President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan held a meeting with lawmakers representing the factions in the Artsakh parliament to discuss the military-political situation and the provisions of the Russia-mediated Karabakh armistice signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan which ended the war.
French President Emmanuel Macron held a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, the Elysee Palace reports.
Digital Forensic Research Lab has published an article about Azerbaijan’s use of banned white phosphorus munitions in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) during the recent war, stating that satellite imagery from the last week of fighting shows the environmental destruction caused to the forests in Nagorno Karabakh.
The United States, as one of the three Minsk Group co-chairs, welcomes the apparent ceasefire and cessation of fighting in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict zone, US Permanent Representative to the OSCE, Ambassador James S. Gilmore delivered the US statement on the NK conflict to the Permanent Council.
The Russian peacekeepers deployed to Nagorno Karabakh have already installed 10 observation posts at the line of contact and the Lachin corridor, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Russian Aerospace Forces Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters will be involved in the peacekeeping operation in Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has said that the Russia-mediated Nagorno Karabakh armistice signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan will lead to a full negotiations process over the conflict.
The Ministry of Defense of Artsakh reported an additional 81 KIA soldiers, bringing the total death toll to 1302.
The Armenian Prime Minister’s Office has published the official text of the statement signed by Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on ending the war in Nagorno Karabakh.
Active military operations along the entire Artsakh frontline have been stopped, Armenian defense ministry’s spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said on Facebook.
