The UK also welcomes Vienna’s meeting between the Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents, says a message posted on UK’s foreign ministry’s Facebook page. There is no need for details due to several factors.
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“I’m concerned about the fate of every one of our soldiers and officers”, Sargsyan added, urging those keen on advising to go to the frontline, assess the situation and see the difference between a meter of land and a human life.
The presidents reiterated their commitment to the ceasefire and the peaceful settlement of the conflict and agreed to finalize in the shortest possible time an OSCE investigative mechanism.
“We should not pay too much attention to those agreements considering our past experience”, cautioned Sarkisian. “Given Azerbaijan’s track record of escalating violence, we remain profoundly opposed to one-sided deals that require Nagorno-Karabagh to make up-front, strategic, and irrevocable security concessions in return for deferred, vague, and reversible Azerbaijani promises regarding Artsakh’s future status”.
Even so, the Armenian leader was hopeful that ceasefire violations will now decrease. “But I hope that things will be much calmer than they have been until now”.
Further on, Azerbaijani positions were shelled from the nameless heights in the Goranboy, Fizuli and Jabrayil districts.
“Mogherini is meeting Aliyev and Sargsyan ahead of consultations of the two countries’ presidents with the foreign ministers of countries members of the OSCE Minsk Group [Russia, the United States and France]”, the source said. According to him, similar conversations took place numerous times, but for a number of years those agreements are not kept. Aliyev did not object to the proposal, he said.
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The main objective of the high-level talks in the Austrian capital was to de-escalate the conflict following last month’s heavy fighting in and around Karabakh, which left at least 180 soldiers from both sides dead. “They also agreed to establish confidence-building measures, including methods to investigate incidents”, the statement reads. The four-day hostilities threatened to escalate into an all-out war.
