President Sargsyan about arms sales to Azerbaijan from Armenia’s allies
“Indeed, Russia is our strategic ally and we are in the same security system. And it’s natural, that it is painful for us that Russia, and not only Russia, but also other members [of CSTO] sell arms to Azerbaijan”, - President Serzh Sargsyan said in a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Wednesday, April 6.
President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, departed to Germany on April 6 to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of the German Bundestag Norbert Lammert and other political leaders in Bundestag.
Earlier on April 6, Seyran Ohanyan, the Minister of Defense of Armenia, said in the Government session in Yerevan, that the truce on the frontline had been established after the meeting of Chiefs of the General Staff of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow that took place on April 5.
According to confirmed reports, affirmed by both Stepanakert and Baku, ceasefire has been established along the Line of Contact on April 5, as of 12:00 local time.
“The deterioration of the situation on the ground demonstrates the need for an immediate negotiation, under the auspices of the Co-chairs, on a comprehensive settlement”, - reads the statement issued by OSCE Minsk Group together with the OSCE Troika representatives, convening an emergency meeting in Vienna on April 5 (around 3PM, CEST).
Ceasefire agreement between Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan, facilitated by Russia's representative to the CSCE/OSCE Minsk Group Vladimir Kazimirov, was signed on May 5, 1994, which had been maintained with only sporadic violations along the Line of Contact and international border till the latest Azerbaijani large scale offensive in the night of April 2, 2016.
Over the last two years Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh, the OSCE Minsk Group co-Chairs and over 80 U.S. Congressmen proposed (Royce-Engel bill) concrete measures to de-escalate situation and establish ceasefire monitoring equipments along the borders.
Azerbaijan has been repeatedly rejecting these calls.
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