Russia salutes the interactions between Armenia and Azerbaijan that fosters the development of a dialogue based on mutual respect, reports official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakhorova told Sputnik Azerbaijan in Baku.
During the period from July 22 to 28, the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact nearly 300 times during which they fired more than 2500 shots from various caliber weapons at the Armenian positions.
As any democracy, Armenia is devoted to exclusively peaceful solution for Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview to Talk to Al Jazeera program of Al-Jazeera TV.
Russia welcomes contacts between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno Karabakh issue, Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in Baku, RIA Novosti reports.
A soldier of the Artsakh’s Defense Army has been wounded by Azerbaijani gunfire in the evening of July 26 while on duty in a northeastern base.
The Russian Echo of Moscow radio station’s chief editor and host Alexei Venediktov has interviewed Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, speaking about the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and Armenia’s willingness to settle it peacefully.
Armenia’s actions will be equivalent to Azerbaijan’s rhetoric, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a graduation ceremony of the 2017-2018 military academies at the defense ministry headquarters in Yerevan.
Artsakh’s defense minister, commander of the Defense Army, Lieutenant-General Levon Mnatsakanyan announced that the Defense Army can paralyze Azerbaijan’s economy in case of necessity.
Azerbaijan is committing less ceasefire violations at the line of contact, Artsakh’s defense minister Levon Mnatsakanyan said at a press conference today.
Armenia’s defense minister Davit Tonoyan says he is especially concerned over the activation of Azerbaijani armed forces in the Nakhijevan direction of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, where a relative calm existed until now.
