Artsakh parliament passes bill regulating issues related to militia
YEREVAN, October 13. /ARKA/. The Artsakh parliament has legislatively regulated the issues of the militia. The National Assembly of the Republic of Artsakh convened an extraordinary session on Tuesday chaired by Speaker Artur Tovmasyan. Before starting the session, the parliamentarians honored the memory of the victims of the war unleashed by Azerbaijan on September 27 against the Republic of Artsakh by pausing for a minute.
During the meeting, the lawmakers discussed the amendments to the law on defense, which were presented by the head of the Artsakh President's Office Araik Lazaryan.
According to him, the bill is prompted by the need to introduce and organize a volunteer militia system.
"The bill defines the concept of militia, goals, structure, order of formation, relations associated with training in peacetime and wartime, subordination, leadership and management of the collection of militias," the message says.
After receiving the approval from the NA Standing Committee on Defense, Security and Law Enforcement, the parliament unanimously passed the bill.
War in Artsakh
On September 27, at 07:10, Azerbaijani troops launched an offensive along the entire length of the contact line in Artsakh, but were thrown back in several directions. Intense fighting continues in the south, southeast and north of the front line. Turkey joined the aggression. Residential areas are being shelled as well.
The Azerbaijani side suffered losses in manpower (more than 4,919 people killed and over 5,000 wounded) and equipment, in particular, 168 UAVs, 4 units of TOS – 1A, 4 Smerch and Uragan MLRS, more than 514 tanks and other armored vehicles, 16 helicopters and 17 aircraft. According to the data of the defense ministry of Armenia and Artsakh, more than 450 Armenian servicemen were killed and hundreds wounded on the Armenian side. Also 25 civilians were killed and more than 100 wounded on the Armenian side.
On October 9, following the meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, with the mediation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, an agreement was reached on a ceasefire from 12:00 on October 10 for humanitarian purposes for the exchange of prisoners of war and the bodies of the dead. Armenia and Azerbaijan, with the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, on the basis of the basic principles of the settlement, are starting substantive negotiations with the aim of achieving a peaceful settlement as soon as possible.
Martial law and general mobilization were declared in Artsakh and Armenia. -0---
