Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan held a telephone conversation with President of Iran Hassan Rouhani on September 30.
The death toll of civilians in Artsakh has reached 7, including two children, as Azeri forces continue to deliberately bombard civilian settlements.
EDS stands with our Member Organisation YRPA Armenia and strongly condemns the nowadays aggressive facts. What took place on the 27th of September where the Azerbaijani side launched active missile attacks along the entire line of contact targeting military positions as well as the peaceful settlements, the peaceful civilian population of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) including the capital Stepanakert, is unacceptable and turns the area many decades back, where cold war existed.
Today Azerbaijan employed Turkish F-16 multifunctional aircrafts in the northeastern and then southern directions of the Defense Army of Artsakh, Armenian defense minister’s spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said on Facebook.
The Russian servicemen are closely following the developments taking place in Nagorno Karabakh, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
The Defense Army of Artsakh continues confidently conducting its combat task, pushing back the attacks of the Azerbaijani side at all directions, President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan said on Facebook.
The Armenian Ministry of Defense released images of the Armenian Air Force SU-25 jet which was shot down by Turkish Air Force F-16 on September 29 in Armenian airspace.
World Council of Churches (WCC) interim general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca expressed grave concern over the renewed and very serious escalation of conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region since Sunday 27 September – reportedly following an attack by Azerbaijan’s military forces – which has already resulted in dozens of casualties including civilians, and which risks provoking a wider armed conflict in the region.
Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay Pedro Jisdonian commented on the current tense situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border caused by the provocation of the Azerbaijani armed forces.
Azerbaijani forces continued attacking Artsakh at the entire length of the line of contact overnight September 29-30 but with lesser intensity than the previous day, Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan said at a news conference.
