8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (8)
#11284669 at 2020-10-26 09:39:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14415: Master and Servant Edition
No peace again: Nagorno-Karabakh warring parties trade
accusations of violating US-brokered ceasefire
26 Oct, 2020 07:35 / Updated 22 minutes ago
Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of violating the truce in Nagorno-Karabakh with heavy artillery fire. The reports of renewed hostilities came after a new attempt to reach a ceasefire was announced in Washington.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said that Armenian forces had "violated the new humanitarian ceasefire" on Monday by shelling its positions in several locations.
The statement came just minutes after a new ceasefire - a third one agreed for now - was supposed to take effect at 8am local time. It was announced in Washington after Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Jeyhun Bayramov, met the US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun.
Meanwhile, the army of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic denied the accusations by the Azerbaijani side. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote on social media that his country is observing the ceasefire.
At the same time, the spokesperson for the Armenian Defense Ministry, Shushan Stepanyan, said that Azerbaijani artillery began firing at the positions of the Yerevan-backed Nagorno-Karabakh forces "grossly violating the ceasefire agreement." Azerbaijan, in turn, insisted it is following the truce.
MORE:
https://www.rt.com/russia/504547-no-peace-again-nagorno-karabakh/
#11275873 at 2020-10-25 21:32:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14404: We have 8 days left!!! Edition
Breaking. POTUS brokers PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan today
The text of the following joint statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, the Republic of Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan on October 25, 2020.
Begin Text:
Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met with Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun on October 24, 2020 and reaffirmed their countries' commitment to implement and abide by the humanitarian ceasefire agreed in Moscow on October 10, which were reaffirmed in the statement issued from Paris on October 17, in accordance with the October 1, 2020 joint statement of United States President Donald J. Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The humanitarian ceasefire will take effect at 08:00 a.m. local time (12:00 a.m. EDT) on October 26, 2020. The United States facilitated intensive negotiations among the Foreign Ministers and the Minsk Group Co-Chairs to move Armenia and Azerbaijan closer to a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
End text.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-armenia-azerbaijan-joint-statement/
#11166777 at 2020-10-20 08:47:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14277: Anons United Edition
Pompeo To Host Armenian, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers
On Oct. 23
October 20, 2020
By PanARMENIAN
The Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are scheduled to separately meet with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington on Friday, October 23, Poltico reports.
It's not clear whether the foreign policy chiefs will meet with each other or whether U.S. officials will try to convene a trilateral session.
According to U.S. government documents, Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov will meet first with Pompeo on Friday morning. Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan will meet shortly afterward with the U.S. secretary of State.
In an interview on Monday, Azerbaijan's ambassador to the United States, Elin Suleymanov, did not rule out the possibility of an encounter between the Armenian and Azerbaijan ministers during their Washington stay.
Azerbaijan, with help from Turkey and Syrian and Libyan mercenaries deployed by Ankara, started a war against Karabakh (Artsakh) in the morning of September 27. The Armenian side has reported deaths and injuries both among the civilian population and the military. Foreign and local journalists too have been injured in Azeri shelling of towns and villages.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/20102020-pompeo-to-host-armenian-azerbaijani-foreign-ministers-on-oct-23/
#11011915 at 2020-10-10 14:01:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14085: The Great Awakening Edition
https://apnews.com/article/moscow-azerbaijan-russia-armenia-sergey-lavrov-7551be8ce8ad970521a09278479d98bf
Armenia, Azerbaijan say Nagorno-Karabakh truce fails to hold
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV an hour ago
Eduard Chechyan gestures in the yard of his apartment building, destroyed by shelling by Azerbaijan's artillery, during a military conflict in Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to a Russia-brokered cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh after two weeks of heavy fighting that marked the worst outbreak of hostilities in the separatist region in more than a quarter-century. (AP Photo)
MOSCOW (AP) - Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a Russia-brokered cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh starting Saturday, but immediately accused each other of derailing the deal intended to end the worst outbreak of hostilities in the separatist region in more than a quarter-century.
The two sides traded blame for breaking the truce that took effect at noon (0800 GMT) with new attacks, and Azerbaijan's top diplomat said the truce never entered force.
The cease-fire announcement came overnight after 10 hours of talks in Moscow sponsored by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The deal stipulated that the cease-fire should pave the way for talks on settling the conflict.
If the truce holds, it would mark a major diplomatic coup for Russia, which has a security pact with Armenia but also cultivated warm ties with Azerbaijan. But the agreement was immediately challenged by mutual claims of violations.
Minutes after the truce took force, the Armenian military accused Azerbaijan of shelling the area near the town of Kapan in southeastern Armenia, killing one civilian. Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry rejected the Armenian accusations as a "provocation."
The Azerbaijani military, in turn, accused Armenia of striking the Terter and Agdam regions of Azerbaijan with missiles and then attempting to launch offensives in the Agdere-Terter and the Fizuli-Jabrail areas. Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov charged that "conditions for implementing the humanitarian cease-fire are currently missing" amid the continuing Armenian shelling.
Armenia's Defense Ministry denied any truce violations by the Armenian forces.
The latest outburst of fighting between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces began Sept. 27 and left hundreds of people dead in the biggest escalation of the decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh since a separatist war there ended in 1994. The region lies in Azerbaijan but has been under control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia.
Since the start of the latest fighting, Armenia said it was open to a cease-fire, while Azerbaijan insisted that it should be conditional on the Armenian forces' withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh, arguing that the failure of international efforts to negotiate a political settlement left it no other choice but to resort to force.
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed the truce in Moscow after Russian President Vladimir Putin had brokered it in a series of calls with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian.
Russia has co-sponsored peace talks on Nagorno-Karabakh together with the United States and France as co-chairs of the so-called Minsk Group, which is working under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. They haven't produced any deal, leaving Azerbaijan increasingly exasperated.
Speaking in an address to the nation Friday hours before the cease-fire deal was reached, the Azerbaijani president insisted on his country's right to reclaim its territory by force after nearly three decades of international talks that "haven't yielded an inch of progress."
Fighting with heavy artillery, warplanes and drones has engulfed Nagorno-Karabakh, with both sides accusing each other of targeting residential areas and civilian infrastructure.
According to the Nagorno-Karabakh military, 404 of its servicemen have been killed since Sept. 27. Azerbaijan hasn't provided details on its military losses. Scores of civilians on both sides also have been killed.
The current escalation marked the first time that Azerbaijan's ally Turkey took a high profile in the conflict, offering strong political support. Over the past few years, Turkey provided Azerbaijan with state-of-the-art weapons, including drones and rocket systems that helped the Azerbaijani military outgun the Nagorno-Karabakh separatist forces in the latest fighting.
Armenian officials say Turkey is involved in the conflict and is sending Syrian mercenaries to fight on Azerbaijan's side. Turkey has denied deploying combatants to the region, but a Syrian war monitor and three Syria-based opposition activists have confirmed that Turkey has sent hundreds of Syrian opposition fighters to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh.
In an interview with CNN Arabic aired Thursday, Azerbaijan's president admitted that Turkish F-16 fighter jets have stayed on in Azerbaijan weeks after a joint military exercise, but insisted that they have remained grounded. Armenian officials had earlier claimed that a Turkish F-16 shot down an Armenian warplane, a claim that both Turkey and Azerbaijan have denied.
Turkey's involvement in the conflict raised painful memories in Armenia, where an estimated 1.5 million died in massacres, deportations and forced marches that began in 1915. The event is widely viewed by historians as genocide, but Turkey denies that.
Turkey's highly visible role in the confrontation worried Russia, which has a military base in Armenia. Russia and Armenia are linked by a security treaty obliging Moscow to offer support to its ally if it comes under aggression.
But at the same time, Russia has sought to maintain strong economic and political ties with oil-rich Azerbaijan and ward off Turkey's attempt to increase its influence in the South Caucasus without ruining its delicate relations with Ankara.
Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have negotiated a series of deals to coordinate their conflicting interests in Syria and Libya and expanded their economic ties. Last year, NATO member Turkey took the delivery of the Russian S-400 air defense missiles, a move that angered Washington.
A lasting cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh would allow the Kremlin to stem Turkey's bid to expand its clout in Russia's backyard without ruining its strategic relationship with Ankara.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said the deal was "an important first step, but cannot replace a lasting solution."
"Since the beginning, Turkey has always underlined that it would only support those solutions which were acceptable to Azerbaijan," it said.
While Turkey has aspired to join the Minsk Group talks as a co-chair, the statement issued by Armenia and Azerbaijan contained their pledge to maintain the current format of the peace talks.
Speaking in televised remarks after the talks, Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan emphasized that "no other country, in particular Turkey, can play any role."
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Associated Press writers Avet Demourian in Yerevan, Armenia, and Aida Sultanova in Baku, Azerbaijan, contributed to this report.
#11006338 at 2020-10-10 01:08:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14078: Threats, Blackmail, And Bribes Edition
US, France, Russia Meet to Discuss Nagorno-Karabakh as Fighting Continues
Clashes that started on September 27th continue, over 400 reported killed
Fighting continued between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday as representatives from the US, Russia, and France met to discuss the conflict. Over 400 people have been reported killed in the 12 days of fighting, including dozens of civilians on both sides
Azerbaijan's foreign minister was due to attend the talks in Geneva on Thursday. Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan is expected to hold separate talks in Moscow on Monday with officials from the US, Russia, and France. So far, no direct talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been scheduled.
Baku said the city of Ganja had come under fire on Thursday, which is deep inside Azerbaijan's territory. A cathedral in the town of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh was hit on Thursday, and several journalists were injured. Armenia said Azeri forces hit the cathedral, but Azerbaijan denied involvement.
Washington, Paris, and Moscow co-chair the Minsk Group, which was set up in 1992 by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to promote negotiations and peace talks over Nagorno-Karabakh. The three countries have called for a ceasefire since the fighting broke out on September 27th.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin spoke to his Azeri counterpart on the phone Thursday and called for "the swift stabilization of the situation ... a halt to military action and the relaunch of the negotiation process."
Russia and Armenia are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a defense alliance made up of six post-Soviet states. The head of the CSTO, Stanislav Zas, said the alliance would come to the aid of Armenia if its sovereignty was threatened.
But Zas does not believe the fighting will spread that far. "I don't think Azerbaijan or Armenia need the conflict to flare up to regional level, nor is that in the interests of any other country," he said. Zas also expressed concern over reports of Turkey sending fighters from northern Syria to Nagorno-Karabakh to support Azerbaijan.
Nagorno-Karabakh is an ethnic Armenian enclave within the internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan. The collapse of the Soviet Union turned the border dispute deadly, and tens of thousands were killed until a ceasefire was reached in 1994. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh has operated as a de facto independent state with Armenian support.
The latest clashes are the heaviest fighting Nagorno-Karabakh has seen since the ceasefire was declared in 1994.
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/10/08/us-france-russia-meet-to-discuss-nagorno-karabakh-as-fighting-continues/
#11000154 at 2020-10-09 18:40:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14070: We Have The Qure Edition
US, France, Russia Meet to Discuss Nagorno-Karabakh as Fighting Continues
Clashes that started on September 27th continue, over 400 reported killed
Fighting continued between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh on Thursday as representatives from the US, Russia, and France met to discuss the conflict. Over 400 people have been reported killed in the 12 days of fighting, including dozens of civilians on both sides
Azerbaijan's foreign minister was due to attend the talks in Geneva on Thursday. Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan is expected to hold separate talks in Moscow on Monday with officials from the US, Russia, and France. So far, no direct talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia have been scheduled.
Baku said the city of Ganja had come under fire on Thursday, which is deep inside Azerbaijan's territory. A cathedral in the town of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh was hit on Thursday, and several journalists were injured. Armenia said Azeri forces hit the cathedral, but Azerbaijan denied involvement.
Washington, Paris, and Moscow co-chair the Minsk Group, which was set up in 1992 by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to promote negotiations and peace talks over Nagorno-Karabakh. The three countries have called for a ceasefire since the fighting broke out on September 27th.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin spoke to his Azeri counterpart on the phone Thursday and called for "the swift stabilization of the situation ... a halt to military action and the relaunch of the negotiation process."
Russia and Armenia are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a defense alliance made up of six post-Soviet states. The head of the CSTO, Stanislav Zas, said the alliance would come to the aid of Armenia if its sovereignty was threatened.
But Zas does not believe the fighting will spread that far. "I don't think Azerbaijan or Armenia need the conflict to flare up to regional level, nor is that in the interests of any other country," he said. Zas also expressed concern over reports of Turkey sending fighters from northern Syria to Nagorno-Karabakh to support Azerbaijan.
Nagorno-Karabakh is an ethnic Armenian enclave within the internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan. The collapse of the Soviet Union turned the border dispute deadly, and tens of thousands were killed until a ceasefire was reached in 1994. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh has operated as a de facto independent state with Armenian support.
The latest clashes are the heaviest fighting Nagorno-Karabakh has seen since the ceasefire was declared in 1994.
https://news.antiwar.com/2020/10/08/us-france-russia-meet-to-discuss-nagorno-karabakh-as-fighting-continues/
#5540433 at 2019-03-06 18:59:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7084: Rule of Law Edition
SecState Pompeo's Note-taking During Hearing
This was a Congressional Budget Session for the State Department Fiscal year 2019.
(((#7))) Meet IG.:There are several that have been published recently with regard to the State Department. They include: Operation Inherent Resolve and Operation Pacific Eagle, a Fraud Alert
and Operation Freedom's Sentinel. (The Freedom's Sentinel is a quarterly report) Click here to see those IG reports.
(((#8))) Jim Donovan: Last year, Donovan was on the short list to be Deputy Treasury Secretary and withdrew his name. He is a managing director and partner at Goldman Sachs and has close ties to Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney.
(((#9))) Call Lavrov: Well we should all know him, he is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia. Now this is an interesting call because Lavrov is on his way to visit the DPRK, you know lil Kim Jung Un and Lavrov has is nurturing a relationship with Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, the Foreign Minister of Armenia. Or how about telling Lavrov, 'he dude, this meddling thing and propaganda gig against the U.S. comes with consequences'.
(((#10))) Mexico Ambassador: This could have a couple of options. a) Our National Guard on the border b) The U.S ambassador to Mexico resigned in March and we presently don't have one. Under consideration is Edward Whitacre Jr., a former CEO at General Motors and AT&T. Whitacre has also worked previously with Carlos Slim, Mexico's richest man.
This brings us to (((#11))) Carlos Slim: Could this be some kind of NAFTA issue or regarding The Economic Coordinating Council in Mexico?
(((#12))) Robert Reilly: Reilly has a long history at the State Department and in global media. He is a conservative and a senior policy fellow at the America Foreign Policy Council, The Claremont Institute. He was part of the Information Strategy Office at the Pentagon as well as a senior advisor on Operation Iraqi Freedom.
(((#13))) Need help...no idea
(((#14))) Diversity Data....hummm
Could bad math have us skipping to((( #20)))? Sam Feist: Well, perhaps Pompeo has a whole truck load of stuff to discuss with Sam. He is the Senior Vice President, Washington Bureau Chief for CNN.
(((#21))) Help....no idea
(((#22))) PC on Iran: After the Deal to a New Deal? Europe vs. U.S. on sanctions maybe?
Meanwhile: Pompeo says Singapore is "still" a go, cites "the preparations for our historic meeting with North Korea, still scheduled for June 12. We have a generational opportunity to solve a major national security challenge." "We are clear-eyed about the regime's history. It's time to solve this once and for all. A bad deal is not an option. The American people are counting on us to get this right. If the right deal is not on the table, we will respectfully walk away."
Pompeo assumed a similarly hard line on resuming talks with Iran, promising to "apply unprecedented financial pressure" and suggesting that economic sanctions are just one of several measures the United States will use against the regime in Tehran. To achieve a new nuclear deal, he added, Iran "simply needs to change its behavior."
He did not back off the Trump administration's threat to apply sanctions to European companies that do business with Iran, saying companies must wind down operations in Iran or else face penalties, and promised lawmakers that "we will come back to you seeking further authority" for additional measures to squeeze Tehran.
But the hearing turned combative as Democrats challenged Pompeo for presenting Congress with a State Department budget that maintains deep cuts to diplomatic and developmental activities - a budget that Rep. Eliot L. Engel (N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the foreign affairs panel, called "insulting" and predicted that Congress would reject
#5530616 at 2019-03-06 03:05:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7072: Dire Steyer Edition
Was searching Pompeo and Donovan looking for dates and came across this…
Story explains the items on the list.
SecState Pompeo's Note-taking During Hearing
Posted on May 23, 2018 by Denise Simon
"Now, we can't know if this is a 'to-do' list for himself or those of his staff but an Associated Press photographer captured an interesting photo."
"So, let's go down the list shall we?
#7 Meet IG.:There are several that have been published recently with regard to the State Department. They include: Operation Inherent Resolve and Operation Pacific Eagle, a Fraud Alert and Operation Freedom's Sentinel. (The Freedom's Sentinel is a quarterly report) Click here to see those IG reports.
#8 Jim Donovan: Last year, Donovan was on the short list to be Deputy Treasury Secretary and withdrew his name. He is a managing director and partner at Goldman Sachs and has close ties to Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney.
#9 Call Lavrov: Well we should all know him, he is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia. Now this is an interesting call because Lavrov is on his way to visit the DPRK, you know lil Kim Jung Un and Lavrov has is nurturing a relationship with Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, the Foreign Minister of Armenia. Or how about telling Lavrov, 'he dude, this meddling thing and propaganda gig against the U.S. comes with consequences'.
#10 Mexico Ambassador: This could have a couple of options. a) Our National Guard on the border b) The U.S ambassador to Mexico resigned in March and we presently don't have one. Under consideration is Edward Whitacre Jr., a former CEO at General Motors and AT&T. Whitacre has also worked previously with Carlos Slim, Mexico's richest man.
This brings us to #11 Carlos Slim: Could this be some kind of NAFTA issue or regarding The Economic Coordinating Council in Mexico?
#12 Robert Reilly: Reilly has a long history at the State Department and in global media. He is a conservative and a senior policy fellow at the America Foreign Policy Council, The Claremont Institute. He was part of the Information Strategy Office at the Pentagon as well as a senior advisor on Operation Iraqi Freedom.
#13 Need help...no idea
#14 Diversity Data....hummm
Could bad math have us skipping to #20? Sam Feist: Well, perhaps Pompeo has a whole truck load of stuff to discuss with Sam. He is the Senior Vice President, Washington Bureau Chief for CNN.
#21 Help....no idea
#22 PC on Iran: After the Deal to a New Deal? Europe vs. U.S. on sanctions maybe?"
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https://founderscode.com/secstate-pompeos-note-taking-during-hearing/
8kun Midnight Riders Posts (1)
#1190 at 2020-10-25 22:41:49 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #3: "KEEP CHARGING MIDNIGHT RIDERS!" Edition
so looks like 3rd country, puppet strings cut SA , NK, now Armenia , next IRAN!!!
Breaking. POTUS brokers PEACE between Armenia and Azerbaijan today
The text of the following joint statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, the Republic of Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan on October 25, 2020.
Begin Text:
Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met with Deputy Secretary of State Stephen E. Biegun on October 24, 2020 and reaffirmed their countries' commitment to implement and abide by the humanitarian ceasefire agreed in Moscow on October 10, which were reaffirmed in the statement issued from Paris on October 17, in accordance with the October 1, 2020 joint statement of United States President Donald J. Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The humanitarian ceasefire will take effect at 08:00 a.m. local time (12:00 a.m. EDT) on October 26, 2020. The United States facilitated intensive negotiations among the Foreign Ministers and the Minsk Group Co-Chairs to move Armenia and Azerbaijan closer to a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
End text.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-armenia-azerbaijan-joint-statement/