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.
On January 16, in accordance with the arrangement reached with the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the border of Artsakh and Azerbaijan, on the Akna-Hindarkh road section.
On January 16, as of 01:15, soldier of Artsakh’s Defense Army Harutyun V. Khachatryan, born in 1998, received fatal gunshot wound in one of the military units, the Artsakh defense ministry reported.
The settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is on the hands of the sides, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said during an annual press conference, stating that positive signals are expected from the sides regarding the proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.
Official Stepanakert is labeling the Azerbaijani actions to be terrorist.
On January 7, at 13:20, Defense Army soldier Vache N. Chilingaryan, born in 1998, was fatally wounded by the Azerbaijani shooting in one of the military units located in the north-eastern direction of the Artsakh Defense Army.
The situation in the line of contact of Artsakh-Azerbaijan can be separated into two parts in 2017.
