Mnatsakanyan: Armenia supports idea of deployment of observers in Karabakh

YEREVAN, October 29. /ARKA/. Yerevan supports the idea of deployment of observers in Nagorno Karabakh, Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan said on Thursday.

Yerevan, he said, has always supported the idea of constant monitoring of the ceasefire regime, which was proposed by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs after the escalation of tension in April 2016. In his words, Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to expand the monitoring group of a special representative of the OSCE chairing country and create a mechanism to investigate cases of ceasefire violations.

"However, later Azerbaijan refused to fulfill these agreements. This once again shows that neither yesterday nor today Azerbaijan is interested in a stable and verifiable truce. And our point of view has not changed, and we support the deployment of observers," Mnatsakanyan said in an interview with RIA Novosti. 

War in Artsakh

Since September 27, Azerbaijani troops have been carrying out military aggression along the entire length of the contact line in Artsakh, conducting artillery and rocket attacks, including against civilians and civilian infrastructures. Strikes were also carried out at civilian and military targets on the territory of Armenia.

The Azerbaijani side is supported by the Turkish Armed Forces and the foreign terrorist mercenaries recruited by it. The Turkish-Azerbaijani aggression encounters a decisive rebuff from the Armenian Armed Forces along the entire frontline.

According to the official reports on the Armenian side, Azerbaijan sustains huge losses in manpower. Its death toll since the beginning of the war is 6,854. Also 223UAVs, 16 helicopters and 25 aircraft have been downed as well as 632 armored vehicles and 6 TOS units have been destroyed since the beginning of war. More than 1,110 Armenian servicemen have been killed and several hundred people were wounded. As a result of the war crimes committed by Azerbaijan, 39 civilians were killed and 122 wounded in Artsakh. 

Since the beginning of the war, there have been three attempts to establish a humanitarian ceasefire. All three agreements, which were reached on October 10 through the mediation of the Russian Federation, on October 17 through France and on October 25 through the mediation of the United States, were violated by Azerbaijan. -0--