Lt. General Levon Mnatsakanyan, defense minister and commander of the Defense Army of Artsakh, has summoned a consultation on March 10 involving deputy commanders of the military, heads of departments and units of the staff and commanders of military bases, the defense ministry of Artsakh reported.
Azerbaijan breached the ceasefire nearly 220 times March 4-10 in the Artsakh line of contact.
Russian-Israeli tourism blogger Alexander Lapshin, known for his highly publicized arrest and illegal extradition from Belarus to Azerbaijan, has published a photo of himself wearing a t-shirt depicting an on-duty Artsakh soldier.
Soldier of the Defense Army Grigor Yeghoyan, born in 1998, was fatally wounded by the Azerbaijani fire on February 22, at 09:40, in one of the military units located at the north-eastern direction of the Defense Army, the Artsakh defense ministry reported.
Address by President Serzh Sargsyan on Artsakh Revival Day and Karabakh Movement 30th anniversary.
The absence of an adequate reaction from the international community on Azeri President Ilham Aliyev’s statements uttering territorial claims for Armenia has encouraged Azeri defense minister Zakir Hasanov to reiterate the threat of use of force, Armenian foreign ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan said.
In terms of being ready for negotiations, Kocharyan said: “It is enough to mention the Azerbaijani President’s latest speech, which definitely shows who is ready for what, who isn’t ready to move forward in the negotiations process”.
Armenia’s deputy foreign minister Shavarsh Kocharyan considers a turning event the voice of the Artsakh people raised 30 years ago for the defense of their own rights and freedoms.
President of Artsakh Bako Sahakyan participated in the mass gathering dedicated to the 30th Anniversary of the Artsakh National-Liberation Movement in Stepanakert’s Revival Square, the president’s office said.
Defense minister of Artsakh, Defense Army commander, Lieutenant-General Levon Mnatsakanyan on February 10 received OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Igor Popov (Russian Federation), Stephane Visconti (France) and Andrew Schofer (USA), as well as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk who arrived in Stepanakert on the sidelines of the regional visit
