Citing officials in Iran’s northwestern East Azarbaiajan province, the Fars news agency reported on Sunday that three mortar shells hit an Iranian village close to the “line of contact.” There was no word on casualties or material damage caused by them. The provincial vice-governor said the Armenian and Azerbaijani militaries have assured Iranian border guards that they “will not repeat such a mistake.”
"Karabakh Defense Forces have carried out punitive action to the north direction and destroyed one more Azerbaijani tank, thus the number of destroyed tanks has reached 15," Karabakh Army spokesperson Senor Hasratian told RFE/RL's Armenian service.
RFE/RL's camera-crew has just come back from Martakert region. Check out these shots from the line of contact.
Earlier Belarus Foreign Ministry had published a statement about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying that it supports peaceful resolution of the conflict in accordance to the international recognized norms and principles, primarily based on the principle of observing sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of borders, as well as the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council and OSCE decisions.
Karabakh Defense Army has expressed readiness to discuss a possible truce “in the context of returning to the initial positions.”
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Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian has discussed the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone with Hossein Dehghan, minister of defense of Iran.
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Davit Babayan, a senior official in Stepanakert, told RFE/RL's Armenian service that fighting continues, despite Azerbaijan's claims that they have ceased fire. [in Armenian]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in Berlin on April 6, 2016, according to deputy spokesperson of the Federal Government Georg Streiter.
Bundeskanzlerin Merkel empfängt den armenischen Präsidenten, Serzh Sargsyan Der stellv. Sprecher der Bundesregierung, Georg Streiter, teilt mit: Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel wird am 6. April 2016 um 12:30 Uhr den Präsidenten der Republik Armenien, Serzh Sargsyan, im Bundeskanzleramt begrüßen. In einem Gespräch werden die bilateralen Beziehungen, regionale Fragen wie der Berg-Karabach-Konflikt sowie die Beziehungen zwischen Armenien und der EU im Mittelpunkt stehen.
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First Deputy Defense Minister Davit Tonoyan has met military attaches of diplomatic missions accredited in Armenia.
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- Mr. Kocharyan, how would you comment on the reaction of the Turkish authorities on a drastic escalation of tensions in the NK conflict zone?
-It is regrettable that the weight of human casualties for Turkey is measured by national identity.
With such racist statements Turkey encourages the continuation of actions by the aggressor against the self-determined Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
And this fits into the logic of policy implemented by the current leadership of Turkey, the result of which is to spread the wave of instability, terrorism and bloodshed both within Turkey and beyond its borders.