A 20 year old soldier of the Artsakh military has been killed in an apparent violation of firearm safety rules.
Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan sent a congratulatory address on the Day of the Army to the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan.
Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire regime nearly 200 times on Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line during the period of January 21-27, firing over 2000 bullets in the direction of Armenian border guards.
The Armed Forces of Artsakh detected a reconnaissance penetration attempt by Azerbaijani forces overnight January 25 in the defense section of a military unit in the south-eastern (Kurapatkino) direction of the line of contact.
Azerbaijan’s maximalist and unrealistic expectations from the outcome of the negotiations is an obstacle to the negotiations over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said at PACE, in response to the question of one of the MPs.
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan urged an aggressively disposed Azerbaijani MP to calm down, relax and not to distort facts at PACE winter session.
Lt. General Levon Mnatsakanyan, the defense minister and commander of the military of Artsakh held a press conference on January 24 in the country’s Army Information Center. The press conference was dedicated to the year results of the military for 2017.
During the period from January 14 to 20 the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime about 150 times by firing more than 1800 shots at the Armenian positions in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.
The OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs released a statement after the meeting with the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers in Krakow, Poland, OSCE reported on its official website.
2018 will be a big year for Artsakh’s economy since a considerable growth is expected in all the main spheres, Artsakh’s State Minister Arayik Harutyunyan said, summing up the results of 2017 and presenting the main goals of the current year.
