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.
He expressed hope that this year they’ll continue study of Azokh cave as well. Works in Tigranakert and Nor Karmiravan will be carried out by local, and in Azokh cave by international expedition groups.
“Threat for a new war exists as long as Azerbaijan isn’t convinced that the issue doesn’t have a military settlement,” Serzh Sargsyan said, adding that Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev disrupts peaceful settlement attempts.
On March 7 and overnight March 8 Azerbaijani forces made over 40 ceasefire violations in the ArtsakhAzerbaijan line of contact, firing over 500 shots at Artsakh positions from various caliber weapons, including large caliber sniper ries.
“I consider these are systematic visits, succession of which coincided with the escalation, due to which Moscow, by stressing the role of other MG Co-Chairs, attempts to have its investment in restoration of further talks.”
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.
