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X. Providing products, investments, technology, heavy machinery and services facilitating the illegal economic activities The evidence shows that Armenia exercises pervasive control of the entire economic and commercial system in the occupied territories, including over inbound and outbound trade flows and economic resources. Armenian companies and businesses registered in Armenia or their affiliates and entities established in the occupied territories with financial and other support of Armenia control the entire market and manage the export of settlement produce to Armenia and to international markets. Armenian private businesses play a major role in Armenia’s colonial enterprise in the occupied territories. Many Armenian companies operate farms, orchards and production facilities in those territories. Raw materials and technology are provided to the occupied territories from Armenia and from other countries through Armenia. US-manufactured John Deere agricultural equipment is used for exploitation of agricultural resources of the occupied territories │Photo from www.president.nkr.am │03 July 2011 Heavy machinery of Armenia's Vallex Group is used for exploitation of natural resources in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan │Photo from www.bm.am│ 27 May 2014 The main business promoting structure in the occupied territories is the so-called “Artsakh Investment Fund” (AIF), which was established as successor of “Artsakh Development Agency” on 01 November 2007. It provides information about business establishment procedures, assists with setting up joint enterprises by means of leasing, franchising, licensing and placing bonds. 227 The “Fund” implements business support and mortgage programmes. Armenia’s Ardshininvestbank CEO Mher Grigoryan is reported to have informed at the meeting with the so-called “prime minister” of the separatist regime Ara Harutyunyan, the bank acquired shares of “Artsakh Investment Fund” so as to be able to take part in its mortgage programme. 228 Armenia supplies a variety of heavy engineering machinery, including tractors, combines and bulldozers and other equipment and materials to the occupied territories, thus facilitating the illegal activities there, including expansion of settlements and construction of the associated infrastructure. Chin-Van 40,4 model tractors assembled at China’s Chin-Van Company's plant in Vanadzor (Armenia) are shipped to the occupied territories. 229 There are hundreds of various types of USA-manufactured Caterpillar heavy machines, provided by Germany's Zeppelin Baumaschinen GmbH subsidiary Zeppelin Armenia LLC, 230 and John Deere farm tractors and equipment 231 , German Deutz Fahr combines and tractors, 232 South Korean Hyundai trucks, Belarusian MT3-82,3 model tractors, as well as other heavy machinery that are supplied from Armenia and elsewhere and utilized in mining, agriculture and construction. 233 The agricultural 227 See “Shushi’s Investment Guide”, . 228 See”Ardshininvestbank plans to buy shares of Artsakh Investment Fund”, Arminfo.am, 15 August 2014, . 229 See “Gagik Tsaroukyan donated 10 units of wheeled tractors to Kashatagh region”, Artsakhpress.am, 19 January 2015, . 230 See, for example, “Mining Show in Kashen 2014”, video footage of the “Caterpillar” tractors and “Hyundai” trucks in “Kashen” mine, ; «The Works In Kashen Entering A Decisive Phase», Artsakhtert.com, 05 August 2014, . 231 See “Bako Sahakyan visited reserve premise of the Ministry of Agriculture”, Artsakhtv.am, 14 February 2013, . 232 See “The imported foreign combines are in arable lands”, Agrofund.am, 2013 . 233 See, for example, “Mining Show in Kashen 2014”, video footage of the Caterpillar tractors and Hyundai trucks in “Kashen” mine, . 43
equipment provided to the occupied territories by Armenia in 2014 was twice as more as in the previous year. 234 According to Karen Atayan, so-called “head of production department” of the so-called “Artsakh Agriculture And Rural Development Fund”, 60 wheeled tractors of Belarus MT3-82,3 were imported, four of which were given to the tractor stations in various districts and the rest – to individual users on conditions of a financial lease. In addition, 19 units of wheeled tractors’ supplementary aggregates (trailers, hay-making machines, hay balers) were purchased and provided to farmers. 235 In 2014, Armenia's oligarch Gagik Tsaroukyan granted to “Araqs” agricultural organization, that operates in the occupied Lachyn and Zangilan districts, 10 units Chin-Van 40,4 wheeled tractors. 236 US-manufactured John Deere agricultural equipment used in the occupied territories │Photo from www.artsakh.tv Belarus-manufactured wheeled tractors MT3-82,3 used in the occupied territories │Photo from www.artsakhpress.am│19 January 2015 In 2013, Germany’s Deutz Fahr company provided some 30 combines and other agricultural machines to the entities operating in the occupied territories. 237 “The Small and Medium Entrepreneurship Development National Centre of Armenia Fund” (SME DNC of Armenia) provides Belarus-manufactured tractors to the enterprises engaged in agriculture in the occupied territories. 238 In 2013, some 20 farm tractors were provided to the occupied territories and stored in the “Support Fund of Village and Agriculture of the NKR”s equipment storing facility in the occupied town of Shusha. 239 In 2014, an agreement was reached to provide additional 40 tractors of the kind. 240 That equipment is distributed among settlers throughout the occupied territories according to the schedules. 241 Settlement incentives also include financial assistance, diesel fuel for planting and ploughing, interest-free loan and fertilizers, agricultural equipment like disk harrows, seeders, fertilizers, distributors and pesticide sprinklers and other equipment, which is provided by Armenia. For example, Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU), through the donation from the Cherchian Family Foundation, in 2013 initiated a program for provision of agricultural equipment to Syrian Armenians settled in the occupied Zangilan district and involved in farming there. 242 Since Armenia is fully deprived of the possibility of attracting the international financial and credit resources to finance illegal activities in the occupied territories, 243 and the businesses 234 See “Gagik Tsaroukyan donated 10 units of wheeled tractors to Kashatagh region”, Artsakhpress.am, 19 January 2015, . 235 Ibid. 236 Ibid. 237 See “The imported foreign combines are in arable lands”, Agrofund.am, 2013 . 238 “The Byelorussian tractors are already in Artsakh”, . 239 “The process of importing the Byelorussian tractors is going on”, . 240 See “Belarusian Tractors to be Delivered to Artsakh Soon”, Artsakhtert.com, 15 March 2014, ; “Next group of Byelorussian tractors will be sent to Artsakh one of these days”, Agrofund.am, March 2014, . 241 “The imported agrotechnique is disposed to soil users”, . 242 See “Syrian-Armenians in NKR Benefit from AGBU Agricultural Program”, AGBU, 2013, . 243 See “NagornoKarabakh Republic (Artsakh), State Building: Progress Toward Freedom, Democracy And Economic Development”, “NKR Office in the USA”, (2005), ; “Programmed Solutions To The Problems”, 24 October 2013, Artsakhtert.com, . 44
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Page 4 and 5: Contents A. Introduction 5 B. Execu
Page 6 and 7: A. Introduction At the end of 1987,
Page 8 and 9: The OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen co
Page 10 and 11: B. Executive Summary The examined e
Page 12 and 13: Armenian statistical information sh
Page 14 and 15: thus profit from and support the oc
Page 16 and 17: programmes that ultimately serve th
Page 18 and 19: the field commanders. 20 S.Ohanyan
Page 20 and 21: II. Continued attempts of Armenia t
Page 22 and 23: the country’s president.” 44 Ar
Page 24 and 25: the NKR.” 58 According to the Arm
Page 26 and 27: Armenian public to be a subsidiary
Page 28 and 29: planning, development of collaborat
Page 30 and 31: Settlement activities in the occupi
Page 32 and 33: and mechanical growth. 134 In 2001,
Page 34 and 35: the separatist regime Arthur Aghabe
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Page 38 and 39: There are reports that Syrian Armen
Page 40 and 41: Armenia’s Dorozhnik LLC company i
Page 42 and 43: as of 2013. Thus, for example, whil
Page 46 and 47: in Armenia lack sufficient financia
Page 48 and 49: consists of public figures and busi
Page 50 and 51: percent shares of Armenia's Armswis
Page 52 and 53: Armenia’s Prime Minister Hovik Ab
Page 54 and 55: “Kataro” wine production facili
Page 56 and 57: It is difficult to determine the ac
Page 58 and 59: The Asmaryan family from Syria work
Page 60 and 61: Former Prime Minister Tigran Sargsy
Page 62 and 63: Bako Sahakyan visits agricultural f
Page 64 and 65: Armenia is particularly interested
Page 66 and 67: President of Armenia visits “Trgh
Page 68 and 69: Wheat and other crops harvested in
Page 70 and 71: Back in February 1995, the National
Page 72 and 73: Caterpillar heavy machines are used
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Page 80 and 81: Prime Minister of Armenia Hovik Abr
Page 82 and 83: As far as gold is concerned, Armeni
Page 84 and 85: protection) in the Bashitchay Natio
Page 86 and 87: As of 2015, approximately 460 mines
Page 88 and 89: Juma Mosque in the occupied city of
Page 90 and 91: E. Obligations and Responsibility u
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No exception or provision for derog
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the invoked laws cannot be consider
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“One of the cornerstones of the l
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Serious breaches of obligations und
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Nagorno-Karabakh was unilaterally d
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A large number of domestic criminal
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F. Urgent Measures to Cease and Rev
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G. ANNEXES Original designations of
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