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Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian participated on April 8 in the session of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Moscow. Minister Nalbandyan delivered a statement at the session.

As the press department of the RA Foreign Ministry reports.  Edward Nalbandian touched upon the military actions unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh.    

“What happened is a consequence of the fact that not everyone in the CIS in practice shares this approach. Large-scale military offensive unleashed by Azerbaijan in the recent days against Nagorno-Karabakh not only violates the 1994 permanent Trilateral Ceasefire Agreement and 1995 Agreement on the Consolidation of the Cease-fire Regime. By the way, the former was initiated in the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly. From the early hours of the unleashed attack, civilian infrastructures were intentionally and overtly targeted, civilians suffered, including children and the elderly,” said the minister.

“The calls of the international community for the settlement of the issue through peaceful means were grossly neglected. It is obvious that all this seriously damages the negotiation process and the efforts of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs. On numerous occasions we have drawn the attention of the international community urging to curb Baku's military ambitions having in mind exactly such a development of the situation.
Today more than ever the imperative is in the efforts for finding of solutions to exclude in the future of reoccurrence of what happened, to refuse from undertaking explosive attempts on seeking military solution to the issue, to secure exclusively peaceful settlement of the issue," Nalbandian noted

Armenian Foreign Minister then reflected on possible reforms and increase of the Organization's efficiency.