According to Markedonov, breaking of a fragile status quo in that “hot line” is going to have negative implications for Russia, as first and foremost, it’ll question perspective for Eurasian integration projects, on account of absence of a consensus of member countries in providing military-political support to Armenia, secondly, it’ll sharply contradict interests of Moscow and Baku, up to possibility of repeating “Georgian scenario,” and thirdly, weakening of Russian positions will inevitably raise the issue of “internationalization” of peaceful settlement process, in case of which Russia’s impact will noticeably decrease.
“Turkey also tries to divert the international community, as it yet has problems linked to Syria, the USA and Kurds. This has even been touched upon in Russian press, that Turkey’s special services, through their agents of influence in Azerbaijan, have set an issue of initiating provocations and diverting from them.”
Foreign Ministry of Armenia will jointly work with the Foreign Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh on signing a military cooperation agreement. President Serzh Sargsyan announced this during the National Security Council session. “It is necessary to have the text of the agreement, conduct relevant discussions and send it to the National Assembly”, the President noted.
Due to timely and professional actions of Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army it was possible to take the situation under control and not only take the situation under control, but also inflict considerable losses on the enemy.
Azerbaijani ongoing provocations and military actions subvert the stability of the region and undermine the efforts, taken to resolve the conflict.
The Azerbaijani offensive has created an unprecedented situation. Director of “European Friends of Armena” Eduardo Lorenzo Ochoa stressed in an interview with “Armenpress” that the lack of respect of international law and the basic principle of non-use of force has resulted in the gravest military escalation since the cease-fire was signed.
“I’m convinced that people with black masks applaud Aliyev now, as he’s taking desperate risky steps, to clean the South Caucasus from Christian, Western culture. Here, whether consciously or unconscious, he acts out of interests of ISIS or likewise organizations.”
Other 3 soldiers transferred from Stepanakert to Yerevan military hospital, Aram Asaturyan, Head of the Central Military Hospital told reporters.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Edward Nalbandian held a phone conversation with Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s Defense Army publishes photos evidencing the eliminated soldiers of Azerbaijani Armed Forces. 168.am was informed about the aforementioned from the press service of NKR Defense Army.
