Armenia’s Ministry of Defense also offered condolences to the families of two Armenian soldiers Vahe Vanoyan and Mikael Torosyan killed as a result of ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side last night.
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The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said in a statement on November 13 that it had suffered no casualties among its soldiers in the incident that took place near the contact line dividing Azerbaijan proper and its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. 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 global recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has no alternative.
The two ex-Soviet nations regularly exchange fire along their shared border and across Karabakh’s volatile frontline.
Worldwide mediators to Karabakh peace talks coordinated by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) at the time “condemned in strong terms” the violence that caused civilian casualties, and called on both countries to “accept an OSCE mechanism to investigate ceasefire violations”.
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In the context of the facts of occupation and aggression, the co-chairs’ statement that there is a need for sides’ decisions in connection with the settlement of the conflict is nothing but avoiding responsibility and contrary to their mandate. Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh.
