“We are concerned over the reports on new clashes along the length of the line of contact in Nagorno Karabakh,” he said, stating that the UN Secretary-General supports the efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs directed towards “reducing the dangerous level of the tension and preventing the further escalation of the situation.”
Intense violations occurred in the eastern and northeastern directions, where Azerbaijan fired a total of 15 shells from 60mm and 82mm mortars.
“We also discussed the peaceful resolution of the NagornoKarabakh conflict. The status quo is unsustainable. The conflict needs an early political settlement in accordance with international law. It does not have a military solution,” Tusk said.
“The sides attempt to increase soberness, they also use new measures regarding equipment and strategy, and this edifies if not wide-scale, then possibility of April escalation is rather high. Against its background we see that the international community is rather passive: yesterday OSCE MG issued another statement, which unfortunately, was about the same style, like after the developments on the frontline at the begging of the year.”
Given the outbreak of new conflicts between the two countries’ forces, Qasemi said, Iran invited its two northern neighbors to self-restraint and recommend both sides to do their best to stabilize the situation on the ground through dialogue and negotiations.
Today, on February 27, the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan finally released the names of its victims in the neutral zone, which resulted from its attempted offensive in the morning of February 25.
The sides are not only ready to resist these minor military initiatives, but for wide-scale operations, as the sides have been intensively armed in the period of the last decade, and they continue observing the possibility of war resumption as a realistic scenario. He believes on account of tendencies of military science means one things—war is inevitable.
Defense Ministry of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) has released two separate footages and an audio recording proving the attempted subversive operation of the Azerbaijani units overnight to February 24-25.
“In a meeting with the commanding staff of the Armed Forces, the President of Armenia already gave a response to such behavior and stated that no any internal political process can impact the combat readiness of the Armed Forces. The evidence of the President’s speech is Azerbaijan’s today’s losses. The entire responsibility of the losses of the Azerbaijani side falls on that country’s Aliyev clan,” Sharmazanov said.
In defiance to the calls of the international community, the demands of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries to strictly adhere to the 1994-1995 ceasefire agreements and to refrain from the use of force and threat of use of force, last night the incursion attempt by the Azerbaijani side on the Line of Contact between Azerbaijan and Artsakh, is Baku’s another blow to the efforts by Armenia and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries exerted towards the peaceful settlement.
