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NO IMMINENT THREAT OF LARGE-SCALE WAR IN KARABAKH CONFLICT - ARMENIAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE
YEREVAN, March 20. /ARKA/. No immediate full-scale war threat exists
in the zone of Karabakh conflict, Armenia's minister of defense Seyran
Ohanyan said as cited by the press secretary Artsrun Hovhannisyan
in facebook.
"The Armenian military is prepared for any development, but I see no
threat of a large-scale war," Ohanyan told Bloomberg.
On Thursday March 19 at 08:30 local time an Azerbaijani special forces
squad attacked Karabakh positions deployed in the northern direction
(Gulistan). After nearly two-hour battle Karabakh troops made the
Azeri squad run away. Then they pursued and completely destroyed
it on the outskirts of the enemy positions. Three Karabakh army of
defense soldiers were killed and another four were wounded, two of
them in critical but stable condition in hospital now.
The press office of Karabakh ministry of defense got confirmed
yesterday information on at least two Azerbaijani military killed
and one wounded.
The enemy left various arms and ammunition on the field of battle,
including AK gun machine with Israeli-made night sight and suppressor,
special pioneer equipment, four Mukha grenade launchers, and etc.
Armenia's defense minister said regular Azeri raid attempts are of no
sense in military terms and are followed, as usual, by disinformation
about actual casualties. The situation at the line of contact is
under control, the Armenian minister said.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the
collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly
Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from
Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by succeeding
referendum. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no
permanent peace agreement has been signed.
Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been
under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh
is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued
to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with
snipers causing tens of deaths a year. -0--
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/no_imminent_threat_of_large_scale_war_in_karabakh_ conflict_armenian_minister_of_defense_/#sthash.AsqSTy9Y.dpuf
From: Baghdasarian
YEREVAN, March 20. /ARKA/. No immediate full-scale war threat exists
in the zone of Karabakh conflict, Armenia's minister of defense Seyran
Ohanyan said as cited by the press secretary Artsrun Hovhannisyan
in facebook.
"The Armenian military is prepared for any development, but I see no
threat of a large-scale war," Ohanyan told Bloomberg.
On Thursday March 19 at 08:30 local time an Azerbaijani special forces
squad attacked Karabakh positions deployed in the northern direction
(Gulistan). After nearly two-hour battle Karabakh troops made the
Azeri squad run away. Then they pursued and completely destroyed
it on the outskirts of the enemy positions. Three Karabakh army of
defense soldiers were killed and another four were wounded, two of
them in critical but stable condition in hospital now.
The press office of Karabakh ministry of defense got confirmed
yesterday information on at least two Azerbaijani military killed
and one wounded.
The enemy left various arms and ammunition on the field of battle,
including AK gun machine with Israeli-made night sight and suppressor,
special pioneer equipment, four Mukha grenade launchers, and etc.
Armenia's defense minister said regular Azeri raid attempts are of no
sense in military terms and are followed, as usual, by disinformation
about actual casualties. The situation at the line of contact is
under control, the Armenian minister said.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict erupted into armed clashes after the
collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as the predominantly
Armenian-populated enclave of Azerbaijan sought to secede from
Azerbaijan and declared its independence backed by succeeding
referendum. A truce was brokered by Russia in 1994, although no
permanent peace agreement has been signed.
Since then, Nagorno-Karabakh and several adjacent regions have been
under the control of Armenian forces of Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh
is the longest-running post-Soviet era conflict and has continued
to simmer despite the relative peace of the past two decades, with
snipers causing tens of deaths a year. -0--
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/no_imminent_threat_of_large_scale_war_in_karabakh_ conflict_armenian_minister_of_defense_/#sthash.AsqSTy9Y.dpuf
From: Baghdasarian