OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs Ambassadors Igor Popov of the Russian Federation, Stéphane Visconti of France; and Richard Hoagland of the United States of America, as well as Personal Representative of the ChairpersoninOfce Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk have arrived in Azerbaijan, APA reported.
“Today Azerbaijan is regularly breaching the ceasefire regime, therefore the Armed Forces of Armenia, the Defense Army of Artsakh are forced to adequately respond to the adversary’s actions and prevent attempts of solving the conflict militarily,” he said.
“They will also be in Artsakh. We must try to continue the process of creating appropriate conditions for negotiations,” Nalbandian said. The FM added first of all events like those that happened in April 2016 must be ruled out.
Five people are reported to have died when a helicopter crashed into a television tower in Istanbul in dense fog.
The representatives of Israel’s Embassy in Azerbaijan visited RussianIsraeli blogger Alexander Lapshin who was extradited from Belarus to Azerbaijan, Lapshin’s lawyer said, the Azerbaijani Trend news agency reported.
The FM stated that when agreements are reached, and then Azerbaijan refuses to implement them, a question arises, whether that country is ready for the peaceful settlement, whether it wants to solve the conflict through negotiations.
The conflict has no military solution and needs to be resolved through negotiations, said the US diplomat, adding that the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs will visit Azerbaijan in the coming days.
“Threat for a new war exists as long as Azerbaijan isn’t convinced that the issue doesn’t have a military settlement,” Serzh Sargsyan said, adding that Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev disrupts peaceful settlement attempts.
The negotiations with Armenia on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have been suspended, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said addressing the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy on March 7.
In connection with the appointment of Mehriban Aliyeva as Azerbaijan’s First Vice-President of Azerbaijan, the Central Election Commission (CEC) has decided to terminate her parliamentary powers.
