In defiance to the calls of the international community, the demands of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries to strictly adhere to the 1994-1995 ceasefire agreements and to refrain from the use of force and threat of use of force, last night the incursion attempt by the Azerbaijani side on the Line of Contact between Azerbaijan and Artsakh, is Baku’s another blow to the efforts by Armenia and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries exerted towards the peaceful settlement.
Survival Pictures’ The Promise, the drama starring Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale about the Armenian Genocide, will donate all proceeds from the film to various non-profit organizations including Sir Elton John’s AIDS Foundation and other humanitarian and human rights groups.
Armenia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the OSCE Minsk Group CoChairing countries about the Azerbaijani attack attempt launched in the Nagorno KarabakhAzerbaijan line of contact overnight February 25.
“Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties,” Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times, said in a statement.
“Azerbaijan initiates a premeditated provocation in the border with Karabakh, the Defense Ministry of Nagorno Karabakh prevented the attack attempt,” he writes on Twitter.
“It can be stated that the Minsk process didn’t give any results. However the fact that in recently there had not been a large-scale conict speaks in itself”, he said.
The situation in the Nagorno KarabakhAzerbaijan line of contact is under control. The Azerbaijani side continues violating the ceasefire, however there is nothing extraordinary at the moment, Davit Babayan – Spokesman of the President of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh Republic).
“Whatever the Azerbaijani media write that Alexander’s rights are fully protected, he is still not allowed to make calls. Perhaps, the prosecutor general’s office thinks that the contacts with relatives are not in the interests of the investigation. Of course, since the support of relatives gives him strength. Thanks God, that they allow his mother to visit him once a week,” Lapshin’s wife said.
The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan issued a statement on their casualties on February 25 in the Nagorno Karabakh-Azerbaijan line of contact, the Azerbaijani APA reports.
Prime Ministers of Armenia and Georgia Karen Karapetyan and Giorgi Kvirikashvili agreed on the issue of finding an alternative route to Upper Lars, Gruzia Online reported. “If you are interested whether there will be an alternative to Lars, I can assure you that yes, there will be.