“The Azerbaijani side should, first of all, answer for crime similar to war, terror organizations,” Seyran Ohanyan, RA Minister of Defense, told.
“The meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan held last week in Vienna was a productive one with the concrete agreements and commitments, including unconditional implementation of 1994-1995 cease-fire agreements, creation of investigation mechanism, and enhance the capacities of the office of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.”
Overnight May 20-21 the situation remained the same along the entire length of the ArmenianAzerbaijani state border. The Azerbaijani side fired sporadic irregular shots from various caliber weapons in the northeastern direction of the border. The Armenian Armed Forces control the border situation and confidently carry out their tasks.
Last month’s deadly skirmishes along the line of conflict in Karabakh (April 2–5), the so-called “four-day war,” highlighted the need for a reinvigorated international mediation effort.
“If the agreements reached in Vienna will be implemented in the nearest future, in particular, when the investigative mechanisms of the incidents will be installed in the line of contact, guarantees will be created that Azerbaijan will maintain the ceasefire, the OSCE Representative’s group will expand, the violations will be recorded, only in that case we can speak about the new round”, he said this during the briefing.
“We should do everything to make it reality, and then the next step will be the recognition issue which is also important. I think that today the recognition of the Nagrno Karabakh is connected with a great risk. However, we do not have a right to refuse from it”.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Shavarsh Kocharyan announces territorial integrity cannot oppose the self-determination right of peoples.
“Moscow welcomes the meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as efforts exerted by OSCE MG to maintain the dialogue, not to allow such cases in the future, on account of the agreements reached 1994-1995.”
“Putin has tried to leave the impression that he is only one that matters, so that’s why he sent Prime Minister Medvedev, MoD Shoygu, MFA Lavrov to Yerevan and Baku right after the fighting, without any coordination at all with Washington and Paris. So, if what you said is true, that’s a bit developing, if Putin wants to work with Paris and Washington. “
Lt. General Levon Mnatsakanyan, commander of the Defense Army of Nagorno Karabakh held a consultation on May 18 in one of the southern units, which was attended by deputy commanders, heads of headquarters divisions and services.
