Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies inside Azerbaijan but is controlled by ethnic Armenians, has run its own affairs with heavy military and financial backing from Armenia since a separatist war ended in 1994.
TV pictures showed a burned out vehicle and craters after a night of gunfire and heavy shelling.
Armenia — Heavy fighting has broken out between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces along the front lines of the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region, reportedly killing at least one child in what one official called the worst clashes since 1994.
“The war isn’t waged for a victory, but for impacting NK population, so that he appears in a situation, when world leading powers convince him. This is a complex of a child, who is less loved. The war, he tries to resume, is doomed to failure. There is not a single chance for his victory. He unleashes that war exclusively out of his selfish instigations,” the Russian politician said.
Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan chaired the Security Council meeting on the large-scale violations of the ceasefire regime initiated by the enemy along the Karabagh-Azerbaijani borderline on April 2.
Nagorno-Karabakh has been controlled by Armenia’s military and local forces since a war ended in 1994. Years of negotiations under the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have brought little progress in resolving the dispute.
Military harassment will end with the rapid defeat of Azerbaijan. Artsakh war hero Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan stated this in an interview with “Armenpress”, commenting on the offensive actions of the Azerbaijani armed forces on the contact line of Nagorno Karabakh- Azerbaijani opposing forces. “Aliyev has no other measures and he chose this kind of strategy, but if a war begins, he will lose after 2 days. He now leads such a strategy, and now we have to think what to do, “Ter-Tadevosyan said.
According to the data of the Defense Army, the Azerbaijani armed forces fired MM-21 (Grad) multiple rocket launcher on April 2, at 08: 30 in the direction of Martuni (NKR), killing 12 year old Vaghinak Grigoryan and wounding two others.
Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan convened a consultation on March 2 regarding the large-scale offensive actions of Azerbaijan along the entire contact line of Karabakh-Azerbaijan opposing forces. The consultation was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for International Economic Integration and Reforms of Armenia Vache Gabrielyan, Minister of Health Armen Muradyan, Minister of Emergency Situations Armen Yeritsyan, Deputy Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan and Deputy Foreign Minister Shavaarsh Kocharyan.
Sharmazanov stated that such actions by Azerbaijan are an act of terrorism against each MG Co-chair country, Russia, France, the USA. According to him, the impudent and terroristic actions of the criminal regime of Azerbaijan are also resulted by the general and unaddressed announcements and assessments of the international community.
