President of Artsakh Arayik Harutyunyan has praised the troops for “brilliantly professionally” defending the country and said that the Artsakhi governmental bodies are working effectively in wartime.
The October 5 – October 6 night proceeded “relatively calm” at the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact, the Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said.
The Ministers stress unconditionally that recent attacks allegedly targeting civilian centers – both along the Line of Contact and on the territories of Azerbaijan and Armenia outside the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone – and the disproportionate nature of such attacks constitute an unacceptable threat to the stability of the region.
The use of Smerch multiple rocket launchers armed with banned cluster munitions is an especially heinous war crime
A group of Talysh activists of Azerbaijan have expressed concern over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict escalation and called on their fellow Talyshs – who constitute an ethnic minority in Azerbaijan – to avoid being enlisted into the Azeri military amid “systematic efforts” of the Azeri government to send them to the front for the attacks on Artsakh.
Within the framework of the fact-finding mission, launched by the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Artsakh, a thorough research and analysis of the cases of criminal encroachments, committed by the Azerbaijani armed forces against the civilian population of Artsakh, for the 27.09.2020-04.10.2020 time period, have been conducted. The results are presented below:
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has asked former servicemen who were demobilized within the last 1 year to voluntarily join the military amid the Azerbaijani attacks.
On the initiative of MEP Loucas Fourlas, 48 members of the European Parliament sent a letter to the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell calling on the head of the EU diplomacy to undertake meaningful actions against the Azerbaijani aggression on Artsakh and Armenia, the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD) said on Facebook.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called for a ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh, Reuters reports.
Artsakh presidential spokesperson Vahram Poghosyan says the Defense Army has already delivered the “powerful strikes” on Azerbaijani military targets and the “targets were successfully hit.”
