YEREVAN, JUNE 17, ARMENPRESS. Davit Babayan, spokesperson of the President of Artsakh, expects tough, addressed statement from the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs against the Azerbaijani aggression committed in the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact on June 16.

According to him, with such tough statement and steps the international community should restrain the unruly state.

“Yesterday’s events must be viewed at two platforms: the first one is the humanitarian factor, and in this sense this is really a tragedy, we suffered three losses. We all, the entire Artsakh and Armenians, consider these losses as personal losses. As for the military-political factor, nothing strange happened, in other words, the adversary continues its unconstructive, fascist, terrorist actions. Terrorist acts took place: shots were fired from grenade launchers and mortars from distant places, and three Armenians soldiers were killed while defending the borders of the homenald”, Davit Babayan told Armenpress.

He said the international community must give respective response to such actions.  

“In general, there is illogical rule: when the Co-Chairs plan to visit the region, either during the visit or after that the Azerbaijani forces take such abnormal step. We know that the Co-Chairs are going to visit Baku in the coming days: this is their first visit to Baku after the recent tough statement by them and the yesterday’s incident. It is important to make such tough statements on regular basis since Azerbaijan will try to blur that statement. This time we expect tough stance by the Co-Chairs against Baku”, Davit Babayan said.

He stated that Azerbaijan doesn’t respect the international law. “They do not respect their own laws, and their laws are inhuman, how they can respect the international law? They respect the right to force, and this must be displayed at two ways: on the one way we restrain here, and on the other way the international community must restrain it”, he said.

The Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire regime on June 16 at 18:05 using antitank grenade launchers, as a result of which 3 Artsakh Defense Army soldiers, Arayik Matinyan, 1997, Vigen Petrosyan, 1997, and Vardan Sargsyan, 1997, received fatal wounds. Following the Azerbaijani June 16 aggression, in the morning of June 17, at 09:40, the Azerbaijani forces launched another provocation at the northern direction of the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact as a result of which Defense Army soldier Narek T. Gasparyan (born in 1997) was fatally wounded.