” from Russia yet. organizations have constantly refused to visit of the Armenian-American Russian Foreign Artsakh, despite our numerous calls, invitations Community YEREVAN – Minister Sergei Lavrov and warnings,” he said on October 20 . Dear President Trump, By Mateos Hayes Speaking in a 2 hosted on October 9-10 He considered very important to show now that p.m. televised talks between his the principle “no one should be left behind, no one The undersigned leaders of Special to the Mirror-Spectator the American Jewish community are address on Armenian and should be ignored and isolated,” which is writing to you in solidarity with our October 14 Azerbaijani counterparts announced in the UN, other structures at a high friends and neighbors in the Armenian- broadcast live across Armenia, Pashinyan gave citizens that resulted in an agree- level, is a really operating principle in life, is a prin- American community and to urge you to of Armenia and Artsakh his latest in a series of regular ment to stop hostilities in ciple protecting person in life, and is not just an illu- intervene to save the innocent people of updates on developments relating to renewed fighting the conflict zone. sion. Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) amidst a between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Yerevan residents However, the fighting has current and growing crisis. were able to view the Armenian head of state’s speech continued since then, Since their adoption of Christianity in as they went about their day thanks to large flatscreen with each side accusing 301 CE, Armenians have nurtured their televisions which have been installed in major public the other of violating the faith through many trials, including and spaces such as the Yerevan State Opera, and Republic agreement. significantly the Turkish Genocide of Square. Lavrov said earlier on INSIDE 1915. This first genocide of the modern see PASHINYAN, page 3 Monday that Moscow see LETTER, page 11 see WAR, page 2 Worcester Manoogian Leads Way for Michigan Speaks State House Resolution Condemning Azeri and Turkish Aggression Pages 10-11 By Harry Kezelian LANSING, Mich. Special to the Mirror-Spectator — At approximately INDEX 3:30 a.m. on Armenia . 2-4 Wednesday, October 14, after a “marathon” Tuesday Arts and Living . 14 session that extended through the night, the House of Community News. 8 Representatives of Michigan passed a resolution Editorial . 16 (Resolution 319) condemning Azerbaijan’s and International . 5-7 Turkey’s aggression against the Armenians of Artsakh. see MICHIGAN, page 9 Michigan State Rep. Mari Manoogian 2 S ATURDAY O CTOBER 2 4 , 2 0 2 0 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA Death Toll Rises as War Continues WAR, from page 1 keeps pressing the sides to stop the war and resume “substantive” peace talks that will cen- ter on a framework peace accord proposed by the Russian, French and U.S. co-chairs of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Pashinyan put the emphasis on Azerbaijan’s recognition of the Karabakh Armenians’ right to self-determination. This issue is of “strategic importance” to the Armenian side, he said. In addition, the United Nations Security Council again discussed the continuing war over Nagorno-Karabakh late on Monday at a meeting initiated by France, Russia and the United States and, the three world powers try- ing to end the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Vasily Nebenzya, the Russian ambassador to the UN who chaired the closed-door meeting, said it discussed ways of ensuring the conflict- ing parties’ compliance with ceasefire agree- ments. “It is now necessary to ensure the implemen- tation, this is the most pressing issue because a relevant agreement was reached but not respected,” the TASS news agency quoted Nebenzya as saying. “The main question remains how to ensure a verification of its implementation.” “This issue was certainly discussed during Unexploded cluster bombs the consultations, and the council was quite unanimous in its approach,” he told reporters in New York. The Human Rights Defender of Armenia Over 60 stray rockets have hit Khoda Afarin another Armenian-Azerbaijani ceasefire agree- Nebenzya did not exclude that foreign Arman Tatoyan received a call certifying the since the Azeri attacks on Artsakh began on ment. The warring sides blamed each other for observers would be deployed by and operate report. September 27, according to IRNA. the truce violations. under the aegis of the OSCE. Armenia’s Representative to the European Earlier in October, an Israeli made Harop loi- Borrell revealed that the agreement was bro- “The questions of who will be there and in Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Yeghishe tering munition operated by the Azeri military kered by French President Emmanuel Macron what capacity remain open and under discus- Kirakosyan said on October 19 that they will had similarly crashed into Iranian territory.
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