Minsk Group Cochairs Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stephane Visconti of France, and Richard Hoagland of the United States will pay a visit to Azerbaijan on March 11, Azerbaijani foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov told APA agency.
Azerbaijani forces made 50 ceasefire violations on March 6 and overnight March 7 in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact, firing more than 1100 rounds from various caliber machine guns at Artsakh positions.
Russia will continue working over the Karabakh conflict settlement with both Baku and Yerevan within the frameworks of bilateral relations, as well as in trilateral meetings and in the role of OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov told a joint press conference with Azerbaijan’s foreign minister Elmar Mammadyarov in Moscow.
“I exclude this, as there aren’t interested external players. Neither Iran, nor Turkey, nor the USA, Russia completely doesn’t need any war, Europe itself is sinking.”
Azerbaijani “ORBITER” UAV was downed on March 4, 12:15 by the air defense forces of Artsakh’s Defense Army in the eastern direction of Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line, the press service of the Defense Ministry of the Republic of Artsakh informed.
Rex Tillerson highly appreciated the fact that Armenia gave shelter to dozens of thousands of Syrian refugees. Edward Nalbandian and Rex Tillerson exchanged ideas over the steps aimed at propelling Nagorno Karabakh peace process. The Armenian Defense Minister presented the recent developments that occurred in the conict zone.
“Possibility for war is always existent, we should always be ready. The probability depends on our readiness. We are powerful, accordingly, the possibility is great. In case of adventure they’ll have historical response,” the Artsakh Republic spokesperson said.
Head of the EU delegation to Azerbaijan Malena Mard announced supporting the OSCE Minsk Group over the settlement process of the Nagorno Karabakh conict, the Azerbaijani APA news agency reported.
“You know our firm position which is aimed at exclusively peaceful settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. It is a firm position, based on documents and we are committed to it,” Zakharova said, adding that official Moscow continues keeping in touch with the conicting sides.
More intensive ceasefire violations were registered in the eastern and north-eastern directions of the line of contact where the Azerbaijani forces fired 111 shells from 60mm and 82mm mortars and various types of grenade launchers.