Defense Minister of Armenia Vigen Sargsyan assesses army building a nonstop process. After paying tribute at Yerablur Military Pantheon to the memory of the soldiers killed protecting the Motherland during the April war, the Minister told the reporters that the Armenian army building process has an exclusive history, a history of the victorious army formation – it was established from nothing becoming a solid state body.
The Azerbaijani military made more than 250 individual ceasefire violations in a week at the Artsakh line of contact.
The tragic incident in Artsakh once again proves the difficulties people face while demining territories and making the land safe for the population, HALO Trust Artsakh Program Manager Michael Newton told Hayastani Hanrapetutyun (Republic of Armenia) newspaper. Mr. Newton refrained from giving any assessments to the incident yet.
Aram Mkrtchyan, one of the two HALO Trust de-miners who were wounded in the accidental detonation of an anti-tank landmine in Ghazanchi area of Artsakh, is in a serious but stable condition. The 44 year old survivor of the blast had internal bleeding and sustained a ruptured spleen, which was surgically removed in the Republican Medical Center of Artsakh.
he people of Artsakh continue suffering the consequences of the war: after the war Artsakh’s territory was the first in the world with the quantity of landmines per square kilometer.
The key obstacle for peaceful settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict is Azerbaijan’s non-constructive, extremist and bellicose position, President of Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan announced in an interview with Armenian Mirror Spectator.
A vehicle belonging to Halo Trust, a de-mining organization, exploded on a landmine near the town of Martakert in Artsakh, killing three de-miners who were in the car, local emergency authorities reported.
UN Special, a magazine issued by the Geneva office of the United Nations, published an interview with acclaimed singer Charles Aznavour, Armenia’s Ambassador to Switzerland, Permanent Representative, in its March issue.
The Armed Forces of Artsakh downed an Azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) around 18:30, March 19, in the north-eastern (Talish) section of the line of contact.
Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan sent a congratulatory letter to Vladimir Putin on his victory in the Russian presidential election.
