David Karapetyan: Armenian side will harshly respond for every soldier's death

November 20, 2011 - 18:26 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Azeri snipers' provocative actions, leading to deaths of 2 Armenian soldiers in 2 days, prove Baku learnt nothing from its past experience and nor is it interested in the safety of its soldiers, according to Armenian Defense Minister's spokesman.

“As Azeri military and political officials seem uninterested in the lives of their servicemen, I have to remind Azeri population that Armenian side will give a harsh response for the death of every one of its soldiers, like it did in past,” David Karapetyan stressed.

On the morning of November 20, at 8.50 am local time, NKR defense army soldier Mihran Margaryan, born 1992 was killed over Azeri ceasefire violation, while on military duty.

As a result of ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani side, 19-year-old NKR defense army conscript Armen Simonyan was killed by a sniper shot during military duty on November 19, 8.40 am local time.

“The incident at contact line is another proof of Azeri disregard of mediators' efforts aimed at conflict settlement and a clear attempt to escalate regional tensions, which forces Artsakh side to resort to more stringent actions in future,” NKR defense army stated.