The two children wounded as a result of Azerbaijan shelling civilian settlements are in a critical but stable condition, Chief physician at “Arevik” Children’s Hospital in Stepanakert Hovsep Margaryan told.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is concerned about the military operations on the contact line of Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan. As reports Ria Novosti”, the Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “President Putin has called on the conflicting parties to immediately cease fire and to exercise restraint,” Peskov said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia has issued a statement harshly condemning the provocative measures of the armed forces of Azerbaijan on Karabakh-Azerbaijan contact line. As 168.am was informed from the Department of Press, Information and Public Relations of MFA Armenia, the statement reads as follows,
Armenia is also actively engaged in the fight against nuclear terrorism and initiatives related to the non-proliferation of the weapons of mass destruction through the implementation of all necessary measures envisaged by the UN SC Resolution 1540 and adoption of the corresponding National Action Plan.
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.
