Nagorno Karabakh must return to the negotiation table in some particular stage.Igor Popov, OSCE Minsk Group Russian Co-chair, announced about this in Yerevan, touching upon the issue of Stepanakert’s return to the negotiation table.
The young people expressed their discontent with “Recognition,” “Free Artsakh,” “We are Karabakh” calls towards indifference of the international community.
According to the agreement reached on April 8, Armenian and Azerbaijani sides conducted searching activities under the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the field assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. The Armenian side found the corpses of two Defense Army soldiers, junior sergeant Robert Abajyan (born 1996) and Andranik Zohrabyan (born 1996).
On April 8 Serzh Sargsyan, president of the Republic of Armenia, received Tigran Sarsgyan, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
Nagorno-Karabakh Defense army destroyed another Unmanned Aerial Vehicle of the adversary at 11pm yesterday.
Senor Hasratyan, Press Speaker of NKR Defense Ministry, told 168.am that an agreement was reached to strictly keep ceasefire regime in the southern and northern parts of Karabakh-Azerbaijani Line of Contact.
“Mr. Medvedev, I am sure you know that the fact that the Azeris have used with the entire force weapons they have acquired recently from Russia strongly resonated in Armenia. It is quite understandable since at the public level in Armenia Russia is perceived as the closest ally and friend. Today, we cannot rule out a possibility of yet another threat because yesterday and also today these provocations in mass media continue and we, of course, have no great illusions. Nevertheless we anticipate from the Co-Chairs of the Minsk Group and our allies targeted statements and certain actions, because the second phase, I believe will result in a large-scale operation since from the very beginning we, as a party of the 1994 Ceasefire Agreement, couldn’t stay away from all this. “
The adversary continued violating the ceasefire agreement throughout last night, as a result of which the Armenian side sustained casualties.Azerbaijan continued violating the ceasefire agreement in the early morning of April 8, during which Azerbaijan fired various caliber weapons (more than 2000 shots) along the entire line of contact, and also 60mm mortars. Heavy violations took place in the northern direction (Talish), as a result of which Private Hrach Muradyan (born 1983) was killed and others were wounded.
“If people have the possibility to sell weaponry, people have the opportunity to purchase weaponry. If you want them by it from Turkey, in any case, if they wish, and if they have the opportunity, they’ll buy it not from Russia, but from Turkey.”
Artsakh Armenians have chosen the path of building their own destiny in accordance with democratic principles. This was said by the Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan during a press conference in Stepanakert.
