Russia plays a key role in the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, new President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian said in an interview to TASS.
Defense Army conscript Narek Harutyunyan born in 1998 was killed by Azerbaijani shooting on April 9 at about 14:20 in the southern section of the contact line. spokesperson of the Defense Ministry of Armenia Artsrun Hovhannisyan mentioned that investigation is underway to reveal details.
Russia considers the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to be one of its priorities in the post-Soviet territory, minister of foreign affairs Sergey Lavrov said in response to Armenian news media.
During the period from April 1 to 7 the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact by nearly 300 times firing more than 3000 shots at the Armenian positions.
Aram Mkrtchyan, one of the HALO Trust deminers who were wounded in the accidental detonation of an anti-tank landmine in Ghazanchi area of Artsakh, has been discharged from hospital.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has launched proceedings over Grigor Narayan and others vs. Azerbaijan, a case concerning the killings of three Armenian soldiers in December of 2016 committed by Azerbaijani troops during an incursion in Chinari, Tavush province, Armenia.
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.
