Today (On October 2), Azerbaijan shelled the City of Hadrut in Artsakh with two Smerch rockets. As a result of the shelling by cluster munition, the civilian population was harmed.
The Co-Chairs strongly condemn the continued violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone as well as against targets in the territory of Armenia and Azerbaijan away from the Line of Contact, and express our alarm at reports of increasing civilian casualties. Targeting or threatening civilians is never acceptable under any circumstances. The Co-Chairs call on the sides to observe fully their international obligations to protect civilian populations.
On Monday, 5 October 2020, the NATO Secretary General, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg will travel to Ankara.
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have fired the Smerch heavy multiple rocket launcher at the town of Hadrut in Artsakh, Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan said.
Artsakh says 54 more of its troops have been killed in action in the ongoing Azerbaijani attacks.
This brings the number of the UAVs downed in the skies of Armenia during the entire day to 7.
Air Defense units of the Artsakh Armed Forces shot down an Azerbaijani warplane and an unmanned aerial vehicle at 07:55 October 2 in the north-eastern direction of Artsakh, Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Shushan Stepanyan said.
Overnight October 1-2 the situation in the Artsakh-Azerbaijani conflict zone has been relatively stable-tense.
The Ambassador offered condolences over the military and civilian victims of the recent-days military operations, noting that France is extremely worried over the escalation and attentively follows the developments.
The authorities of Baku, with the obvious instigation by Turkey, have started yet another large-scale offensive against the Republic of Artsakh on September 27, 2020, thus restarting active military acts. In reality, this time around one of the core intentions to restart the war is the expansion of Turkey’s influence in this region for which the ethnic minorities of Azerbaijan will shed their blood, will die or become disabled. None of the ethnic minorities of Azerbaijan will benefit from this war. Your interests and the interests of the Armenians of Artsakh are not in conflict.
