The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) holds dialogue with all relevant authorities in connection with the appearance of Karen Ghazaryan, a resident of bordering Berdavan village of Armenia’s Tavush province, in the Azerbaijani territory.
The tension in the frontline has decreased compared to the past week, Tigran Abrahamyan – Artsakh President’s adviser on security affairs, told Armenpress, adding that, however, the situation can change very rapidly.
Political scientist Ruben Mehrabyan says after the visit of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to Brussels, the threat of launching war by Azerbaijan has somehow decreased.
Azerbaijan’s defense minister Zakir Hasanov tasked to strengthen the defense of military units, increase the combat preparedness of servicemen following the tense situation the country’s second largest town of Ganja, the Azerbaijani defense ministry said.
During the period from July 8 to 14 the Azerbaijani forces violated the ceasefire regime nearly 170 times in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact by firing more than 1500 shots from various caliber weapons at the Armenian positions.
The Azerbaijani military has opened gunfire at the town of Tchambarak in Armenia’s Gegharkunik Province in the night of July 13.
The Nagorno Karabakh conflict must be settled only through a peaceful way, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Euronews in an interview.
On July 11, 2018, the Memorandum of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh Republic) on the state of the historical and cultural monuments in Artsakh and Azerbaijan was published at the United Nations (UN) official website. Earlier, the MFA Memorandum was circulated in the UN, as well as the OSCE and the Council of Europe.
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says he doesn’t think that the meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers is a turning one.
Armenia, like any other democratic country, reaffirms its commitment to the exclusively peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict within the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship format, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the meeting of the heads of states and governments contributing to the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels.
