Armenia

On 19 October the Austrian Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the ethnic cleansing of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh carried out by Azerbaijan, the Armenian Embassy in Austria reported.

Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said during a press briefing on 19 October that she would visit Armenia in the near future.

Many bodies of Armenians killed during Azerbaijan’s aggression on 19 September were delivered to Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh, on which traces of torture and mutilation were found. Armenian Ombudswoman Anahit Manasyan told reporters about this on 19 October.

Lithuania is ready to support deepening of relations between Armenia and the EU, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said on 19 October 19 at a joint press conference with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Armenia Olivier Decottignies in Vayots Dzor. As he wrote on 18 October on the social network X, the goals of the visit include support to territorial integrity of Armenia, the humanitarian and security situation, decentralized cooperation and agricultural development.

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović has been in Armenia since 16 October, where she holds meetings with officials and forcibly displaced Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.

On October 18, at a meeting in Strasbourg, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a statement on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia-Azerbaijan tensions.

Unblocking transport routes in the South Caucasus is a key element of Armenian-Azerbaijani normalization. This opinion was expressed by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova in an interview with Trend agency, published on 18 October.