Azerbaijan is still not pulling back its military build-up along the line of contact with Artsakh.
President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian has departed to Artsakh in the morning of June 13 at the invitation of President Bako Sahakyan.
The Defense Ministry of Artsakh informs that during the recent days active moves and mobilization of Azerbaijani troops and military equipment can be noted in different sections of Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line.
Vahagn Eloyan, the 26 year old soldier who was gunned down by Azerbaijan in Artsakh, was posthumously awarded by President Bako Sahakyan with the For Service in Battle medal for bravery, the Artsakh presidential office said.
The killing of a Defense Army serviceman of Artsakh a day before the visit of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to Armenia is a provocation aimed at escalating the situation in the region and failure of the agreements over de-escalations, Armenian foreign ministry spokesperson Tigran Balayan said in a commentary, the ministry said.
A 26 year old soldier of Artsakh’s Defense Army was wounded by Azerbaijani gunfire in the evening of June 10.
President of Artsakh Bako Sahakyan visited the Artsakh Republic Police to introduce the newly-appointed Police chief Igor Grigoryan to the staff of the structure on June 9. The President wished Igor Grigoryan efficient work and expressed gratitude to Kamo Aghajanyan for long-term service wishing them success.
The Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime nearly 200 times in Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line during the period of June 3-9 firing over 2 thousand bullets in the direction of Armenian border guards.
Soldier of the Defense Army of Artsakh Gevorg Khachatryan, born in 1998, received a gunshot wound by the Azerbaijani fire on June 7, at 23:30, in one of the military units located in the northern direction of the Defense Army.
The settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict has been and remains the priority of not only our foreign policy, but also the entire statehood and security system, Armenia’s foreign minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan said in an interview to the Russian Kommersant newspaper.
