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The recent incidents along the Armenian-Azerbaijani and NKR-Azerbaijan state borders of late July and early August had not been overlooked in the Sochi meeting, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan told in an interview to Banadzev program of ArmNews TV.

Asked whether during the meeting those incidents had been spoken about, Serzh Sargsyan said: “It wasn’t possible to mute on recent incidents, because the prevention of such incidents is an integral part of the negotiation process.”

“Yet we did not come into a separate agreement per se, given it goes without saying,” the Armenian leader added.

Getting back to the issue of adherence to the ceasefire agreements, Serzh Sargsyan said: “I don’t think it makes sense to speak about any new agreement, because what's the difference if it's being sealed now, or has been done before, moreover, given that in 1994 and 1995 two agreements were signed on that and the sides simply are obliged to fulfill their obligations under those agreements. However, it's different if there are new clauses, and a new agreement is signed on those new clauses, e.g. banning use of force at all. This will be a higher level, than simply a ceasefire agreement. In general, such issues are raised by both the mediators and ourselves, however yet we do not see positive reaction of Azerbaijan on that.”

The Nagorno Karabakh trilateral ceasefire agreement was signed in May 1994. It has no time limits and was signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh Republic.

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