17 September 2018, 18:27
Armenia and Azerbaijan argue about losses in conflict zone
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan has rejected the information about three killed Azerbaijani soldiers voiced by Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia.
On September 15 and 16, the heads of rural communities claimed that Azerbaijan shelled the Armenian villages of Chinari and Kochi located near border. Meanwhile, a resident of the Kochi village was wounded. Today, it has been reported about a new shelling of the Kochi village and a shelling of the border village of Baganis. In its turn, Azerbaijan registered 93 cases of shelling of its positions for a day, the Azerbaijani MoD reported.
On September 16, Nikol Pashinyan announced the Armenia's response to the shelling of its villages. "Over the past three days, the Armenian armed forces were forced to kill three Azerbaijani soldiers, since the Azerbaijani armed forces shelled our villages," stated Nikol Pashinyan as quoted by the "tert.am".
The Armenian Prime Minister has also recalled that his son is serving in the army and called on Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliev also to send his son to the front line.
In June, Nikol Pashinyan called for the return of Nagorno-Karabakh to the negotiating table.
In his interview to the "Le Monde", Nikol Pashinyan called on Azerbaijan to negotiate with Nagorno-Karabakh.
The "Trend" reports that the Azerbaijani MoD has called the information about the losses false and stated that units of the Azerbaijani armed forces did not incur any losses.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on September 17, 2018 at 01:17 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
