Commitment to previously reached agreements is a key to the settlement of all other problems, including the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the 23rd meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Hamburg.
From the opposite side of the Line of Contact, the monitoring was conducted by Personal Assistant to the CiO Personal Representative Simon Tiller (Great Britain), Field Assistant to the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-inOffice Irji Aberle (Czech Republic), and staff member of the Office Peter Svedberg (Sweden).
While on a working visit to the USA, Prime Minister of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Arayik Harutyunyan on December 5 had a meeting with the leaderships of two Armenian organizations in Washington and took part in the reception organized in the Armenian Embassy.
The Ministry’s announcement reads: “Overnight December 6-7 the Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime over 35 times by firing more than 400 shots from various caliber small arms at the Armenian positions in the Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact.
Vladimir Hakobyan added, “The issue of return of any territory may be object only in case of resolution of NK’s status. The settlement package enshrines the necessity of land connection between Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. Any enclave status can’t even be touched upon.”
On November 28, 2016, in accordance with the agreement reached with the leadership of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, the OSCE Mission conducted a planned monitoring of the Line of Contact between the armed forces of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan in the eastern direction of Talish settlement of the NKR Martakert region, press service of the NKR MFA informed.
“But we also assess well enough the irreversible damage we can inflict on the adversary. I think there is no need to go deeper. We will not engage in arms race, we see no sense in that” Serzh Sargsyan said, adding that Armenia’s resources, both human and material, are enough to solve the tasks.
“There is a greater threat that the conflict could evolve I mean the small conflict could become a large-scale one. But still I don’t think that will happen by an accident. I will disagree with the worries of the civil society organizations. I worry that one side will feel provoked and design a military action.”
” First, I think Trump administration is going to be vastly more focused on domestic affairs, than on foreign policy. I also think that what we’ve seen so far suggests that Mr. Trump even more than Mr. Obama is someone who believes that the world is so organized around various powers and that the U.S. should primarily deal with the major powers of the world, rather than with the lesser powers.”
“General tactical line will remain unchanged towards the South Caucasus, including regional issues, as well as in case of Ukraine and the EU. The newly elected president Donald Trump directly stated that they need powerful America, before which its partners should be accountable for each dollar. To be simpler, nobody is going to “feed” anyone for no reason.”
