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YEREVAN, Armenia 鈥?Armenia prime minister said Wednesday that Aze stanley cup rbaijan aggressive stance in the 25-day fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh leaves no room for diplomacy, and urged citizens to sign up as military volunteers to protect their country.In a live video address on Facebook, Nikol Pashinian said that a stanley cup ll Armenians must take up arms and defend the Motherland and urged local mayors to organize volunteer units. He charged that Azerbaijan unc stanley cup ompromising posture has shattered hopes for a political settlement. There is no way now to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh issue through diplomacy, Pashinian said. In this situation, we may consider all hopes, proposals and ideas about the need to find a diplomatic settlement effectively terminated. On Friday, Armenia and Azerbaijan foreign ministers are due to meet the U.S. Secretary of State in Washington. On Wednesday they held separate talks with Russia foreign minister.Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a war there ended in 1994. The current fighting that started on Sept. 27 marks the biggest escalation in the conflict since the war end.WATCH: Dozens dead, ghost towns: Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict devastates regionTwo Russia-brokered cease-fires frayed immediately after entering force, and the warring parties have continued to trade blows with heavy artillery, rockets and drones.According to Nagorno-Ka Huve WATCH: Sen. Leahy s opening statement in Jackson Supreme Court confirmation hearings
ANKARA, Turkey AP 鈥?Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has submitted a protocol for Swedens admission into NATO to Turkeys parliament for ratification, his office said Monday, bringing the Nordic country a step closer to membership in the military alliance.Erdogan had been delaying ratification of Swedens membership, accusing Stockholm of being too soft on af1 Kurdish militants and other groups his country considers to be security threats. Turkey also was angered by a series of Quran-burning protests in Sweden.READ MORE: NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg presses Turkey to advance Swedens membership applicationAll 31 NATO allies must endorse Swedens membership. Turkey and Hungary are the only two allies that have yet to ratify it.A brief statement from the presidential communications directorate said Erdogan had signed the protocol on Sweden NATO accession, which was then submitted to the Turkish Grand National Assembly. It was not known when Swedens membership would come to the floor.Sweden welcomed the move. Glad to hear that Turkish President Erdo臒an has now handed over the ratification documents to the Turkish Parliament, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson wrote on X, jordan the platform formerly known as Twitter. Now it remains for Parliament to deal with the issue. We look forward to becoming a me stanley cup mber of NATO. Sweden and its neighbor Finland abandoned decades of military nonalignment and sought protection under NATO security umbrella after P |
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