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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 14 september 2022
Armenia, Azerbaijan report 99 troops killed in border clash

By AVET DEMOURIAN President Charles Michel,
Associated Press Iranian President Ebrahim
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Raisi and U.S. Secretary of
Fighting on the border be- State Antony Blinken to dis-
tween Armenia and Azer- cuss the hostilities.
baijan has killed about 100 Blinken also spoke with
troops as attacks on both Azerbaijan's president, Il-
sides Tuesday fed fears of ham Aliyev. Russian For-
broader hostilities breaking eign Minister Sergey Lavrov
out between the longtime spoke by phone with his
adversaries. Azerbaijani counterpart,
Armenia said at least 49 of Jeyhun Bayramov, Azerbai-
its soldiers were killed; Azer- jan's Foreign Ministry said.
baijan said it lost 50. Speaking in parliament ear-
The fighting erupted min- ly Tuesday, Armenian Prime
utes after midnight with Minister Nikol Pashinyan
Azerbaijani forces unleash- rejected the Azerbaijani
ing an artillery barrage and claim that it was respond-
drone attacks in many sec- ing to Armenian provoca-
tions of Armenian territory, tions. He said his recent
according to Armenia's European Union-brokered
Defense Ministry. talks with Aliyev in Brussels
The ministry said fighting Armenian Prime minister Nikol Pashinyan delivers his speech at the National Assembly of Armenia had revealed what he de-
continued during the day in Yerevan, Armenia, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. scribed as Azerbaijan's un-
despite Russia's attempt to Associated Press compromising stand.
broker a quick cease-fire. On Facebook, Aliyev ex-
Shelling grew less intense Armenian troops planted Karabakh in a six-week war Moscow has engaged in pressed condolences "to
but Azerbaijani troops still mines and fired on Azerbai- in 2020 that killed more than a delicate balancing act, the families and relatives of
were trying to advance jani military positions. 6,600 people and ended maintaining strong eco- our servicemen who died
into Armenian territory, it The two countries have with a Russia-brokered nomic and security ties with on September 13 while pre-
said. been locked in a decades- peace deal. Moscow, Armenia, which hosts a Rus- venting large-scale provo-
It added that the Azer- old conflict over Nagorno- which deployed about sian military base, while also cations committed by the
baijani shelling damaged Karabakh, which is part of 2,000 troops to the region developing close coopera- Armenian armed forces in
civilian infrastructure and Azerbaijan but has been to serve as peacekeepers tion with oil-rich Azerbaijan. the direction of the Kalba-
wounded an unspecified under the control of ethnic under the deal, has sought As the fighting raged over- jar, Lachin, Dashkasan and
number of people. Armenian forces backed to maintain friendly ties with night Tuesday, Pashinyan Zangilan regions of Azer-
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minis- by Armenia since a sepa- both ex-Soviet nations. quickly called Russian Presi- baijan."
try said it was responding to ratist war there ended in The Russian Foreign Minis- dent Vladimir Putin and lat- Turkey, an ally of Azerbai-
a "large-scale provocation" 1994. try urged both parties "to er also had calls with French jan, also placed the blame
by Armenia late Monday Azerbaijan reclaimed refrain from further esca- President Emmanuel Ma- for the violence on Arme-
and early Tuesday. It said broad swaths of Nagorno- lation and show restraint." cron, European Council nia. q

EU lawmakers support ban of goods linked to deforestation

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN not bee made on "defor- plan to make European
Associated Press ested or degraded land banks deforestation-free
BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe- anywhere in the world," the in negotiations on the final
an Union lawmakers have Parliament said. law," said Giulia Bondi, from
backed a proposal for a "Acknowledging that the Global Witness campaign-
law that would ban the EU is responsible for around ing group.
sale in the 27-nation bloc of 10% of global deforestation, Deforestation in South
agriculture products linked we have no choice but to America, Africa and Asia
to the destruction of forests. ramp up our efforts to halt is driven mainly by agricul-
MEPs gathered on Tuesday global deforestation," said tural expansion.
in Strasbourg, France, sup- Christophe Hansen, the Quoting data from the U.N.
ported and strengthened lawmaker in charge of the Food and Agriculture Orga-
a plan from the EU's execu- Parliament's report. nization, the EU Parliament
tive arm with 453 votes to In addition, MEPs proposed said that some 420 million
57, and 123 abstentions. that banks and financial hectares of forest were lost
The EU Parliament will now institutions should be cov- to deforestation between
start negotiations on the ered by the law to prevent 1990 and 2020. This is an Greenpeace activists stage a protest against the deforesta-
tion outside of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern
final text with EU member them from investing in proj- area larger than the EU. France, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022.
states. ects linked to deforesta- The European Commission, Associated Press
Once approved, the law tion. which proposes EU laws
would force companies "This could be the begin- and supervises the way Tuesday, lawmakers also nies to verify that goods
and producers to give as- ning of the end of the they are enacted, suggest- want to include pig meat, are produced in accor-
surances that products are money pipeline that is de- ed last year that the legis- sheep and goats, poultry, dance with human rights
"deforestation-free." Busi- stroying forests around the lation covered soy, cattle, maize and rubber, as well provisions in international
nesses would be forced world – but only if national palm oil, wood, cocoa and as charcoal and printed law and respect the rights
to verify that agricultural governments across the EU coffee. paper products. of indigenous people," the
goods sold in the EU have step up and support this Under the position adopted "MEPs also want compa- Parliament said.q