Due to technical and procedural decision the surprise factor of future probable enemy attacks has been ruled out, Armenia’s defense minister Davit Tonoyan told EADaily in an interview.
Azerbaijani armed forces have made nearly 150 individual ceasefire violations in one week (July 15 – July 21) in the line of contact, Artsakh’s defense ministry said in a statement.
There will be no solution to the Artsakh conflict without the participation of the people of Artsakh, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during a press conference in the government.
The defense ministry of Artsakh is dismissing Azerbaijani media reports about a non-combat explosion in one of its military position.
The meeting of Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and First President Levon Ter-Petrosyan was held at the official residence on July 16.
The tension in the frontline has decreased compared to the past week, Tigran Abrahamyan – Artsakh President’s adviser on security affairs, told Armenpress, adding that, however, the situation can change very rapidly.
Political scientist Ruben Mehrabyan says after the visit of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to Brussels, the threat of launching war by Azerbaijan has somehow decreased.
The Nagorno Karabakh conflict must be settled only through a peaceful way, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Euronews in an interview.
On July 11, 2018, the Memorandum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh Republic) on the state of the historical and cultural monuments in Artsakh and Azerbaijan was published at the United Nations (UN) official website. Earlier, the MFA Memorandum was circulated in the UN, as well as the OSCE and the Council of Europe.
Armenia, like any other democratic country, reaffirms its commitment to the exclusively peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship format, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the meeting of the heads of states and governments contributing to the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels.
