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YEREVAN, APRIL 9, ARMENPRESS. Legendary French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour has met with the President of the French Republic Francois Hollande. “Armenpress” reports, citing the official website of the singer, the meeting took place on April 8. They discussed the current situation in Karabakh. The photo of the meeting is also posted in the official Instagram page of the French President.
Along the entire length of the contact line of Nagorno Karabakh- Azerbaijani opposing forces, on April 1 and throughout the morning of April 2, the adversary undertook large-scale offensive military actions, during which the adversary shelled with missile-artillery units not only Armenian defense positions, but also civilian settlements.
The Azerbaijani armed forces fired MM-21 (Grad) multiple rocket launcher on April 2, at 08: 30 in the direction of Martuni (NKR), killing 12 year old Vaghinak Grigoryan and wounding two other children. 4 other civilians were wounded later. On April 3 the subversive group of Azerbaijan brutally killed 3 elderly and vandalized their corpses in Talish village.
The Armenian side has 46 causalities, 19 soldiers missing, 122 wounded. 5 more people including the heads of two rural communities of Syunik Province were killed on their way to Martakert on April 4.
Due to the timely and professional actions of the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army, it was possible to take the situation under control making the enemy suffer considerable losses. On April 1-5 as a result of the crushing counterattacks by the Armenian side against the military aggressions towards the Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijan lost 2 helicopters, 24 tanks, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 8 UAVs, 1 21-MM multiple rocket launcher system (Grad). During military operations 300 Azerbaijani soldiers and militants have been eliminated, nearly 2000 are wounded. On April 5 at 12:00, the fire was ceased in the line of contact between Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces. The agreement of armistice was reached at the meeting of the Chiefs of General Staff of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Moscow on April 5. Azerbaijan has violated the agreement several times, but in a much lower intensity.In the night of April 6 Azerbaijan even kept territories of the Republic of Armenia, particularly Vardenis city, under fire.
According to the agreement reached in advance, Armenian and Azerbaijani sides conducted searching activities under the mediation of the InternationalCommittee of theRed Cross(ICRC)and the field assistants of the Personal Representativeof theOSCEChairperson-in-Office. The Armenian side found the bodies of two Defense Army soldiers, junior sergeant Robert Abajyan (1996) and Andranik Zohrabyan (1996).