An Armenian soldier has been shot dead in continuing truce violations at Armenian-Azerbaijani “line of contact” around Nagorno-Karabakh, military authorities in Stepanakert said on Friday.
One Azerbaijani soldier has been killed and two Armenian conscripts wounded in recent days in fresh skirmishes reported from the main Armenian-Azerbaijani “line of contact” around Nagorno-Karabakh.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian armed forces have spent the past year strengthening their frontline positions and preparing for a possible new war with Azerbaijan, their chief commander said on Tuesday.
The Nagorno-Karabakh parliament approved on Thursday the unrecognized republic’s state budget for next year that calls for an 8 percent increase in government expenditures projected at 64.8 billion drams ($180 million).
Five Azerbaijani mosques and other religious sites located in and around Nagorno-Karabakh have been repaired in recent years as part of a government effort to preserve the unrecognized republic’s Islamic heritage, a senior Karabakh Armenian official said on Wednesday.
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh will deal a “devastating and final” blow to Azerbaijan if it attempts to resolve their conflict by force, President Serzh Sarkisian warned at the weekend after monitoring large-scale military exercises held by Karabakh Armenian troops.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian armed forces held on Friday what appeared to be large-scale military exercises monitored by Armenia’s visiting President Serzh Sarkisian and Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian.
Military authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh handed over the bodies of two Azerbaijani soldiers and received an Armenian corpse on Saturday, in a fresh swap stemming from an agreement reached by Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s president late last month.
Armenia has inaugurated what admittedly is the world’s longest aerial tramway, facilitating travel to a hilltop medieval cloister in its southern province, in an effort to bring more tourism to the landlocked country boasting an array of historical and cultural sights.
The U.S., Russian and French diplomats seeking to broker a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict called on Monday for international involvement in what they said should be a thorough inquiry into the death of an Armenian captive in Azerbaijan.
The U.S., Russian and French diplomats co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group arrived in Stepanakert on Thursday to start a “field assessment mission” to Azerbaijani territories around Nagorno-Karabakh controlled by Karabakh Armenian forces.
The authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh are pressing ahead with plans to reopen the disputed territory’s sole civilian airport that was shut down nearly two decades ago.
A team of U.S., Russian and French mediators met with Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leaders on Wednesday after inspecting a section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani frontline that saw deadly fighting last week.
President Serzh Sarkisian again ruled out any peace accord that would restore Azerbaijani control over Nagorno-Karabakh as he marked the 19th anniversary of the Armenian-populated region’s de facto secession from Azerbaijan on Thursday.
At least two Azerbaijani soldiers have been killed in renewed fighting with Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, it emerged on Wednesday.
President Serzh Sarkisian downplayed the significance of a new United Nations resolution on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict pushed by Azerbaijan as he visited Stepanakert on Sunday. (UPDATED)
Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership has joined official Yerevan in welcoming a United Nations court ruling that upheld the international legitimacy of Kosovo’s secession from Serbia and affirming its applicability to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
Senior U.S. and Russian envoys visited Nagorno-Karabakh and met with its ethnic Armenian leaders on Friday at the start of a fresh regional tour aimed at facilitating a breakthrough in Armenian-Azerbaijani peace talks.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s new parliament convened for the first time and chose its leadership on Thursday more than two weeks after being elected in a vote criticized by Azerbaijan and the European Union.
A British humanitarian organization said on Monday that it has cleared the bulk of Nagorno-Karabakh’s war-affected territory of landmines and unexploded ordnance and will soon start demining Armenian-controlled areas outside the disputed region.
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