3.487 billion AMD (US$7.3 million) has so far been deposited in a special account opened by the Artsakh government on April 4 that will be used to raise the military capability of the Artsakh Defense Army.
Artsakh’s National Renaissance Party has denounced comments recently made by Armenia National Assembly Vice President Hermineh Naghdalyan to the effect that ‘we do not need those territories surrounding the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Region’.
Raffi K. Hovannisian was in the Mountainous Karabagh Republic on April 26-27 on a working visit. He was received by President Bako Sahakyan for a full discussion of the military, political, and domestic challenges facing Artsakh, Armenia, and the entire nation. During that meeting, Defense Minister General Lyova Mnatsakanyan provided a briefing on the current strategic situation.
Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan left for Russia today to attend the 5th Moscow Conference on International Security.
In a public communique, the Artsakh Ministry of Defense has called on the Azerbaijani military command to stop using its civilians as ‘human shields’ and that it should adhere to the cessation of hostilities declaration that it requested in the first place.
Hayk Minasyan, an Artsakh Defense Army soldier, was killed sometime last night by intensive Azerbaijani shelling, this according to the Artsakh Ministry of Defense.
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