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Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan held number of phone conversations with the representatives of international organizations, Armenian MFA spokesperson Tigran Balayan wrote in a Facebook post.

According to the information, Minister Nalbandyan discussed the escalation of the situation on the Line of Contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan with the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, as well as Ambassador Herbert Salber who serves as the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus.

Meanwhile, President Serzh Sargsyan will convene a meeting of the country's National Security Council today in the evening, according to the press statement from the Office of the President.

To remind, Azerbaijani forces undertook a large scale offensive along the entire Line of Contact on the night of April 1-2 using artillery, armored vehicles, and air force. The adversary hit civilian areas and permanently deployed military units by artillery fire.

The Defense Army units of Nagorno Karabakh Republic have destroyed three tanks, two drones and one more military helicopter on top of the other one, confirmed in earlier in the morning – according to verified intelligence data published by the NKR Ministry of Defense.
Another statement by Karabakh Defense Army reported that 12-year-old Vaghinak Grigoryan killed, two other children wounded in a shell launched from Azerbaijani MM-21 artillery rocket system in the direction of Martuni position.