“Azerbaijan’s new attempts to engage in a military adventure can have unpredictable consequences for Azerbaijan itself. Armenia, as the guarantor of Nagorno Karabakh’s security, has stated on many occasions that it was ready to respond adequately to any attempt to use force.”

The behavior of the international community of putting a sign of parity between the sides gives Azerbaijan an opportunity to regularly violate the ceasefire regime and instigate armed provocations on Karabakh-Azerbaijan border.

“By April operations Azerbaijan expressed its discontent from mechanisms proposed by MG. As for Moscow, it was in a rather complicated situation, it had to decide something, and there was no intention to decide anything. Thus, the situation, which existed, totally satisfied Moscow, Brussels and Washington. Moscow has special relations with Yerevan and Baku. That’s why Turkey’s role should be taken into account here.”

“99 lawmakers voted in favor of Levon Yolyan for the post of Chairman of the Control Chamber, 2 ballots were found to be invalid. Levon Yolyan has been elected as Chairman of the Control Chamber,” he said.

“They were testing us, they were simply preparing for another attack. This also coincided with the developments on Khojalu and Mehriban Aliyeva’s appointment as the VP.”

“Armenians, our guys showed last year that they are able to show rather mighty, string opposition, and Russians have to take this factor into consideration. Russia’s history shows that they always respect power, powerful speech, powerful forces.”

In accordance to agreements reached with the Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) authorities, the OSCE mission will carry out a monitoring in the line of contact of Nagorno KarabakhAzerbaijan on March 1 in the direction of Askeran region, in the vicinity of Shkhlyar settlement.

Azerbaijani APA agency, making reference to Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, informed that during “another provocation of the Armenian army,” a soldier died of wounds despite the efforts of doctors on February 28.

In late December, when I stepped down as Co-Chair, there were interesting proposals on the table, proposals which will create opportunities for discussion between the two sides,” he said, adding all details of the April War haven’t been revealed yet.

In the early hours of February 25, 2017, the Azerbaijani armed forces attempted an attack on the positions of the Defense Army of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh Republic), which was neutralized by the military units of Artsakh. The incident was the most serious violation of the ceasefire by Azerbaijan after the April war of 2016.