Another Azerbaijani attack rebuffed, Artsakh scrambles jets (updated)August 6, 2014 - 11:48 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijani subversive groups attempted Tuesday, Aug 5 evening to penetrate into the territory of Nagorno Karabakh in Martuni direction of the contact line, the press office of the NKR defense army reported. As result of retaliatory measures, the attack was rebuffed, with one Azeri saboteur (identified as Sahil Yarashoglu Trarland) killed and several wounded. Besides, the Azerbaijani armed forces kept violating the ceasefire, firing over 7000 shots upon Armenian positions from Aug 5 to 6. Later, the NKR Defense Ministry said that attack aircraft are operating flights along the contact line with the Azerbaijani armed forces. The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out as result of the ethnic cleansing launched by the Azeri authorities in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from 1991 (when the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was proclaimed) to 1994 (when a ceasefire was sealed by Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan). Most of Nagorno Karabakh and a security zone consisting of 7 regions are now under control of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now. Top stories The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. London’s Armenian community has been left feeling “under attack” after the city’s Genocide monument was vandalised. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |