“The Minsk Group is a mediating forum to help Azerbaijan and Armenia to negotiate with each other,” former diplomat said. According to Richard D.Kauzlarich further developments of NKR conflict zone are in the hands of Armenians and Azerbaijanis alone.

The Spokesman of the President of Nagorno Karabakh Republic David Babayan says, Stepanakert has grounds to believe that Azerbaijan has recruited mercenaries from the Turkish “Grey Wolves” organization and “Islamic State” terrorist organization.

Samvel Martirosyan, media expert, reminds in his banman.am blog how to prevent your Facebook account from being hacked, as Azerbaijanis are rather active on Facebook and attempted attacks on Facebook.

“We condemn the breach of the 1994 Ceasefire Treaty by Azerbaijan, the violation of the Artsakh people’s right to live in peace, the targeting of the civilian population and settlements, the purposeful failure and denial of the efforts aimed at the solution of the problem by the internationally accepted format of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and the policy of settling the Nagorno Karabakh conflict through military means.”

“Azerbaijani subdivisions, unable to break resistance of Armenian bordering units, tried to use heavy equipment, from which TOC-1 multiple rocket launchers and unmanned aerial vehicles. However, Armenian artillerymen threw out these systems and Air Defence Forces destroyed one combat UAV,” Artsrun Hovhannisyan, RA MOD press speaker, informs.

“Aliyev was unsuccessful at getting the OSCE and the U.S. to agree to excluding the leaders of Karabagh from the negotiating table. Prompted by Erdogan, seemingly to take away attention from the yearly Armenian Genocide commemorations on April 24 just around the corner, Aliyev took the bait. This is a complete rebuke to the Vice President and Secretary of State of the U.S. by Azerbaijan.
It’s time Obama used the G word this month to show Erdogan who’s boss,” he wrote.

Intense battles are taking place along all Line of Contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces. Karabakh forces, causing considerable manpower and military equipment losses, took the initiative in their hands in north-eastern and south-eastern directions. During the military actions the adversary lost 3 tanks in north-eastern direction, and 2 tanks in south-eastern direction.

“I condition this by his close ties with Azerbaijani authorities. Everybody knows it; the Armenian delegation and others have repeatedly mentioned this while he was being elected a president, we also touched upon it a lot. He discredits the Council of Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and he doesn’t act out of values upon which the Council of Europe is anchored.”

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu had a telephone conversation with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. This was announced by Turkish “Taraf” newspaper.

“Another good news, during the morning fighting Armenian subdivisions have destroyed 3 new tanks,” Artsrun Hovhannisyan, RA MOD Press Speaker, wrote on his Facebook page.