Big expectations shouldn’t be made in the Nagorno Karabakh conÀict settlement associated with the regional visits of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, David Babayan, spokesman of the President of the Republic of Artsakh informed.
“On March 12 and overnight March 13 the Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime 55 times by firing more than 550 shots from various caliber small arms at the Armenian positions in Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.
OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stéphane Visconti of France; and Richard Hoagland of the United States of America, as well as Personal Representative of the ChairpersoninOfce Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk have arrived in Azerbaijan, APA reported.
“Today Azerbaijan is regularly breaching the ceasefire regime, therefore the Armed Forces of Armenia, the Defense Army of Artsakh are forced to adequately respond to the adversary’s actions and prevent attempts of solving the conflict militarily,” he said.
It’s obvious that Turkey doesn’t need the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as the establishment of stable peace in the region will significantly decrease the degree of Baku’s dependence on Ankara.
The Russian MFA spokeswoman stated that the Russian side will make efforts for the settlement process of the NK conflict within the frames of the agreed approaches, taking into account Russia’s close relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The FM stated that when agreements are reached, and then Azerbaijan refuses to implement them, a question arises, whether that country is ready for the peaceful settlement, whether it wants to solve the conflict through negotiations.
“As for operations by Azerbaijan, they are rather predictable. Every event, which once again proves that Artsakh is a productive and complete state, stirs aggression. It’s necessary to show on the site that the conflict isn’t resolved. And NKR Defense Army showed its readiness to such “traditional” attacks.”
The talk was in particularly about the Azerbaijani recent attempts to launch an artificial criminal prosecution against the international reporters, experts, lawmakers who visit Artsakh, as well as to eliminate the values of the civilized world, the Ombudsman’s Office told.
On the eve of the Parliamentary Elections in the Republic of Armenia, discussing the Statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs of 17 February, 2017 on the Constitutional Referendum of 20 February, 2017 held in the Republic of Artsakh, the Board of the Political Science Association of Armenia (PSAA) adopted an Appeal to the Secretary General of the OSCE and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship states.
