Armenia FM holds phone talks with Russian counterpart, OSCE envoy

PanARMENIAN.Net - Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on Saturday, April 2, held telephone talks with his Russian counterpart, the EU Special Representative, the OSCE Minsk-Group Co-chairs, as well as the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, a spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, Tigran Balayan tweeted.

Also, the Ministry strictly condemned the Azerbaijani armed forces’ military actions on the Nagorno Karabakh line of contact and the border with Armenia.

“Azerbaijan flagrantly violates multiple calls of the international community to resolve the conflict through negotiations,” the Ministry said in a statement.

On the night of April 1-2, Azerbaijani armed forces initiated overt offensive operations in the southern, southeastern and northeastern directions of the line of contact with Nagorno Karabakh, using artillery, armored fighting vehicles and air force equipment among other weapons.

Aside from the battles on the frontline, the rival has also carried out artillery strikes on civilian settlements and places of permanent deployment of several military units.

On April 2, at around 8:30 am, the rival used BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher in the Martuni direction of the contact line. 12-year-old Vaghinak Grigoryan was killed in the shelling, two more children were wounded.

Earleir, the Nagorno Karabakh special forces identified an Azerbaijani subversive group near the Levonarkh settlement and threw the saboteurs back to their positions.

According to Armenia’s Defense Ministry, the rival troops retreated after suffering several human losses.