Azerbaijan’s provocations prove there is no alternative to Karabakh’s international recognition, deputy minister
13.11.2015,
18:12
Armenia’s deputy foreign minister Shavarsh Kocharyan has accused today Azerbaijan of obstructing the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
YEREVAN, November 13. /ARKA/. Armenia’s deputy foreign minister Shavarsh Kocharyan has accused today Azerbaijan of obstructing the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict writing in his Twitter microblog that the latest provocations of Baku once again prove that the international recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has no alternative.
On November 12 two soldiers from the Nagorno-Karabakh defense army were killed by Azerbaijani troops. Vahe Vanoyan and Mikael Torosyan died of fatal wounds during a duty in the southern direction of the Karabakh-Azerbaijani line of contact.
According to Armenian deputy foreign minister, it is quite natural that the efforts of the OSCE’s Minsk Group co-chairs to organize a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents are followed by Azerbaijan’s provocative actions.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by a successful referendum.
A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year. -0-
On November 12 two soldiers from the Nagorno-Karabakh defense army were killed by Azerbaijani troops. Vahe Vanoyan and Mikael Torosyan died of fatal wounds during a duty in the southern direction of the Karabakh-Azerbaijani line of contact.
According to Armenian deputy foreign minister, it is quite natural that the efforts of the OSCE’s Minsk Group co-chairs to organize a meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents are followed by Azerbaijan’s provocative actions.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by a successful referendum.
A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no permanent peace agreement has been signed. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with snipers causing tens of deaths a year. -0-
