Congressman Brad Sherman urges the United States to send the following message to Azerbaijan that if the offensive continues, the U.S. is ready to recognize the independence of Artsakh.
Russian President Vladimir Putin personally does everything possible to bring Yerevan and Baku to the peaceful settlement course over the situation in Nagorno Karabakh through political-diplomatic means, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said live on Chanel One Russia, RIA Novosti reports.
“Our Ambassador at large Igor Popov has left for Washington. On October 23 he will meet with American representatives over Nagorno Karabakh. There will also be a meeting of the OSCE minsk Group Co-chairs’’, he said.
Viasat, Inc. has vowed that it is halting the supplies of its technologies to Turkey which is using them in manufacturing the Bayraktar combat drones that are used extensively by the Azeri armed forces and jihadist mercenaries from terror groups in the attacks on civilians in Artsakh.
The Deputy Chairman of the CIS and Eurasian Integration Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma Konstantin Zatulin hasn’t ruled out that a military landing operation could be one of the options of Russia’s response to the situation in Nagorno Karabakh.
The City of Fowler of the US state of California has officially recognized Artsakh as an independent country and has called on the US President and Congress to do the same.
The Armenian Ministry of Defense is denying the Azerbaijani authorities’ claims alleging Armenia has fired ballistic missiles in the direction of Gabala and Kurdamir. Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan called the allegations “utter nonsense and a cynic lie.”
The Azerbaijani armed forces are firing artillery strikes at the town of Martuni and nearby villages, the State Service of Emergency Situations of Artsakh said.
The situation at the Artsakh-Azerbaijan conflict zone overnight October 21-22 was “relatively stable-tense”, with artillery battles resuming in individual parts amid the Azerbaijani attacks, the Defense Ministry of Artsakh said.
The largest parliamentary chamber in the largest state of Australia, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly has officially recognized the independence of the Republic of Artsakh, the Armenian National Committee of Australia reports.
